Projects //

Curatorial Appointments
  • Curatorial Advisor (Formerly Curator), FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool
  • Guest Programmer, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
  • Programmer (Lead for Residencies and Media), SPACE/White Building, London
  • Adjunct Curator, Cornerhouse, Manchester
  • Associate, P21 Gallery
  • Contributing Curator, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.
  • Curator, Arab British Centre, Gough Square, London
  • Director, Arab Film Festival, UK
  • Senior Editor, Ibraaz
  • Reviews & Critique Editor (co-founding), Portal 9

Consultancies

  • Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, Advisory Board
  • ISEA 2013, International Advisory Curatorial Committee
  • Impakt Festival 2013, No More Westerns, Contributing Curator
  • Werkleitz Festival 2013, Contributing Curator
  • External Assessor/Examiner, Various universities and colleges
  • ASCII Egypt, Board Member
  • no.w.here, Board Member
  • BFI, Consultant
Curatorial Projects (Selected)
  • Curator, Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present, International Film Festival Rotterdam (touring) (2013)
  • Co-Curator, What I Have Done to Deserve This? AND Festival, Manchester (2012)
  • Curator, Mark Amerika: The Museum of Glitch Aesthetics
  • Curator, Safar, ICA London (2012)
  • Curator, Subversion, Cornerhouse, Manchester, (2012)
  • Co-Curator/Producer, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, (2010-ongoing)
  • Curator/Director, Arab Film Festival (Liverpool, Manchester, London UK), (2011-ongoing)
  • Curator/Director, Q.fest, film & performance festival (2009-ongoing)
  • Curator/Co-Founder, The Centre of Cultural Confusion (2010-ongoing)
  • Producer, Rewire, 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, The Future is Now – Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik, (TATE/FACT 2011)
  • Curator, The LO-FI Generation: After Mumblecore, (2011)
  • Executive Producer, EMARE: European Media Arts Residency: Emily Richardson – Cinema Series, (2010)
  • Curator, Liverpool Film Night (Experimental Shorts) (2010 & 2011)
  • Curator, Artist Cine Club (2001-Ongoing)
  • 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, 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
  • Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
  • Q.Fest
  • Arab Film Festival (UKAFF)
  • Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival
  • DaDa Fest
  • Document: International Human Rights Film Festival
  • Palestine Film Festival
  • Media Facades Festival, Europe
  • Connected Cities
  • March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation/Sharjah Biennial
  • Wekleitz Festival

Exhibitions

  • On the Set of 2014
  • What Have I Done to Deserve This?
  • Mark Amerika: The Museum of Glitch Aesthetics
  • Subversion
  • Liverpool Biennial

Books

  • Vision, Memory and Media (Liverpool University Press, 2010)
  • Far and Wide: Nam June Paik (LEA 2013)

Film (Most recent)

  • Follow by Tim brunsden (Executive and Concept Producer: Omar Kholeif)
  • Khalil The Great by Jaqueline Passmore (Executive and Concept Producer: Omar Kholeif)
  • Transmedia Narrative Film Workshop, Various (Tutor: Omar Kholeif)