April 6, 2018

A visual and sound expedition of the city in 'Meta-landscape Medellín'

In November 2017, we launched the call for a joint artistic residency with the Exploratorio del Parque Explora de Medellín. Fueled by the theme of the 17th International Image Festival: New Expeditions, the call had as its winning project "Meta-landscape Medellín", a research-creation proposal by the plastic artist Alejandro Escobar. «Meta-landscape Medellín» proposes an exercise of co-creation by the author with the multi-instrumentalist musician Federico Goez, from which a hybrid piece of digital cartography will emerge through virtual reality technology. «It is an artistic installation with an analogue component and a digital one. The analogous component is a paper sculpture whose structure resembles interconnected tunnels. Its surface shows a multiplicity of city photographs arranged in such a way that the contrasts and gaps that separate multiple realities are evident; stray dogs, passers-by, streets, businesses, homeless, high-end vehicles, slums, buildings, bars, prostitution, […]
August 28, 2017

Timée: a resonance of antiquity

One of the exhibitions that were part of the 16th International Image Festival - ISEA2017, was Timée; an installation full of lights and sound presented by the French artist Guillaume Marmin, which invited reflection on the mixture of ancient philosophical theories and current technological practices. Good morning Guillaume, welcome to ISEA2017. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your career as an artist? Hello, I am a French plastic artist. I am very happy to be in Manizales. Thanks to ISEA for inviting me this year. I come more from video, I made many experimental installations and videos and now my work is more oriented by light, and its relationship with sound and space, as I did with the Timée installation that we were able to see in Manizales. In relation to your work Timée, can you tell us about the creation process and why it is called Timée (apparently it comes from the book […]
August 28, 2017

Science and the landscape: creative unity in the work of Hicham Berrada

The French artist Hicham Berrada visited Manizales for the first time to present his artistic and scientific work within the framework of the 16th International Image Festival - ISEA2017. Elements such as time, nature or science are part of his artistic career and his interest in the future. Good morning Hicham and welcome to the Festival and ISEA. Good morning and thanks. Tell us about your career as an artist. I am a plastic artist. I work to a greater extent in installations, videos, performances and everything around the theme of landscape, because for me landscape is a rather ambiguous term that wants, above all, to say a man's point of view on nature, and I think that it is through the notion of landscape. It is by the fact that the painters painted the landscape or that the photographers photographed the landscape, that our philosophical conception of nature is based […]
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