Undo - Redo with Tarek Atoui (Lebanon), Dima Hourani (Palestine), Hanne Sabier (Morocco), Roy Samaha (Lebanon), Aya Tarek (Egypt), Sara Elias (Egypt) :: November 15-30, 2009 :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.

The Exhibition will present the result of the Undo-Redo workshop conducted by Lebanese media artist and sound performer Tarek Atoui in an attempt to introduce its participants to the diverse and multiple uses of technology in the field of interdisciplinary, visual and sound art. Over the span of 8 days participants are invited to work with Tarek Atoui on developing and exhibiting an art project for which they will receive the necessary software and hardware equipment.

The workshop is on a project based approach where each participant is assisted in developing a project or an artwork that uses or references these technologies. The projects developed during the workshop will exhibited and/or performed during the UNDO –REDO exhibition held at ACAF 15 – 30 November 2009.

Tarek Atoui was born in Lebanon in 1980 and moved to Paris in 1998 where he studied contemporary and electronic music at the French National Conservatoire of Reims. He currently works in the Netherlands as co-artistic director of the STEIM Studios in Amsterdam and has released his first solo album on the esteemed Mort Aux Vaches series of the Staalplaat label (Amsterdam/Berlin). Atoui is an electro-acoustic musician who initiates and curates multidisciplinary interventions, events, concerts and workshops in Europe and the Middle East. He builds new software for each project he works on and specializes in creating computer tools for interdisciplinary art forms and youth education. He has played and performed at many contemporary art events and festivals in the Middle East and Europe such as the Today’s Art Festival (the Hague), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arborescence (Aix-en-Provence/ Marseille) and Scopitone (Nantes), and is currently the artist in residency at the Sharjah Biennial that has been closely following his work since 2008. Much of Atoui’s work references the social and political and presents electronic music and new technologies as powerful tools of expression and identity. A major and pioneering project of this nature was the youth dedicated Empty Cans workshop that took place in summer 2007 in France, Holland, Lebanon and Egypt in partnership with the Today’s Art Festival, STEIM, the European Cultural Foundation and the Scopitone festival among others.

The Undo – Redo project has been made possible through the generous support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)