April 9, 2020

Statement Nº1: For the first time, the International Image Festival will be online

XIX International Image Festival & Participatory Design Conference PDC Manizales-Colombia Official Communication March 18, 2020 For the first time, and after 23 years of holding the International Image Festival (http://festivaldelaimagen.com), the event It will be held in a digital format, which will allow the interaction of participants from different parts of the world through online platforms. It is proposed, as a general framework, to put into practice the principles of "Participation (s) others", the central theme of the Festival and the Participatory Design Conference (PDC2020), through a model that allows the establishment of new interaction practices, supported by a discourse linked to telematic connections and that inspire a new conception of events that take into account alternatives that contribute to sustainability, the reduction of the carbon footprint, the opening of knowledge and mainly the prevention of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The festival […]
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, […]
March 12, 2018

An audiovisual, ecological and contemplative exploration of the Darién jungle at the Pereira Art Museum

As of this March 16, Darién will be open to the Pereiran public, an audiovisual, ecological and contemplative exploration of the Darién jungle, developed with the aim of reflecting and extending the relationship between the human and the non-human, seeking to raise awareness about the environment and assume the importance of remembering and recognizing the territory in the face of its constant transformation. It is a joint production between the Pereira Art Museum and the International Image Festival of the interactive installation Darién: Symbiosis by ÉTER Lab, as part of a curatorship around the Anthropocene. 'Darién: Insectus' The work to be presented at the Pereira Museum proposes a poetic exploration of the territory and the ecological scales present in the Darién jungle, especially highlighting the contrast between micro and macro life. The insect is understood here as a basic life form, miniature universe, micro-object, atom almost […]
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 […]
August 23, 2017

“What I try to do in my projects is not sound or visual, it is audiovisual”: Alex Augier

The French artist Alex Augier presented _nybble_ within the framework of ISEA2017 – 16th International Image Festival. This soundscape is a commitment to audiovisual production, since its interest is to find that both light and sound complement each other. This is an interview in which Alex tells us a little about his creative career and his time at the Festival. Tell us about your journey as an artist. As an artist I have a first project, my previous project called oqpo_oooo. It is an audiovisual performance like _nybble_. I presented it for the first time at the Scopitone Festival in Nantes and it was produced by Stereolux. That's my entry into the world of numbers. Above all, I feel like a musician and I also like technology, programming, architecture, design, all of this. And, indeed, I try to reflect to make a coherent synthesis of all this and the […]
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