ZINC

National Network
France
Address

La Friche Belle de Mai 41, rue Jobin – 13003 Marseille
13003 Marseille
France

Telephone
00 33 1 48 05 50 87
Telephone (other)
00 33 4 95 04 95 12
Fax
00 33 4 95 04 95 00
E-Mail
everges@lafriche.org
Mobile Phone
00 33 6 20 77 30 07
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1997
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. International/Cultural relations
  3. Media
  4. Youth and education
General Information
ZINC/ECM , association of the law of 1901 of the French law , independant , profits from several founding sources , ( Town of Marseille, Ministry of Culture , PACA Region , Ministry for Foreign Affairs, FEDER,…). Its annuel budget is 450 000 euros. -the staff is composed of multimedia creators , animators , experts, trainers and administrators ,whether 10 permanents with artistic and researcher partners . Principal partners in France : active ground , Arborescence , radio grenouille , Friche la Belle de Mai , Instants video , MMSH Aix en provence. - In Euro mediterranean : Biliotheque of Alexandria , Atelier of Alexandria , EL WARSHA , bilingual Schools of Alexandria, School of the fine arts of ALGIERS, BJCEM, Studio Azzuro Milan, SHAMS, Icare Audiovisual Academy and Dawar SHAMS in Beirut, the Cinematheque of Tangier….
Mission and Objectives

The mission of ZINC/ECM is to promote new uses in the artistic, educational and cultural field with new communication's technologies .
- This mission is organised in local ,regional , national and Euro Mediterranean levels .
- Through the public's reception in its cyber space, organizing initiatives and artistic and multimedia practice workshops , artistic residence , performance diffusion , organizing meetings and debats , ZINC/ECM is a laboratery dedicated to the new practices and methods of writing with the Web and the objectives of ZINC/ECM are the controlled appropriation of new technologies and the development of creative uses with the new tools of communication and expression

Main Projects / Activities

Animation of the network: ANIMANETwww.lafriche.org/animanet and the development of its main ressources in arabic language .
- Focusing on cultural structures for projects that use new technologies and animation with platform ressources on the cultural multimedia in the PACA region .
-Reception of resident artists for the creation of multimedia work and their diffusion to the public .
The organization of a festival of numerical open arts on the Mediterranean in Aix in Provence in October 2006 The coproduction of a festival of numerical arts and multimedia in partnership with Dawar SHAMS in Beirut in December 2006 .
- The partnership with the BJCEM and Espace/Culture of Marseille for an ITINERANT WORKSHOP OF MULTI-MEDIA CREATION IN EURO MÉDITÉRANNÉE IN 2007-2009: Istambul, Holon, Alexandria, Marseilles, Venice Skopje.

Contact (1) Full Name
Monsieur Emmanuel VERGES
Head of the organisation
Madame Nelly FLECHER