Due to the extremely dire situation in Beirut, curator Tarek Atoui and AlmostReal have postponed the workshop 'Bytes & Pieces' and the 5 presentations of video installations that were originaly scheduled to take place in Beirut at the end of May. We very much hope that the unrest will diminish and that the politcial turmult will ease enough for the presentations to take place in early autumn 2008. ...