The Conference Center and Concert Hall Euskalduna Jauregia (Bilbao, Spain) was a witness the last 25th and 26th of May for the International Conference TECHNARTE 2006. Art and Technology, two disciplines which convergence becomes increasingly clear, shape the motto of this congress organized by the Innovalia Association and also supported by well-known companies and institutions of the sector.
Artists, technologists, exhibition commisioners, art producers, gallery owners and a wide group of professionals gave to themselves appointment in this TECHNARTE's first edition and admitted the importance that this kind of events has in the diffusion and knowledge of the new technologies applied to the world of art.
As a consequence of the resounding success of this TECHNARTE's first edition, the Association Innovalia has decided to bet strongly on this event and to summon the same one with annual character.
We will publish soon a summary of the conference with pictures of the speakers and attendees.
The attendees to TECHNARTE 2006 had the opportunity to accede, during the two days of the Conference, to the DIGITAL CORNER of Technarte. In this exhibitor space -parallel to the Conference- several digital works of young and promising artists could be contemplated.

One of these artists, Juan Carlos Sanchez, had a special recognition on the part of the Technical Committee as his work "Supermachine", a work in format flash based on the ideas of the superman of Nietzsche applied to the technology, the machines, the religion and the human feeling.