Projects //
Curatorial Appointments (Current)
- Curator, FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool
- Visiting Curator, Cornerhouse, Manchester
- Contributing Curator, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.
- Co-Curator, EMARE: European Media Arts Residency Mexico
- Associate Curator, Arab British Centre, Gough Square, London
- Director, Arab Film Festival, Liverpool
Curatorial Projects (Selected)
- Curator, Subversion, Cornerhouse, Manchester, (2012)
- Co-Curator/Producer, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, (2010-ongoing)
- Curator/Director, Arab Film Festival (Liverpool, Manchester, LondonUK), (2011-ongoing)
- Director/Curator, Arab Fringe Programme, (2010-ongoing)
- Curator/Director, Q.fest, film & performance festival (2009-ongoing)
- Curator/Co-Founder, The Centre of Cultural Confusion (2010-ongoing)
- Producer, Re: wire, fourth international conference on media art histories, 2011
- Curator/Producer, Semiconductor: Worlds in the Making, (FACT 2011/2012).
- Co-curator/Producer, Film & Philosophy Course, (2009-Ongoing)
- Curator, Eurotrash: Melodrama and European cinema, (2011)
- Co-curator, Symposium: The Future is Now – Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik, (TATE/FACT 2011)
- Curator, The LO-FI Generation, Film and Performance Season, (2011)
- Executive Producer, EMARE: European Media Arts Residency: Emily Richardson – Cinema Series, (2010)
- Curator, Liverpool Film Night (Experimental Shorts) (2010 & 2011)
- Curator, I-dent: identity and media contortion, Media Facades Festival Europe, touring exhibition programme (Liverpool, Berlin, Linz 2010)
- Curator, Persistence of Vision (Film Programme) (FACT/Nikolaj CCAC 2010)
- Contributing Curator, Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, (2010)
- Curator, Symposium: Changing Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict (FACT 2010)
- Curator, MyWar: Participation in age of Conflict Film Festival Programme (FACT 2010)
- Producer/Co-curator, Afro-modern Film programme (TATE/FACT 2010)
- Producer, Promised Lands by Flow Motion at FACT (TATE/FACT 2010)
- Producer, Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment (FACT/NiMK 2009/2010)
- Associate/Contributing Programmer, Document: International Documentary and Human Rights Film Festival, CCA, Glasgow (2007-2010)
Festivals (Currently involved with)
- Abandon Normal Devices Festival
- Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
- Q.Fest
- Arab Film Festival
- Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival
- DaDa Fest
- Document: International Human Rights Film Festival
- Palestine Film Festival
- Media Facades Festival, Europe
- March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation/Sharjah Biennial
Exhibitions (Currently curating/co-curating)
- Subversion
- Liverpool Biennial
Books
- Vision, Memory and Media (Liverpool University Press, 2010)
- Far and Wide: Nam June Paik (Leonardo, 2012)
- Arab Art in the Age of New Media (forthcoming)
Film (Most recent)
- sodamntrue by Tim brunsden (Executive Producer: Omar Kholeif)
- Khalil The Great by Jaqueline Passmore (Executive Producer: Omar Kholeif)
- Transmedia Narrative Film Workshop, Various (Tutor: Omar Kholeif)