CYBORG WITNESSING

       CATEGORIES: arab, cyborg, artist, filmmaker, vj, professor, techie, mom, weightlifter, friend

Academic Geneology

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Current Collaborations

• Autonomous Futures
  Co-Founder along with colleagues at Michigan Central, Ohio State University, META, and Arizona State University
   
• Network of Arab Women in AI
  Co-Founder along with colleagues in Egypt, Lebanon, Germany, Canada, and Qatar
   
• Creative, Critical AI Undercommons (CCAIU)
  Co-Founder at UCSB
   

Digital Art Practice as VJ Um Amel

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 Animation, 3-D Immersive Storytelling, Interactive Media Design, VJing, and Data Visualization

Live Cinema

Cyborg Witnessing in Action:
From Tahrir to Today

An outcome of a research project at the Royal College of Art on "Design in General Education" was the statement of a belief in a missing "third area" of education (1979).

Cross, Nigel (1982). Designerly ways of knowing. Design Studies, 3(4) pp. 221–227.

Phenomenon of study

Primary method

Primary value

The collected experience of material culture, and the collected skill and understanding embodied in the arts of planning, inventing, making and doing.

What if...

Networks of youth across the world in all the language are designing culture with social media

R-Shief is Arabic for 'archive'

R-شيف (R-Shief) archive and media system was first introduced at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History's "interACTIVATE" exhibition in 2009. The beta was an archive of social media from Gaza, Palestine.

Glitch Resistance

"Riot Smoke" (2011)

"Capital Glitch Mosaic" (2021)

"Boys on the Beach" (2014)

Creative Coding

"Birds 
Over Libya" 
(2015)

"Cairo Glitch"(2013)

"Revolution in Pixels"(2013)

Arab Futurism and Creative, Critical AI

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Exhibitions in 2025

Reality AI

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