"THE MEDITERRANEAN CITY BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY"

(Symposium)

6-7 April 2000

Lebanese American University

   
The Italian Institute of Culture participates to the symposium organized by the Lebanese American University with the following lecturers:

Pippo Ciorra (Università di Camerino)
Benedetto Gravagnuolo (Università di Napoli)
Luciano Semerani (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) 

Program

6 April 2000    Selina Korban auditorium, Lebanese American University, Byblos 14:00-14:15     Nabeel
                        Haidar (Lebanese American University)
                        Opening Address

14:00-15:00     Joseph Rykwert (University of Pennsylvania)
                        "The Birth of the city"

15:00-15:30     Kevin Mitchell (American University of
                        Sharjah)
                        "The Reality of Myth: On the origin of the
                        gridiron plan in ancient Athens"

15:30-16:00     Coffee breake

16:00-16:30     Pippo Ciorra (Università di Camerino)
                        "Edge Landscape: the  Infinite Waterfront of
                        the Adriatic Metropolis"

7 April 2000    Gulbenkian auditorium, Lebanese American University, Beirut 14:30-15:00     
                        Benedetto Gravagnuolo (Università di              
                         Napoli) "Nea-polis and the Labyrinth:                         foundational Myth and Urban Complexity"

15:00-15:30     Xavier Costa (University of Barcelona)
                        "Nea-polis and the Labyrinth: foundational                         Myth and Urban Complexity"

15:30-16:00     Coffee brreake

16:00-16:30     Jalal Makhzoumi (Bartlett School)
                        "Environmental sustainability: addressing                         the urban-rural 
                         interface in the Mediterranean"

16:30-17:00     Luciano Semerani (Istituto Universitario di
                        Architettura di Venezia) "Obscurity & Light:                         Appollo and Dionysius"

17:00-18:00     Round Table

18:00                Abdallah Sfeir (Lebanese American University)
                         Closing

The exhibition proposes a part of the artistic panorama and  research in progress for some years now in Italy, aiming to examine the different "virtual" sectors in which the language of art presently articulates itself. "Virtual" because it is hard to identify the demarcation line among the different attitudes adopted by the proposed artists; however, we can classify them in three currents: representational, abstract, and new technologies.  

The chosen media, paper, makes the comparison easier. It eliminates the difference between the materials used to achieve the selected works and gives back its century-old charm.