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Thiossane develops its exchanges and collaboration with structures in the African continent, but it also develops links with other continents, in particular in a South-South perspective (without intervention from a Western country), and since 2002 it has welcomed artists from all over the world. Kër Thiossane seeks to link the development of artistic digital practices to other domains of society; education and training, creative industries, citizenship, ecology and town development.
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African society. With expositions, installations, performances, public meeting and workshops Afropixel wanders about the limits and the opportunity of Tic in
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Digital Art Festival organised by the association “Kër Thiossane, Villa pour l'Art et le Multimédia”. The festival was launched first time in May 2008 during the Dakar Biennal.During the festival, the international art network Bricolabs has led a workshop, where artists and IT operators from
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