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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(0,16,124)">Please join us on May 24th, at 6.00pm, to celebrate the opening of Ireland&#39;s most ambitious New Media Arts Festival to date.</b></span></p>

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<b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">RUN COMPUTER RUN @ GLITCH 2013</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">is an exhibition focused on examining artistic responses to cultural, economic, and social factors that currently affect the evolutionof the Internet. The festival features four exhibitions, eight workshops, a symposium </b><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">featuring leading thinkers and curators in the field of New Media Art, and a showcaseof short films. It will wrap up on July 13th with a party featuring live performances by </b><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Irish musicians Voids, Replete, and RichieK!, with more acts to be announced. </b></p>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Now in its third year, </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">GLITCH</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is an opportunity for the public to engage with New art in an exciting and innovative way. With a huge range of events and a programme of exhibitions involving Internationally renowned artists including </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Casey Reas</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Marius Watz</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FIELD</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Pixel Noizz,</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Constant Dullart</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Evan Roth and many more</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, this year&#39;s </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">GLITCH</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> festival is the most ambitious and largest to date. </span></p>

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<b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">GLITCH: Run Computer, Run!</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> is curated by </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Nora O&#39; Murchú</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, Post-doctoral researcher at CRUMB, University of Sunderland. </span></p>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">GLITCH is sponsored by: Arts Council Ireland, EU Presidency fund, CRUMB, University of Sunderland, Layar, EXHIBIT A, LUAS, Basic.fm, Select Digital Print Group, Bavaria</span></p>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Media Partner: Totally Dublin</span></p><p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information, please see our PRESS RELEASE attached.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>
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