June 18, 2020

THIS IS HOW THE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL PROGRESSES

During the three days that the International Image Festival completes, the voices and images of artists and researchers from all over the world have resounded in the digital spaces, specially designed to house this event in its 19th version. Reflections on participatory design of the Doctor in Anthropology Arturo Escobar, the calls to preserve the historical memory of the Guatemalan intellectual Gladys Tzul Tzul, the exhibition of 12 films in the framework of the Cinema (and) Digital category in alliance with the Retina Latina platform, the analysis of the the work of Walter Benjamin by Bruno Tackels and the Sound Bridges and Landscapes by Dylan Cote, Pierre Lafanachère, Stephanie Castonguay, Ricardo Dal Farra and Yovanny Betancur, among dozens of other activities, have nourished this edition, which is being held virtually for the first time . And that aspect, the migration to digital, has generated record attendance, which […]
June 16, 2020

THE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL STARTED: A GLOBAL ENCOUNTER WITH ART, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY 

With the Earthsatz Soundscape, about a fictional and surreal world generated by Google Earth, the French artists Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanechère kicked off the 19th version of the International Image Festival, this time in an online format. The Opening Act was also attended and greeted by the Director of the Festival, Felipe César Londoño, the co-director of the Participatory Design Conference-PDC, Chiara del Gaudio, the rector of the University of Caldas, Alejandro Ceballos, and the Manager of the Institute of Culture and Manizales, Juan José Silva. This year, the Festival will continue to promote training and research in art, design, science and technology through the International Seminar, with 7 guests; Soundscapes, with 5 guests; Sound Bridges, with 9 guests; Cinema(y)Digital, with 12 films and 4 conversations; Exhibitions, with 11 invited artists; Conversations, with 18 panelists; among others. Likewise, the programming will be enriched with […]
June 13, 2020

FOR THE FIRST TIME THE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL WILL BE ONLINE

For the first time in 23 years, the International Image Festival will be held in a digital format. The event will take place between June 15 and 19, 2020, with national and international guests, and multiple conferences, seminars, workshops, exhibitions, and samples. The theme of version 19 will be Participation(s) Others, in which artists, researchers and communities are invited to think about the meanings and ontologies that participation, art and design can take on. The digital culture meeting will develop a large part of its activities on an innovative XR web platform, provided by the Mozilla Technology Company, which was designed and programmed for the event by a team of engineers and designers from Manizales, Colombia. This platform will allow users to explore various spaces and activities in the first person through an avatar (virtual identity). He […]
June 7, 2020

#TheImageFestFromMyWindow

Have you heard about the registrations for the International Image Festival? Participate in the following challenge and compete to win a ticket to all the activities that will take place at this year's event. The steps to follow are the following: Record a video of the most creative thing you can see through a window in your house. Upload it and tag @ImagenFest and @PDC2020. Use the hashtag #ElImagenFestFromMyWindow. And ready! It's that simple, you'll already be competing. Remember to make your profile public when doing this exercise. This is so that we can know the story you uploaded. This year the International Image Festival decided to migrate from the usual to the virtual. This is our way of betting on remote participation exercises and designing diverse narratives that promote local and global participation. Participate in #ElImagenFestDesdeMiVentana and show us your way […]
May 20, 2020

Results of the call for the XIX International Image Festival

During the call process carried out by the International Image Festival, whose submission date was February 26, 2020, 210 contributions from different areas of knowledge related to design, art, science and technology were received. ; which seek to enrich the XIX version of ImagenFest that will be held digitally this year and were divided as follows: Cinema (and) Digital: 67 proposals and 11 selected. Soundscapes: 38 proposals and 5 selected. Sound Bridges: 18 proposals and 6 selected. Posters: 30 proposals and 25 selected. M.Monográfica / Exhibitions /M.Art: 57 proposals and 11 selected. From the organizing committee of the International Image Festival and PDC 2020 we feel grateful for the great reception our call received, especially for the persistence that became evident at the moment we had to manifest our change […]
April 9, 2020

Artistic contest THE LANDSCAPE through my window

CONTEST RULES The Landscape Institute of the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina), together with the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI) —in the framework of the world month of landscape architecture (IFLA 2006 declaration)— convene professionals or amateurs /as to the visual arts, illustration or design in all its fields, to participate in the artistic contest THE LANDSCAPE THROUGH MY WINDOW. In this pandemic circumstance that the world is going through, it is proposed to reflect on "the landscape in the times of coronavirus" (COVID-19), through images that allow us to express the situation we are going through. The objective is to provide a space to express and share our landscapes from the condition of isolation (physical, mental, emotional), within the framework of this global health crisis, in connection with the environment in which each person lives, from a landscape perspective and with an environmental perspective. Who is it? People with […]
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