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svg-logo * Home * About * Portfolio * Publications * Social VJ UM AMEL ARABIC FOR VIDEO JOCKEY (VJ) "MOTHER OF HOPE" KNOWN FOR CREATING R-SHIEF SOFTWARE AND PERFORMING AS VJ UM AMEL, LAILA SHEREEN SAKR IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDIA THEORY & PRACTICE AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA. AT UCSB, SHE CO-FOUNDED WIREFRAME, A STUDIO PROMOTING COLLABORATIVE THEORETICAL AND CREATIVE MEDIA PRACTICE WITH INVESTMENTS IN GLOBAL SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. IN 2021, SHE LAUNCHED VJ.LIVE, A PLATFORM FOR LIVE BROADCASTING AND INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Digital Arts * Media Theory + Practice * Feminist Technology * Middle East Studies * Interaction Design * Worldbuilding FEATURED VIDEO REVIEWS All Reviews REVIEWED IN DANISH NEWS, GLOBALYNT Thank you for the lovely interview in "Glem Silicon Valley. Avantgarden for tech-til-forandring taler arabisk" (February 2, 2024). PODCAST ON NEW BOOKS IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES SERIES "Laila Shereen Sakr, ‘Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives’ (Stanford UP, 2023)" New Books in Middle East Studies, December 18, 2023. BOOK REVIEW IN GERMAN ONLINE JOURNAL: REZENSION ‘ARABIC GLITCH: TECHNOCULTURE, DATA BODIES, AND ARCHIVES’" DIS:ORIENT, OCTOBER 6, 2023 Mende, Tugrul. "Rezension ‘Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives’" dis:orient, October 6, 2023. LAILA SHEREEN SAKR, ARABIC GLITCH: TECHNOCULTURE, DATA BODIES, AND ARCHIVES (NEW TEXTS OUT NOW) Interview: "Laila Shereen Sakr, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (New Texts Out Now)" Jadaliyya, September 21, 2023. THE ARAB WORLD, THE REAL SILICON VALLEY? MEMO IN CONVERSATION WITH LAILA SHEREEN SAKR Thank you for the interview with London's Middle East Monitor, August 23, 2023. DIGITAL ACTIVISM IN THE ARAB WORLD Thank you, Afikra, for the invigorating conversation with Mikey Muhanna on “The Arabic World and the Digital Age,” episode 357, 2 August 2023. * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 NEWS & EVENTS INSTALLATION AT THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ARAB, CYBORG, MOTHER PUBLICATION IN PARSON'S JOURNAL FOR INFORMATION MAPPING HARVARD'S ISLAMOPEDIA PROJECT LAUNCH R-SHIEF PROTOTYPE AT SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY AWARDED 2009 ADC JACK SHAHEEN MEDIA SCHOLARSHIP TEACHING SEMINAR ON THE ART OF COLLABORATION NEW RELEASE: UMDULATION CIRCA 1950 YALE UNIVERSITY'S DIGITAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE "(RE)THINKING R-SHIEF: IMPLEMENTING THE DIGITAL FORM" VIDEO PRESENTATION LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE WITH DJ BASSAM AT MESA DANCE PARTY IN SAN DIEGO SECURITY OR UNCERTAINTY? STABILIZING R-SHIEF TWITTER ANALYSIS DURING THE JASMINE & EGYPTIAN REVOLUTIONS #TWITTER ANALYTICS NEW RELEASE: WOMEN & YOUTH OF THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS MEDIA-MAKING MADNESS: #ARAB REVOLUTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN INVITED TO ROUNDTABLE BY US INSTITUTE FOR PEACE, GW UNIVERSITY, AND LIBERATIONTECH AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ANNENBERG INNOVATION LAB'S INAUGURAL CONFERENCE AND ANNENBERG FELLOWSHIP CREATIVE SYMPOSIUM VISIT TO FACEBOOK HEADQUARTERS AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERVIEW TEDX: (RE)ENCODING THE REVOLUTION LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE AT BASS SYNTHESIS IN LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE ON "DEMOCRATIZING KNOWLEDGE" AT AUC TAHRIR CAMPUS IN CAIRO PRESS COVERAGE IN EGYPT INDEPENDENT, DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING, AND ART TERRITORIES "AL-SHA'AB YUREED" (THE PEOPLE DEMAND): TRANSMITTING THE REVOLUTION" AT AMC ARAB TECHIES 2011 WORKSHOP IN CAIRO ON TRIPOLI, LIBYA AND "COLLATERAL DAMAGE: #OSLO ATTACKS AND PROLIFERATING ISLAMOPHOBIA" IN JADALIYYA "REMI KANAZI LIVE" WITH HIP-HOP ARTIST THE PHILISTINES AND VJ UM AMEL IN LOS ANGELES HEADLINE IN USC'S DAILY TROJAN FOR PARTICIPATION IN FIRST FELLOWS FORUM "TURNING INFORMATION IN TO INSIGHT PANEL" AT TECH@STATE CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, DC INTERVIEWED IN SCIENCE MAGAZINE WORD CLOUD VISUAL PART OF INSTALLATION ART TERRITORIES EXHIBITION IN VIENNA "MUSIC, FREEDOM, AND A BIT OF EGYPTIAN CINEMA" SPONSORED BY NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IN AMMAN "ARAB UPRISING, UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF CHANGE" AT MUNK SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO EGYPTIAN BODY POLITIC REMIX INSTALLED AT CULTURAL FESTIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO "THE PEOPLE'S SKYPE' AND OCCUPY WALL STREET HACKATHONS", IN FAST COMPANY PUBLISHED "THE MATERIALITY OF VIRTUALITY: INTERNET REPORTING ON ARAB REVOLUTIONS" IN JADALIYYA "A YEAR IN REVIEW: WHEN HISTORY BECOMES ART," BY HELEN STUHR-ROMMEREIM IN EGYPT INDEPENDENT THE SPIRIT OF TAHRIR: ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION BY THE DEMAND OF THE PEOPLE: ARCHIVING DIGITALLY BORN INFORMATION IN ARABIC WIZARD SCIENCE ELECTRONIC PARTY AT THE 418 PROJECT IN SANTA CRUZ OCCUPYRESEARCH, DATACENTER, R-SHIEF LABS, AND THE MIT CENTER FOR CIVIC MEDIA ANNOUNCE OCCUPYDATA ROUND II ROUNDTABLE ON "THE INSIGHT OF INSIDER/ OUTSIDER APPROACHES TO SCHOLARSHIP" "EGYPTIAN BODY POLITIC REMIX" VIDEO INSTALLATION AT IMAPPENING EXHIBITION DISCUSSING THE ARAB UPRISINGS WITH DIGITAL JOURNALISM STUDENTS AT UCSD PARTICIPATING IN THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS PHD MEDIA SYMPOSIUM NEW ARTICLE IN JADALIYYA: "STUDYING SOCIAL STREAMS: CULTURAL ANALYTICS IN ARABIC" AWARDED FUTURE LEADERSHIP AWARD BY EGYPTIAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION VIDEO INSTALLATION ON "PERFORMING & ARCHIVING THE MIDDLE EAST INTERNET" AT THE LEVANTINE CENTER IN LOS ANGELES VJ UM AMEL PLAYS LIVE VISUALS WITH @100COPIES MUSIC SQUAD IN CAIRO "THE DIGITAL HUMANTIES: BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND REVOLUTION" AT AUC'S MIDDLE EAST STUDIES CENTER #OPENEGYPT LIVE CINEMA AT ARAB DIGITAL EXPRESSION FOUNDATION IN CAIRO PRESENTED "NARRATIVE OF THE NON-NARRATIVE: A READING OF EXPERIMENTAL ARAB ART" AT DIWAN PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTER IN EDITED VOLUME, MEDIATING THE ARAB UPRISINGS PERFORMED "IMMOBILITY: A SCORE ABOUT MOBILITY" IN COLLABORATION WITH LEYYA TAWIL AND MICHA CARDENAS SCIENCE OF THE OPPRESSED: PERFORMATIVE AND NETWORKED STRATEGIES FOR ARTIVISM DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES II: DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE OF "FROM GAZA TO CAIRO: MOBILIZING THE BODY POLITIC" AT THE HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE CONVERGENCE PAPER AT INTERNET RESEARCH 14.0: RESISTANCE AND APPROPRIATION PUBLISHED "A DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACH: TEXT, THE INTERNET, AND THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING" IN MIDDLE EAST CRITIQUE EARLY RELEASE OF ARABIC TEXT ANALYSIS & ENTITY EXTRACTOR API FIRST DEPLOYMENT OF NEW DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM: KAL3A INTERVIEW BY JADALIYYA: "NEW TEXTS OUT NOW: VJ UM AMEL, A DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACH: TEXT, THE INTERNET, AND THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING" THE HUMANITIES AND CRITICAL CODE STUDIES (HACCS) LAB SPONSORS THIS WORKING GROUP TO EXPLORE CULTURE THROUGH CODE OR THE CODE OF CULTURE GUEST LECTURE ON "SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FAIL" IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERIES AT THE INFORMATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE GUEST LECTURE ON "DATA MINING & ANALYTICS" IN ANNENBERG GRADUATE SUMMER COURSE NEW DATA VIZ JUST RELEASED! #GAZA AUDIO-VISUAL NARRATIVE BY A CYBORG: IMAGES BY HASHTAG "THE MIDDLE EAST FINDS ITS VOICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA" - USC NEWS WRITES GREAT PROFILE ON VJ UM AMEL FEMTECHNET MANIFESTO AUDIO FILE: CYBORG READING CREATED FOR REDISTRIBUTION AND REMIX PURPOSES INCLUDED IN CINEMA JOURNAL'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON FILM AND TV IN NON-MEDIA JOURNALS SPOTLIGHT ON EGYPT: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION WITH PROF. PAUL AMAR, PROF. SHERENE SEIKALY, AND PH.D. CANDIDATE LAILA SAKR R-SHIEF LAUNCHES 3.0: NEW RESEARCH TOOLS ALLOWING FULL ACCESS TO SOCIAL MEDIA ARCHIVES "ON DEVELOPING A TEACHING MODULE ON ARAB SOCIAL MEDIA" AND "THE ARCHIVE: COLLECTIONS AND COUNTER-COLLECTIONS" AT MESA INTERVIEWED ON "WHAT IS TRENDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST?" AND R-SHIEF 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY LAILA SHEREEN SAKR AND R-SHIEF FEATURED IN THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION NEW ARTICLE IN NETWORKING KNOWLEDGE JOURNAL: "A VIRTUAL BODY POLITIC ON #GAZA: THE MOBILIZATION OF INFORMATION PATTERNS" PRESENTING ON DATA-DRIVEN FEATURE FILMMAKING ON PANEL, "DATA-DRIVEN LITERARY PRACTICES," AT &NOW 2015 AT CALARTS CHAPTER PUBLISHED IN DISSONANT ARCHIVES: CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE AND CONTESTED NARRATIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST (IB TAURIS, 2015). INSTALLATION AND SCREENINGS BY VJ UM AMEL AT FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR PRESENTING SEMINAR ON SOCIAL MEDIA/DIGITAL ACTIVISM AT DIGITAL HUMANITIES SUMMER INSTITUTE AT CLAREMONT COLLEGES "FROM CAIRO TO GAZA" PERFORMANCE AT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ARTS (ISEA), VANCOUVER, CANADA EV-ENT-ANGLE-MENT PERFORMANCE AT PAM RESIDENCIES GALLERY AFTER TAHRIR: EGYPTIAN REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCES AND FUTURE VISIONS -- 4 DAYS, 21 SPONSORS, 28 PARTICIPANTS, 18 SHORT FILMS. SAKR, LAILA SHEREEN AND KIMBERLY KATZ, “ON DEVELOPING A TEACHING MODULE ON ARAB SOCIAL MEDIA,” CINEMA JOURNAL TEACHING DOSSIER: THE INTEGRATION OF PRODUCTION AND THEORY/HISTORY IN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES COURSES, VOL 4 (1). RESURGENCY AT NOMADICO REPRODUCIBLE DATA RESEARCH: IT’S COMPLICATED WIREFRAME BETA LAUNCH: A GUERRILLA OPEN MIC PANEL: MUSLIM AMERICAN / AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2016 ELECTIONS ALWAYS ALREADY COMPUTATIONAL: LIBRARY COLLECTIONS AS DATA NATIONAL FORUM UCLA LECTURE SERIES: "ALGORITHMIC CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON A POST-UPRISINGS MIDDLE EAST" IMAGINARIES ABOUT MUSLIMS: BEFORE AND AFTER TRUMP THINKING PALESTINE: 1967 & BEYOND ARAB FUTURE TRIPPINGS AND ALGORITHMIC CULTURE GUEST REVIEWER FOR MEDIA ARTS & TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM'S RE-HABITUATION EXHIBITION VJ UM AMEL RELEASES GLITCH RESISTANCE ART SERIES ON 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY VR PROTOTYPE FEATURED IN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA NEWS INAUGURAL PANEL: INTERDISCPLINARY CROSSINGS + BOUNDARIES MIDDLE EAST FEMINIST TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP "UNDERSTANDING THE NEW MIDDLE EAST" CONFERENCE HOSTED BY WIREFRAME STUDIO + DIGITAL ARTS & HUMANITIES COMMONS VISIBILITY EXHIBITION :: (CCK) BUENOS AIRES KEYNOTE ADDRESS, "REFRAMING THE 'ARAB SPRING'" CO-AUTHORED CHAPTER OUT, WITH ALEXANDRA JUHASZ (BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CUNY) AND BRIAN GETNICK (ARTIST, CURATOR, AND FOUNDER AND CO-DIRECTOR OF NATIVE STRATEGIES, A JOURNAL DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE ART IN L.A.) KEYNOTE ADDRESS, "HIGH/LOW: TASTE, QUALITY, AND RESOLUTION IN FILM & MEDIA" "TECHIES ON THE GROUND" OUT IN LATEST VOLUME OF CYBER ORIENT TOUCH DATA BODY X AT THE BRAND GALLERY COMMUNITIES IN FORMATION BIRDS 1.0 BEIT UM AMEL/ بيت ام امل REVIEW IN NECSUS JOURNAL BERNIE MEMES RESET THE INTERNET ACLS DIGITAL GRANT AWARD TO DEVELOP VR DOCUMENTARY OF 2011 EGYPTIAN UPRISING CAPITAL GLITCH: ARAB CYBORG TURNS TO D.C. 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March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Awarded Public Voices Fellowship March 19, 2024 Arab, Cyborg, Mother January 10, 2009 INSTALLATION AT THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NOVEMBER 25, 2008 Create video clip and co-design website for exhibit of Warren Sack's "Conversation Map," in the "Art of Participation Show: 1950 to Now" curated by Rudolf Frieling at the SF Museum of Modern Art. www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/306 Loading Vimeo ARAB, CYBORG, MOTHER JANUARY 10, 2009 Arab, Cyborg, Mother-- Remixing by VJ Um Amel. Submitted proposal to create a The VJ Um Amel Video Blog. The blog will narrate a series dialogues between VJ Um Amel and three young, transnational, Arab women—a VJ living in France whose real name is Amele, an Egyptian computer programmer and activist living in Cape Town, and a Palestinian-American intermedia artist living locally in California. Loading PUBLICATION IN PARSON'S JOURNAL FOR INFORMATION MAPPING FEBRUARY 1, 2009 The R-Shief Initiative: Proof of Concept piim.newschool.edu/journal/iss… Loading HARVARD'S ISLAMOPEDIA PROJECT LAUNCH APRIL 20, 2009 Commission by Harvard University for art direction on Islamopedia online. Lead design on Islamopediaonline.org. It is a comprehensive, web-based, interactive collection of diverse discourses on the current Islamic tradition. Commissioned by for The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. islamopediaonline.org/ Loading R-SHIEF PROTOTYPE AT SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY JUNE 9, 2009 R-Shief's Prototype is a recent installation in interACTIVATE exhibition at Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. The show includes new media works that probe the interplay of private and public space as they interrogate the borderlands, edges, and contested territories of contemporary new media art practice. www.flickr.com/photos/r-shief/… Loading AWARDED 2009 ADC JACK SHAHEEN MEDIA SCHOLARSHIP JUNE 14, 2009 Shereen Sakr awarded scholarship "to recognize Arab-American students who excel in Media Studies. Awards were announced and presented during ADC's Annual Convention in Washington, DC." Loading TEACHING SEMINAR ON THE ART OF COLLABORATION SEPTEMBER 2009 Students in this class will engage in these questions through readings, seminar discussion, and direct artistic collaboration with other members of the class that will culminate in a multi-channel video installation of our collective art work(s) at the end of the course. Loading NEW RELEASE: UMDULATION CIRCA 1950 OCTOBER 9, 2009 VJ Um Amel Releases latest remix on Egyptian cinema, belly dancing, and the fibbonacci series. In this live performance, VJ Um Amel remixes several musicals from Egyptian cinema including Lahn el Wafa (1955) starring Abdel Halim Hafez and Chadia; Afrita Hanen (1948) starring Samia Gamal and Farid El Atrache; and Fatma (1947) by Ahmed Badrakhan. Loading YALE UNIVERSITY'S DIGITAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 19, 2010 Participated in The Past's Digital Presence conference at Yale. Presenting paper entitled "R-Shief: Arabic for ‘Archive’ in the Cyber World” at symposium on The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities. Loading "(RE)THINKING R-SHIEF: IMPLEMENTING THE DIGITAL FORM" VIDEO PRESENTATION JULY 18, 2010 Presented paper via Skype at World Congress for Middle East Studies conference in Barcelona: Panel at WOCMES: "Palestine/Internet: On-line Imagination, Activism and Archiving" Loading LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE WITH DJ BASSAM AT MESA DANCE PARTY IN SAN DIEGO NOVEMBER 19, 2010 a repeat performance; and as an extra treat, he is bringing along a guest who will remix and reassemble video clips with data feeds into a multi-screen projection. Enjoy the visual stylings of VJ Um Amel customized for the evening through a unique set of rotoscope, new wave montage, and original animations of Middle Eastern cyber landscapes and cyborgs. Loading SECURITY OR UNCERTAINTY? STABILIZING R-SHIEF TWITTER ANALYSIS DURING THE JASMINE & EGYPTIAN REVOLUTIONS FEBRUARY 5, 2011 Published in peer-reviewed critical code journal, ThoughtMesh.net thoughtmesh.net/publish/384.ph… Loading #TWITTER ANALYTICS FEBRUARY 8, 2011 R-Shief is announcing a soft launch on its new Twitter Analytics today! With our robust database, we develop a variety of ANALYTICS and VISUALIZATIONS. Examples include: (1) The original interface offers a bar graph that filters tweets by language. (2) The hashmap above if an artistic rendering of all tweets on #Egypt the day Mubarak resigned. 3) An innovative mapping of words in all the tweets on #Jan25 from 01/25-02/10 that shows the semantic relationship among all the words in the corpus of data. Loading NEW RELEASE: WOMEN & YOUTH OF THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS FEBRUARY 8, 2011 Inspired by the actions of young, Egyptian women whose voices are weapons! Videos by Asma Mahfouz which she posted before January 25...was her video the seed?A compelling spoken word performance by Palestinian Poet Suheir Hammad mixed with original DUBSTEP/ BASS score by DJ Lucxke guides this remix. ...in awe of the women of the revolution. Loading MEDIA-MAKING MADNESS: #ARAB REVOLUTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN FEBRUARY 21, 2011 Invited as guest to write for Henry Jenkin's blog, media critic and prolofic scholar. This presentation hopes to have extended notions of how innovative methods might be applied in a Media studies or Middle East studies context. Through this VJed publication, my aim has been to demonstrate the notion of design/ art practice as transformative research. henryjenkins.org/2011/02/media… Loading INVITED TO ROUNDTABLE BY US INSTITUTE FOR PEACE, GW UNIVERSITY, AND LIBERATIONTECH AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 24, 2011 From Wikileaks revelations to claims of "Twitter revolutions," the role of new media in shaping global political action is one of the most discussed but least understood phenomena confronting scholars, policymakers, advocates, and the private sector. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made "digital democracy" a cornerstone of U.S. diplomacy; grassroots organizations like Ushahidi are crowdsourcing everything from protest to disaster relief; and corporations like Cisco and Google are increasingly making news for their role in international development and commerce. liberationtechnology.stanford.… Loading ANNENBERG INNOVATION LAB'S INAUGURAL CONFERENCE AND ANNENBERG FELLOWSHIP CREATIVE SYMPOSIUM APRIL 1, 2011 Invited to perform live remix on "Media Methods: Youth, Revolution, and the Arab States" at Annenberg Fellowship Creative Symposium, a few days after presenting on "The Social Web Meets the Semantic Web" at Annenberg Innovation Lab's Inaugural Conference at USC in Los Angeles. www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSc… Loading VISIT TO FACEBOOK HEADQUARTERS AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERVIEW MAY 18, 2011 Presented on "Visual Nesting: Facebook's Design for Building Community" at Facebook Headquarters www.marketwatch.com/story/twit… Loading TEDX: (RE)ENCODING THE REVOLUTION MAY 19, 2011 VJ Um Amel is a media artist whose practices include ambient visual projection, live cinema performance, game design, database design, and innovative research. In her live VJ performances, she explores the implications of juxtaposing the identity of "mother" and a techno-feminist construct of "cyborg" within local and transnational expressions of "Arab." Loading LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE AT BASS SYNTHESIS IN LOS ANGELES JUNE 18, 2011 *TROWA* (Play Me Records/Westbay Music) (LA - Dubstep), *BASSEX* (Vital/Play Me Records) (SF - Electro-Sex-Step) , *LUCXKE* (SC - Glitch/Electro/Dubstep), *Andrew the Pirate* (Dub Pirates/Raindance) (SC - Dubstep), *Smasheltooth* (Bad Bitch Brigade) (SC - Hyphy-Step). Visuals by VJ Um Amel & Spaceboy Coop. And Belly Dancing by Jingles. www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic… Loading CONFERENCE ON "DEMOCRATIZING KNOWLEDGE" AT AUC TAHRIR CAMPUS IN CAIRO JUNE 18, 2011 The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) held its second annual workshop at AUC's Tahrir Campus on Tuesday evening. The event, titled "Access to Knowledge, Democratizing Technologies and Development," looked at ways that knowledge and technology can intersect to maximize access and democratization, which are held as crucial catalysts for human development. Loading PRESS COVERAGE IN EGYPT INDEPENDENT, DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING, AND ART TERRITORIES JUNE 27, 2011 Having just presented at The Access to Knowledge for Development Center's (A2K4D) second annual workshop at AUC's Tahrir Campus in Cairo, Egypt on June 14, 2011, R-Shief Project Lead Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel) and R-Shief are generating a lot of interest this last week in June. www.r-shief.org/r-shief-blog/p… Loading "AL-SHA'AB YUREED" (THE PEOPLE DEMAND): TRANSMITTING THE REVOLUTION" AT AMC JUNE 27, 2011 After just returning from a two-week trip to Cairo, Egypt where I was invited by the Access to Knowledge for Development Center at the American University of Cairo to participate in their second annual conference on "Democratizing Knowledge," I participated on a panel on "Al-Sha'ab Yureed" (The People Demand): Transmitting the Revolution" at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan via Skype. talk.alliedmedia.org/sessions/… Loading ARAB TECHIES 2011 WORKSHOP IN CAIRO JULY 31, 2011 Second consecutive year to participate in Arab Techies Workshop. This year's Arab Techies workshop was help at the AUC Tahrir campus in Cairo, Egypt. Collaborated with 30-40 participants from around the Arab world around current events. www.arabtechies.net/ Loading ON TRIPOLI, LIBYA AND "COLLATERAL DAMAGE: #OSLO ATTACKS AND PROLIFERATING ISLAMOPHOBIA" IN JADALIYYA AUGUST 9, 2011 "Laila Shereen Sakr...followed the Arab Spring closely, creating a massive database of Arabic-language tweets. Instead of selecting terms herself and searching the database, Sakr let a computer program aggregate data and identify patterns. While aggregating tweets from Libya, her program identified spikes in certain hashtags or selected key words. These word spikes became a sort of pulse, an early warning identifying the fall of the town of Zawiya. A short while later, similar words spikes reappeared allowing Sakr to identify the impending fall of Tripoli. She was accurate to within a few hours." Loading "REMI KANAZI LIVE" WITH HIP-HOP ARTIST THE PHILISTINES AND VJ UM AMEL IN LOS ANGELES SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 Palestinian American performance artist Remi Kanazi will appear at the Levantine Cultural Center, along with special guests VJ Um Amel with a live visuals show and Philistines master rapper Nizar Wattad. Mix together outrage at the illegal occupation of Palestine and the passionate performance of spoken word artist Remi Kanazi and you get an evening of "Poetic Injustice," slated for Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Levantine Cultural Center. www.levantinecenter.org/event/… Loading HEADLINE IN USC'S DAILY TROJAN FOR PARTICIPATION IN FIRST FELLOWS FORUM SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 About 50 students and faculty came to "New Perspectives on Islam and the Middle East," which focused on issues related to events that have transpired in the region during the past few months. dailytrojan.com/2011/09/15/all… Loading "TURNING INFORMATION IN TO INSIGHT PANEL" AT TECH@STATE CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, DC SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 Invited to conference on Data visualization with Keynote address by Edward Tufte. Followed conference with visit to Ferrum College as part of lecture series on "Transformations of Human Identity in the 21st Century." Loading INTERVIEWED IN SCIENCE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 "Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream," by Greg Miller in Science "One of the largest repositories of Arabic-language tweets is a database started by Laila Shereen Sakr, an Egyptian-born graduate student in cinematic arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Shereen Sakr says the project originally sprang from an activist impulse to make sure the voices of Arabic speakers were heard. But she's grown increasingly interested in the research potential. She's found intriguing spikes in certain hashtags, the terms used to flag a topic on Twitter, preceding the fall of Zawiya and Tripoli in Libya, for example." www.sciencemag.org/content/333… Loading WORD CLOUD VISUAL PART OF INSTALLATION ART TERRITORIES EXHIBITION IN VIENNA OCTOBER 1, 2011 Curated by Camera Austria director Reinhard Braun in Vienna, Austria COMMUNITAS. Among Others, curated by Camera Austria director Reinhard Braun, seeks to address the unimaginable social reconstruction that has seized our lives, turning the question of one's own social or cultural location into a more difficult task than ever before. The exhibition asks which values, convictions, traditions or revolutions, protests, resistances, subversions of all kinds put pressure on this social location or allow it to become imaginable nevertheless? www.artterritories.net/?page_i… Loading "MUSIC, FREEDOM, AND A BIT OF EGYPTIAN CINEMA" SPONSORED BY NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IN AMMAN OCTOBER 23, 2011 Hosted by Makkan Art Gallery, VJ Um Amel & DJ Ma'at perform live in Amman, Jordan: "In this live performance, VJ Um Amel joins DJ Ma'at for an evening of electronica and world beats against a remixed display of several musicals from Egyptian cinema including Lahn el-Wafa' (1955) starring Abdel Halim Hafez and Chadia; 'Afrita Hanem (1948) starring Samia Gamal and Farid El-Atrache; and Fatma (1947) by Ahmed Badrakhan with visualizations of social media, art, and design emerging from the revolutions of dignity spreading across the Middle East and North Africa." makanhouse.net/content/music-f… Loading "ARAB UPRISING, UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF CHANGE" AT MUNK SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO NOVEMBER 10, 2011 In two panel discussions (1:00pm-2:30pm and 3:00pm-4:30pm) we seek to understand local and regional forces of change that fuelled the uprisings and how they have impacted different countries in the Middle East. In addition, we will discuss whether there has been any meaningful reform in this region, what has changed, and what has not. www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDeta… Loading EGYPTIAN BODY POLITIC REMIX INSTALLED AT CULTURAL FESTIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO DECEMBER 3, 2011 Invited to participate in Brazil's first digital culture conference - culturadigital.org.br/inscreva… Loading "THE PEOPLE'S SKYPE' AND OCCUPY WALL STREET HACKATHONS", IN FAST COMPANY DECEMBER 11, 2011 "Laila Shereen Sakr, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California, has played a crucial role in the lab's efforts and has demonstrated her findings to, among others, executives at Facebook." www.fastcompany.com/1800700/th… Loading PUBLISHED "THE MATERIALITY OF VIRTUALITY: INTERNET REPORTING ON ARAB REVOLUTIONS" IN JADALIYYA DECEMBER 19, 2011 "Today, the irony is that in the midst of Arabic cries for justice, democracy, dignity, and freedom, Western interpretation of social media data on the Arab uprisings are privileged and continue to predominate. In addition, the material experience of new media, virtuality, is easily misunderstood...As I mentioned, we remain challenged with the localization of Arabic language tools freely available in open source. And the slippage of misconstruing data for knowledge perhaps is the most dangerous of all, especially when these believable truths are cause for action." www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/… Loading "A YEAR IN REVIEW: WHEN HISTORY BECOMES ART," BY HELEN STUHR-ROMMEREIM IN EGYPT INDEPENDENT DECEMBER 29, 2011 "Sakr wrote, "human experience… is in a constant state of becoming. In this case, R-Shief is designed to embody this in its code and machine intelligence," describing the archive as a technological innovation that learns, experiences, and draws connections like a living brain. R-Shief reads the internet and learns from it, organizing the unfathomable information web into something slightly more fathomable." www.egyptindependent.com/news/… Loading THE SPIRIT OF TAHRIR: ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION JANUARY 29, 2012 The program includes an exclusive keynote via phone from Cairo by prominent blogger and activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, and honorary guest Skype call with bestselling author and political commentator, Ahdaf Soueif. VJ Um Amel joins DJ Ma'at for an afternoon of world music synchronized to a remix of Egyptian cinema and media emerging from the revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawn from the databases of the R-Shief initiative, this performance pays tribute to the vision of the people. eaojan25.eventbrite.com/ Loading BY THE DEMAND OF THE PEOPLE: ARCHIVING DIGITALLY BORN INFORMATION IN ARABIC FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Invited guest lecturer on the history of new media art at U C Santa Cruz. VJ Um Amel's practices as an artist have recently been expressed through archiving and remixing social media from the Arabic-speaking world. Her motivation to collect and analyze content comes from a desire to find the voice of the Arabic-speaking body politic over the last turbulent few years. The virtual lab, R-Shief, (Arabic for the word, "archive"), explores a world were information is born digital. This type of data exploration is a type of cultural analytics, rooted firmly as a digital arts and humanities project. film.ucsc.edu/news_events/2012… Loading WIZARD SCIENCE ELECTRONIC PARTY AT THE 418 PROJECT IN SANTA CRUZ MARCH 9, 2012 Performing live visuals with GRIMBLEE, BASSEX, RUDEBRAT, and GuR - www.facebook.com/events/353315… Loading OCCUPYRESEARCH, DATACENTER, R-SHIEF LABS, AND THE MIT CENTER FOR CIVIC MEDIA ANNOUNCE OCCUPYDATA ROUND II MARCH 23, 2012 Hackathon II builds on demos and other tools from the first and turns our collaborative energy on visualizing the 5000+ responses to the OccupyResearch General Demographics and Participation Survey (ORGS), as well as R-Shief's Twitter #occupy datasets aggregating since September 2011 and other datasets people might want to use. This event is not only for hackers or coders, but for anyone who's interested. Bring your ideas, skills, creativity, questions and critical perspectives as we explore occupy datasets using free and open source tools and software. We'll make connections from one place to another – open to all participants! bit.ly/occupyhackathon Loading ROUNDTABLE ON "THE INSIGHT OF INSIDER/ OUTSIDER APPROACHES TO SCHOLARSHIP" APRIL 11, 2012 With Alexandrina Agloro, May Alhassen, and Erin Kamler at Annenberg Graduate Fellows Symposium How do social identities, embodied privilege, and oppression operate within engaged scholarship? Drawing upon our research, participants will discuss the tools, resources, and best practices. What are specific skills we need to negotiate both roles -- as practitioners and scholars? Through a process of dialogue, we seek to interrogate methods of research. dailytrojan.com/2011/09/15/all… Loading "EGYPTIAN BODY POLITIC REMIX" VIDEO INSTALLATION AT IMAPPENING EXHIBITION MAY 9, 2012 Including exhibits and talks from the artists, designers, and scholars of the iMAP program. The Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) PhD program in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California will be holding their annual showcase event, iMappening 2012, on May 9th and 10th, 2012 from 10am-5pm. The event will take place at Fox Stage 3, SCX-105, in the School of Cinematic Arts. Loading DISCUSSING THE ARAB UPRISINGS WITH DIGITAL JOURNALISM STUDENTS AT UCSD MAY 22, 2012 Invited to UC San Diego to address Liz Losh's Digital Journalism class VJ Um Amel's practices as an artist have recently been expressed through archiving and remixing social media from the Arabic-speaking world. Her motivation to collect and analyze content comes from a desire to find the voice of the Arabic-speaking body politic over the last turbulent few years. The virtual lab, R-Shief, (Arabic for the word, "archive"), explores a world were information is born digital. This type of data exploration is a type of cultural analytics, rooted as a digital arts and humanities project. losh.ucsd.edu/courses/journali… Loading PARTICIPATING IN THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS PHD MEDIA SYMPOSIUM JUNE 15, 2012 The LSE 2012 symposium will be on "Cosmopolitanism, New Media and Protests" Conceptualising cosmopolitanism as a contested term resting on a tension between the local and the global, the Symposium will examine the mediation of protests through new media platforms as they expand within and beyond national borders. The key question we will address is: How are new media implicated in the creation of cosmopolitan dispositions and protest mobilisations? culturevisuelle.org/imagecircl… Loading NEW ARTICLE IN JADALIYYA: "STUDYING SOCIAL STREAMS: CULTURAL ANALYTICS IN ARABIC" OCTOBER 31, 2012 discuss a set of research methodologies that emerge at the intersection of both cultural and technical analytics in the fields of digital humanities and new media studies. www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/… Loading AWARDED FUTURE LEADERSHIP AWARD BY EGYPTIAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION NOVEMBER 17, 2012 The Egyptian American Organization (EAO) is pleased to announce the selection of Laila Shereen Sakr to receive a special recognition award for future leadership. The purpose of this special award is to recognize — with encouragement and pride — the promise and potential of Egyptian Americans who will continue to carry the shining torch of the EAO in the coming generation. This special award will be presented during the EAO General Assembly meeting of Nov. 17, 2012. Loading VIDEO INSTALLATION ON "PERFORMING & ARCHIVING THE MIDDLE EAST INTERNET" AT THE LEVANTINE CENTER IN LOS ANGELES JANUARY 30, 2013 Join us for a special video installation and live cinema performance by VJ Um Amel, an Egyptian-American digital artist, USC Ph.D. candidate, and the creator of R-Shief.org. R-Shief is an Arab media system that has one of the most rare archives of social media content from Arab revolutions. This event provides the audience with an interactive installation followed by an for an evening of world music synchronized to a remix of Egyptian cinema and media emerging from the revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawn from the databases of the R-Shief initiative, this installation pays tribute to the vision of the people. Loading VJ UM AMEL PLAYS LIVE VISUALS WITH @100COPIES MUSIC SQUAD IN CAIRO FEBRUARY 8, 2013 A spectacular live cinema event merges animation, Egyptian cinema, abstract visual music, and social media, with live acoustic and electronic music. Exciting and innovative Los Angeles-based media artist VJ Um Amel will perform live visuals with live electronic music by the city's own 100COPIES MUSIC squad. Join us as Cairo's new venue will come alive with large animation and cutting-edge projections. www.facebook.com/events/314686… Loading "THE DIGITAL HUMANTIES: BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND REVOLUTION" AT AUC'S MIDDLE EAST STUDIES CENTER FEBRUARY 10, 2013 One of the problems of studying technology and revolution is that common interpretation of new media--as spreadable, quantifiably predictable, and without a body--lends itself to ahistorical insights. How might a digital humanities approach to scholarship offer context into the dynamic of revolution in a digital age where nothing is going to give itself over - whether technocratic or militaristic. It is neither Egypt's culture nor technology, but its people who resist. This talk presents the theoretical motivations behind creating an Arabic media system--a body of work that coheres dissimilar elements not into a single idea, but into a heterogeneous network. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbi… Loading #OPENEGYPT LIVE CINEMA AT ARAB DIGITAL EXPRESSION FOUNDATION IN CAIRO FEBRUARY 14, 2013 Innovative digital media artist VJ Um Amel joins Cairo-based DJ Ali Shaath in a spectacular live cinema event that merges interactive cinema, animation, visual music, and social media, with live poetry and electronic music. The goal of this special event is to demonstrate, share and circulate art + media + technology. Our artistic intervention follows on the heels of the #OpenEgypt and #الفن_مشاع efforts to support creativity and knowledge production with free legal tools. Please join us in this evening where roles between audience and performer become one. Loading PRESENTED "NARRATIVE OF THE NON-NARRATIVE: A READING OF EXPERIMENTAL ARAB ART" AT DIWAN APRIL 5, 2013 — APRIL 7, 2013 04/05-04/07/2013, "Narrative of the Non-Narrative: A reading of experimental Arab art" with Mike Khoury, Leyya Tawil, and Nadim Damluji at DIWAN sponsored by the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, MI www.diwanart.org/ Loading PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTER IN EDITED VOLUME, MEDIATING THE ARAB UPRISINGS APRIL 20, 2013 From “Facebook revolutions” to “Al-Jazeera uprisings,” the outburst of popular activism across the Arab world has either been attributed to the media, drawn up by the media, observed through the media, or decontextualized by the media. Bloggers become icons, self-proclaimed experts becoming interpreters of unfolding events, stereotypes are cultivated, and autocratic regimes continue to subdue freedom of the press. The uprisings have become the most compelling media stories in recent memory. With so much at stake, the burden of relaying human narratives accurately and responsibly is a burden on all journalistic establishments worldwide. Mediating the Arab Uprisings edited by A. Iskander and B. Haddad includes VJ Um Amel’s article, “The Materiality of Virtuality: Reporting on the Arab Revolutions.” tadweenpublishing.com/collecti… Loading PERFORMED "IMMOBILITY: A SCORE ABOUT MOBILITY" IN COLLABORATION WITH LEYYA TAWIL AND MICHA CARDENAS MAY 11, 2013 Immappening 2013 imap.usc.edu/news-and-events/i… Loading SCIENCE OF THE OPPRESSED: PERFORMATIVE AND NETWORKED STRATEGIES FOR ARTIVISM JULY 1, 2013 With Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas, and Ricardo Dominguez at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI All of the artists and theorists on this panel practice Science of the Oppressed in their work in ways that respond to the question: how do we decolonize our bodies when our bodies are extended by technology? These artists write countercodes in code poems, visualize the movement of movements, disturb borders with mayan technology and escape technologies of recognition with queer technology. amc.alliedmedia.org/ Loading DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES II: DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS OCTOBER 11, 2013 Middle East Studies Association Conference alraqmiyyat.org/2013/09/digita… Loading LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE OF "FROM GAZA TO CAIRO: MOBILIZING THE BODY POLITIC" AT THE HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE CONVERGENCE OCTOBER 12, 2013 Collective Alchemy: Turning Grief into Action Performance Night at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics GSI Convergence 2013 The 2nd Hemi GSI Convergence will be an exploratory space of lateral collaboration and alternative pedagogy among scholars, artists and activists from throughout the Americas. Convergence 2013 will be jointly hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) on October 11–13, 2013. vjumamel.com/from-gaza-to-cair… Loading PAPER AT INTERNET RESEARCH 14.0: RESISTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OCTOBER 24, 2013 www.conftool.com/aoir-ir14/ind… Loading PUBLISHED "A DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACH: TEXT, THE INTERNET, AND THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING" IN MIDDLE EAST CRITIQUE DECEMBER 16, 2013 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/1… Loading EARLY RELEASE OF ARABIC TEXT ANALYSIS & ENTITY EXTRACTOR API DECEMBER 19, 2013 r-shief.org/arabic-text-analys… Loading FIRST DEPLOYMENT OF NEW DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM: KAL3A JANUARY 1, 2014 r-shief.org/kal3a-optimizing-d… Loading INTERVIEW BY JADALIYYA: "NEW TEXTS OUT NOW: VJ UM AMEL, A DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACH: TEXT, THE INTERNET, AND THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING" FEBRUARY 12, 2014 www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/… Loading THE HUMANITIES AND CRITICAL CODE STUDIES (HACCS) LAB SPONSORS THIS WORKING GROUP TO EXPLORE CULTURE THROUGH CODE OR THE CODE OF CULTURE FEBRUARY 23, 2014 — MARCH 23, 2014 haccslab.com/?p=62 GUEST LECTURE ON "SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FAIL" IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERIES AT THE INFORMATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE APRIL 12, 2014 www.isi.edu/technology_groups/… Loading GUEST LECTURE ON "DATA MINING & ANALYTICS" IN ANNENBERG GRADUATE SUMMER COURSE JUNE 14, 2014 annenberg.usc.edu/communicatio… Loading NEW DATA VIZ JUST RELEASED! #GAZA AUDIO-VISUAL NARRATIVE BY A CYBORG: IMAGES BY HASHTAG AUGUST 6, 2014 vjumamel.com/gaza-viz Loading "THE MIDDLE EAST FINDS ITS VOICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA" - USC NEWS WRITES GREAT PROFILE ON VJ UM AMEL AUGUST 29, 2014 news.usc.edu/67735/the-middle-… Loading FEMTECHNET MANIFESTO AUDIO FILE: CYBORG READING CREATED FOR REDISTRIBUTION AND REMIX PURPOSES SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 Inspired by new FemTechNet Manifesto, created this audio file for redistribution and remix purposes. Loading INCLUDED IN CINEMA JOURNAL'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON FILM AND TV IN NON-MEDIA JOURNALS SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 www.cmstudies.org/?CJ_prof_pas… Loading SPOTLIGHT ON EGYPT: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION WITH PROF. PAUL AMAR, PROF. SHERENE SEIKALY, AND PH.D. CANDIDATE LAILA SAKR OCTOBER 23, 2014 dornsife.usc.edu/mesp/spotligh… Loading R-SHIEF LAUNCHES 3.0: NEW RESEARCH TOOLS ALLOWING FULL ACCESS TO SOCIAL MEDIA ARCHIVES NOVEMBER 17, 2014 r-shief.org/r-shief-launches-n… Loading "ON DEVELOPING A TEACHING MODULE ON ARAB SOCIAL MEDIA" AND "THE ARCHIVE: COLLECTIONS AND COUNTER-COLLECTIONS" AT MESA NOVEMBER 22, 2014 www.myheritage.com/research/re… INTERVIEWED ON "WHAT IS TRENDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST?" AND R-SHIEF 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY FEBRUARY 26, 2015 www.statushour.com/en/Guests/P… Loading LAILA SHEREEN SAKR AND R-SHIEF FEATURED IN THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION MARCH 9, 2015 www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/… Loading NEW ARTICLE IN NETWORKING KNOWLEDGE JOURNAL: "A VIRTUAL BODY POLITIC ON #GAZA: THE MOBILIZATION OF INFORMATION PATTERNS" MARCH 9, 2015 ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/ne… Loading PRESENTING ON DATA-DRIVEN FEATURE FILMMAKING ON PANEL, "DATA-DRIVEN LITERARY PRACTICES," AT &NOW 2015 AT CALARTS MARCH 25, 2015 — MARCH 28, 2015 andnow2015a.sched.org/event/0d… Loading CHAPTER PUBLISHED IN DISSONANT ARCHIVES: CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE AND CONTESTED NARRATIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST (IB TAURIS, 2015). MAY 30, 2015 books.google.com/books?id=dH4s…(IB%20Tauris%2C%202015)&f=false Loading INSTALLATION AND SCREENINGS BY VJ UM AMEL AT FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR JUNE 2015 flahertyseminar.org/the-flaher… Loading PRESENTING SEMINAR ON SOCIAL MEDIA/DIGITAL ACTIVISM AT DIGITAL HUMANITIES SUMMER INSTITUTE AT CLAREMONT COLLEGES JUNE 3, 2015 www.claremontdh.com/dhcc-summe… Loading "FROM CAIRO TO GAZA" PERFORMANCE AT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ARTS (ISEA), VANCOUVER, CANADA AUGUST 18, 2015 sched.co/3ZrF Loading EV-ENT-ANGLE-MENT PERFORMANCE AT PAM RESIDENCIES GALLERY NOVEMBER 8, 2015 The final iteration of a performance after Utrecht, Delhi, Dublin, and Montreal combines lecture with live video mixing with A. Juhasz. This is a PAM Residencies performance gallery curated by Brian Getnick in Los Angeles, CA. Loading AFTER TAHRIR: EGYPTIAN REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCES AND FUTURE VISIONS -- 4 DAYS, 21 SPONSORS, 28 PARTICIPANTS, 18 SHORT FILMS. JANUARY 25, 2016 aftertahrir.net Loading SAKR, LAILA SHEREEN AND KIMBERLY KATZ, “ON DEVELOPING A TEACHING MODULE ON ARAB SOCIAL MEDIA,” CINEMA JOURNAL TEACHING DOSSIER: THE INTEGRATION OF PRODUCTION AND THEORY/HISTORY IN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES COURSES, VOL 4 (1). APRIL 1, 2016 Loading RESURGENCY AT NOMADICO OCTOBER 9, 2016 Using projection mapping and live cinema, VJ Um Amel streamed live social media posts about presidential debate remixed with images of Baltimore, Egypt, Rio, Ferguson, and Paris Uprisings, while DJ Shahid Buttar kept the house alive with socially conscious beats and live hip hop on the mic. Loading REPRODUCIBLE DATA RESEARCH: IT’S COMPLICATED JANUARY 25, 2017 www.library.ucsb.edu/events-ex… Loading WIREFRAME BETA LAUNCH: A GUERRILLA OPEN MIC FEBRUARY 10, 2017 wireframeucsb.wordpress.com/20… Loading PANEL: MUSLIM AMERICAN / AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2016 ELECTIONS FEBRUARY 16, 2017 Loading ALWAYS ALREADY COMPUTATIONAL: LIBRARY COLLECTIONS AS DATA NATIONAL FORUM MARCH 1, 2017 UCLA LECTURE SERIES: "ALGORITHMIC CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON A POST-UPRISINGS MIDDLE EAST" MARCH 7, 2017 international.ucla.edu/cnes/ar… _blank Loading IMAGINARIES ABOUT MUSLIMS: BEFORE AND AFTER TRUMP APRIL 13, 2017 Donald Trump’s first month in office has seen continuing and escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy. Join us for a cross disciplinary discussion where Professor Sherene Seikaly (History) reflects on the history of Muslims as public enemies, Professor Juan Campo (Religious Studies) examines institutional factors leading to the rise of Islamophobia, and Professor Laila Shereen Sakr (Film & Media Studies) explores the virtual body politic of social media as it circulates the fear and myth of the Muslim nation. Loading THINKING PALESTINE: 1967 & BEYOND APRIL 28, 2017 uc1967.wordpress.com/ Loading ARAB FUTURE TRIPPINGS AND ALGORITHMIC CULTURE MAY 4, 2017 Institute for Advanced Study at University of Minnesota dash.umn.edu/past-events-news/… Loading GUEST REVIEWER FOR MEDIA ARTS & TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM'S RE-HABITUATION EXHIBITION MAY 19, 2017 show.mat.ucsb.edu/ VJ UM AMEL RELEASES GLITCH RESISTANCE ART SERIES ON 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY JUNE 8, 2017 Glitch Resistance is a limited edition series of six framed prints on canvas and metal. Each print comes a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA). 30% of all sales will benefit the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). vjumamel.com/artwork/ VR PROTOTYPE FEATURED IN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA NEWS JULY 27, 2017 www.universityofcalifornia.edu… Loading INAUGURAL PANEL: INTERDISCPLINARY CROSSINGS + BOUNDARIES OCTOBER 19, 2017 www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugur… MIDDLE EAST FEMINIST TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 20, 2017 The R-Shief 5.0 Workshop addresses the challenge of tracking and analyzing social media in the context of increasing state surveillance. We bring together R-Shief founder, VJ Um Amel, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara, co-founder of Arab Techies and Motoon, Manal Bahey El-Din Hassan, along with Lisa Parks, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and Mark LeVine, Professor of History at UC Irvine. www.facebook.com/events/199427… Loading "UNDERSTANDING THE NEW MIDDLE EAST" CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 8, 2018 UCLA Center for Near East Studies brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics in the humanities and social sciences, along with representatives of think tanks and non-governmental organizations, to explore the roots and attributes of the current crises in the region and to assess the region’s future trajectory. www.international.ucla.edu/cne… APRIL 24, 2018 Hosted by Wireframe Studio + Digital Arts & Humanities Commons VISIBILITY EXHIBITION :: (CCK) BUENOS AIRES MAY 3, 2018 “Ten-Year-Retrospective” audio/video installation premiered in Buenos Aires, Argentina 03 May 2018. Now on display at the Centro Cultural Kirchner’s VISIBILITY, an exhibition that brings together seven women artists working in the audiovisual field using generative art techniques, data bending, analog synthesis, 3D animation, found footage and more. vjumamel.com/portfolio/ten-yea… Loading KEYNOTE ADDRESS, "REFRAMING THE 'ARAB SPRING'" OCTOBER 18, 2018 Emergence and Emergency, USC First Forum 2018 - uscfirstforum2018.wordpress.co… CO-AUTHORED CHAPTER OUT, WITH ALEXANDRA JUHASZ (BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CUNY) AND BRIAN GETNICK (ARTIST, CURATOR, AND FOUNDER AND CO-DIRECTOR OF NATIVE STRATEGIES, A JOURNAL DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE ART IN L.A.) NOVEMBER 10, 2018 “Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script to Reflexively Extend Engagement by Way of Technologies” takes the form of an extended experimental scholarly conversation. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j… Loading KEYNOTE ADDRESS, "HIGH/LOW: TASTE, QUALITY, AND RESOLUTION IN FILM & MEDIA" FEBRUARY 8, 2019 "TECHIES ON THE GROUND" OUT IN LATEST VOLUME OF CYBER ORIENT DECEMBER 31, 2019 cyberorient.net/2019/12/20/tec… Loading TOUCH DATA BODY X AT THE BRAND GALLERY JANUARY 25, 2020 Beyond Embodiment group exhibition at the Brand gallery in Glendale, California -- curated by Selwa Sweidan and Laura Darlington. Loading COMMUNITIES IN FORMATION JANUARY 30, 2020 UCLA Information Studies Colloquium: is.gseis.ucla.edu/research/col… Loading BIRDS 1.0 FEBRUARY 12, 2020 Dye sublimation on metal in the Glitch / غليتش exhibition in the Margo Veillon Gallery at the Tahrir Cultural Center in Cairo. A group of international artists use video art, digital paintings, photographs, multi-media installations, drawings, paintings, and sculptures to explore the ways our understandings of the past, present, and future are mediated through technology. Exhibited artists include VJ Um Amel (b. Alexandria, Egypt), Petra Cortright (b. Santa Barbara, United States), Shady El Noshokaty (b. Damietta, Egypt), Mounir Fatmi (b. Tangier, Morocco), Jonathan Hexner (b. Dhaka, Bangladesh), Pouran Jinchi (b. Mashhad, Iran), Basim Magdy (b. Assiut, Egypt), Haytham Nawar (b. Gharbiya, Egypt), Mona Omar (b. Cairo, Egypt), Kour Pour (b. Exeter, United Kingdom), Shahzia Sikander (b. Lahore, Pakistan) and Talisker (b. Paris, France). Loading BEIT UM AMEL/ بيت ام امل FEBRUARY 12, 2020 Solo exhibition at the Tahrir Cultural Center in Cairo, Egypt. 10 works: interactive, sculpture, metal, canvas, and projection. Future Gallery, Tahrir Cultural Center, American University in Cairo, Curated by Shiva Balaghi vjumamel.com/artwork/ REVIEW IN NECSUS JOURNAL NOVEMBER 30, 2020 Rania Gaafer reviews Beit Um Amel and Glitch exhibits in "Glitch: Art & Technology: Processing media matter" - necsus-ejms.org/glitch-art-tec… Loading BERNIE MEMES RESET THE INTERNET JANUARY 24, 2021 Read blog post about the video: vjumamel.com/portfolio/bernie-… Loading ACLS DIGITAL GRANT AWARD TO DEVELOP VR DOCUMENTARY OF 2011 EGYPTIAN UPRISING MAY 24, 2021 The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded Laila Shereen Sakr $150,000 for her project, “Arab Data Bodies: Social Media in Mixed Reality.” www.acls.org/news/acls-news-ac… Loading CAPITAL GLITCH: ARAB CYBORG TURNS TO D.C. PREMIERES AT GALLERY QI NOVEMBER 4, 2021 An exhibition in three-acts, Capital Glitch, reflects on the events leading up to and taking place during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol through cultural analytics of social media. It consists of a 30-foot wall of interactive mosaics, glitch metal prints, and holograms in a mixed reality immersive experience. vj.live CONCEPT ART AUGUST 1, 2022 using 3D modeling and AI for new work coming in 2023. vjumamel.com/portfolio/arab-da… Loading ARABIC GLITCH OUT NOW JULY 16, 2023 Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives, is now available at Stanford University Press. For a 20% discount, use SAKR20 code. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and being in conversation: www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27… Loading ARABIC GLITCH BOOK LAUNCH JANUARY 31, 2024 Laila Shereen Sakr will discuss her new book, Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives, with three outstanding scholars across Film and Media Studies, Digital Arts, and Middle East Studies. The discussants will interrogate the concept of “Arabic glitch” as a framework in their fields of research and practice. www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/even… Loading Image AWARDED PUBLIC VOICES FELLOWSHIP MARCH 19, 2024 Twenty faculty thought leaders have been selected to participate in the 2024 cohort of the newly launched Public Voices Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara, in partnership with the OpEd Project. news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/uc-sant… Loading Image ARABIC GLITCH AND DIGITAL PALESTINE APRIL 11, 2024 Hosted by The Humanities Insitute and the Center for the Middle East and North Afria at UC Santa Cruz: thi.ucsc.edu/event/arabic-glit… Loading Image TimelineJS PUBLICATIONS See a full list of publications here * Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives. Stanford University Press, 2023. * Reframing the ‘Arab Spring’ Reframing the ‘Arab Spring.’ In Angela Krewan and Alena Strohmaier, editors, Media and Spatial Knowledge in/of the MENA-region. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. * Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011 "Techies on the Ground: Revisiting Egypt 2011," Cyber Orient Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World Vol. 13, Iss.1, 2019, pp. 43-61. * Ev-Ent-Anglement: Reflexively Extending Engagement By Way of Technology “Ev-Ent-Anglement: Reflexively Extending Engagement By Way of Technology” (co-authored with Alex Juhasz and Brian Getnick) in Bodies of Information: Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, Eds. Liz Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, 2017. * * * * * svg-logo * Home * About * Portfolio * Publications * Social © 2024 VJ Um Amel | Site by DSD