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    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Dear
        Colleagues and Friends,</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">2019
        has been a busy year for Leonardo/Olats and it is our great
        pleasure to give
        you those three gifts to end the year. Enjoy !</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
        normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">>
          <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
            normal">Neotenous Dark Dwellers – Lygophilia</i>, </span></b><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-family:"Avenir Light";
          mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Robertina
          Šebjanič</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">, video
          capsule</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
          style="font-family:"Avenir
          Light";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman""></span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.olats.org/ope/ope.php">http://www.olats.org/ope/ope.php</a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">(may
        not work on Chrome)</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">On
        December 5th, Leonardo/Olats was launching the video capsule
        about </span><span style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Robertina
        Šebjanič’s </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
          style="font-family:
          "Avenir Light"">Neotenous Dark Dwellers</span></i><span
        style="font-family:
        "Avenir Light""> artwork, in the framework of the
        « Aquatic
        Twillight » exhibition that is presenting the whole series of
        works
        belonging to the artist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Lygophilia</i>
        project at the Galerija Tobačna 001 in Ljubljana (until January
        15th 2020).</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Based
        on the MemoRekall app, this video capsule is proposing a new
        online publication
        format in which various texts and documents are contextualising
        the artwork as the
        video rolls.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">The
        « table of content » of the texts is appearing on a right side
        column
        as the video progresses. When one is selected a window opens
        that allows to
        read the text by clicking on the thumb nail image on the left
        side of the
        window.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">The
        video capsule includes texts by Polona Tratnik, </span><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-ansi-language:ES" lang="ES">María Antonia
        González
        Valerio, </span><span style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-bidi-font-family:
        Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Gregor Aljančič
        and Magdalena Năpăruş Aljančič
        and Annick Bureaud who is the editor of this project.</span><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
        EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Direct link to the video capsule:</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a
href="http://project.memorekall.com/neotenous-dark-dwellers---lygophilia/?w=1"><span
          style="font-family:"Avenir
          Light";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
          mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">http://project.memorekall.com//neotenous-dark-dwellers---lygophilia//?w=1</span></a><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
        EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Direct link to the exhibition: </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir
        Light";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
        EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mgml.si/en/center-tobacco/exhibitions/411/robertina-sebjanic/">https://mgml.si/en/center-tobacco/exhibitions/411/robertina-sebjanic/</a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
        normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">>
          Virtual Africa :
          « Women Curators », series of podcasts</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a
        href="http://www.olats.org/africa/podcasts/podcastsCuratrices.php"><span
          style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">http://www.olats.org/africa/podcasts/podcastsCuratrices.php</span></a><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Leonardo/Olats
        has relaunched its Virtual Africa project under the direction of
        Yvan Tina.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">The
        gift of Yvan Tina for this end of the year is the first series
        of seven
        podcasts with the curators <b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Oulimata
          Gueye, Elise Atangana, Olivia Maëlle Breuleur et Aude-Christel
          Mbga</b>.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Yvan
        Tina writes : Virtual Africa is a project that aims to
        facilitate the
        encounters between the arts, sciences and new technologies in
        Africa and within
        the African diaspora.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">In
        this series of interviews, one is interested in aesthetic issues
        related to the
        use of technology and contemporary curatorial practices, giving
        a voice to the
        women who contribute to the enlightening of the African scene
        (and its
        diaspora) through their work as artists, critics, art historians
        or curators.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Have
        a nice listening ! (the podcasts are in French)</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
        style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
        normal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">>
          LASER Paris : the
          video recordings are online</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a
        href="http://www.olats.org/laser/laser.php"><span
          style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">http://www.olats.org/laser/laser.php</span></a><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">This
        year, we have crossed Paris in its diagonale with the LASER
        meetings, from
        Ground Control to the Centquatre and then to the Pompidou
        Centre. The videos of
        this last meeting with Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves and Fabio
        Acero about their
        project <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Light DNA</i> and
        with Sandra and
        Gaspard Bébié-Valérian around their project <i
          style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">MyCore</i>
        are online on YouTube and Vimeo (the introductions at the
        begining of each
        video are the same).</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Leonardo/Olats
        has received support from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
        for those
        projects in 2019. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Neotenous
          Dark
          Dwellers - Lygophilia </i>video capsule received support from
        the Projekt Atol
        Institute.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Nice
        watch, good reading and happy listening and ... enjoy the rest
        of 2019, see you
        again next year !</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir Light"">Annick
        Bureaud</span></p>
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