Digital November
“Novembre Numérique” is an international initiative led by the French Institute in Paris that aims to promote access for all to new technologies, to promote the diversity and universal dialogue between creators and audiences.
Houda Bakkali’s exhibition “Digital Art, Digital Culture” seeks to exemplify the power of digital art to break spatial, temporal and generational borders, creating synergies between different audiences and making art not only timeless, but also universal, close and understandable.
This is the best example of the versatility of digital art. Its ability to share synergies with different audiences around the world without borders. Through physical art, augmented reality, multimedia and immersive content and virtual galleries, visitors can enjoy some of Bakkali’s masterpieces anywhere, anytime, and learn about the tools, creative process, uses and values of digital art.
EMPOWERMENT, DEMOCRATIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
“The new artistic movements and trends that are digitally based or complemented by the use of digital tools and technologies open up new discussions on sustainability and social responsibility, debates on the need to generate opportunities and create artistic contexts that grow around more accessible, open and equitable principles and spaces, without physical or generational barriers that limit access to art and artistic creation through new technologies. Thinking about the future of art also means thinking about the challenges and the many benefits offered by digital spaces. (…) Art is transformative when it becomes an organic and daily tool for empowerment. Art is transformative when genius and originality inspire emotion and reflection, dialogue and recreation. Art is transformative when its aesthetic and conceptual function transcends spatial, temporal and generational boundaries. Art is a timeless, exclusive and unique luxury, and it is transformative when artists turn it into an accessible, understandable and useful commodity. Art is transformative when it has the unlimited reach and impact of transmitting and sharing knowledge. Art is a matter of form and substance, of imagination and information.”
Houda Bakkali
ABOUT ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
Alliance Française is an international organization that aims to promote the French language and francophone culture around the world. Representing 32 francophone countries.
✨Alliance Française was created in Paris on 21 July 1883 by the writers Jules Verne and Ernest Renan, the publisher Armand Colin, the scientist Louis Pasteur and the diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps.
📍Alliance Française has more than 900 centers in 137 countries on every continent.
🥂Alliance Française is diversity, art, culture, education, legacy and future, dialogue, understanding, joy and hope. Alliance Française is friendship and kindness.
🖼️ Art is transformative when it has the unlimited reach and impact of transmitting and sharing knowledge. Art is a matter of form and substance, of imagination and information. Art speaks for itself. Art beyond art is a universal value, unique and timeless.
