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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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