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I use the computer as a tool to convert texts into images. By this process, the text's binary codes, which are the digits that computers use to stock information, generate a unique corresponding image. Therefore, these digital images become a visual equivalent of the initial texts. With this technique, I am investigating multiple questions related to beauty, language, communication, creative industries, history of art as well as visual representation.
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'Grading the Lebanese Constitution' is a web based project where people can make anonymous grading for any and every article of the actual Lebanese Constitution. An Overall Average Grade is constantly displayed and updated. This grading centered project with its mass evaluation process implies different ways of reading the numbers and graphs of all the statistical results. It's a work that deals with data interpretation to offer multiple analysis levels relative to our emotional and rational attitude toward the Constitution.
Website address: http://www.dastooronline.com |
A number shows how many people have already visited the site since its creation. This indicator is followed by a description text I put in many languages. The visitors can refresh the site to see the number of visitors in each instant.
Website address: http://www.ricardombarkho.com/visitors
Exhibited at:
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Sousse Cultural Center - Sousse - Tunisia. In the frame of the « Journées Méditerranéennes des Arts Plastiques » at Sousse. (4th session). 9-15 October, 2003.
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A number shows how many people are connected to the site at the same moment. This indicator is followed by a description text I put in many languages. The visitors can refresh the site to see the number of connected persons in each instant.
Website address: http://www.ricardombarkho.com/connected
Exhibited at:
- microARTos, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Dawwar el Shams (The Sunflower), Beirut. October 24, 2008, from 4pm to 6am. In the frame of the "Nuit Blanche"
- Sousse Cultural Center - Sousse - Tunisia. In the frame of the « Journées Méditerranéennes des Arts Plastiques » at Sousse. (4th session). 9-15 October, 2003.
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This video questions the mobility of the Arameans in the Lebanese social context; this is through the example of a woman who has undergone one of the explosions in Beirut. Are the Arameans who hold their language and their religion pursued again by terrorism in Lebanon?
The video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVJwbxFvIzk
Screened at:
- Art Video Exchange, in collaboration with Small Projects Gallery, Tromsø, Norway. 3-4-5 March, 2012
- Festival CologneOFF
- CeC 2012 - Carnival of e-Creativity, India. 24-26 February 2012
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico.14-18 November 2011
- Art Video Exchange at Atopia, Oslo, Norway. 2-3 June 2011
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Marroco. 21-25 April 2009
- Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris, France. April 2009
- Centre Culturel Français, Beirut. Exhibition: « Image : Fixe, Mobile, Animée ». From 10 February 2009 to 6 March 2009
- Festival VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand - France. March 2009
- Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, in the frame of REJECT Festival 2009, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 24 january 2009
- Festival INVIDEO, Milano, Italy. 14 November, 2008
- 21th Instants Video Festival, Marseille, France. November 2008
- Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo. Norway. 24-26 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 Galerija 10m2, Sarajevo. From 7 to 21 of March 2008
- transmediale.08, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany. January 30, 2008
- Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon. October 29, 2007 to November 1, 2007
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More than normal (Plus que normal) shows a three couples story that ends by a separation. There is almost no dialogue and no action, at a time when an unstable equilibrium leads to tens atmosphere. Keywords for this video would be: Desire, charm, wish, love, fear, hopes, anger and separation.
The video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXr6R9rG_9w
Screened at:
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon. Monday January 17, 2005
- 1er festival télé-jeunes en francophonie, Montréal, Canada. At the Cinémathèque Québécoise, from 5 to 8 october, 2004.
- Festival Signes de Nuit Paris on trip at:
- Le Batofar, Paris, France. Thursday February 19, 2004
- Cinema Black Box, Düsseldorf. August 7, 2004
- Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. December 16, 2004
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European Film Festival, Turkey:
- 01-07 October, 2004 at Ankara
- 08-14 October, 2004 at Bursa
- 18-24 October, 2004 at Izmir
- INGAN II, Berlin, Germany. 18 to 19 of September 2004
- Festival Signes de Nuit Paris, France. Cinema Balzac on March 2003
- ENSBA, Paris, France. May - June 2002. Exhibition “L'art c'est secondaire”. Exhibition Commissaire: Christian Bernard, director of the MAMCO (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain), Geneva
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A trip from Paris to Juvisy is the context of this 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.
The video at cultureunplugged.com:
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1546/Gare-de-Lyon---Juvisy/VkZaRk9WQlJQVDA9K0k=
Screened at:
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Back Stage, Beirut, Lebanon. October 26, 2005
- Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon. November 11, 2004
- ENSBA, Paris, France. May - June 2002. Exhibition “L'art c'est secondaire”. Exhibition Commissaire: Christian Bernard, director of the MAMCO (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain), Geneva
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In April 2001, I sent an 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 Lebanese National Tabbouleh Day. Year after year, this event is now practiced by a big part of the Lebanese (and their friends) in Lebanon and abroad.
Website address: http://www.nationaltabboulehday.com
Related videos on YouTube:
Exhibited at:
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Biennale de Paris (2006 to September 2011)
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Since 1999, I spread the contact information of many people who accept to be contacted by anyone informed about their availability. “Each one has from art what art has from itself » is the title of this art activity.
Exhibited at:
- The Lebanese Artists Association, Beirut. From 28 April 2010 to 5 May 2010
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 June 2009
- Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, art agent. Paris, France. From July 15 to November 15, 1999
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This work was a turning point into my art positioning. It questions the social accessibility, relations, and communication. I organized a 'Week-end Pierre-Yves Fave Portes Ouvertes' from Friday June 4, 1999, 4 pm, to Saturday June 5, 1999, noon. And from Saturday June 5, 1999, 8 pm, to Monday June 7, 1999, 10 am. The invitation paper was simply mentioning: “You are invited to visit Pierre-Yves in his home". Address: 46 bis, Rue Jean Moulin. 93260 Les Lilas - France. Opening: Friday June 4, 1999, 4 pm.
Documentations exhibited at:
- microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. 5-12 juin 2009
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