Kibla


KIBLA, or Kibla, is a multimedia and multidisciplinary art production facility in Slovenia that organizes a year-round cultural program. It is a member of the Slavic Culture Forum and is involved in showcasing, distributing, and promoting the activities of 16 multimedia centers across Slovenia.

Programmes

  • Cyber provides free internet access as well as free internet-related courses via website architecture, programs, and hardware.
  • The Student Resource Centre provides information on national and international scholarship foundations, publications, and media inquiries using an online database.
  • KiBela is a multipurpose room for a cultural program as well as a space for displaying multimedia art.
  • Hidden Notes is a musical series that features concerts, projections, talks, and workshops, including electroacoustic music.
  • IT@K – IT at Kibla is an online and multimedia lab for the development of websites, CD-ROMs, video, audio, and real-time internet transmissions.
  • Videla is for digital video processing, education, courses, presentations and workshops.
  • Za:misel is a bookstore for sociology and humanistic studies with a regular program of book presentations and literary evenings.
  • Mimogrede – bimonthly with information about studying abroad and in Slovenia.
  • LED display is for information about MMC KIBLA and programmes.
  • TOX magazine is a time-table through 3000, magazine that grew into the KIBLA publishing edition, made several catalogues and books, e.g., Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art, Vili Ravnjak: The Amber way, Aleksandra Kostič's edited essays on Levitation, catalogues for Marko Jakše, Marko Črtanec, Mitjja Ficko, Theo Botscuijver, Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver, several CDs and DVDs for EU project txoOm.
  • Communication-information point KIT in Maribor City Hall , Glavni trg 14, where there are eight computer terminals and a multimedia classroom with ten computers and additional IT equipment.

    Festivals

  • Day of Curiosity – an annual educational festival on career choices.
  • Izzven – a three-day contemporary music festival focused on collaboration projects.
  • Kiblix – IT Linux festival – a festival about open source, consists of topics such as mobile technologies, open source, security on the Internet, and Linux.

    Special programs

  • Committee for Vine Service – degustations, education, information service and excursions.

    International cooperation

Kibla is working on the EC-Culture 2000, FP5-IST and FP6-IST funded programmes and projects. The corporation is also a part of the EUREKA multimedia umbrella and finished Leonardo da Vinci-supported project NAME multimedia - the Multimedia Tasks & Skills Database covering 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.
In 2005, KIBLA partnered with EU-Culture 2000 and finished 2 new projects: e-Agora, which developed a virtual multimedia platform; and TRG – Transient reality generators, that focuses on mixed reality and examines a synaesthetic MR experience design.