WORKS AND ARTICLES ON-LINE :

• "The Mirror that Changes" by Annette WEINTRAUB
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• "Water's Memory" : Second Edition of the "River Festival" by Camel ZEKRI et Dominique CHEVAUCHER
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• "Déluge", Electroacoustic Music by Lucie PROD'HOMME, and Paintings by Jacques MANDELBROJT : A creation inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's poem "The Drunken Boat" and the philosophical essay of Gaston Bachelard : "L'eau et les rêves" : essai sur l'imagination de la matière."
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• De "l'eau-vie à l'eau-mort" ou des fondements de la création artistique africaine d'hier à demain by Iba NDIAYE DIADJI
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• Liquid Light : Working with Water by Liliane LIJN
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• Fragments of a Flow : a Thread of Water in the Video Work of Irit BATSRY
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• Amazing Amazon : esthétique évolutionnaire by José Wagner GARCIA and Paulo Roberto MARTINI
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• The Red Sea by Michael MAZIERE
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• " Wave Rings ", An Interactive installation by Nodoka UI (Japan)
  Wave Rings is an interactive installation using water and sound and the objective of which is to establish communication in a public space. Participants communicate mutually with sounds and circles which form on the surface of the water thanks to speakers submerged in the water. The installation draws a circle 150 cms in diameter and 60 cms high. It is equipped with 8 loudspeakers which measure each 20 cms in diameter and which are submerged in the water. Every loudspeaker is placed in regular interval and emits a particular sound. When a person draws near to the installation, the loudspeaker produces a musical sound and its vibration is transformed into circles on the surface of the water. But when several persons come close to the installation, varied sounds are produced and form, on the surface of the water, kaleidoscopic circles interacting with each other. This installation aims to encourage the citizens to interact within a public space and invite them to think about the function of water in the city, and to remember that in the past water used to play an important role in communication.
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• " Water Medicine ", an exhibition curated by Kevin MURRAY
  Water Medicine is an exhibition of works by artists that use water. As a setting for their works, the exhibition considers the story of C.Y. O'Connor, the engineer who, a hundred years ago, designed the pipeline that links Perth and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Like the water in that pipeline, this exhibition also takes a journey east - following the weather from Western to eastern Australia, and from Judeo-Christian to Buddhist world views.
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• Gyula KOSICE, born in Hungary in 1924, is according to Michel Ragon a true " Protée ". From this divinity of the sea he inherited the gift to take varied forms, which means that he is a poet, writer, sculptor as well as an editor. Engaged very early in the the kinetic arts movement, Kosice is the first artist to combine the transparency of the Plexiglass to the fluctuating movement of water. As early as 1946, he realized his first " hydraulic sculptures ". His poetic approach of water, his world close to science fiction, his sense of volume, and the nonconventional quality of his work, make of Gyula Kosice an outsanding artist. He is regarded as one of the promoters of the constructive abstract art in Argentina where he now lives.

  Olats/Virtual Africa is glad to present the following works:

  • POEME HYDRAULIQUE
  • THE HYDROSPATIAL CITY
  • MY " MOBILE HYDROMURAL "
  • GYULA KOSICE'S VIRTUAL GALERY

  Gyula Kosice'screation will be also introduced in " Pionniers et Précurseurs ", (http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pionniers.shtml). Visitors will be given the opportunity to discover or re-discover the revolutionary author of the " Madi Manifest ", and will have access to a whole range of information about the artist : biography, bibliographies...

• Carla VAN BEERS : " My Mission is to Materialize Pieces of the Non-material Universe "
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• Iba NDIAYE : an artist of Senegalese origin, who is presenting today a series of paintings untitled " Paysages du Sahel ". Realised in the 1970s, during a journey in Mali, they express in an emotional way - deprived of romanticism - Ndiaye's attachment to his native country. These abstract landscapes were depicted when his country was the victim of a devastating drought that turned the land into desert.
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• Jonathan ZILBERG : an American anthropologist. In his article " Shona Sculpture and Shona Culture : The Water Spirit ", Zilberg examines the representation of the Spirit of Water " njuzu " in the Shona sculpture and culture (Zimbabwe), on the basis of John Ndandarika's and John Takawira's works.
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• Bob GLUCK : American composer, pianist and educator. In his piece of music " Jonah Under the Sea " (1997), " the unwilling biblical prophet Jonah has been tossed from a ship during a raging storm, sinks into the ocean, and is swallowed by a whale. He is bombarded by many sensations -- the rushing tides, confusion, sounds of passing whales, harbor memories, and echoes of human voices ".
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• Cynthia RUBIN : American electronic artist. Her interactive piece " Jonah's Memories  " is somehow the visual matching piece to Bob Gluck's work. In fact, Cynthia confesses that Bob Gluck encouraged her to write her own commentaries on the Bible and to work on the Jonah legend. She chose to evoke the moment when Jonah is thrown back " into the waves to invite the viewer to reflect on the world outside of the contemporary construct of linear time. "
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