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Digital Visuals From Lebanon
June 2008, Digital images

VISITORS
Since August 12, 2003. Network
CONNECTED
Since August 1, 2003. Network
LebaneseGroup
Online (1999-2001). Discussion List


Arameans
Lebanon (2007), Video, 3 min 36 sec
More than normal
France (2002), Video, 10 min 18 sec
Gare de Lyon - Juvisy
France (1999), Video, 52 min
Lebanese National Tabbouleh Day
Since 2001. Celebration
Each one has from art what art has from itself
Since 1999. Connections
A series of digital images printed on large format photo papers based on the numerous agreements signed by the Lebanese State since the independence of Lebanon. In order to obtain these images, the artist uses the capacity of the computer to render the files containing the texts of these agreements as if they were image files. The computer calculated the binary code of each text file and generated the corresponding image. The series comprises images of binary codes of texts such as: the Doha agreement, the Taef accord, the Lebanon-Syria Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination, the tripartite agreement, the Cairo agreement, the national pact, the Lebanese constitution, as well as the word « Lebanon » itself. VISITORS is an online artwork that has the form of a Web site. A number shows how many persons have already visited the site since its creation. This indicator is followed by a text in many languages, signed by Ricardo Mbarkho. The visitors can choose their prefered language as well as refresh the site to see the number of visitors in each instant. CONNECTED is an online artwork that has the form of a Web site.
A number shows how many persons are connected to the site at the same moment. This indicator is followed by a text in many languages, signed by Ricardo Mbarkho.
The visitors can choose their prefered language as well as refresh the site to see the number of connected persons in each instant.
From November 8, 1999 to June 6, 2001, everyone who wishes to contact and to converse with Lebanese was invited by Ricardo Mbarkho, to enroll in the discussion list: LebaneseGroup. Today, this project is frozen and the discussions are suspended. Main topics of discussion: the socio-politics and the actuality of the day. This video questions the mobility of the Arameans in the Lebanese social context; this is through the example of an Assyrian woman who has undergone one of the explosions in Beirut. Since they moved from Iraq, until their departure from Syria, are the Arameans who hold their language and their religion pursued again by terrorism in Lebanon? More than normal (Plus que normal) is a video that shows three couples story that ends by a separation. 10 minutes of almost a total silence, where no dialogue and no action take place, at a time when an unstable equilibrium leads to tens atmosphere. Keywords for this video would be: Desire, charm, wish, love, fear, fatal, hopes, anger and separation. A trip from Paris to Juvisy is the context of a 52 min video. The images that move horizontally with the train movements put us in the beginning of the film in a Parisian landscape. This landscape becomes a portrait after an accident that occurs during the travel and a "smooth" plot catch the spectators for 52 min to discover the climax at the end of the trail, at the end of the "unachieved" trip. In April 2001, a newsletter about a Tabbouleh Day is sent by email to a large number of people who forwarded it to their address books as well. It is about a new celebration day each first Saturday of July: THE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY. Year after year, this event is gaining in crescendo a huge popularity and it is now proudly practiced by a big part of the Lebanese (and there friends) in Lebanon and abroad.  

Exhibited at:

LAA Gallery, Verdun, Beirut, Lebanon. From June 20 to June 30, 2008

Exhibited at:

Sousse Cultural Center, Tunisia. From October 9 to october 15, 2003
In the frame of "Les Journées Méditerranéennes des arts plastiques de Sousse"

Exhibited at:

Dawar el Shams (The Sunflower), Beirut, Lebanon. October 24, 2008, from 4pm till 6am
In the frame of "The White Night"

Sousse Cultural Center, Tunisia. From October 9 to october 15, 2003
In the frame of "Les Journées Méditerranéennes des arts plastiques de Sousse"

Exhibited at:

In the frame of the Internet Fiesta 2000. Mars 2000
- Sénat, salle des conférences, 17 ter, rue Vaugirard, Paris 6ème, France
- La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Espace Condorcet, 30 avenue Corentin-Cariou, 75930 Paris cedex 19, France

In the frame of ISEA 2000. From December 8 to December 20, 2000
Beyond the screen. Exhibition at the National Superior Fine Arts School - Paris

Screened at:

- INVIDEO Festival, Milano, Italy. November 14, 2008
- 21th Instants Video Festival
, Marseille, France. November 2008
- Oslo Screen Festival
, Oslo. Norway. October 2008
- LiteSide Festival
, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 22-23-24 August 2008
- LOOP'08 Festival
, Barcelona. 6-18 May 2008
- International Festival Sarajevo Winter "Barricades without borders"
, Video-Salon 3 at the galerie10m2, Sarajevo. From 7 to 21 of March 2008
- transmediale.08
, Berlin, Germany. January 30, 2008
- Goethe-Institut
, Beirut, Lebanon. October 29, 2007 to November 1, 2007

Screened at:

Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon. Monday January 17, 2005 at 19h

1er festival télé-jeunes en francophonie, Montréal, Canada. From 5 to 8 october, 2004.
At the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal

Festival Signes de Nuit Paris on trip:
- Nuit Blanche 2005
, Les Voûtes, Paris, France. Octobre 1, 2005. From 7 pm to 7 am
- Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. December 16, 2004 at 20h30
- European Film Festival, Turkey. 01-07 October, 2004 at Ankara / 08-14 October, 2004 at Bursa / 18-24 October, 2004 at Izmir
- Cinema Black Box (a part of the Düsseldorf Film Museum), Düsseldorf. August 7, 2004 at 21:30
- Le Batofar, Paris, France. Thursday February 19, 2004 from 20h to 22h

INGAN II, Berlin, Germany. 18 to 19 of september 2004

Festival Signes de Nuit Paris, France. March 2003
Cinema Balzac. Director Dieter Wieczorek

ENSBA, Paris, France. May - June 2002
L'art c'est secondaire. Exhibition Commissaire: Christian Bernard, director of the MAMCO, Geneva

Screened at:

- Back Stage, Beirut, Lebanon. Octobre 26, 2005 at 9 pm

- Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon. November 11, 2004 at 7 pm
Ciné Club

- ENSBA, Paris, France. May - June 2002
L'art c'est secondaire. Exhibition Commissaire: Christian Bernard, director of the MAMCO, Geneva

Exhibited at:

Biennale de Paris.

Exhibited at:

Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, art agent, Paris, France. From July 15, 1999