Sign up for our awesome New York Tech Events weekly email newsletter.     LOCATION EVENT DETAILS <P><SPAN>The era of a real :: virtual global series</SPAN><SPAN> CYFEST comes to NYC (Feb 2016) where CYLAND and Pratt Institute connect those engaged in the borderless, multidisciplinary, progressive movement redefining the intersection between Art :: Tech.</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN>Digital networks provide the traditional means of communicating within a new borderless set of parameters, creating a whole new structure of collective consciousness where dynamic, self-assembling tribes can unify instantaneously. Enabled by digital catalysts, society has gone from local to national and from national to transnational tribal behavior and congregation.</SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN>In this post-post-modern epoch, what defines ones place in the virtual and the physical world is the ability to communicate convincingly reality or fantasy. Medium matters, but only up to a point, as a conduit for the message. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN>CYFEST NYC: Patterns of the Mind </SPAN><SPAN>enquires into the primacy and power of a creators message, in which any medium is only the tool used to carry it across.</SPAN></P>