SIMULTAN FESTIVAL 2012 – ‘The Beginning of The End’ 11-13 oct. Timisoara, RO

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SIMULTAN FESTIVAL 2012 – ‘The Beginning of The End’
11-13 oct. Timisoara, RO
http://www.simultan.org/en/2012/festival.html

The 8th edition of the Simultan Festival will take place from October 11 to
13, under the theme
‘The Beginning of The End’ (TBOTE).
This theme wishes to reflect upon the phenomenon 2012, which includes a set
of cataclysmic or processing assumptions.
2012 is considered the year of changes, different Conspiracy theories were
born about the apocalypse and the end of the world – those beliefs or
speculations are related to the long Mesoamerican calendar, according to
which a cycle ends in the history of Earth and mankind. A New Age
interpretation of this transition would be that this date marks the
beginning of a new era, a positive physical or spiritual transformation,
abandoning reliance on the material level, allowing humanity to enter a new
era, one of universal harmony. Scientists have rejected proposals like
pseudoscience, stating that it conflicts with simple astronomical
observations and targets distraction from more important issues such as
global warming and biodiversity loss.
These theories seem distant and unclear in relation to the pressure of the
present and the uncertainty of the near future.

SIMULTAN is an annual festival dedicated to media art and artistic
experiment, creating a bond between different media.
Initiated by a group of artists, the festival was born as an artistic
project having the goal to create a cultural context of the ‘here and now’
on the local scene, encouraging new and innovative forms of artistic
expression, as visual and sound language.