Novembre Numérique:

Digital Art, Digital Culture

Get ready for an immersive journey into the world of digital art with Houda Bakkali’s captivating exhibition, Digital Art, Digital Culture!

This exhibition showcases Bakkali’s groundbreaking work through printed masterpieces, augmented reality. You can discover the dynamic use of color and form, and explore the empowering female figures central to her art, inspired by her mother.

A celebration of digital art’s ability to break boundaries, this exhibition invites everyone to experience joy, optimism, and the limitless possibilities of technology in art.

• 2 November to 30 November 2024

• Tuesday–Friday 10am–8pm

• Saturday 9am–5pm

• Alliance Française de Penang, 46 Jalan Phuah Hin Leong

What It Is Of by Éric Baudelaire

Join us for What It Is Of by Éric Baudelaire at Blank Canvas, Penang's leading contemporary art space. This participatory exhibition explores telekinetic phenomena using a tychoscope, a small robot that draws random patterns.

Éric is a celebrated Franco-American artist and filmmaker based in Paris, recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Marcel Duchamp prize. The Alliance Française de Penang is proud to support the exhibition alongside the Embassy of France in Malaysia and Cloudjoi.

Exhibition

• 24 August – 3 November 2024

• 12pm – 7pm (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

• 2, Argus Lane, 10200 George Town, Penang

Tychoscope Sessions

What It Is Of is a participatory work. Visitors are invited to sign up for a free half-hour session to create a tychoscope drawing which will become part of the exhibition and project archive. AFP is running a number of French-language sessions on 1 September, 26 and 27 October.

Register at: https://www.cloudjoi.com/shows/2190-what-it-is-of

• Date: 24 August – 3 November 2024 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) 

• ⁠Duration: 30 minutes (5 minutes preparation, 25 minutes experiment)

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Participants: One participant per session

• ⁠Language: English, French (on selected days)

• ⁠Cost: Free of charge 

• ⁠⁠⁠Suitability: Anyone who is able to sit and focus for 25 minutes

• Please arrive ten minutes before the session. Latecomers may not be able to participate.

During each session, a single participant is invited to sit at the drawing table with the tychoscope placed on a blank sheet of paper. For 25 minutes, they are requested to sit quietly and focus on the tychoscope, trying to bring it towards them purely with the power of their thoughts. The resulting drawing is numbered and displayed alongside a control drawing created without a human participant.