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9 Sep 2019
30 Sep 2019
The exhibition And Now for Something Completely Different 10, featuring a kinetic installation Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? by Nika Oblak and Primož Novak, produced by Aksioma Institute and KIBLA Multimedia Centre, in the frame of the Crushing Hammers Exhibitions,
at the Cairo Video Festival
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7 Sep 2017
8 Oct 2017
MIG 21, en exhibition featuring over 50 works by 19 artists, curated by Nina Jeza and Peter Tomaž Dobrila (KIBLA Multimedia Centre),
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24 Feb 2017
A presentation of the Mycelium Network Society with Saša Spačal and Simon Gmajner and Mycophone, an installation by Anil Podgornik, Saša Spačal and Mirjan Švagelj, produced by the KIBLA Multimedia Centre and organised by Kapelica Gallery,
at the Transmediale
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8 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013
Slovene artists at a new media art exhibition as a part of the project New Media Cross-Border (KIBLA Multimedia Centre and ONEJ)
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29 Jun 2012
EU-PA conference Unlocking, How Arts and Design Transform Urban Space, a lecture by Dejan Pestotnik Creating touchpoints: Art and Design Interventions in Practice, part of the EU funded project EuroPA - European Public Art led by KIBLA Multimedia Centre
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16 Mar 2012
27 May 2012
Robovox project byMartin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamočanin (MoTA Museum of Transitory Art) and Chris Sugrue (Spain-Slovenia, Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab) project, part of the Robots & Avatars EU funded project led by by KIBLA Multimedia Centre,
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4 Jun 2011
Performance Symposium on the Past, Present and Future of the Fluxus-Movement, Is Fluxus Dead? Intermedia Rules! From Networked Performance Events to VanGoghTV, Coded Cultures and Art-on-Strike, a lecture by Marko Košnik (Egon March Institute) Globalism Rules! Immaterial Art Practises behind the Iron Curtain, a part of the EU funded project X-OP- eXchange of art operators and producers led by KIBLA Multimedia Centre
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16 Apr 2011
Reset your dataset 3, moderated by Stephen Kovacz, a lecture by Peter Tomaž Dobrila Pure Energy – Culture Is Generator of Evolution, part of the EU funded project X-OP- eXchange of art operators and producers, led by KIBLA Multimedia Centre,
at the Festival Enter
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9 Nov 2010
13 Nov 2010
X-OP - eXchange of art operators and producers, including Egon March Institute project Operabil Helsinki - (Electropera Act 5), in the scope of EU funded project led by KIBLA Multimedia Centre
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13 May 2010
15 May 2010
X-OP meeting and events, EU funded project X-OP - eXchange of art operators and producers led by KIBLA Multimedia Centre, collaborative performance Operabil Hexpo - (Electropera Act 4) by Marko Košnik, Egon March Institute
at the Avamaa International Symposium of Art and Ideas
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30 Apr 2010
7 May 2010
X-OP: Festival Time and Technique produced by KIBLA Multimedia Centre, ELECTROPERA performance lecture with live topographic imagery by Marko Košnik, Egon March Institute, curatorial dinner by Petra Kapš, a lecture Dictionary of Subsidized Art - Here and Now by Aleksandra Kostić, DVD screenings by Peter Tomaž Dobrila, an exhibition and lecture Drawing by artists Polona Maher and Petra Varl, EU funded project X-OP- eXchange of art operators and producers
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25 Mar 2010
27 Mar 2010
X-OP, Free Fall, exhibition and symposium produced by KIBLA Multimedia Centre, Dejan Pestotnik and Maja Vuksanović participating, organized by Apartment Project from Istanbul, accompanied by artistic events. EU funded project X-OP- eXchange of art operators and producers
Background and location
Multimedia Centre CyberSRCeLab – MMC KIBLA was founded in July 1996 as a project of Narodni dom Maribor and Open Society Institute Slovenia. From June 1998 MMC KIBLA has legal status as an Association for Culture and Education (ACE KIBLA). Its founding member Peter Tomaž Dobrila was KIBLA's president from 1998 up to 2004 (later an advisor), he was followed by Aleksandra Kostič.
In the beginning KIBLA Multimedia Centre offered computer education and free Internet access, e-mail addresses and server space for non-profit organisations and individuals. Located in the ground floor of the premises of the Narodni dom Maribor, today KIBLA comprises KiBela exhibiting art space, Za:misel Bookshop known for its selection of student books and KiBar cyber café complete with 10 computer terminals with free Internet access.
Since 2001 ACE KIBLA also runs a dislocated Information and Communication Point (KIT) at Glavni trg 14 in Maribor. KIT offers Internet access, consulting and educational programmes regarding information and communications technology.
Programme
ACE KIBLA's extensive programme includes exhibitions, performances, concerts, festivals, theatre, lectures, symposia, fairs, and workshops. Through its KiBela Art Space it collaborates with Slovene artists and institutions and also with contemporary artists and arts organisations in Graz, London, Zagreb, Belgrade, and the USA, presenting new approaches through new media as well as contemporary visual arts.
ACE KIBLA's festivals include the KIBLIX Linux IT Festival, and the acclaimed Skrite note [Hidden Music Score] Festival with the programme of avant-garde music. Since 2007 it has been organising also the (DA)(NE)S Festival of Microtonal Music. It also cooperates with numerous other organisations in Maribor, Ljubljana (Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Druga Godba Festival) and abroad. The 3rd edition of the Festival ljubezni [Festival of Love] (usually organised each spring and always in a different Slovene town) is also part of the events marking the World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010 in April 2010 in Negova Castle. Kibla was also the initiator of the Izzven Jazz Festival, which was taken over by Narodni dom Maribor in 2011.
Regular literature events such a readings, interviews with renowned authors, and roundtables are organised throughout the year within KIBLA's Za:misel Bookshop programme.
KIBLA is a founding member of the M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia and has contributed to the network's development of the Dravoskop cultural portal, which features the latest creative happenings in Slovenia's Podravje region and also presents cultural organisations in all municipalities.
International cooperation
Whether as an active member in many international networks or as a project leader engaging in the production and dissemination of numerous complex cultural works, ACE KIBLA has significant experience working in international cooperation projects. The list of projects co-funded by the European Commission and its funding bodies in which the organisation has participated is perhaps among the largest for a Slovene institution.
With funding from the Culture 2000 programme in the years 2002–2003 KIBLA co-organised the annual project tx0om – Textures in bloom, which investigated interactive, intelligent and responsive environments at the crossroads of digital physics, phenomenology and biomimeticswhere the body becomes intermediary, and the multiannual project Virtual Centre Media Net. KIBLA also collaborated as a partner in two annual projects TRANZart disLOCATED and Soziale Geräusche [Social Noises]. Two additional projects were FP5-IST (EMMA – European Multimedia Accelerator) and FP6-IST (PATENT – Partnership for Telecommunication New Technologies).
In 2004–2005 KIBLA participated in the annual projects, e-Agora, which developed a virtual multimedia platform for innovative production and presentation of Performing Arts using the latest communication technologies (multi-user shared environments on the Internet) in order to interconnect European theatres, cultural centres, and enhance their co-operation, and TRG – Transient reality generators – a continuation of the tx0om project – focused on the phenomenon of Mixed Reality (environments containing significant virtual and physical interaction possibilities, strongly intertwined) and examined the potential of synaesthetic MR experience design, in which the art-works become all-encompassing art-worlds. In 2006, the multiannual projects gRig – Guild for Reality integrators and generators and TiE – Travel in Europe.
Within the framework of the EUREKA multimedia umbrella and with support from the Leonardo da Vinci programme, KIBLA participated in the project Name multimedia, a Multimedia Tasks & Skills Database, researching and evaluating 26 different jobs and 96 operational multimedia tasks. NAME is presented in 9 languages, with a database of more than 650 companies from 11 countries.
One of KIBLA's current projects is X-OP - eXchange of art operators and producers, a multiannual (2008–2011) project intended to nurture a network of artists, researchers, operators, producers, and centres with the aim to establish a European platform for creation of art and exchange. By long-term cooperation the partner centres are establishing and further developing infrastructural and information supportive environment in relation to information technology, digital culture and art creation in wide aspect from art production and presentation to research and education. Alongside ACE KIBLA the partners in the consortium are Museum Lapidarium (Novigrad, Croatia), Media in Motion (Berlin, Germany), Egon March Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia, MoKS – Kunsti ja Sotsiaalpraktika Keskus, Center for Art and Social Practice (Mooste, Estonia), CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic), Politechnic of Tomar (Tomar, Portugal), MAA – Taidekoulu, Art School (Helsinki, Finland), Apartment Project (Istanbul, Turkey), and Rahmenwerk – Transforming Freedom (Vienna, Austria).
Project activities have included the conference True Art/Truely Merchandise in Berlin (DE), Media-Scape 2009. Infinite games in Novigrad (HR).
On the global level, in 2009 KIBLA co-organised ASEUM, the 1st International New Media Art Festival in the Philippines, together with SABAW Media Art Kitchen (Philippines) and Asia-Europe Foundation.
Award
In 2008 KIBLA joined the ranks of Alcatel Space, Amadeus, Brainstorm Multimedia, EVS, Navicore, Nokia, OpenBC, Strato, Young Digital Planet, Zanox and others when it was awarded a silver European Seal of e-Excellence by the European Multimedia Forum. The seal recognises ICT and digital media companies with an excellent track record in developing and marketing innovative products and services.
See also
- KiBela Art Space
- Za:misel Bookshop
- Folio Magazine
- KIBLIX Linux IT Festival
- M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia
External links
- Kibla website (in English)
- Dravoskop cultural portal
- European Seal of e-Excellence 2008 winners
- Pure Energy – Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012: the winning proposal's website
International cooperation projects
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