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PRESS RELEASE - for immediate release AFRICAN ART AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES International event - Montreal * CONTACT ZONE, International Colloquium, Friday April 23, 10am to 5pm, Cinematheque quebecoise, 335 boul de Maisonneuve E, Montreal * CARREFOUR INFORMEL, Informal meeting with the African Artists,Thursday April 22, 5pm to 7pm, SAT- Technological Arts Society, 307 Ste-Catherine W., # 610, Montreal ******************************************************************************** ZONE DE CONTACT Art africain et nouvelles technologies Organized by ISEA with the participation of the Canadian curator Sylvie Fortin, this one-day seminar will bring together African artists and experts from around the world to discuss the various challenges, issues, and strategies related to the development of new commu-nication and creation technologies in Africa. SESSION I: 10am-12:30 pm SOFT FUTURES OR DIGITAL IMPERIALISM Analytical and Critical Perspectives on the Artistic and Social Impacts of the Networking of Africa Moderated by SALEM MEKURIA, this session brings together theore-tical perspectives, critical analyses and case studies to map out an expanded field from which to assess the effects of digital technologies on the production, dissemi- nation and discourses of contemporary African art. The real and imagined impacts of digital technologies on local cultures and art practices, as well as the modalities and geographies of their reception, will be discussed through African and diasporic experiences. Moderator: SALEM MEKURIA (Ethiopia/US) Originally from Ethiopia and now based in Boston, Salem Mekuria is an independent film producer, writer, and director. She also works as Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College in Massachussetts. Participants: IBA NDIAYE DJADJI (Senegal) Dakar-based art critic, Iba Ndiaye Djadji is the author of numerous publications on African art, culture, education, and information technology. His presentation "African-ness in Art and the Challenge of Modern Technology" will address the choices faced by African artists. FRANKLIN SIRMANS (USA) Franklin Sirmans is a New York-based independent curator and writer. He has participated in the publication of numerous international art publications, and has written extensively on the work of contemporary African, African-American, and Caribbean artists. His presentation will examine the uses of new technology as a tool in the creation of conceptual art and pop culture. CAMEL ZEKRI (Algeria/France) Camel Zekri is an Algerian musician based in Paris whose practice fuses the music of the Caribbean, North Africa, and Black Africa with improvised computer music. His presentation will deal with the Festival de l'Eau, an international, multidisciplinary event which first took place on the Niger river in 1996. SESSION II: 2pm-4:30pm ACCIDENTAL SUPPORTS AND OBSCURE DETERMINATION Digital and Electronic Technologies as Creation Tools and Conceptual Relays Moderated by AKRAM ZAATARI, this session features presentations by individual artists who critically explore the potentials and limits of new technologies. The invited artists will discuss the integration of digital technologies into their respective art practices. These artists use such technologies as conceptual relays, recognizing their intimate relationship to publicity and popular culture and their influence on artistic production and reception. Moderator: AKRAM ZAATARI (Lebanon) Filmmaker and video artist Akram Zaatari currently lives in Beirut. He is a founding member of The Arab Foundation for the Image, a non-profit organization based in Beirut whose aims are to promote photography and new modes of image making - particularly video and digital technologies - in Arab countries. Participants: BILI BIDJOCKA (Cameroon/France) Bili Bidjocka is a multidisciplinary artist born in Douala, Cameroon who currently lives and works between Brussels, Paris, and New York. Through metaphors of loss, absence and memory, his work is an on-going reflexion on notions of nationality, indeterminacy and identity. FATIMAH TUGGAR (Nigeria/USA) Born in Northern Nigeria, she lives and works in New York City. Her work with digital images deals with the confrontation and insertion of African situations and characters in Occidental contexts. LAURI FIRSTENBERG (USA) Lauri Firstenberg is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. She will analyze the work of Ike Ude, a Nigerian artist living in New York. VERNISSAGE : 5pm to 7pm DAKAR WEB Presentation of the web-art projects created by the 20 artists who participated in the ISEA workshops held in Dakar last February. (http://www.isea.qc.ca/africa) Vernissage of Algerian Artist Mila Younes. Presented by the Vues d'Afrique Festival. ******************************************************************************** ********* CARREFOUR INFORMEL Informal meeting and presentation of the works of three African Artists: Bili Bidjocka (Cameroon/France), Camel Zekri (Algeria/France) and Akram Zaatari (Lebanon) Thursday, April 22, 5pm to 7pm SAT - Technological Art Society, 307 Ste-Catherine W., # 610, Montreal T (514) 844-2033 ******************************************************************************** ************ This event is organized in collaboration with the Vues d'Afrique Festival (http://www.vuesdafrique.org), SAT - Technological Art Society (http://www.sat.qc.ca) and OLATS/l'Observatoire Leonardo des arts et des techno-sciences (http://www.olats.org) with the help of Fonds francophone des inforoutes de l'Agence de la Francophonie (http://www.francophonie.org) ******************************************************************************** ************** Visit the DAKAR WEB projects and follow the African Art and New Technologies Colloquium on-line on ISEA website: http://www.isea.qc.ca/africa Informations ISEA T (514) 281-6543 F (514) 281-6728 isea@isea.qc.ca http://www.isea.qc.ca * ISEA- 307, Ste-Catherine O # 760.* C.P.508, Succ. Desjardins * Montreal Quebec H5B 1B6 Canada * Tel:1-(514) 281-6543 * Fax:1-(514) 281-6728 * email: isea@isea.qc.ca * http://www.isea.qc.ca * ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress