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The Early Years.

The festival's original website, 1999–2007 — recovered from the darklight.ie server backup. Programme pages, schedules, exhibitions, artist projects and press material from the festival's first eight years, preserved in their original design.

These pages are presented exactly as they were built at the time — table layouts, tiny type and all. Links to pages that did not survive lead to an explanatory notice.

The Old Site

The site's own navigation hubs — good starting points for wandering.

1999 — 2000

The first two festivals in Temple Bar.

2001 — Perspectives Conference

The conference year: digital creative practice, supported by Critical Voices — and the first Straylight online exhibition.

2002

The regeneration edition, and the festival on tour.

2004

Darklight Digital Festival 2004 at The Digital Hub — the full site survives.

2005

2006

The IFI / Filmbase / Havana edition — with its full set of programme pages.

Straylight Xhibition

Darklight's online exhibition space — web-based art commissions exploring the browser as gallery, with work by international artists.