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May 05, 2006

Dak’Art Biennale 2006

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African Media Arts

UNESCO-Daniel Langlois Foundation Programme promoting African media arts at Dak’Art_Lab 2006 at the Dak’Art Biennale 2006 (5 May–5 June 2006, Senegal, Dakar).

Exhibition at Dak'Art_Lab 2006: The exhibition displaying a selected number of works of the following African media artists is a timely occasion to increase the visibility of existing digital artistic practises and to sensitize artists of different disciplines and the general public of the potential of digital creation in Africa.

Forum (8 to 12 May 2006): A series of panel discussions is to be held on the aesthetics and practises of media arts in Africa - Maison de la culture Douta Seck. On this occasion, the Lab will be transformed into a place of exchange of experience, of collaboration and of reflection bringing together different role players and their expertise in the contemporary scene of African digital art and furthermore creating a synergy, which could lead to interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial collaboration within the region.

2 Training workshops on creative digital tools and practises (6 to 14 May 2006): As one of the major activities of the UNESCO-Daniel Langlois Foundation Programme at Dak’Art_Lab 2006, two separate workshops are to take place at Ecole Nationale des Arts de Dakar with the participation of its students. One workshop dedicated to visual digital creation is to be held on 8-12 May 2006 with the fine arts students of the Ecole, where as a number of music academy students are to participate in another workshop on electro-acoustic sound practises on 6-7, 13-14 May 2006.

The training programme and resources of the workshops are based on the following two online learning applications of the UNESCO Young Digital Creators Programme of DigiArts.

UNESCO DigiArts Team
http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts
digiarts[at]unesco.org

Posted by jo at May 5, 2006 12:04 PM

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