Kibla

Kibla or KIBLA is the first presentation and production institution in Slovenia dealing with multimedia and intermedia art and a yearlong cultural programme. Kibla incorporates pure classical (»excluded«) media but in a different context, using various media to support historical continuities in visual arts and a larger aesthetization and integration of electronic media. Kibla supports principles that lead to complex systems of multimedia presentation. Kibla also produces and coproduces cultural artistic projects and publishs in various media formats, printed and digital.

Multimedia Centre CyberSRCeLab – MMC KIBLA was founded on the 4th of July 1996 as a project of Narodni dom Maribor and Open Society Institute Slovenia with the aim of training computer users in the Maribor area, with free Internet access, information and advisory services on usage and data bases, and education consultation. Since the 16th of June 1998 MMC KIBLA staff has also had legal status as a Slovenian Association for Culture and Education (ACE KIBLA).

Kibla presents, distributes and promotes the work of the Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia (M3C, established in 2004 )in sixteen multimedia centres in different regions. Kibla operates in the field of visual and intermedia Slavic culture and art and is part of the Slavic Culture Forum.

Cyber offers a free internet access and free courses about the use of internet through website structures, programme and hardware equipment, together with audio and projectional infrastructure for musical, online, video and other presentations. SRCe – Student Resource Centre offers information about study possibilities, national and foreign scholarship foundations, publications and mediates requests with the help of the large database on the internet. SRCe is incorporated into the Slovenian Resource Network.

KiBela, space for visual and intermedia art; ambiental presentations of contemporary multimedia art, KiBela is also a multipurpose place suitable for seminars, presentations, lectures, round tables, press conferences and rich cultural programme.

Hidden Notes (Skrite note) - is a musical programme that introduces electroacoustic music, concerts, projections, lectures, workshops …

IT@K – IT at Kibla –informational technology as a social event Graphic studio for the making of printed material, CGP… Online and multimedia lab for the execution of websites, CD-ROMs, video, audio, internet transmissions in real time life, etc.

Videla – digital video processing, educations, courses, presentations and workshops.

Za:misel (For:thought) bookstore for sociology and humanistic studies with regular programme of book presentations and literary evenings; with a reading room equipped with national and foreign literature, newspapers and periodics.

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