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2023
XXII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
29 DE MAYO AL 4 DE JUNIO 2023 The 22nd International Image Festival took place between May 29 and June 4, 2023, in Manizales and Bogotá, inviting debate on the transformations that landscapes undergo due to climatic phenomena and technologies that operate as metaphors for new territories. The XENOLandscapes invited participants to listen to what Bruno Latour refers to as the "cry of the earth," that call to action for individuals and communities to alter and transform their small environments, thereby achieving a movement of ecosystem regeneration that enables their survival.
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2022
XXI FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LA IMAGEN -
17 - 21 OCTOBER 2022 The central theme of the 21st version of the International Image Festival was creation, from avant-garde perspectives, linked to open spaces and times that dialogue with multiple centers and is committed to ways of life and knowledge that have not played a leading role in knowledge. traditional academic. It is, under this gaze of openness and exchange, that the concept of SURtropia is suggested as a way of defining those creation processes that take into account decentering and mobilities that can respond, in an alternative way, to the deep geopolitical, environmental challenges. and social problems that we face today in our territories.
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2021
XX INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
24 - 28 MAY 2021 The central theme of the 20th version of the International Image Festival will be Inter/species, with whom we invite the community of arts, design, science and technology, to think, in a critical perspective, the role of being human in the world, beyond the traditional visions of anthropocentrism. Proposals related to Biodesign, Posthumanism, deconstructed Landscapes, Planetary Interactions and Inhabited Memories will make it possible to dynamize the vital forces that interconnect with other non-human living beings, and even with survival and habitability in the world.
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2020
XIX INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL + PDC2020
15 - 19 JUNE 2020 The central theme of the 19th version of the International Image Festival + PDC 2020 (Participatory Design Conference) will be Participation(s) other(s), with which we want to invite the participatory design community to think more about the various meanings and ontologies that participation and design can assume. For this version of ImageFest and PDC it is necessary that we open the understanding of "participation" beyond modernist narratives and theoretically "universal" solutions and explain various practices.
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2019
XVIII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
10 - 14 JUNE 2019 The central theme of the 18th International Image Festival is Digital Humanism, it alludes to the interaction processes of the human being with the technologies that enable new mechanisms of citizen participation for dialogue, cultural and creative exchange, artistic co-creation contemporary, the production of open knowledge and the visibility of creative communities.
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2018
XVII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
7 - 11 MAY 2018 The central theme of the XVII International Image Festival is the New Expeditions, and refers to proposals of a collaborative nature, which make it possible to recognize the territories, contemporizing the explorations carried out centuries ago by researchers who laid the foundations of science and culture of the century. XXI.
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2017
XVI INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL - ISEA2017
11 - 18 JUNE 2017 ISEA2017, within the framework of the 16th International Image Festival, presented Bio-creation and Peace as its central axis, an invitation to reflect on the role of art, design, science and technology in the search for alternatives to respect this biodiversity and to the peaceful coexistence between the communities and their environment.
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2016
XV INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
04 -14 MAY 2016 The start of 2016 has drawn our attention to the power of nature and the impact of our actions on it. Some dry rivers, the shortage of some natural products and the evident change in the landscape and in our clothes, prompt us to think about new designs for our habitats, new rational practices and effective actions that reduce the impact of our movement around the Earth.
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2015
XIV INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
20 - 25 APRIL 2015 The XIV International Image Festival has as its main theme the relationship between Ecology + Digital Creation, which seeks to recognize and highlight the creative use of the integration of art, science, design and ICT as a catalyst for solutions to the challenges it poses. the defense of the environment and the environment in the 21st century.
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2014
XIII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
05 - 09 MAY 2014 The 13th International Image Festival revolves around the theme: "Digital creation and post-conflict", which proposes to reflect on the role of art, design and technology in societies that today must seek ways to overcome periods of turmoil, inequality, injustice and violence.
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2013
XII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
15 - 19 APRIL 2013 Interactive design, media arts, audiovisual creation and the new relationships between art, design, science and technology will meet at the Image Festival in Manizales from April 15 to 19.
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2012
XI INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
16 - 20 APRIL 2012 University of Caldas - Los Fundadores Theater CC.
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2011
X INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
12 - 16 APRIL 2011 This event carried out by the Department of Visual Design of the University of Caldas is a space for meeting and debate on issues related to visual design, electronic arts, digital audiovisual creation, digital and electroacoustic sound, and in general, the new relationships between art, design, science and technology.
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2010
IX INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
13 - 17 APRIL 2010 The dynamics of a city that is transformed in images and media, sound experimentation processes in contemporary cities, the networks that determine new interactions with subjects, and the presence of design in the processes of art, science, and technology. , for the benefit of society, are some of the aspects addressed by the IX International Image Festival, an event that has emerged (for 13 years now) in the middle of the coffee-growing Andean mountains, and that seeks to position Manizales as a world hub of electronic arts.
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2009
XVIII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
15 - 19 APRIL 2009 Interactive design, media arts, audiovisual creation and the new relationships between art, design, science and technology will meet at the Image Festival in Manizales from April 15 to 19.
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2008
VII INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
15 - 19 APRIL 2008 The advent of technologies and their influence in the fields of information and communication have made possible the conscientious analysis of the cultural constructs of the communities in their different geographies.
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2007
VI INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
24 - 28 APRIL 2007 University of Caldas - CCC Los Fundadores Theater
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2006
V INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
18 - 21 APRIL 2006 In 2006, the fifth International Image Festival was a space for the exhibition of digital projects, as the catalyst place between the authors of the works, the institutions and the public, as the stage to analyze digital objects, from a critical perspective, and detect those that go beyond simple technological gadgets.
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2004
IV INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
9 - 13 NOVEMBER 2004 From November 9 to 13, 2004, the IV International Image Festival was held in Manizales, which presented the works, programs and research of more than 25 visual and sound creators.
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2003
III INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
11 - 15 NOVEMBER 2003 University of Caldas - CCC Los Fundadores Theater
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1998
II INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
11 - 15 APRIL 1998 University of Caldas - CCC Los Fundadores Theater
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1997
I INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL
11 - 15 APRIL 1997 University of Caldas - CCC Los Fundadores Theater
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