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)