Picasso Museum in videoconferencing with the U.S.

Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburg will form a partnership with Channel Riviera to give its first on-line interactive teleconference with two museums famous worldwide: Picasso Museumin Antibes and 'l'Espace de l'Art Concret'in Mouans-Sartoux. Barbara Freed, teacher in Modern Languages at the University of Carnegie Mellon of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (United-States) is at the origin of this project. Invited in 1999 to teach at the American University of Aix-en-Provence, she adds to her lectures the visits of museums of the Riviera, which will become a permanent subject of study.

For this first experience, Channel Riviera will manage the audiovisual contact between students of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg and the museum directors concerned. The first teleconference will take place at Picasso Museum in Antibes, on Thursday, October 19th 2000 from 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM; the second will take place on Tuesday, November 28th from 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM at the 'Espace de l'Art Concret' in Mouans Sartoux.