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
Open meeting at Dawar el Shams, Beirut. May 12, 2007

 

 

RAMI organized an open, informal and professional encounter around the theme Arts and multimedia relationship. The encounter took place at Dawar el Shams in Beirut on the 12 of May; from 6 to 8 pm. Ricardo Mbarkho was invited to present the YASMIN Group:

YASMIN is a network of artists, scientists, engineers, theoreticians and institutions promoting communication and collaboration in art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim.
YASMIN welcomes information on events, artists' works, organizations' programmes, projects, initiatives as well as discussions and critical analysis in the field of art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim.
YASMIN aims to identify the players and to facilitate cooperation within the Mediterranean Rim.

http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/

  RAMI
Rencontres Arts et Multimédia Internationales
International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia

The RAMI project, initiated in September 2006 until December 2007, is a platform for experimentation and communication that will organize international meetings based on contemporary creation, digital tools and multimedia.

The RAMI project is the result of a cooperation that began in 2001 between the following major partners: SHAMS-Beirut, ZINC/ECM-Marseilles, l’ATELIER of Alexandria and ASTAR-Milan. And is financed by Anna Lindh Foundation – Dramastica Institute - Ford Foundation - French Cultural Centre in Beirut – Open Society Institute – Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur – Ministère des affaires étrangères français.

RAMI is divided up into 7 phases:
1 - ARBOMED: Marseilles – Aix, October, 2006
2 - Beirut, 11 to 20 May, 2007
3 - Alexandria, 6 to 15 June, 2007
4 - Marseilles, 20, 21, 23 September, 2007
5 - Beirut, 2 to 13 October, 2007
6 - Alexandria Biennale - Alexandria, 2 to 8 November, 2007
7 - BJCEM: Alexandria – 25 November to 4 December, 2007