IFCA – International festival of computer arts

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The International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA; Slovene: Mednarodni festival računalniških umetnosti, MFRU) is the longest-running computer arts festival in Slovenia. IFCA presents theory and practices of computer arts and new media arts. It is one of the major institutions for the presentation, support and production of computer media, electronics, and interdisciplinary art in the region and is responsible for the development of new media art and theory. ¹

The International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA) was first held in 1995 in Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia. The festival presented a number of local and foreign artists, theoreticians, performers, developers and curators. In 2009, the festival joined forces with Kibla and have held a joint festival in the media arts. Supporters of the festival include the University of Maribor, the Maribor Art Gallery, and Arts Council England. ¹

The IFCA has been held annually for about five days and is organized by the Maribor Youth Culture Centre (MKC Maribor). The program consists of seminars, conferences, exhibitions and performances selected by invited curators and selectors and by the program director of the festival, who has a three-year mandate. The festival connects different locations in the town and in neighboring cities – and different urban, regional and international producers, institutions and festivals of similar interests. From its beginnings, it has established cooperation with educational institutions of all levels: from nursery, primary and secondary schools, to colleges and universities with new media programs in Maribor, nationally and internationally. ¹

1995 – presentation of Slovenian new media artists 1996 – new body 1997 – interactivity 1998 – n/a 1999 – n/a 2000 – the incidence and attitudes towards physicality in art dependent on new technologies 2001 – BODY: fleeting, sick and cloned in erotic embrace of technology + establish a domain and website www.mfru.org 2002 – expanded body 2003 – transformation / metamorphosis 2004 – n/a 2005 – n/a 2006 – light up, plug in, outage 2007 – where there are computers, there is life: error and chance 2008 – can image today shows something (the potential of media images)? + establishing www.mkc.si/hiperfilm 2010 – new image, new nature, new consciousness 2011 – transmedia storytelling 2012 – robotics and new ways of thinking man 2013 – when worlds collide 2014 – 2.0 (20th edition of the festival) 2015 – Lift Me Up 2016 – Trust.1 ¹

1995 – Marina Gržinić, Aleksandra Kostić, Jože Slaček 1996 – Erkki Huhtamo, Aleksandra Kostić, Machiko Kusahara, Jože Slaček 1997 – Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Aleksandra Kostić, Jože Slaček 1998 – Stelarc, Igor Štromajer 1999 – Marina Gržinić, Stelarc, Igor Štromajer 2000 – Kathy Rae Huffman, Jurij Krpan, Marina Gržinić 2001 – Kathy Rae Huffman, Jurij Krpan, Eva Ursprung 2002 – Jože Slaček, Eva Ursprung, Heimo Ranzenbacher 2003 – Marina Gržinić, Jože Slaček, Simona Vidmar 2004 – Simona Vidmar, son:DA, Marina Gržinić, Narvika Bovcon, Aleš Vaupotič, Peter Weibel, Jurij Krpan, Srečo Dragan, Miloš Bašin 2005 – Peter Weibel, Narvika Bovcon, Aleš Vaupotič, Jože Slaček, Srečo Dragan 2006 – Peter Weibel, Jaka Železnikar, Narvika Bovcon, Aleš Vaupotič, Srečo Dragan, Dunja Kukovec, Marina Gržinić, Dušan Bučar 2007 – Dunja Kukovec, Alexandra Weltz, Marina Gržinić, Jasmina Založnik, Jože Slaček 2008–2009 – Melita Zajc, Marko Ornik 2010–2012 – Marko Ornik 2013–2015 – Nina Jeza 2016 ¹

1995 – Andrej Troha, Atanor, Saša Divjak, Werkstadt Graz, Vojko Pogačar, Špela Hudnik. Machiko Kusahara, Inštitut informacijskih znanosti Maribor (IZUM), Peter Ciuha, Tjaša Demšar, Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Darij Kreuh, Metod Vidic, Art Futura, Marko Peljhan, Mitja Praznik, Bojan Štokelj, Erkki Huhtamo, Neven Korda, ICC Tokijo, Studio K7, Christan Vanderborght, Archiomediala, British Computer Animation, Zemira Alajbegovič, Mitja Reichenberg, Bogdan Soban, Inštitut Egon Marč - Marko Košnik Virant, Sašo Jankovič, INTIMA teater, OŠ Milan Šoštarič, Marjan Kokot, Josef Klammer in Seppo Grundler, Andrej Škrlep, Darij Zadnikar, Božidar Kante, Srečo Dragan, Janez Strehovec 1996 – Georg Legrady, Erkki Huhtamo, Igor Štromajer, Bojana Kunst, Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid, Marko Rodošek, Machiko Kusahara, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Margaret Morse, Stelarc, Kathy Rae Huffman, Vuk Ćosić, Luka Frelih, Teo Spiller, Trevor Batten, Marko Butina, EIKE, Alain Escalle, Takahiko Iimura, Branka D. Jurišić, Raj Petrot Kraljev, Darij Kreuh, Sigrid Langrehr, Petra de Nijs, OŠ Borci za severno mejo, Rozika Puvar, Nada Prlja, Mojca Sekulić, Ivo Buda, Jacek Szleszynski, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Sokolski dom Ilirska Bistrica, Marko Seketin, CYBERFLASH, Bojan Štokelj, Srečo Dragan, Aleksandro Amaducci, Vojko Pogačar 1997 – Petra de Nijs, Teo Spiller, Marko Rodošek, Paul Sarmon, Simon Biggs, Darij Kreuh, Srečo Dragan, Marjetica Potrč, Alenka Pirman, Petra Varl Simončič, Igor Štromajer, Dragan Živadinov, Dolores Šegina, Dejan Štampar, Borut Wenzel, Nataša Prosenc, Darko Golija, Damjan Kracina, Darinko Kores, Franc Purg, Sašo Janković, Janez Strehovec, Bojan Štokelj, Sašo Janković, Dejan Flaškar, Mitja Koštomaj, Igor Kuduz, Vladislav Knežević, Simon B. ¹

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