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 […]

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 […]

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 […]