The competitive show of the 15th Videobrasil Festival brings together 130 videos and interactive works produced over the last two years in countries across Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia. The selection reveals a body of work that is both heterogeneous and free, characterized, according to the curator Solange Oliveira Farkas, “by the desire to produce sense, albeit through nonlinear forms.” To better contemplate the selection and the power lines it reveals, the Festival has divided the exhibition into three categories that enable the viewer to observe electronic art in its maturity, map audiovisual experimentation, and get to know the work of emerging artists.



State of the Art: an offering of videos and interactive works that reveal the potency of electronic creation and its vocation for dialogue with other artistic fields. The selection reflects the proximity between visual art and electronic art on the contemporary scene, as much in works by artists for whom video has always been the primary mode of expression as in forays into video by artists from other visual areas.

Contemporary Investigations: brings together instigating research in video, works that generate a new restlessness concerning the processes of audiovisual production, experimenting with concepts and languages and seeking to expand their boundaries. These are works that frequently point towards future developments and expansions in electronic art.

New Vectors: with works by young artists, this section offers visions of the world that have emerged over the last decade. It includes videos and interactive works that avail of supports, languages, and production possibilities in an extremely free and, consequently, disconcerting manner. New Vectors reveals the thought and action of a generation exposed from an early age to the possibilities of communication and creation inherent in technology.