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WJ-SPOTS is a project imagined and conceived by the media curator Anne Roquigny; it consists of a series of conferences where artists, critics, thinkers, inventors, researchers, curators, organizers and producers of cultural events are invited to comment on the history and the future of the Internet. |
In the frame of the program ASIL by the IMéRA, and the research residency of the Egyptian artist Mohamed Hassan YOUSSEF, in coproduction with ZINC, and in the frame of the franco egyptian year for science, the IMéRA and ZINC propose a workshop to reflect on the theme:
Art and Sciences in the Mediterranean Rim. Which inter-cultural situation?
Testimonies and strategies.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
At the MMSH in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Workshop open for artists, scientists, researchers and students. Free entrance upon registration - around 70 people.
Ricardo Mbarkho (Representing the YASMIN network in Lebanon) and Claudine Dussolier (RAMI/ZINC) will cover the subject: A PANORAMIC POSSIBLE VIEW relations between art and sciences in the Mediterranean region. The participation of Ricardo Mbarkho will be from Lebanon, via video.
IMéRA / L’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées
2 place Le Verrier
13004 Marseille
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Speakers: Alexandre CASTONGUAY (ARTENGINE Network) Ricardo MBARKHO (YASMIN Network) Achillekà KONGUEM and GENOVA (BLENDER Community), Horia COSMIN SAMO?LA (GHOST LAB), Marika DERMINEUR (UPGRADE! Network) Abdo NAWAR and Claudine DUSSOLLIER (RAMI Network), Jean-Marie DALLET and Frédéric CURIEN (SLIDERS LAB)
From RAMI Website:
"This conference was organized in the framework of Créa Numérica and took the form of a round table on the theme of international communities and networks in the creation field. The speakers chose to take on this subject by highlighting the main questions networks are confronted to. The speakers started by presenting themselves and their respective national context, in order to underline similarities in their experiences and present dilemmas." |
From RAMI Website:
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Qu’est-ce que le numérique a amené à la scène artistique ? Comment la forme émerge-t-elle à travers l’utilisation ? Comment le numérique a-t-il influencé les comportements et les pratiques ? Ces quelques pistes de réflexion ont été abordées au cours d’une conférence animée par Ricardo Mbarkho (artiste libanais, leader du réseau libanais deYASMIN) et Marika Dermineur (responsable de la branche parisienne du réseau Upgrade ! ) dans le cadre de Créa Numérica".
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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. |
The RAMI project is a platform for experimentation and
communication that organize international exchanges related to the
contemporary creation, the digital tools and the multimedia, between
September 2006 and December 2007.
RAMI presents to the artists, to professionals and to the public workshops
and the appropriate places for exchange and reflection.
After Beirut, Alexandria and Marseilles, the fifth phase of this project
is occurring again in Beirut from October 5 to 15, 2007.
As for the website RAMI, it enlightens, step by step, the activities
of the RAMI platform: http://rami.lafriche.org
Seminars
/ Carte Blanches
1 - Ricardo
Mbarkho invites the artists and students to widen their
knowledge, experiences and research in Art using the new Medias.
Ricardo Mbarkho is an artist, researcher, teacher and coordinator
of the network YASMIN Lebanon
Tuesday 9, Thursday 10 and Friday the 11 of October from 11h - 14h
at The Sunflower.
2 - Marc
Mercier will share his poetic approach of the Video- poetry
electronic, collage and editing. He will start up the dialogue based
on a selection of works presented in the context of “the festival
of the instant Videos 2007” (www.instantsvideo.com <http://www.instantsvideo.com>
).
Marc Mercier
is a film-maker and director of «Instants Vidéo»
(France)
Saturday the 13th of October from 11h - 14h. At Le tournesol Dawarshams
3 - Paolo
Rosa will present the sensitive environments as Works of
art and the interactive museums as frescos based on his method and
the presentation of several productions of the Studio Azzurro. (http://www.studioazzurro.com
<http://www.studioazzurro.com> )
Paolo Rosa is an artist and co-fonder of the Studio Azzuro (Italy)-
Saturday the 13th of October from 15h - 18h. at Le tournesol Dawarshams
Evening performances on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 of October,
starting 19h at The Sunflower.
Installations of «The Table in the Quest of Lost Time» by Mohamed
Youssef and Sharif El Sayed (Egypt), Jean Marc Nahas, Joelle Khoury
and Rajwa Tohmé (Lebanon).
Performances
on Friday the 12th of October at 21h
Public presentation of the workshops:
Body, movement and multimedia II and Transmission of Interactive
Audiovisual Object on the Internet II.
Performances
on Saturday the 13th of October at 21h
Radio vision by Renaud Vercey and Yann Norry
Piece by Charbel Haber, followed by a concert by Tarek Ataoui
A public forum
Organized on Sunday the 14th of October from 19h to 21h at The Sunflower, the forum allows both the participants and the
interveners in the RAMI Project to elaborate a review of the situation
and to consider future collaborations among artists and cultural
operators from different Mediterranean countries.
Three
workshops are taking place at the Sunflower from the 5th to the
12th of October.
1 - Body,
Movement and Multimedia II
With Nancy Naous, Anne le Batard, Delphine Rochette and Marine Quiniou
Participants:
Egypt: Adel Abd El Wahab, , Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Saleh, Hadil Nazmy
Lebanon: Ahlam Derani, Chafic Kolailat, Corinne Skaff, Hanane El
Dirani, Lynn Kodeih, Mona Merhi, Roaa Bzeih, Romy Assouad, Stéphanie
Dadour
Macedonia: Irina Janevska,
Tunisia: Hasna Mannai
2 – Transmission of Interactive Audiovisual Object
on the Internet II
With Jean-Pierre Noun and Renaud Vercey
Participants:
Egypt: Ahmed Essamra, Lamia Moghzy, Mohamed Taman, Soha Yahia Abu
Hussein, Abdallah Dawestashy, Rabbab Nawar
Lebanon: Manale Kharrat, Nadia Oufrid, Pascale El Kareh, Patricia
Tohme
3 – Interactive Installations II /managed
by Tarek Ataoui
Participants from Lebanon: Charbel Haber, Jean Marc Nahas, Joelle
Khoury Rajwa Tohmé
Forty Years of Video Arts in Germany – Exposition
October 29 - November 1, 2007 from 18h till 20:30 – Goethe
Institute
Site
Web: http://rami.lafriche.org/ <http://rami.lafriche.org/>
Contact at SHAMS, Abdo Nawar: assshams@cyberia.net.lb
961-1-381290 / 961-3-949197
The
RAMI Project was conceived, proposed and produced by: SHAMS
– Beirut, ZINC/ECM – Marseille, with the L’ATELIER
d’Alexandrie and the studio Azzuro/ASTAR – Milan, in
partnership with the Network Arts-Sciences in Mediterranean Yasmin.
Rami
is financed by: Anna Lindh Foundation, Al Mawred Al Sakafi
Al Arabi, Dramastica Institute, Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation,
French Cultural Centre in Beirut, Region Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur, Ministère des affaires étrangères français.
Rami is endorsed by the Goethe Institut, la Bibliothéca Alexandrina,
the Yasmin network, and the CCF d’Alexandrie... |
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/ |
Ce colloque
est fait pour :
- " prendre
un regard critique sur ce qui se passe dans le monde depuis le début
de la Révolution Numérique. Cette analyse sera suivie
par des accords sur les mesures à prendre pour donner forme
au prochain développement de la Société de
l'Information. "
- " produire
une vraie déclaration optimiste, la Déclaration de
Vienne. Ce document sera présenté par le Président
du Colloque au " Plenary Session " pendant la seconde
partie du " World Summit on the Information Society "
en Tunisie 2005. "
La
participation de Ricardo Mbarkho est le 3 juin, Atelier Session 6
: "eCulture, Creative Content and DigiArts". Son intervention
avait comme titre "Art et noueveaux médias. Stratégies
pour un eMulticulturalisme"
Lien vers le site Internet du colloque :
http://www.wsa-conference.org
Lien
vers le programme :
http://www.wsa-conference.org/data/cd_prog.htm
Cliquer ici pour télécharger l'extrait de la conférence
de Ricardo Mbarkho (Version en anglais. Format de fichier : PDF) |
Presentation
of the lecture:
Ricardo
Mbarkho spoke about the emerging artists’ approaches and positions
in today’s Lebanese multi-cultural society, where religion,
politics, war and post-war environments are always affecting the
identity and belonging crisis. The aim of the lecture is presenting
a panorama on the Lebanese current art scene dealing with new media.
Mbarkho
conciders that art in Lebanon is strongly related to socio-politics.
So to see how art is reflecting society, he started the lecture
by presenting an historical background of Lebanon since its independance
day till today's situatio. This is to give an idea about what are
the historical icons our generation share today as part of their
common geographical and historical context. While of course not
all of them have the same translation or understanding of this and
that event they or others caused.
R.
Mbarkho then rose the issue of how the art and cultural institutions
are initiating projects and giving subventions, and how some individual
efforts are investigated to organize new media events, with an overview
on the public, critics and press roles. He focused on how the new
technology of information and communication is cultured, specifically
via his new media work as well as the works of colleagues with whom
he is in direct contact.
Link
to the site of transmediale:
http://www.transmediale.de
Direct
link to the intervention:
http://www.transmediale.de/page/listings/listing.0.programme.lectures.2.html
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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) |
With
this seminar given by Ricardo Mbarkho at RAMI, participants widen
their knowledge, experiments and research in art using new media.
They study and think the New Technologies of Information and Communication
(Internet/Cyberspace, mobiles, satellites, digital networks, interactive
games, etc.) with their impact on the artist’s social and
political environment, and how this impact is or could be shaped
in their projects. So what are the new possibilities to experiment
with? How to collaborate with electronic engineers and scientists
for this purpose? What are the new esthetics that were never possible
before the invention of the virtual/cyberspace, of the interactivity,
and of the digital network with the Internet?
This
seminar is theory and aesthetic oriented; a research laboratory
in new media art is thus implemented in class. The aim is to cover
a quick overview on the history of new media art in order to analyze
art works and understand the judgment criterion for this new esthetic.
The participants are constantly oriented to define and locate their
positioning as artists operating in the new media field, within
the global today’s art practices. |
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 |
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