The French cultural network celebrates Digital November around the world since 2017. It is a month dedicated to the digital challenges and creations. Digital November returns for the second consecutive year to Saudi Arabia. The French Embassy and Alliance Française in Saudi Arabia, in partnership with Pure Art Gallery, offer a range of activities that allow you to explore the role of the Digital in the cultural field.
Virtual Reality Movies Projection – November 15- 23
Explore the recent French creations of experiencing virtual reality through the VR Culture Catalog of the French Institute; a chance to learn more about the French heritage. Put on the VR headsets and dive into the streets and museums of Paris, wander along the Seine, visit the Eiffel Tower and even contemplate the Mona Lisa up close and in great details!
Bubble Machines Exhibition – Digital Comics: November 15-23
The Bubble Machines exhibition allows you to explore a selection of comics’ works illustrating these new reading experiences that make the richness and the uniqueness of the French creations.
France stands out in the international scene by its dynamism and the quality of its productions. Today, French screenwriters, illustrators, editors and producers all seize the new technologies and work to generate masterpieces of a new kind. This public exhibition is entertaining yet it introduces a new universe of literature: the Comics.
Concert and a Conference on Artificial Intelligence: November 18
While Saudi Arabia is preparing for the second edition of the Artificial Intelligence International Summit, we have brought from France the artist SKYGGE a.k.a Benoit Carré for a one-of-a-kind concert. In fact, Benoit Carré is at the forefront of musicians exploring the creative potential of artificial intelligence. With his first album Hello World, out in 2018, he became one of the first artists in the world to produce pop music using this technology.
After this hypnotizing concert, a junction between human and machine, you can listen and confront different uses of the artificial intelligence in art, on a round table with two other artists: Daniah Al Saleh and Arthur Weber.
Daniah Al Saleh is a recognized Saudi artist. Her universe wobbles between painting and AI, which creates unique and destabilizing masterpieces.
Artur Weber is an Estonian and Australian artist. He works with AI in order to create random poems, unforeseen by their forms as by their meaning.
Technology has indeed become a necessary tool of our daily lives but it is not exclusive to engineers. Arts and artists are using it to reveal to us the dazzling beauty and metaphysics that these machines can generate.
