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Alioune THIAM is a Senegalese director and video artist born in Kaolack in 1993 and living in Dakar. He specializes in videomapping, a multimedia technology which allows lights or videos to be projected onto volumes using a video projector and allows 2D and 3D images to be recreated on relief structures.
He worked as a computer graphics and motion designer. Between his participation in the collaborative video-mapping project at the 12th Dakar Biennale in 2016, his week-long digital exhibition “MAPP’EXPO” at the Alliance Française in Kaolack and the workshop “CREA’MAPP” where he trained young people from his hometown in the technique, he positions himself as a specialist in this technology. Alioune recently presented his first digital art exhibition in Dakar entitled: “Stubbornness: Artist I have become” at the Théodore-Monod Museum of African Art from July 22 to August 15, 2023.
Twice winner of the Odyssey program of the Association of Cultural Centers of Meeting (ACCR), he was the first Senegalese artist in residence at the Cultural Center of Meeting, The Dominicans of Haute-Alsace in January 2022, for its project “ARTIST 2.0: The creative scope of digital”. He also carried out an artist residency in another center in 2018-2019, Noirlac Abbey, where he developed a video-mapping project entitled “A sound, an identity”, specially designed for the place.
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His artistic approach is part of this surge of reflection on the impact of digital technology, particularly on the visual arts. He focuses on interactivity in new forms of computer-assisted visual art in all of his creations, always with the ambition of wanting to establish a connection between his works and the public.