Ricardo Mbarkho's Personal Website
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Hello,
Welcome to my Personal Website.

My name is Ricardo Mbarkho. I am an artist and I also teach art at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts), Beirut. In this site you can find things about my Biography, my Works, 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, Moubarak, etc., depending on the period in which it was written. Thank you to update your address book to Ricardo Mbarkho.

By the way, here is my contact info:
> Email: contact@ricardombarkho.com
> On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ricardombarkho
> On LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardombarkho
> On Skype: ricardombarkho
> On Twitter: http://twitter.com/ricardombarkho
> Mail:
Ricardo Mbarkho
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
PoBox: 55-251 Sin El Fil
Beirut
Lebanon

 

I hope you'll enjoy!
Ricardo Mbarkho


 
Lectures and Workshops

Beirut and Media Art today

RAMI: International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia RAMI: International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia
RAMI: International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia
eCulture, Creative Content and DigiArts Art and New Media in Lebanon Creation of Art, Design and Technology Master Classes Near East Media Art Dialogue How to make art with Internet Place of the new technologies in the conception process of the art piece
European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrueck, Germany. April 25, 2008 Alexandria, Egypt. In the frame of the 24th Biennale of Arts of Alexandria. November 19-25, 2007 Dawar el Shams (The Sunflower), Beirut, Lebanon. October 5-15, 2007 Dawar el Shams (The Sunflower), Beirut, Lebanon. May 12, 2007 World Summit Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity, Vienna, Austria. Juin 2-3, 2005 Transmediale.05, Berlin, Germany. February, 2005 ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria. Workshop initiated by UNESCO. 4-5 September, 2004 Transmediale.04, Berlin, Germany. February, 2004 Superior Institut of Fine Arts, Sousse, Tunisia. October, 2003 "Journées Méditerranéennes des Arts Plastiques", 4th session. Sousse, Tunisia. October 2003
LECTURE SEMINAR SEMINAR OPEN MEETING WORKSHOP LECTURE WORKSHOP LECTURE AND ROUND TABLE LECTURE CONFERENCE

RAMI: International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia
Alexandria, Egypt. In the frame of the 24th Biennale of Arts of Alexandria. November 19-25, 2007

 

 

From 19 to 25 November 2007 in Atelier of Alexandria

In the frame of the 24th Biennale of Arts of Alexandria,

 RAMI project makes a stop in Alexandria

Atelier of Alexandria: 6, Victor Bassili St,Shallalt 

 During one week, art works will be shown, works in progress will be presented, open discussions about relationships between arts and new technologies and the actual needs for artists and cultural actors and institutions

Encounters  “Arts and multimedia relationships”

Saturday, November 24th from 2 to 9 pm at the ATELIER.

During this week, from 5 to 10 pm the ATELIER of Alexandria is organizing in its place a

 “Cultural multimedia space

open to all the artists who have participated in RAMI 3 steps, Beirut, Alexandria and Marseilles. Seminars and short workshops will be held in relation with: production, communication, free soft wares for arts and editing, editing video and artistic web sites…

Exhibition of the Table of Sharif El Sayed and Mohamed Youssef

From Monday, November 19th to Sunday, November 25th from 5 to 10 pm.

A seminar with Ricardo Mbarkho, artist from Lebanon, researcher and teacher, member of YASMIN network, is organized at Alexandria University,

Sunday, November 25th  from 12 to 3 pm

Intermedia, experimental music concert of Nahla Mattar, Marwan Fawzy,

Mohamed Adel and Amr Okba from Cairo

Performance with Jean Marc Nahas (Visual artists)

and Charbel Haber (Musician), artists from Lebanon.

 on Sunday, November 25th at 8 pm at Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Contacts:  Moatez El Safty and Assia Meliani

Atelier of Alexandria: <info@atelieralex.com>;  Phone: 03 48 60 26 or 016 36 36 818

RAMI project: ramiproject@lafriche.org

Info:  RAMI web site: http://rami.lafriche.org/

RAMI is supported by Anna Lindh Foundation, El Mawred  El Thakafy, Mission Culturelle Française à Beyrouth, la Region PACA, le Ministère des affaires étrangères français, Ford Foundation, YASMIN Network

With for this step the help of the Archeological Study Center, the Arts Centre of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, French Cultural Center, the Goethe Institute, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Alexandria.

 

Ricardo Mbarkho talking about art and the digital tools at the Atelier of Alexandria, on November 24, 2007.

Ricardo Mbarkho talking about art and new media at the University of Alexandria, Fine Arts School, on November 25, 2007.

Saturday, November 24th  at the Atelier of Alexandria

Step 1

From 2 to 3:30 pm

The Relationship between the arts and the digital tools?

Web arts, performing arts and Multimedia:  historic approaches and examples of artistic procedures and works.

Roundtable with Ricardo Mbarkho (artist, researcher, teacher, member of YASMIN network), Renaud Vercey (Artist), Claudine Dussollier (ZINC/ECM)

Open discussion.

Conclusion by Reem Hassan (artist and teacher in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Alexandria University, the Atelier of Alexandria and Dwayer)

Step 2

From 4 to 6 pm

The artistic needs and the production contexts?

The experiences of workshops (RAMI, children and international workshops at the Atelier of Alexandria...) and the personal artistic experiences…

Roundtable with Moataz El Safty, Sharif El Sayed and Reem Hassan  (Dwayer group), Assia Meliani (Atelier of Alexandria), Mohamed Youssef, (Artist: the Table production and his work in progress The Particles), Nahla MATTAR (Composer, educator and professor at the Helwan University in Cairo)

Open discussion with the participation of several artists: Hadil Azmy, Pascale El-Kareh, Ahmed Essamra, Charbel Haber, Manale Kharrat, Jean Marc Nahas, Renaud Vercey, Ahmed Saleh…

Conclusion by  Abdo Nawar (Shams and ICARE in Beirut) and Brigitte Remer (CCF Alexandria)

Step 3

From 7 to 9:30 pm:

Nowadays challenges and opportunities in artistic procedures integrated to new technologies spaces and tools?

Opening contribution with Christine Coulanges and Nchan Manoyan, (7 Portes group in Marseilles.  Presentation of their artistic works and works in progress -1 hour)

Open discussion

Conclusion by  Abdo Nawar (Shams and ICARE in Beirut), Doctor Mohamed Rafik Khalil (President of the Atelier of Alexandria) and Claudine Dussollier (ZINC/ECM)