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MEHDI CHOUROU
VISUAL ARTIST
SEMIOTICIAN & STRATEGIC DESIGNER

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

Languages: Arabic, French, English, Italian, Spanish
Semiotics: construction and reception of meaning applied to Text, Image, Video and Web (marketing, art, space)
Strategic design: Analysis and creation of visual identities and branding
Visual art: Painting, Photography, Land Art, Sculpture, Vijing

EDUCATION

2003/2009 PhD candidate of semiotics (University Lyon II, France)
2002/2003 Master of semiotics (University Lyon II)

RESEARCH

2002/2009 Member of SEMEIA (Language, syntax, semantic, semiotic), Icar laboratory, CNRS, National Center of Scientific Research (Lyon, France)
2005/2009 Member of the French Semiotic Association
2007/2009 Member of AIERTI

LECTURES

Visual art:
« Ethniktag, everchanging understanding », Internet communication session, World Congress of Semiotics (Helsinki, Finland, 2007)
« Art, construction, participation », Human meaning, semantic on context, (University of Bretagne Occidentale, France, 2007)
« Intuitive abstractions », Revista Opcion (Venezuela, 2009)
Social marketing:
« Preventive comics », (Health Care Comunication, Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bretagne, Brest, 2007)
« Superman, (un) venrable heroe » (MSHB, Brest, 2008)
« Making love, driving, drinking and smoking » / "Faire l'amour, conduire, boire et fumer: assignation du sujet dans les discours préventifs" (MSHB, Brest, 2008)
Strategic design:
« Numbers as signs of economy and enterprises », German Semiotic Society congress (Stuttgart, Germany, 2008)
"Chiffres et messages chiffrés", Séminaire Dire/montrer (Université Lumière Lyon II, 2008)

AWARD

1997 Dante Alighieri award (Perugia, Italy)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Translation:
Intercultural session of Arabic cultural courses (2002, Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes (Tunis, Tunisia)

Lectures:
Alphabetising, French as a foreign language (2000/2002, IBLV Tunis, Tunisia)
Communication, Management (2005/2006, Institut Universitaire Technique, Lyon, France)
Semiotics of Codes, Images, Videos, Web and strategies of campaigns for prevention (2005/2008 University Lyon II)

Redaction :
« Laity in community » congress (2005, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, Lyon)
« Associations facing integration policies» congress (2005, Conseil Régional Rhône Alpes, League of Human Rights)

Organization:
« Signs of the world, Interculturality and Globalization » World Congress of Semiotics (2004, Lyon)
« Health Care Communication in Africa », International congress (2009/2010, Brest)

Cultural Mediation:
Second Edition of “Night of museums” (2006, Musée des beaux Arts, Lyon)
First Edition of “Live Art” (2008, Place des Terreaux, Lyon)

ART EXHIBITION

12-2007/02-2008 “Ethniktag”, Lyon
03-2008 "GCR", Lyon
05-2008 "LVA", Lyon
06-2008/09-2008 “Intuitive Abstractions”, Lyon
04-2009 “1/4: one painting, four perceptions”, Lyon
06-2009 "Rue ouverte, Rue Juiverie", Lyon
07-2009 "10/31", RDV Rue Burdeau, Lyon
08-2009 "Route des Indes XXVI", Venterol
08-2009 "+31", RDV Rue Burdeau, Lyon

WEB

http://swyng.blogspot.com
http://graffitoz.blogspot.com
http://traddam.blogspot.com
http://maddart.blogspot.com
http://babell.blogspot.com

History

Member for

47 weeks 4 days