Abdel Bounane

Abdel Bounane is a French entrepreneur, publisher and editorialist. He is the founder of Amusement, the lifestyle magazine on digital cultures and founder of Bright, the platform for digital art. He writes editorials on digital for French TV, radio and press. He has been ranked among "The 100 re-inventing today's culture" by magazines such as Les Inrockuptibles and Technikart. he writes editorial for CANAL+, French NPR "France Culture", GQ, Le Nouvel Observateur.

Abdel Bounane
Born (1982-03-16) March 16, 1982
NationalityFrench
Alma materParis II Panthéon-Assas
Years active2003–present
TitleCEO, Bright (company)
Websitewww.brig.ht

Bright

Since 2015, Abdel Bounane is the founder of Bright, the platform for digital art. Bright is the first platform exhibiting digital art in public spaces and connected cities.

Bright distributes digital art (video art, data-art, interactive art), for clients such as LVMH, Twitter, Orange, Nike, Audi, Enedis Redevco, JCDecaux, LCL.

It has been lauded as "innovative" and "disruptive" by major economy & finance newspapers in Europe.[1][2][3][4]

Amusement magazine

Abdel Bounane is the founder of Amusement,[5] the lifestyle magazine on digital cultures.

Amusement is a high-range magazine dedicated to video games and digital entertainment. Its first issue was published in May 2008. This magazine of approximately 200 pages is distributed in France and in many English-speaking countries. The magazine has been mainly lauded for the very new and artistic way to represent digital entertainment and videogames.

Amusement gained worldwide reputation in April 2009 when its 4th issue was the first magazine containing an RFID tag,[6][7] connecting to the Internet and giving access to digital art and videogames exclusively for the owner of the magazine.

Editorials

Abdel Bounane is a columnist on digital cultures for radio (National Public Radio "France Culture"), TV (CANAL+) and press (GQ, Elle Man, L’OBS...).

National Public Radio

2009 to 2010 : videogames editorials « Minuit 10 » produced by Laurent Goumarre.

CANAL+

2010 to 2013 : digital editorials on CANAL+ (La Matinale ) with Matena Biraben[8]

2010 to 2011 : digital editorials on CANAL+ « Un autre midi » with Victor Robert

2012 to 2015 : digital editorials for CANAL+ « L’oeil de links » and "L'année du web"[9]

He has been ranked among the 100 people re-inventing culture.[10][11]

Conferences

Abdel Bounane has been a speaker for several events (38th general conference at UNESCO, art schools ECAL and ZHdK, Cultural Manager at HEC, Cap Digital, Futur en Seine...) on topics such as the future of art, the interaction between creation, design and digital, digital art and public spaces, digital art and smart cities...

References
  1. "Digital art serves brands image". Les Echos.
  2. "A digital disruption for the art market".
  3. "A digital art platform for brands, public spaces and cities". The Good Life.
  4. ""Le grand public connaît l'art numérique -mais il ne le sait pas toujours" - Challenges.fr". 2016-12-20. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  5. "Abdel Bounane, founder of Amusement magazine". WIRED. Condenast. Archived from the original on 2016-06-23.
  6. "A magazine with an RFID tag". The Daily Telegraph.
  7. "Amusement, the magazine with a tag". Le Monde.
  8. "La Matinale sur Canal+". Le Figaro.
  9. "L'année du web créatif". Le Monde.
  10. "The 100 in Media & Culture". Technikart. Archived from the original on 2016-05-02.
  11. "The 100 in Culture". Les Inrocks.
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