XXI International Image Festival – SURtropías Manizales-Bogotá Colombia October 17 to 21, 2022 The Curatorial and Academic Committee of the International Image Festival 2022, is allowed to inform the selection of the proposals to participate in the following categories: Academic Call XVIII International Academic Forum. Artistic Call. interactions. IX Design, electronic art and technology market. Thanks to the outstanding participation of researchers, teachers, students, artists and professionals in the areas of design, art, science and technology, we will have the opportunity to meet to discuss from the idea of Surtropía, emerging concepts that, beyond the geopolitical borders, allow exploration to be directed towards alternative forms of critical and propositional analysis of various realities, in order to thus contribute to the social appropriation of knowledge and continue to be an academic reference in Colombia and Latin America. 1. Pre-selected Academic Call XVIII International Academic Forum The participants […]

The International Image Festival and the Bank of the Republic, Manizales headquarters, invite you to participate in the free workshop Expanded Virrealities that will be dictated by the artist Solimán López from Spain, the workshop will take place on November 19 and 20, 10: 00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Soliman is a contemporary artist who specializes in creation, sociology, and technology. He is the founder of the Harddiskmuseum and the director of Innovation at the Higher School of Art and Technology of Valencia. He runs the Updated Art Studio in Paris, a production team made up of professionals in electronics, programming, science, art, design and technology. In Expanded Virrealities, the student will see, from the hand of the artist, some of his production techniques for works in which they play with data and concepts from the real world and combine with the digital world. Techniques such as photogrammetry, the capture of […]

With the central conference by Arturo Escobar, the Design, Electronic Art and Technology Market, the poster festival and the Soundscapes by Michela Pelusio (Italy) and Arai Tatsuru (Japan), the 19th edition of the International Image Festival will conclude. Thus culminates an intense week in which conferences, panels, exhibitions, shows, workshops and concerts, opened, as is customary every year, a party and a meeting around the arts, humanities, design and the technology. The event will be framed as the first of its kind to be held virtually, and will be an obligatory reference for cultural and academic productions that will continue to be carried out in the midst of confinement. Escobar's conference and Soundscapes can be enjoyed by a global audience, thanks to its transmission open to the public through the website (http://festivaldelaimagen.com) and the […]

Bringing families together again through the act of reading is one of the purposes of the book Give life to Rin Rin, produced by Newrona, a Colombian company specialized in the field of interactive communication. Give life to Rin Rin, which will be presented at the Design, Electronic Art and Technology Market of the International Image Festival, is a reading experience achieved from analog instruments and supported by digital tools and augmented reality mechanisms. This allows, according to Fabiana Gordillo from Newrona, "to create and combine real spaces with virtual spaces, as learning tools, since the future of education and the publishing world move towards the support and mediation of technologies." Precisely, to contribute to the harmonization of different worlds, Newrona chose a work by the poet Rafael Pombo, since it allows different generations to be connected […]