Karl Moubarak

I'm a designer, researcher and software developer based in Amsterdam.

My practice is rooted in the digital sphere and focuses on the development of on-and-offline sites for connectivity and exchange. I work on projects that aim to make visible the processes, tools and mechanisms that co-constitute them and generate experimental methods of liveness and dissemination, as facilitated by the sensitivities of free, libre, and open-source software.

I am currently a member of Hackers & Designers, a non-profit workshop cooperative based in Amsterdam that stimulates collaboration across creative and technological practices through shared moments of hands-on learning, collective tool-building, and trans-disciplinary research trajectories.

I am also part of the Office of Queer Affairs, a collective body in the Van Abbemuseum that embeds and entangles the perspectives of Eindhoven's queer community into the museum's curatorial practices. Together we organise (ir)regular transmedial interventions within the institution's public spaces.

On August 4, 2020, I joined OH4L, a cohort of historians and cultural athropologists based in Beirut who are attempting to explore, through a queer and feminist lens, the techno-cultural sensitivities and challenges of building a digital oral archive of testimonies connected to current and future socio-political happenings in Lebanon.

Media of the Day: This is a collection of images that I (1) find interesting, (2) want to look at again and (3) think you should see. The images are most of the time found, downloaded or screenshot. Occasionally, they are my own work.

Resume of Karl Moubarak (most recent entry first).

Entry	Type	Time	Location	Organization	Role
Hackers & Designers	Coop	Ongoing	Amsterdam,The Netherlands	Hackers & Designers	Project development, research, production, documentation
Cell for Digital Discomfort	Fellowship	Ongoing	Utrecht, The Netherlands	BAK (basis voor actuele kunst)	Research fellow
The Office of Queer Affairs	Collective	Ongoing	Eindhoven, The Netherlands	Van Abbemuseum	Research, facilitation, communication
Ethercalc Hangouts @ HDSA2021	Workshop	July, 2021	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Hackers & Designers Summer Academy	Workshop host
ChattyPub @ HDSA2021: Chat -> Print	Workshop	July, 2021	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Hackers & Designers Summer Academy	Workshop host
Live Tour of Ethercalc	Talk	March 31, 2021	Internet	The Hmm	Tour guide
Mail Art: A Complaint Letter to the Internet	Workshop	October 10, 2020	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Read My World Festival	Workshop host
Bachelor in Art	Education	2016 - 2020	Eindhoven, The Netherlands	Design Academy Eindhoven	Student in the Department of Media and Culture
Becoming a Server	Workshop	July 20 - 22, 2020	Internet :]	Hackers & Designers Summer Academy	Workshop host
Spreadsheets and User-Unfriendly Design	Talk	December 4, 2019	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	The Hmm	Speaker
The OFFFENCE Collective	Collective	Fall, 2018	Matera, Italy	OFFFENCE Collective	Participant in core group
Studio Safar	Internship	Summer, 2016	Beirut, Lebanon	Studio Safar	Research, graphic design, production assistance
Lebanese Baccalaureate	Education	2007 - 2016	Adma, Lebanon	SABIS International School	Student in the Life Sciences section

Updated on May 10, 2021

email: bonjour@moubarak.eu

phone: +31 640433749

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