Digital images

2008-2012. Series of digital images based on text files

Grading the Lebanese Constitution

Since 2011. Internet site

Arameans

Lebanon (2007), Video, 3 min 36 sec

Wanting is Having (Original title: Vouloir c'est avoir)

Lebanon (2004). Document

VISITORS

Since August 12, 2003. Internet page

CONNECTED

Since August 1, 2003. Internet page

More than normal

France (2002), Video, 10 min 18 sec

Lebanese Group

USA - France (1999-2001). Discussions

Lebanese National Tabbouleh Day

Since 2001. National celebration

AUTOEXHIBITION (Original title: AUTOEXPOSITION)

2001 (February 8-20). By Alexandre Gurita & Ricardo Mbarkho. Information spread on Internet

Each one has from art what art has from itself

Since 1999. Relations

Week-end Pierre-Yves Fave Portes Ouvertes

June 1999. Relations

Gare de Lyon - Juvisy

France (1999), Video, 52 min

Keywords: Digital. Recycling. Communication. Politic. Relation. Art history. Religion.

Presentation:

Ricardo Mbarkho uses 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, Ricardo is investigating multiple questions related to language, communication, cultural industries, history of art as well as visual representation.

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Exhibited at:

• 2017 - Monaco Yacht Show, ART UpCLOSE, Monaco
• 2017 - Artexpo New York, ART UpCLOSE, New York, USA
• 2017 - Architectural Digest Show, ART UpCLOSE, New York, USA
• 2016 - Spectrum Miami Art Fair, ART UpCLOSE, Miami, USA
• 2016 - Art Monaco, ART UpCLOSE, Monaco
• 2016 - Artexpo New York, ART UpCLOSE, New York, USA
• 2016 - Architectural Digest Home, ART UpCLOSE, New York, USA
• 2015 - Spectrum Miami Art Fair, ART UpCLOSE, Miami, USA
• 2015 - Arab Collective Art Exhibition, Mark Hachem gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2015 - Artexpo New York, ART UpCLOSE, New York, USA
• 2015 - Architectural Digest Home, ART UpCLOSE, New York, USA
  
• 2014 - Les Lauréats, Lebanese Artists Association (LAA Gallery), Beirut, Lebanon
• 2014 - Spectrum Miami Art Fair, Contemporary Art Network, Miami, USA
• 2013 - Beirut Art Fair, Mark Hachem gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2013 - Art Paris Art Fair, Mark Hachem gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
• 2012 - Fine Pixels, Mark Hachem gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

• 2012 - La Fête de l'Internet 2012, Museaav, Nice, and La Cantine, Paris France
• 2011 - Visual Art Forum II, Beirut and Koura, Lebanon
• 2011 - MENASART Fair, Galerie Mark Hachem, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2010 - Visual Art Forum I, Beirut, Lebanon. Prize of the Lebanese Ministry of Culture for the Contemporary Arts
  

• 2010 - Politique 0, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France
• 2009 - Crea Numerica, Piece Unique gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2008 - artParis AbuDhabi, Galerie Epreuve d'Artiste, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• 2008 - Lebanon Now. Lebanese Artists Association (LAA Gallery), Beirut, Lebanon
  
  
  
  
  

Related TV interviews:

• 2012 - TL
  
  

• 2012 - Future TV
  
  

• 2012 - OTV
  
  

• 2012 - LBCI
  
  

• 2011 - TL
  
  

• 2009 - OTV
  
  

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2010-10-01 to 2010-12-31

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Turbulence vidéo 69 Online Revue France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country culture.fr Website France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Balad Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Nahar Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Safir Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Akhbar Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Sharq Al Awsat 10949 Newspaper

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country AL-Quds Al-Arabi Volume 20 - Issue 6038

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Itihad Newspaper UAE

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Kifah Al Arabi Magazine Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Safir Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country The National Abu Dhabi

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Balad Newspaper Lebanon

Keywords: Digital. Mass connections. Politic. Game. Notes.

Presentation:

"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 levels of meaning relative to our relation to power.

Website address: http://www.ricardombarkho.com/dastooronline/

Exhibited at:

• 2014 - Multaka Ibn RÅ«chd, Sunflower, Beirut, Lebanon
  
  
  
• 2012 - X-Perimental X-Hibition, Maqam & Istoria galleries, Beirut, Lebanon

Keywords: Video. Politic. Religion. Mobility.

Presentation:

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:

Screened at:

• 2012 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris. Télé Bocal, France
• 2012 - Art Video Exchange, in collaboration with Small Projects Gallery, Tromsø, Norway
• 2012 - Festival CologneOFF - CeC 2012 - Carnival of e-Creativity, India
• 2011 - Festival CologneOFF - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
• 2011 - Art Video Exchange at Atopia, Oslo, Norway
• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2009 - Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
• 2009 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Paris, France
• 2009 - Image : Fixe, Mobile, Animée, Centre Culturel Français, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2009 - Festival VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• 2009 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the REJECT Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
• 2008 - Espace le Scribe-l’Harmattan, Paris, France
• 2008 - Festival INVIDEO, Milano, Italy
• 2008 - 21st Instants Video Festival, Marseille, France
• 2008 - Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway
• 2008 - LiteSide Festival, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, Holland
• 2008 - LOOP'08 Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• 2008 - International Festival Sarajevo Winter "Barricades without borders", Video-Salon 3 at the galerie10m2, Sarajevo
• 2008 - transmediale, Berlin, Germany
• 2007 - Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2008-01-15 to 2008-01-15

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Mots clés : Invisual. Post-immaterial. Document. Catalog page.

Présentation :

For his participation at the Biennale de Paris 2004, Ricardo Mbarkho conceived a page into the biennial catalog that says: "The deadline to present a project for the Biennale De Paris 2004 is here and I still don't have the slightest idea what I am going to do to participate. I have a project of which I am still ignorant. I am ignorant of its nature, its form, its content, its intention, its meaning, its value, its category, its model, its material, its texture, its medium, its connections, its colors, its public, its criticism, its context, its way, its manner, its trend, its time period, its title, its history, its geography, its esthetic... I don't know what to present, what to show, what to formulate, what to fabricate, what to create, what to exhibit, what to say, what to do, what to be... All I know is that my participation is my willingness to participate; the rest escapes me."

Exhibited at:

• 2004 - Espace SD, Lebanon, in the frame of the Biennale de Paris, France

Keywords: Digital. Relation. Communication. Meetings.

Presentation:

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:

• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2003 - Journées Méditerranéennes des Arts Plastiques, Sousse Cultural Center, Sousse, Tunisia

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2010-10-01 to 2010-12-31

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Turbulence vidéo 69 Online Revue France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country iLoubnan Online Revue Lebanon

Keywords: Digital. Relation. Communication. Meetings.

Presentation:

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:

• 2014 - X-perimental Art Exhibition III, The Venue gallery, Beirut Souks, Lebanon
  

• 2011 - La Fête de l'Internet 2011, Museaav, Nice, France
• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2008 - Nuit Blanche, Dawwar el Shams (The Sunflower), Beirut, Lebanon
• 2003 - Journées Méditerranéennes des Arts Plastiques, Sousse Cultural Center, Sousse, Tunisia

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2010-10-01 to 2010-12-31

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Turbulence vidéo 69 Online Revue France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country iLoubnan Online Revue Lebanon

Keywords: Video. Relation. Communication. Seperation.

Presentation:

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:

• 2014 - dokumentART, Poland
• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2005 - Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2004 - 1er festival télé-jeunes en francophonie, at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Canada
• 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Le Batofar, Paris, France
• 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Cinema Black Box, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the European Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey
• 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the European Film Festival, Bursa, Turkey
• 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the European Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
• 2004 - INGAN II, Berlin, Germany
• 2003 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Cinema Balzac, Paris, France
• 2002 - L'art c'est secondaire, Ã‰cole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2010-10-01 to 2010-12-31

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Turbulence vidéo 69 Online Revue France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country iLoubnan Online Revue Lebanon

Keywords: Internet. Discussion List. Communication. Meetings. Politic. Religion. Peace process.

Presentation:

From November 8, 1999 to June 6, 2001, everyone who wishes to contact and to converse with Lebanese was invited by Ricardo Mbarak, to enroll in the discussion list: LebaneseGroup.

> Internet, support of communication for a concrete actual work.
In November 1999, he creates a discussion list on the Internet, LebaneseGroup Discussion List. The work it's the creation of a context auspicious to the exchanges. The work it's the dialogue capable to have concrete implications in the reality. Today, this project is frozen and the discussions are suspended.

> Members
Among people invited to join the list, Lebanese academics: American university in Beirut, University Notre Dame, Lebanese University, University of Balamand, University Haygazian but also all people interested in the actual news of the Lebanese in Lebanon and around the world (Australians, Canadians, French, Greeks, Israelis, Palestinians, Moroccans, Polish, …).

> Topics
Main topics of discussion: the socio-politics and the actuality of the day. On this space that is Internet, every member of the network has the possibility to express himself freely beyond the circumstances determined by a geographical territory.

Exhibited at :

• Mars 2000. In the frame of the Internet Fiesta 2000 at:

  • 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
• From December 8 to December 20, 2000. In the frame of ISEA 2000 at:
• “Beyond the screen” exhibition at the National Superior Fine Arts School - Paris.

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2007-12-06 to

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country iLoubnan Online Revue Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Nahar Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'autre web Newspaper France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Nahar Al Chabab Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Nahar Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Nahar Newspaper Lebanon

Keywords: Celebration. Relation. Communication. Meetings. Invisual.

Presentation:

In April 2001, an email about a Tabbouleh Day is sent by Ricardo Mbarkho 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

Art process:

My artistic practice is fully integrated in its social context because it is the reflection of a war-ridden country called Lebanon. The war in Lebanon has taken its toll on our lifestyle, therefore, I wanted to raise awareness to the importance of life manifested and focused years ago through my project: The Lebanese National Tabbouleh Day. It is a Holiday that I have created to gather all the Lebanese people (and friends) around a traditional dish, which is: Tabbouleh; in order to show and strengthen our attachment to life. It is an opportunity for all of us, citizens of the world. This day comes yearly, on the 1st Saturday of July. How do we celebrate this day? The idea is not necessarily to be around the biggest dish of Tabbouleh and eat it, but to be together at this specific day at the same time anywhere on earth (in Lebanon or abroad) to celebrate life. We encourage all the Lebanese (and friends) to consider the 1st day of July a holiday where all family and friends meet to honor our survival which became a valuable quality through many years of struggling. Keep in mind that the purpose of this event is to raise awareness around the value of life as is, regardless of our origins, family, personal or social conditions.

Ricardo Mbarkho

Exhibited at:

• 2014 - Action via Internet and at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2013 - Action via Internet and at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2012 - Action via Internet and at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2011 - Action via Internet and at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2010 - Action via Internet and at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2009 - Action via Internet and at [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2008 - Action via Internet, at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon, and at la Biennale de Paris, France
• 2007 - Action via Internet, at Souk el Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon, and at la Biennale de Paris, France
• 2006 - Action via Internet, and at la Biennale de Paris, France
• 2005 - Action via Internet
• 2004 - Action via Internet
• 2003 - Action via Internet
• 2002 - Action via Internet
• 2001 - Action via Internet

Keywords: Invisual. Post-immaterial.

Presentation:

Alexandre Gurita and Ricardo Mbarkho posted emails that inform the receivers that they exhibit whatever is exhibited by itself, from 8 to 20 of February 2001.

Keywords: Humain links. Attitude. Relation. Communication. Meetings. Invisual.

Presentation:

Since 1999, Ricardo Mbarkho spreads 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 Â» is the title of this art activity.

• 2010 - Experimental Exhibition, Lebanese Artists Association (LAA Gallery), Beirut, Lebanon
• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 1999 - Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris, France

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 1999-12-02 to 1999-12-02

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Safir Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Nahar Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Nahar el Chabab Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Anwar Newspaper Lebanon

Keywords: Humain links. Relation. Communication. Meetings. Invisual.

Presentation:

This work questions the social accessibility, relations, and communication. Ricardo Mbarkho 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:

• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2009-06-06 to 2009-06-06

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Keywords: Video. Relation. Communication. Meetings.

Presentation:

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:

• 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain
• 2005 - Back Stage, Beyrouth, Lebanon
• 2004 - Espace SD, Ciné Club, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2002 - L'art c'est secondaire, Ã‰cole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Related press articles (selection till 2011):

From 2010-10-01 to 2010-12-31

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Turbulence vidéo 69 Online Revue France

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country L'Orient LE JOUR Newspaper Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country iLoubnan Online Revue Lebanon

Media Logo Media title Media number or Reference Media type Media country Al Nahar Newspaper Lebanon