The StreamFest – Salento New Media Festival is finished. I was invited there and i directly saw the less and the wonderful features of this magic land that is Salento.
I can say that the on-stage section of the festival had some problems, because the space was too big and the territory was not ready for a new media festival like this, but it’s important to try if not nobody would brake the digital divide. And when the Salento New Media Festival will be settled in the future years, everyone will remember this crazy and emotional first edition.
And there’ll be a future for the StreamFest beacuse all the people gathered there by Antonio Rollo saw the possibility of a landscape like Salento, that can suggest to media critic and artist a possible different approach and view on technology.
Then everything off-stage was great as you can see 
Anyhow there was a really interesting pavillion of installations and a big stage where local, national and international artist performed.
Among the installations i remember the HASCII-Cam of Jaromil, the installation called Virtual Identity Process of the student of the NABA Academy:
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Then also Alsos, a wonderful garden where the spectator could change the sound environment playing with a light torch and sensor-powered flowers
created by the french group Scenocosme and the Nitido videoinstallation by Giulia Mainenti.
About the musicians and dj you can see the video of the a short piece of Dj Foresta and Enrico Ascoli, Claudio Sinatti and Pierpaolo Leo, A Spider Called Andromeda, AgroElettronica, Gambo and Titta from Tonimusic, Minimono, then Pulsar and Mk05 and Daddi from Illogik Records and Kiddz, and at the end Esa Rouho aka Lackluster:
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It was really important for all the people gathered there to meet eachother and confront in a amazing setting as Salento. Everyone was really kind and every artist was in the best situation to express himself.
Just to show how well organized it was the Festival for the artist, here you can see the Sombrero Party guys, F.X. Randomize and Carsten Schulz, in action
and relaxed
while other musicians, Enrico Ascoli and Marco Foresta where preparing their liveset
There was also on saturday 29th of july a conference at the Masseria Torcito, where Carlo Infante coordinated a discussion about being a new media festival in a border land as Salento, there was also Paolo Atzori, Fabrizio Pecori, the director of the festival Antonio Rollo and all the artists invited there.
I think that also if the Festival wasn’t perfect it can open a new door/vision for the traditional media art festival, that usually are just focused on the technology, while StreamFest can be a festival about people and connection, besides being an important showcase of digital technology for this land that has a lot of sun and not so much technology.
And last but not not least the photo of the best driver you can find in all Salento: Luca.
