KIBLA MULTIMEDIJSHI CENTER, or Kibla, is a multimedia and multidisciplinary art production facility in Slovenia, as well as a year-long cultural program. Kibla uses different media for historical continuities in visual arts and traditional media. It is a member of the Slavic Culture Forum. Kibla displays, distributes, and promotes the activity of 16 multimedia centers around Slovenia.

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In 1999, Kibla was covered in Leonardo (MIT Press) and Flash Art and on numerous web-zines, i.e. California On-Line and in Slovenian media. Kibla is working on the EC-Culture 2000 (txOom, TransArtDislocated, Soziale Geraeusche and Virtual Centre Media Net are finished), FP5-IST (EMMA – European Multimedia Accelerator) and FP6-IST (PATENT – Partnership for Telecommunication New Technologies) funded programmes and projects. Kibla is also a part of the EUREKA multimedia umbrella, and finished Leonardo da Vinci supported project Name multimedia, the Multimedia Tasks & Skills Database, researching 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 was partnering 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. KIBLA was considered the most successful Slovenian cultural organization for three years in a row (2001, 2002, 2003).