The International Image Festival is an event of electronic arts and digital culture organized by the Visual Design Department at the Universidad de Caldas in Colombia since 1997. This year, the Festival will host ISEA2017, one of the most important symposiums on Electronic Art in the world, and for the first time will be held in a Latin American country.
At the same time, the Festival will be part of selected cultural events in the ’Crusade Season France-Colombia’ initiative, led by the French Institute and the Ministry of Culture.
In this space, you’ll find the reunited programming for the 16th International Image Festival and ISEA 2017. This app enables you to create your own schedule for attending certain events during the Festival.
The following research-creation will talk about the pollution in rivers, streams and its impact on the coffee cultural landscape. To this goal the sound bridge will be approached as an ethnographic tool and a way for the artistic creation. The prevention of the environment is a topic that acquires relevance in the expressive forms of the contemporary art. It sees the need to manifest how pollution in all its variants puts in danger our ecosystem, economy and cultural identity. No matter our work, social status, race or religion; we must to react to this devastating scourge that has become the common factor today, because the lack of planning in the management of our waste.
Elements that are transformed into moving image in this Project that, more than critical it becomes a pedagogical act that invites reflection on our behavior and responsibility with the environment.
