Time-Based Art Festival

The Time-Based Art Festival (TBA, sometimes stylized T:BA) is an annual interdisciplinary art and performance festival presented by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). It occurs over a ten-day period each September in Portland, Oregon.

According to PICA, the TBA Festival is:

a convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media, and visual arts projects that draws artists from across the country and around the globe. TBA celebrates artists from across and in-between all mediums, and activates the entire community with art and ideas. PICA presents a festival that bridges disciplines and geography with morning workshops, daytime installations, noontime lectures, afternoon salons, evening performances, outdoor happenings, and no shortage of late-night activity. Contemporary masters and significant emerging artists mix and mingle to bring you the best art of our time.

TBA is "inspired by various European and Australian-modeled Festivals including the renowned Edinburgh and Adelaide Festivals" and features events in diverse venues across the city of Portland, OR, through partnerships with the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Reed College, Northwest Film Center, and many other local peer institutions.

The term Time-Based Media (and Time-Based Art) was first introduced by UK video art pioneer David Hall in 1972 through his writings in various publications including Studio International. He also established the first Time-Based Media undergraduate course at the University for the Creative Arts, Kent, UK in 1972 (then Maidstone College of Art). Use of the term has since rapidly spread around the world—particularly among academics—to identify moving image and sound work by visual artists, a popular development which arose comparatively recently in the mid- to late-twentieth century.

The first TBA Festival occurred in 2003; it was curated by Kristy Edmunds, who founded PICA in 1995. As artistic director of the PICA, Edmunds curated the TBA Festival through 2005, when she left Portland for Australia, to direct the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

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