RAMI - International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia (Rencontres Arts et Multimédia Internationales)

Festival Events:

Seminars 2007:

• Ricardo Mbarkho invites the artists and students to widen their knowledge, experiences and research in Art using the new Medias. Ricardo Mbarkho is a researcher, teacher and coordinator of the network YASMIN Lebanon. Tuesday, October 9, Thursday, October 10, and Friday October 11 from the 11:00am - 2:00pm (11.00-14.00) at The Sunflower.
• Marc Mercier will share his poetic approach of the Video- poetry electronic, collage and editing. He will initiate the dialogue based on a selection of works presented in the context of “the festival of the instant Videos 2007” http://www.instantsvideo.com. Marc Mercier is a film-maker and director of “Instants Vidéo” (France) Saturday, October 13th from 11:00am - 2:00pm (11.00-14.00) at the French Cultural Center.
• 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 Paolo Rosa is an artist and co-fonder of the Studio Azzuro (Italy). Saturday, October 13th from 3:00pm-6:00pm (15.00 - 18.00). at the French Cultural Center
  
  • 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; Cultural Resources (Al Mawred Al Sakafi); Ford Foundation; Dramastica Institute; Open Society Institute; The Mission Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France au Liban; Région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur; The French ministry of the Foreign Affairs with the support of the Goethe Institute, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Network Yasmin, and the French Cultural Center of Alexandria,…

Performances/Installations 2007:

• Evening performances on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th of October, starting 7:00pm (19.00) 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).
• Public presentation of the workshops: Body, movement and multimedia II and Transmission of Interactive Audiovisual Object on the Internet II take place on Friday the 12th of October at 9:00pm (21.00).
• Radio vision by Renaud Vercey and Yann Norry Piece by Charbel Haber, followed by a concert by Tarek Ataoui on Saturday the 13th of October at 9:00pm (21.00).
• A public forum:
  Organized on Sunday, October 14th from 7:00pm-9:00pm (19.00 to 21.00) 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.

Workshops 2007:

• Three workshops are taking place at the Sunflower from October 5 - 12.
  
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Interactive Installations II. Managed by Tarek Ataoui Participants—Lebanon: Charbel Haber, Jean Marc Nahas, Joelle Khoury Rajwa Tohmé.

Exhibition 2007:

• Forty Years of Video Arts in Germany – Exposition October 29 - November 1, 2007 from 6:00pm-8:30pm (18.00 - 20:30) at the Goethe Institute.

Practical Info:

Call for producing Videos 2007:

• Mohamed Hassan Youssef and Sharif El Sayed are two Egyptians artists who live and work in Alexandria. Their interactive work entitled “In the quest of the lost times” will be presented on the 12th of October 2007 in Beyrouth. This installation will be supported by seventy two videos recalling intimate souvenirs that are considered personal and universal at the same time related to important themes of life. Mohamed and Sharif invite you all, (whether you are artist or not), to express and convey one souvenir or more in short movies over one minute.
• The deadline to send the films is due on the October 11, 2007
• The maximum required duration of each video: 1 minute
  Format of the Videos: .AVI
• For any further information from now on, until the 11th of October 2007:
  SHAMS assshams@cyberia.net.lb
  Abdo Nawar abdominable@hotmail.com

The Work Concept of the video project:

• This project introduces the light through the memory perception. It is like an evolving/emergent light that triggers several details neglected and left in the darkest of our memories. Between the reality and the virtuality, we may be present or not. As we touch a glass of water, a cup of coffee, a dish or a spoon, an unexpected object on the table, our souvenirs may be the ones that appear suddenly, and reveal the significance of these gestures. We all are once again looking for these forgotten, unknown and strange times. The purpose lies in guiding the persons to a specific place through the light and the lighting effects. Experiencing, rediscovering the general memories, the common and the different ones, by the light, the projection/screening and the objects’ touch. The project resides in the creation of this artificial atmosphere of facts and their respective reactions. In a room where all objects are drowning in darkness, the spectators proceed slowly in an obscure space, led by a light projected from above that follows their steps, there is no light in front or behind them. Sensors are placed under the carpet inducing/ activating the lightning as they move. Therefore, they reach a table that is already set, ready to greet the guests where the host awaits. They all sat down at the table now. The Candles of a candleholder are providing soft light that allows us to see the plates, the glasses, the cups, and the flask of water…
• All these objects are associated to “presentiments/premonitions”, some “captures” that interpret the gestures as the lifting objects, into orders given to computers that control the projectors. These computers contain a library full of videos prepared to be presented in a haphazard way, while being linked to the nature of the objects on the table and the guests’ personal objects such as (mobiles, wallets). Everything is being projected on the three screens that surround the table. We can see the projectors lightning. The light that comes from the memories that makes us discover the common acquaintance/knowledge of everything to all of us. The flash and filmed videos require scenes from childhood, teenage hood, places or moments, indeed everything that is distinguished and intimate.

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