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*Please join us on May 24th, at 6.00pm, to celebrate the opening of Ireland's most ambitious New Media Arts Festival to date.*

*RUN COMPUTER RUN @ GLITCH 2013* *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 **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 **Irish musicians Voids, Replete, and RichieK!, with more acts to be announced. *

Now in its third year, *GLITCH* 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 *Casey Reas*, *Marius Watz*, *FIELD*, *Pixel Noizz,* *Constant Dullart*, *Evan Roth and many more*, this year's *GLITCH* festival is the most ambitious and largest to date.

*GLITCH: Run Computer, Run!* is curated by *Nora O' Murchú*, Post-doctoral researcher at CRUMB, University of Sunderland.

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

Media Partner: Totally Dublin

For more information, please see our PRESS RELEASE attached.