VJ Um Amel
VJ Um Amel is the cyborg imagination and the virtual representation of Laila Shereen Sakr, a digital media theorist and artist. She is a creative coder and immersive storyteller known for creating the award-winning media system, R-Shief.
Creative Critical Class - Dec 2, 2025
"Glitch Insurgencies" MESA PANEL 11/23/2025
Fall Artist Series - @UCSB Art Dept - 10/9/2025
Sonos Goleta
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies conference, "Understanding the New Middle East"
Lecture for UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
!!Con West Keynote, UCSC
FAMST 165AC
FAMST 248 - first lecture
Spring Insight, UCSB
The War, Security, and Digital Media Graduate Working Group - UCSB
Lecture 2: Resolution, encoding, aspect ratio, frame rates, scaling, compression