IMAGINA (originally known as International Forum of New Images) was the name of an annual

festival A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival c ...

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

(CG) and

communications technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, ...

(CT) that took place from 1986 to 2000 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. It was created by the

Institut National de l'Audiovisuel The (abbrev. INA), () is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives. Additionally it provides free access to archives of countries such as Afghanistan and Cambodia. It has its headquarters in Bry-sur-Marne. Since 200 ...

( INA). The conference was sometimes compared to the CG festival part of

SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) is an annual conference on computer graphics (CG) organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH, starting in 1974. The main conference is held in North America; SIGGRAPH Asia ...

. The first IMAGINA festival was held in 1981, while the actual name IMAGINA was only introduced in 1986. In 1985, the Prix Pixel-INA awards were created within the framework of the IMAGINA festival. The categories have changed over the years. In 2000, the festival was sold to the Monte-Carlo television festival, which decided to switch towards a meeting targeting professionals.

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External links

Official website

Imagina Awards 2010 - Nominees

Imagina 2012 - Industry And Virtual Technologies
Computer-related events Recurring events established in 1986 Recurring events disestablished in 2000 2000 disestablishments