Immanence in the Pixel: Traditional Cultural Origins of Math and Technology
An evening of film video and web screenings curated by Laura U. Marks
Presented Saturday, May 11th at 8 pm

Cauris
Viyé Diba, Serigne Mbaye Camara, Mustapha Fall, Senegal/Canada, 1999, web, 2:00

Part of "Dakar Web," a collaboration between artists from Dakar and Montreal initiated by the International Society of Electronic Artists in 1999. This web piece is a simple and elegant exploration of the cowrie shell. Originating in the Maldives, the shells gained value through travel; they functioned as currency in West Africa before European colonization, and are now used for divination. Cauris evokes the shells' simultaneous existence as sensuous object and porthole to the invisible. http://www.isea.qc.ca/africa/dakar/Cauris/bienvenue.html

Viye Diba - Biography

Viye Diba, born in 1954, has been a professor of art at the École des Beaux arts of Senegal for 28 years, and he exhibits internationally. Since 1989 he has been president of the National Association of Plastic Artists of Senegal.
viye@hotmail.com

Serigne Mbaye Camara - Biography

Serigne Mbaye Camara, born in 1948, is head of the department of Fine Arts at the Ecole nationale des arts in Dakar, where he first began his education in 1972 before going to the Ecole normale supérieure en techniques de Cachan in France. His sculptures, the "characters of Serigne," combine human figures and stylized gris-gris.

Les Frères Guissé- Biography

Les Frères Guissé are a trio of musical brothers from the Fouta region of northern Senegal. They sing in Senegal's various languages, but mostly in their mother tongue Pular (Peulh), their mother tongue. Well known at clubs and events in Dakar, they have also participated in numerous tours and festivals abroad.