THE BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM: Media Arts in Focus (Mali)

Bamako Symposium 2012 will bring together artists, theorists and cultural entrepreneurs from around the world to interact and exchange dialogues on the useful and non-useful impacts of media arts on the global marketplace of ideas. With the practical acts and theoretical presentations, the symposium aims to promote critical dialogues on the best practices around the world on how the media arts feed civilizations. It asks:  How are the media arts worldwide feeding civilizations? What are the implications for tapping the abundant local resources in Mali in the 21st century?

Nka Foundation and Balani’s Association call for proposals for theoretical presentations and practical acts such as workshops, mini-projects, and artistic interventions involving the diversity of expressions in and applications via digital arts, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual arts, internet  arts, interactive arts technologies, computer robotics, and the arts as biotechnology in society.

Interested individuals and collaborative groups should apply by submitting the abstract of their proposed paper or practical act (200 words maximum) in English or French with a brief biography (200 words maximum) of the presenter to Kadiatou Dembele at dembele_kadi2000@yahoo.fr, and copy the e-mail to balanise@yahoo.fr and info@nkafoundation.org. For information on our other projects, visit http://www.nkafoundation.org/projects.html.