UNESCO - Digi-Arts

Dak'Art Lab @ la Biennale de l'art africain contemporain de Dakar

(Dakar, Senegal)

As part of the Dak'Art_Lab, the art and technology laboratory of the Dak'Art Biennale 2006 (May 5 to June 5, 2006), a special program on the creation of digital art in Africa was implemented by UNESCO and its DigiArts program team through the DigiArts Africa network.

The slate of activities presented in Dakar sought to promote the development of contemporary artistic practices that involve the use of technology. The program included a series of seminars (panels, round tables), which were accompanied by a digital art exhibition and two workshops given to students at the École Nationale des Arts, one for fine arts students on the theme of AIDS and the other for music students on the theme of water. A third program component consisted of reflection on the introduction of a pan-African network to link artists with production sites and venues.