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Pixelazo
Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Session 1 - Jockeys of the Image
February 27 - March 3, 2007

Session 2 - The vine
18-23 June, 2007

Selvatorium jungle laboratory
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
25June - 5 July, 2007

Pixelazo is the new Colombian node in the Pixelache festival network. The first Pixelazo event will be organised by Intermundos.org in collaboration with Pixelache Helsinki and several Colombian collaborators.

CULTURAL EXCHANGE>>>SOUTH / NORTH
COLOMBIA / FINLAND / EUROPE / THE WORLD

Creating encounters to share ideas and knowledge between…

South * North
‘Developing countries’ * ‘Developed countries’
Traditional culture * Western culture
Marginalized communities * International creative networks
Natural/Organic * Digital/Synthetic
Lo-tech * High-tech
Slow * Quick

Intermundos and Pixelache are working together to develop more exchange between Colombian artists and the international electronic art scene. Colombia, as well as many other countries in South-America, have so far been left out from the Western media art events and we believe that both communities have a lot to learn from each other.

The goals of Pixelazo are:

  • To make possible exchanges between artists from the Southern and Northern hemisphere.
  • To introduce electronic art and culture to populations that have not had an opportunity to come into contact with these forms of expression. Ex.; marginalized communities; rural population; indigenous communities.
  • To promote multidisciplinary collaborations through involvement of scientists, media professionals, philosophers, indigenous people, writers etc.
  • To introduce alternative spaces for working with and showing electronic art.
  • To share and multiply knowledge through conferences, round table discussions and theoretical or practical workshops.
  • To generate encounters that foster creativity and plural and multidimensional thought.

    • Previous events

    http://www.pixelache.ac/2007/pixelazo/

    Bogotrax 2006 / Bogota:
    http://www.pixelache.ac/2006/bogotrax-2006
    http://www.intermundos.org/activities/bogotrax2006.htm

    Salón Internacional del Autor Audiovisual / Barranquilla:
    http://www.pixelache.ac/2005/events/salon-colombia