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Karl Moubarak
Bio
My practice as a designer and tool-builder is rooted in the digital sphere and focuses on the research, development and social activation of experimental interfaces, infrastructures and on and offline sites for exchange. I collaborate with artists, collectives, researchers and cultural organisations on projects that pay critical attention to the processes, tools, and mechanisms that co-constitute them. I enjoy working with free, libre, and open-source software and hardware with a particular interest in accessibility, sustainability and experimental methods of liveness and dissemination.
I am an active member of Amsterdam-based workshop cooperative Hackers & Designers (since 2019), where we develop hybrid publishing tools, explore collaborative methodologies and experiment with workshopping as a format for exchange. I am also involved with of Eindhoven-based interstitial collective body Office of Queer Affairs (since 2017), where we openly explore the involvement of the local queer community's perspective in the museum's curatorial practices. I am also part of the Digital Discomfort Working Group (since 2021), a research group centred around the collective exploration, imagination and affirmative re-politicisation of compu-relational practice in conversation with crip techno-science, anti-colonialism, queer struggles, and environmental justice.
Currently
- Hackers & Designers, Amsterdam
- Digital Discomfort Working Group, online
- The Office of Queer Affairs, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Workshops, guided tours, calls-to-action
- , Digital Discomfort: Read - Write - Chaos, Varia, Rotterdam
- , The Hacked Orchestra at Muziekgebouw, SoundLAB, Amsterdam
- , Prototypes for a Lighter Internet, TUMO, Yerevan
- , Weaving Networks: Ethercalc Tour, WDKA, Rotterdam
- , Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers , In-Between Media Conference, Amsterdam
- , 8M: Pickets in the Cloud, Hangar, Barcelona
- , Session II of the School of Elephants in the Room, La Capella, Barcelona
- , Solarpunks, De Vrolijkheid, Katwijk
- , Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers, Page Not Found, Den Haag
- , ChattyPub, Page Not Found, Den Haag
- , Connecting Otherwise, FHNW, Basel
- , ChattyPub, documenta15, Kassel
- , Installing Ourselves into LibrePlanet, The Free Software Foundation, online
- , ChattyPub, Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen
- , Open* tools for collective organizing, Amsterdam
- , ChattyPub, GFZK's DigIt, Leipzig
- , Ethercalc Hangouts , HDSA2021, Amsterdam
- , ChattyPub, HDSA2021, Amsterdam
- , Filesha Meetup, Online
- , Guided Tour of Ethercalc, DEN, Online
- , Guided Tour of Ethercalc, The Hmm , Online
- , Mail Art: A Complaint Letter to the Internet, Read My World Festival, Amsterdam
- , Becoming a Server, HDSA2020, Online
Talks, panels, conversations
- , Anti-Colonial Tech: a Conversation, Varia, Rotterdam
- , Anti-Colonial Tech through Resistance and Discomforts, transmediale, Berlin
- , The Living Archives Talkshop, The Institiute of Network Cultures, Online
- , Guest, non-zero--exit, Online
- , Thresholds of Access, In-Between Media Conference, Amsterdam
- , Experimental Publishing, GFZK's DigIt, Leipzig
- , Experimental Publishing, Bergen Art Book Fair, Online
- , Spreadsheets and User-Unfriendly Design, The Hmm , Amsterdam
Summer Camps
- , HDSC2023: Hopepunk, Sint-Oedenrode
- , HDSA2022: Connecting Otherwise, Amsterdam
- , HDSA2021: Hello World?, Amsterdam
- , HDSA2020: Network Imaginaries, Amsterdam
Education, Fellowships, Consortia, Extra-curricular
- , Going Hybrid Consortium, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
- , Fellowship for Situated Practice, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
- , OFFFENCE Collective, Matera
- , Bachelor in Art, Design Academy Eindhoven , Eindhoven
- , Internship, Studio Safar, Beirut
- , Lebanese Baccalaureate, SABIS International School , Adma
Skills & Languages
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Desktop programs
- LibreOffice Suite (Writer, Calc, Draw, etc..)
- GNU Image Manipulation Program, InkScape
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Software ecosystems
- Frontend development: HTML, CSS, JS (VueJS, NuxtJS, ejs)
- Backend development: Node (Strapi, Express), Python (Flask, FastApi)
- Database management: Mongo, SQL
- System administration: apache, nginx
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Natural languages
- Fluent in Arabic, English and French
- Learning Dutch (A2) and Italian (B1)