Ricardo Mbarkho

Ricardo Mbarkho's Personal Website

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Hello,
Welcome to my Personal Website.

My name is Ricardo Mbarkho. I am an artist based in Beirut. In this site you can find things about my Biography, my Works and Exhibitions, a selection of Photos showing exhibitions, and some Lectures and Workshops as well as a Bibliography. I also added a What's new section where I often post my art related news...

PS: My name, in this site or elsewhere, appears in several languages or spellings: Mbarkho, M'Barko, Mbarak, Mbaaraq, etc., depending on the period in which it was written. Thank you to update your address book to Ricardo Mbarkho.

Here is my contact info:
> Email: contact@ricardombarkho.com
> On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ricardombarkho
> On Skype: ricardombarkho
> On Twitter: http://twitter.com/ricardombarkho
> Represented by Mark Hachem Gallery

I hope you'll enjoy!
Ricardo Mbarkho

Bibliography (selection)

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Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST), and published by MIT Press.	Turbulences Vidéo, France, #69	"Cultures and Globalization Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation". Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar. SAGE Edition.	"Beauty is the Beast - Windows Upon Oceans" ARTos Foundation, Cyprus, 2009	"Art et Internet" by Fred Forest, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 2008. P 19 and PP 645-65	"Digital Narratives from Arabia" published by UNESCO	Turbulences Vidéo, France, #41	Press Revue of the Lebanese National Tabbouleh Day	"Repenser l'art et son enseignement : les écoles de vie" by Fred Forest, Ed. l'Harmattan, 2002. PP 163-165
Link: http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/on_new_media_and_creativity_in_the_lebanese_setting/	Link: http://www.videoformes-fest.com/publication__turbulences_video.php Link to the video portrait: http://www.videoformes-fest.com/portraits-d-artistes/ricardo-mbarkho/ Other links to the same video: http://artists.jimdo.com/m/ricardo-mbarkho/ http://blip.tv/file/get/Artists-RicardoMBARKHODigitalViewsOfLebanon356.mp4 http://blip.tv/file/get/Artists-RicardoMBARKHODigitalViewsOfLebanon826.flv http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/33124607	Link: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book228916	From the catalog. page 58: "Ricardo Echevarría, Curator of the solo exhibition [SINCE ART] by Ricardo Mbarkho Lebanese artist Ricardo Mbarkho's work, talk about communication between human being. To be more precise, it talks about the difficulties of carrying it out. That is why many of its texts are transformed into images (Visualizing Communication, 2008, Digital Visuals from Lebanon, 2008) or video sequences in which words are missing (More than normal, 2002) or the opposite, discussion forums online where noise can get to mute the significance of the topic to be discussed (Lebanese Group, 1999-2001). The interest of his work lies in the conceptualization and the de-dramatization of the face of (in)communication, which has a more significant value due to Ricardo being an artist whose life and artistic activity is located in an area of ongoing geopolitical conflict, Beirut. This separation provides to Ricardo's work, a reflective component, while disturbing and allowing us to totally "tune" with a situation that should not be neglected even if repeated. The situation of societies in countries in conflict in the Middle East. The use of new media environments done by the artist reveal efficiency in the way of spreading the artistic message among the local frontiers. This is the first individual exhibition in Spain by Ricardo Mbarkho The exhibited works of Ricardo Mbarkho go from 1999 till today. They ass question the human relations and communication, within the private and public sphere. The use of new media as a tool is very frequent. [...]".	Link: http://www.cercledart.com/catalogue_ouvrages/9782_702208649_art_et_internet	Download the PDF version of the book	Download the article by Evelyne Rogue	For the press articles about the National Tabbouleh Day, refer to the Press section at www.nationaltabboulehday.com
In this text, I comments on how globalization and new media have fostered change and creative pursuits in Lebanon from 2008-2011.	Portrait d’artiste : Ricardo Mbarkho . Interview de Ricardo Mbarkho par Gabriel Soucheyre . À la rencontre de l’Autre… par Évelyne Rogue . Plus que normal par Dieter Wieczorek . Gare de Lyon - Juvisy / Plus que normal par Évelyne Rogue . Le Moi collectif par Fred Forest . CV & Bio . Portrait Vidéo	Includes a text I wrote: "A different kind of media creativity in the Lebanon", pp. 270-271.		About Ricardo Mbarkho's work in general, and about CONNECTED as example.	Published by Unesco, this book is a collected papers presented by Huda Abifares and Tarek Atrissi, with contributions from Teemu Leinonen and Ricardo Mbarkho. “Visual Narratives from Arabia” is a publication that documents the first Online Master module in Art, Science, Design and Technology organized by Unesco in 2005-2006, in which a selected group of students from multiple disciplines across the Arabic speaking countries participated.	"De l'esthétique de la commutation et de l'interactivité dévoilante via l'esthétique de l'implémentation"	Articles about the Lebanese National Tabbouleh Days's Editions since 2001	About Ricardo Mbarkho's Diploma at the National Superior Fine Arts School of Paris.