Kër Thiossane

Genre : Cultural centre
Status : Not-for-profit company
Principal country concerned : Column : Fine arts, Media

Kër Thiossane began its activities in 2002 in Dakar. In 2003, with the participation of the Canadian Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and New Technologies, the association opened a digital public space, with the aim of offering to the Senegalese activities other than simple consumption - the fascination of the Internet, diffused by the numerous cybercafés in the country.
A venue for research, residence, creation and training, Kër Thiossane encourages the integration of multimedia in traditional artistic and creative practices, and seeks to support the mixing of disciplines.
Kër Thiossane focuses its activities on research into art and new technologies and what they imply in our societies through residences, training, meetings and workshops. In 2008 it set up the first Afropixel Festival that focused on open source software linked with citizens' practices in Africa and in Southern countries.
Kër Thiossane develops its exchanges and collaboration with structures in the African continent, but develops links with other continents, in particular in a South-South perspective (without intervention from a Western country). To achieve this, Kër Thiossane sets up projects of international co-operation, such as the Rose des Vents Digital project.
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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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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