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Pixelated Revolution

Rabih Mroué2012

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

Pixelated Revolution is a lecture-performance about the usage of mobile phones during the Syrian revolution. This lecture aims to study the advices and directions regarding the taking of photographs during the events of the Syrian revolution, as these advices were shared via the medium of Facebook and other virtual communication tools.Are the broken-up and incomplete images sent by the Syrians an extension of their physical experience? Is the mobile phone an extension of their brains, of their body, of their being? n this lecture-performance, he aims to investigate and read into these matters, and present my personal interpretation of this phenomenon” says Rabih Mroue.

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  • Title: Pixelated Revolution
  • Creator: Rabih Mroué'
  • Date Created: 2012
  • Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: See more at Chennai Photo Biennale's website
  • Exhibition title: Fractured
  • Exhibition Description: Broken up and incomplete images communicate in a loose and ever changing universe
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's biography: Rabih Mroué was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1976 and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist, and a contributing editor for The Drama Review (TDR), New York.
Chennai Photo Biennale

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