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Shadows of the Imperceptible (2)

Welcome to Shadows of the Imperceptible, the five-week-long public articulations of the sixth edition of PhotoCairo. It consists of two exhibitions at Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center -sector of fine arts as well as performances, screenings, talks, discussions and studio visits in different locations across the city.

The opening will take place on Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center -sector of fine arts, 7.00 pm. A reception will follow at 9.00 pm at CiC.

A sustained engagement with the context in which artists exchange knowledge, work and exhibit in Egypt has shaped much of the thinking around PhotoCairo's sixth edition. Rather than working within the limited time frame of festivals, Shadows of the Imperceptible is an ongoing gathering largely consisting of workshops and working and reading groups that started in May 2016. Many of the ideas and questions brought up in this edition have grown out of these education and knowledge exchange settings. Next to works from the workshops and working groups, Shadows of the Imperceptible also contains a number of newly commissioned artworks by local artists whose practices engage with related concerns.

Thematically, Shadows of the Imperceptible explores the tension between the visible and the invisible, what is seen and what is withheld from sight. PhotoCairo6 brings together works, arguments, artists, and thinkers that experiment with and reflect upon claims to reveal, investigate or bring to light through art. These claims are often associated with ideologically loaded histories. They give rise to questions around the agency of the subject-body, the embedded position of the artist and present networks of image circulation. Faced with these questions, Shadows of the Imperceptible looks into the refusal to represent, the moments of silence, the withheld and the opaque in contemporary image practices.

ِِA series of texts is published in parallel with the sixth edition of PhotoCairo. Shadows of the Imperceptible - Booklets extends the discussion to include cultural and social institutions and brings more critical voices to reflect upon the prevailing economies of visibility.

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Exhibitions run from February 15th till March 23rd 2017

///Exhibiting Artists///

From Playing with Light: Experimental Darkroom Research Group for Alternative Image-making Techniques:
Abeer Fawzy, Asmaa Ibrahim, Donia Shohdy, Hend Moaaz, Hend Samir, Mireille El Magrissy, Mona El Husseini, Mariam Abd-el Rahman, Nourhan Ebrahim, Omnia Sabry, Rania Fouad, Rawia Sadek, Sara Yahia, Sara Younes, Sherif El Azma, Soha Elsirgany, Sandra Frauhbing, Paul Geday and others
Some members of the group exhibit works and others might add examples of the experiments throughout the duration of PhotoCairo6.

From An Open Space Between the Text and the Image, a photography and writing workshop with Heba and Ghada Khalifa:
Aya El Sayed, Aya Ezzat, Nada Nagy, Lamiaa Younes, Omneia Naguib, Radwa Tarek, Zainab Magdy

From Invisibility, a photography workshop with George Awde:
Amr Dabees, Assem Hendawi, Eslam Abd El Salam, Hend Samir, Nourhan Maayouf, Omnia Sabry, Salma Hassaan

From Strategies of Conveyance, a film workshop with Kerstin Schroedinger:
Asmaa Barakat, Assem Hendawi, Mai Al Shazly, Maryam Ahmed Mohammed, Nadia Mounier, Omnia Sabry, Ronnie Close, Weaam Said
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/// Shadows of the Imperceptible also includes a number of newly commissioned artworks by///

Amanda KM
Filtered Conversations, remixed, Sound and video loops, 2016/2017

Basem Taha, Dia Hamed, Youssef Faltas
Artificial Art Critic, Computer Vision, 2017

Heba Khalifa
4 Atfet Elgetany Street, Photography, 2006 - 2017

Nadia Mounir
Was that really you?, Photography, 2017

Mohamed Abdelkarim
Oh, I am sorry! I didn't mean to scratch your face, Performance, 2017

Raphaël Cuomo / Maria Iorio
For the love of the thing. unfolding strip (Fragments of a research into the memories of "amateur" film practices and the histories of "minor" cinema), Mixed media, 2017
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///Venues///

The Contemporary Image Collective (CiC)
22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat St, 4th Floor, Downtown Cairo

Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center -sector of fine arts
2 Saad Zaghloul St, beside Saad Zaghloul Shrine

Studio Nasibian Theater
15 Al Mahrahi Street, El Faggala, Ramses Cairo

Passage 35
Inside Mahmoud Khalil Museum, 1 Kafour Street, next to Magles El Dawla

Cimatheque- Alternative Film Centre
19A Adly Street, 5th Floor, Apt 28/29, Downtown Cairo

Zigzag
6 Kasr El Nil St, Downtown Cairo
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/// Programme ///

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 7:30pm
An exhibition Walkthrough with Amanda KM and Rania Fouad and "Invisibility" group
Contemporary Image Collective (CiC)

Sunday, 5 March 2017, 6pm
A Performance + debate, A game inspired by Il Gioco del Loco
Garden of Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center

Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 7pm
Attempts at an Unambitious Practice: A conversation. An interview style between Mohamed Abdelkarim and Hateem Hassan
Contemporary Image Collective (CiC)

Thursday, 9 March 2017, 7:30pm
An exhibition walkthrough with Heba Khalifa and "An Open Space Between the Text and the Image" group
Contemporary Image Collective (CiC)

Thursday, 16 March 2017, 7:30pm
An exhibition walkthrough with the Curators
Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center

Thursday, 23 March 2017, 7:30pm
An exhibition walkthrough with the Curators and the closing
Contemporary Image Collective (CiC)

Additional performances, discussions and screenings to be announced on social media
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ٍShadows of the imperceptible is realized in collaboration with: Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center -sector of fine arts, Faculty of Applied Arts Helwan University, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Goethe-Institut Kairo, Pro Helvetia Cairo, Samuel Streiff, Institut Francais Egypte

CiC would also like to thank everybody who helped make Shadows of the Imperceptible possible.

Graphic Design for PhotoCairo6 (including design for Shadows of the Imperceptible - Booklets) Ahmed Ellabbad
Poster Images by Donia Shohdy and Rania Fouad.

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Shadows of the Imperceptible (2) | Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform

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Welcome to Shadows of the Imperceptible, the five-week-long public articulations of the sixth edition of PhotoCairo. It consists of two exhibitions at Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center -sector of fine arts as well as performances, screenings, talks, discussions and studio visits in different locations across the city.

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Witnessing the change from guided experience to absolute autonomy. learning machines might be falling into disconnection from us. or most probably they develop a temporary understanding of what life is like!

Our Dear tiny coco bot will take us on tour in photocairo. "it" will watch what we watch. it will "learn" what we learn. title} faces coco with a contradictory mental state. a different inner voice asks coco to process what it sees into thoughts then to expression.

Artificial intelligence uses a recurrent neural network system to define realities by comparing the current vision to stored history. the artwork} is a being that has memory. A memory that is solely based on romance. in a nonsensical manner it forms an opinion about it's vision based on experience (which is in turn only looking for reality)

Somehow when it tries to express reflections of romance in a scene, comes up the outputting prudent and considerate character that articulates thoughts into censored sentences.

A bot with a character

Algorithms that judge appearances and human behaviour

Artists tend to fabricate artist statements, almost patchwork/collage of “interesting, intellectual, complex” expressions. The process of how a bot can construct an artist statement and even provide deep critique reflections on multicellular being’s artistic practice.

Scene analysis is consisted of steps that mimic brain activity!

Recognize objects, form an understanding of relations between objects in the same scene, study people’s positions, gestures, distances between them and structures, mood or emotional recognition through facial expression

About learning art

To understand juxtapositions, harmony, beauty within day to day objects and scenes, existential relations between life forms, develop a sensations towards forms, colors and scales.

We need a quote “how does the true artist see things?”

About determination and forming an opinion

Web bots, value of an image composition, amount of views, likes and shares

Analyse artworks of highest price, or highest circulation, most discussed!

What is the artistic value? How to measure/quantify it ?

Are we going towards pure sharp judgements? Like (this is a good/bad artowrk)

Are we going towards a delicate prudent approach to describe qualities of an artwork = computer generated redundant bullshit

Queer and criminal identification scripts! True artist / pretentious artist recognition

meter/ranking of creativity within a subject or let's say an epitome of an artist! According to how he/she looks/sounds like.

Run an artist test (set of questions, analysis of responses)

Physical appearance of the bot

Semi disabled, stereotype of great thinkers, who no longer require their full body functionalities, they became precious brains that contain knowledge, and thus provided all assistance to prolong their existence.

Weird looking, cripple, cheaply irrelevant dress code, followed by assistants, students, associates

Pushed, carried, (assisted mobility not autonomous) miracle of a neonate’s wisdom

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Welcome to
Opening: Wednesday 15 Febraury 2017, 7pm
Exhibitions run until 23 March 2017

Shadows of the Imperceptible, the five-week-long public articulations of the sixth edition of PhotoCairo. It consists of two exhibitions at Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center as well as performances, screenings, talks, discussions and studio visits in different locations across the city.

The opening will take place on Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center, 7.00 pm. A reception will follow at 9.00 pm at CiC.

A sustained engagement with the context in which artists exchange knowledge, work and exhibit in Egypt has shaped much of the thinking around PhotoCairo's sixth edition. Rather than working within the limited time frame of festivals, Shadows of the Imperceptible is an ongoing gathering largely consisting of workshops and working and reading groups that started in May 2016. Many of the ideas and questions brought up in this edition have grown out of these education and knowledge exchange settings. Next to works from the workshops and working groups, Shadows of the Imperceptible also contains a number of newly commissioned artworks by local artists whose practices engage with related concerns.

Thematically, Shadows of the Imperceptible explores the tension between the visible and the invisible, what is seen and what is withheld from sight. PhotoCairo6 brings together works, arguments, artists, and thinkers that experiment with and reflect upon claims to reveal, investigate or bring to light through art. These claims are often associated with ideologically loaded histories. They give rise to questions around the agency of the subject-body, the embedded position of the artist and present networks of image circulation. Faced with these questions, Shadows of the Imperceptible looks into the refusal to represent, the moments of silence, the withheld and the opaque in contemporary image practices.

ِِA series of texts is published in parallel with the sixth edition of PhotoCairo. Shadows of the Imperceptible - Booklets extends the discussion to include cultural and social institutions and brings more critical voices to reflect upon the prevailing economies of visibility.

Exhibiting Artists

From Playing with Light: Experimental Darkroom Research Group for Alternative Image-making Techniques:
Abeer Fawzy, Asmaa Ibrahim, Donia Shohdy, Hend Moaaz, Hend Samir, Mireille El Magrissy, Mona El Husseini, Mariam Abd-el Rahman, Nourhan Ebrahim, Omnia Sabry, Rania Fouad, Rawia Sadek, Sara Yahia, Sara Younes, Sherif El Azma, Soha Elsirgany, Sandra Frauhbing, Paul Geday and others
Some members of the group exhibit works and others might add examples of the experiments throughout the duration of PhotoCairo6.

From An Open Space Between the Text and the Image, a photography and writing workshop with Heba and Ghada Khalifa:
Aya El Sayed, Aya Ezzat, Nada Nagy, Lamiaa Younes, Omneia Naguib, Radwa Tarek, Zainab Magdy

From Invisibility, a photography workshop with George Awde:
Amr Dabees, Assem Hendawi, Eslam Abd El Salam, Hend Samir, Nourhan Maayouf, Omnia Sabry, Salma Hassaan

From Strategies of Conveyance, a film workshop with Kerstin Schroedinger:
Asmaa Barakat, Assem Hendawi, Mai Al Shazly, Maryam Ahmed Mohammed, Nadia Mounier, Omnia Sabry, Ronnie Close, Weaam Said

Shadows of the Imperceptible also includes a number of newly commissioned artworks by

Amanda MK
Filtered Conversations, remixed, Sound and video loops, 2016/2017

Dia Hamed, Basem Taha, Youssef Faltas
Artificial Art Critic, Computer Vision, 2017

Heba Khalifa
4 Atfet Elgetany Street, Photography, 2006 - 2017

Nadia Mounir
Was that really you?, Photography, 2017

Mohamed Abdelkarim
Oh, I am sorry! I didn't mean to scratch your face, Performance, 2017

Raphaël Cuomo / Maria Iorio
For the love of the thing. unfolding strip (Fragments of a research into the memories of "amateur" film practices and the histories of "minor" cinema), Mixed media, 2017

Library Projects

Throughout the first week of PhotoCairo6, South African Collective Chimurenga will set up the Pan African Space Station (PASS) in the CiC library.

Venues

The Contemporary Image Collective (CiC)
22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat St, 4th Floor, Downtown Cairo

Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center
2 Saad Zaghloul St, beside Saad Zaghloul Shrine

Studio Nasibian Theater
15 Al Mahrahi Street, El Faggala, Ramses Cairo

Passage 35
Inside Mahmoud Khalil Museum, 1 Kafour Street, next to Magles El Dawla

Cimatheque- Alternative Film Centre
19A Adly Street, 5th Floor, Apt 28/29, Downtown Cairo

Zigzag
6 Kasr El Nil St, Downtown Cairo

First Week Program

Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 7 pm - followed by a reception at CiC from 9 pm
Exhibition Opening Shadows of the Imperceptible
Contemporary Image Collective and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center

Wednesday, 15 - Sunday, 19 February 2017, times to be announced on social media
Pan African Space Station (PASS), Chimurenga and guests
CiC Library

Saturday, 18 February 2017, 5 pm
Repeating mistakes, this time with pleasure
Performative screening from the Strategies of Conveyance film workshop with Kerstin Schroedinger. Videos and a film by Asmaa Barakat, Assem Hendawi, Mai Al Shazly, Maryam Ahmed Mohammed, Nadia Mounier, Ronnie Close, Omnia Sabry, Weaam Said
Studio Nasibian Theater

Saturday, 18 February 2017, 10pm - 5am
Sweetbeets + Contemporary Image Collective present the Pan African Space Station (PASS) party
Live performance by Hiface and DJs Ntone Edjabe, Purplpitch and Hani Benatone
Zigzag

Sunday, 19 February 2017, 7 pm
Performance
Oh, I am sorry! I didnt mean to scratch your face, Mohamed Abdelkarim
Passage 35

Monday, 20 February 2017, 7 pm
Screening program and discussion
For the love of the thing - Memories of "minor" cinema in Tunisia
Curated by Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio with Habib Mestiri
Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre

Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 7pm
Live sound performance
Filtered Conversations, remixed, Amanda KM
Contemporary Image Collective

Additional performances, discussions and screenings to be announced on social media

ٍ Shadows of the imperceptible is realized in collaboration with: Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center, Faculty of Applied Arts Helwan University, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Goethe-Institut Kairo, Pro Helvetia Cairo, Samuel Streiff, Institut Francais Egypte

CiC would also like to thank everybody who helped make Shadows of the Imperceptible possible.

Graphic Design for PhotoCairo6 (including design for Shadows of the Imperceptible - Booklets) Ahmed Ellabbad
Poster Images by Donia Shohdy and Rania Fouad

Artistic Director: Andrea Thal
Curated by: Nour El Safoury and Andrea Thal
Exhibition Coordinators: May Alaa ElDin, Omnia Sabry
Outreach: Sandra Edward, Eslam Abd El Salam
CiC team: Hadeer Ahmed Ali, Nawara Belal, Ahmed Refaat, Hussein El Hajj, Emad Antar
Technical Manager: Mido Sadek
Technicians: Gouda Gouda, Nasser Gouda
Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center team

PhotoCairo6 Workshop Series
Coordinator: Nour El Safoury
Playing with Light Working Group Facilitator: Omnia Sabry
Workshops instructors: Mohamed Abdelkarim, George Awde, Heba Khalifa and Ghada Khalifa, Kerstin Schroedinger, Haytham El Wardany, Raphael Cuomo / Maria Iorio with Habib Mestiri

Shadows of the Imperceptible - Booklets / Research
Nour El Safoury, Ahmed Refaat, Andrea Thal
Booklet 1: Conversation with Haytham El Wardany

We would like to thank everybody who helped make Shadows of the Imperceptible possible.

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Welcome to Opening: Wednesday 15 Febraury 2017, 7pm Exhibitions run until 23 March 2017 Shadows of the Imperceptible, the five-week-long public articulations of the sixth edition of PhotoCairo. It consists of two exhibitions at Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) and Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center as well as performances, screenings, talks, discussions and studio visits in different locations across the city.

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Dia Hamed, Youssef Faltas, Basem Taha, Artificial Art Critic, Computer Vision, 2017

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Dia Hamed, Youssef Faltas, Basem Taha, Artificial Art Critic, Computer Vision, 2017

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Artificial Art Critic is a project with artificial intelligence that created a bot called Clemence. Faced with questions around the relation between visibility and invisibility, Hamed, Faltas and Taha proposed a project that lies at the intersection between algorithmic determination and judgement making. The bot has been fed with existing texts that it then uses according to a predetermined script inputted by the programmers to formulate value judgements about artworks. These are then either printed on site by Clemence or you can follow its feed on Twitter at @clemenceai.

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A space were Clemence shares snaps of her activity 

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A space were Clemence shares snaps of her activity 