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Ricardo Mbarkho

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PhD. Artist, Director of Research and Director of the Centre for Research and Creation at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA, University of Balamand).

In his work, he explores and theorises the aesthetic, economic, political and social conditions and measures of an art that frees itself from the idea of the work, the audience and the context; an art without a material or immaterial object, indeed post-immaterial. In an ideal type, this is a research-creation of an art without art.

Ricardo Mbarkho holds a doctorate from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord; his thesis deals with the shift from cultural industries to creative industries, with a particular focus on the in-depth study of media arts. He is also a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture of the Lebanese University in Beirut, of the École Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques in Paris (ESEC), and of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA), after studying new media art at the School of Fine Arts of Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

The artist has given lectures and led ateliers at venues such as Aix Marseille Université, ANdEA (Strasbourg), ARS Electronica (Linz), ARTos Foundation (Nicosia and Madrid), Ashok Jain Gallery (New York), Biennale de Paris, Ecole nationale d’art de Paris, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-art de Paris, EMAF (Osnabrück), IMéRA (Marseille), Institut Supérieur des Beaux-arts de Sousse, Jeu de Paume (Paris), MUCEM (Marseille), Notre Dame University (Louaize), Transmediale (Berlin), UNESCO (Paris), Alexandria University, the Lebanese University, Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut), and the World Summit Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity (Vienna).

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Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (2021). “What Is at Stake in the Interaction between Media Arts and Cultural Industries in Lebanon”, Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Volume 54, Number 6, The MIT Press. 714–716. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02098
  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (July 2016). “L’interdépendance dialectique entre création artistique médiatique et industries culturelles”, in Fann wa imarah journal, Issue No. 6, Institute of the Fine Arts – Lebanese University.
  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (2012). “On New Media and Creativity in Lebanon”, Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Volume 45, Number 2, The MIT Press. 198–201. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00311

Book chapters

  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (2013). “Trauma Stimulated Art, or the Embodiment of Affect in Lebanon: An Allegory”, in Traumatic Affect. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 305 p. ISBN: 978-1-4438-4867-1.
  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (2010). “A different kind of media creativity in the Lebanon”, in Cultures and Globalization Series 2009: Cultural Expression, Creativity & Innovation. SAGE Ed., 488 p. ISBN: 978-1412920865.
  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (2008). “Introduction to Art and New Media in the Arab States, with a case-study of Lebanon”, in Visual Narratives from Arabia – Online Master Module on Art, Design and Technology. © UNESCO, 96 p.

Conference proceedings

  • Mbarkho, Ricardo (2021). “En marche vers une idéologie neutre de la politique culturelle”, in incertains regards, Presses Universitaires de Provence, France. ISBN 979-1-03200-345-9.
  • Le monde arabe entre révolutions numérique et politique. Première Moultaka Ibn Rùchd, Beirut, October 2012. Co-edition Shams-Transverscité, 2014.

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