FILE - Electronic Language International Festival is a new media art festival held yearly in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2000 and with iterations being held eventually in other cities through the world. It is the biggest art & technology festival in Brazil, and it serves as a lead indicator of the plurality of the work created in the interactive art field not only nationally but also internationally. FILE is organized by a non-profit group whose purpose is to disseminate and to develop culture, arts, technology and scientific research. Admittance to the event is free. The FILE festival is split in different areas of interest, although some overlap and sub-categorization occurs. The main groups of interest are:
- FILE Media Art takes takes the main space where works are shown, specially by way of interactive installations, interactive films, Electronic art, game art, and other subcategories.
- FILE Hipersonica explores the role of music in a technological culture with audio and visual performances.
- FILE Symposium is a collection of lectures by leading artists and technologists on the new media art field.
- FILE Archive is a collection of works.It has now more than 2000 in several supports of digital media such as cd-rom, zips, diskettes, and video tape, texts and catalogues.
- FILE-Labo is a media lab, its mission is the development, research and experimentation of multidisciplinary works in the fields of new media.
