“Novembre Numérique” 2024 is an international initiative led by the French Institute in Paris, dedicated to expanding public access to new technologies and fostering diversity and universal dialogue between creators and audiences worldwide.
Hosted within French embassies, art galleries, cultural centres, universities, shopping centres, and historic spaces, the programme is developed in collaboration with the global network of the Alliance Française.
As part of Digital November, the work of Houda Bakkali was presented simultaneously in 11 cities across 9 countries, forming a unique constellation of interconnected exhibitions. This format redefines the versatility and universality of art through a shared yet plural experience.
The work of Houda Bakkali encompasses a wide spectrum of artistic expressions, ranging from physical artworks to augmented reality, immersive installations to educational content, and from large-scale formats to intimate works, including animations, audio pieces, virtual galleries, and video projections.
While the same artworks are presented across all venues, each exhibition becomes a distinct experience shaped by local audiences, cultures, generations, and contexts, affirming values of freedom, creativity, and diversity.
The exhibition “Digital Art, Digital Culture” by Houda Bakkali demonstrates the capacity of digital art to transcend spatial, temporal, and generational boundaries, generating meaningful synergies between audiences and making art universal, accessible, and intelligible.
Ultimately, the project positions art as a space of creativity, joy, diversity, and cultural exchange, extending beyond traditional limits to become a unifying force art that connects, includes, and endures.
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.”






