Main Projects / Activities

Roznama - competition and exhibition It is a periodical competition and exhibition for contemporary visual art. Roznama intends to function as an art and cultural incubator to nurturing the growth of artists, to boost their technical capabilities and spread their artworks. This competition is founded with the intention of moving beyond popular and academic perspective in the established arts, towards the investigation of new and experimental media arts practices. Roznama - Studio program Roznama studio program is an alternative experimental granted mentorship addressed to Egyptian emerging artists. The studio program aims to explore the artistic Egyptian scene by using experimental means, sets about questioning, scrutinising and probing the institutionalisation and presentation of contemporary art. Through an eight-months program, selected artists will be mentored, and trained on different art medium to provide them with an alternative perspective to examine and explore the world we live in. Cairo Video Festival Cairo Video Festival’s vision is to highlight worldwide experiments in the moving image, and particularly video art. The Cairo Video Festival function as a platform for further and extended conversations between video-artists, curators and the public, and a space for artists to showcase their innovative, low-budget video art productions that are selected according to quality, authenticity and conviction in investigation of subject matter. Through a month of screenings, artists talks, and discussions the Cairo Video Festival fosters this growing public interest in new media production and experimentation to expose audiences to artists and concepts from around the world. The festival is Medrar’s first contribution to the art scene in 2005 and is the project through which Medrar was later established. It started as a collective of visual artists who were experimenting with a new medium and took the initiative to establish themselves the space in which their works, along with works from all over the world, would be shown in the heart of this vigorous city. Medrar TV Medrar.TV is an online contemporary Arab arts channel, operating from Cairo Egypt. It produces bilingual documentary videos about contemporary Arab visual arts, music, performance, theater and film., and covers exhibitions, shows, concerts, festivals, and also document studio visits and one-on-one discussions among artists. Medrar TV’s goal is to create an engaging and accessible resource on contemporary Arab art that is useful to the art community, organizations, funders, historians, journalists, critics, students and the general public. MedrarTV’s media programs target the general public, but its extensive media archive of events, exhibitions, interviews, talks and symposiums serves as a repository of contemporary arts activities regionally as well as internationally (when content is related to local practices). This content will soon be available online and open to access for artists, curators, educators, researchers and the general public. MedrarTV also trains local videographers and editors in arts documentation through on-the-job training and occasional workshops with both local and international partners. MedRX The capacities of immersive media to artistically and creatively translate space and place, and evoke empathy and care for areas of concern and communities of practice, are foregrounded. MedRX is a long-term program that champions the creation of counter-narratives that reimagine our world and alter our understanding of global and local matters. Sprouting from the cooperative principles and progressive objectives of accessibility in digital fields nurtured by the Open Lab Egypt (OLE) project from 2009 to 2014, MedRX expands through the ideals of dynamic interactions, communication, and collaborations within the XR context. MedRX provides unique interactive, participatory experiences and alternative spaces of experimentation for artists, audiences, and cultural practitioners to develop local knowledge in the field and provide artists and art practitioners with opportunities to explore, develop, and showcase their XR projects. It strives to bridge the gap between alternative artistic research and production by facilitating and developing labs, workshops, exchanges, lectures, exhibitions, and events. It integrates new media, immersive technologies, extended realities that span virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, creative coding, and digitronic arts with a multitude of visual and auditory artistic practices. These components are linked to one another to build a sustainable ecosystem of digital art production and technologies.