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(Image courtesy of Impakt)
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ABOUT HAYTHAM
NAWAR
Haytham Nawar is a practicing artist and designer, as well as a scholar and educator in the fields of art and design. He has built his professional and academic career over the past two decades simultaneously fulfilling the different roles.
Nawar initially graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt where he also obtained his MFA in New Media in 2007. Later, in 2009, he completed a second Master’s degree of Advanced Studies ZFH in Spatial Design, at the Institute of Design & Technology, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Since 2016, Nawar holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts (CAiiA Hub), The Planetary Collegium, Faculty of Arts, School of Art & Media, Plymouth University, UK.
Nawar’s extensive experience spans continents as he worked at the Ionian Centre for Art and Culture in Kefalonia, Greece, and taught at the School of Design in Hong Kong, in the Department of Communication Design, Polytechnic University. In 2014, he pursued his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Design at the American University in Cairo (AUC), where he served as Director of the Graphic Design Program from 2016 to 2019 before holding the post of Chair of the Department of the Arts at AUC since 2019.
Nawar is a two-time Fulbright Grantee. He was a Fulbright Visiting Artist at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, USA, in the academic year 2011-2012. Later, in the academic year 2017-2018, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar conducting post-doctorate research at the ArtSci Center of UCLA, LA, USA.
MORE ABOUT HAYTHAM NAWAR >>
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Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of Protest (April 5, 2018):
Drawing on the commonly unnoticed value of bread, and the everlasting impregnable imprint it has always had on revolutions throughout history, Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of Protest is an interactive art project in which participants are granted the opportunity to draw and share their personal visual representations of bread, eventually forming an array of visual diaries, each peculiar to its creator. The results are exceptionally reproduced by a machine, which although possesses no threads to culture, tradition, or history, emphasizes the conscious perception of one’s distinct identity.
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Close-up of the machine generating a bread drawing
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Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) (April 5, 2018):
Following an opening reception for Haytham Nawar's exhibition Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of Protest, join us for our monthly LASER talk! Featuring presentations by: Michelle Mcauliffe, Bill Fontana, Jonathan Moore, and Haytham Nawar.
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Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) (July 19, 2018):
The monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Mark Chavez + Ina Conradi's The Double-Slit Experiment.
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JULY 19 // LASER TALK
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OPEN CALL : SUBMISSIONS
THE GREAT PAUSE PROJECT
FROM THE GREAT PAUSE PROJECT: "We are compiling a crowd-sourced story of your COVID-19 experience to share diverse perspectives of this important moment in history.
As we archive and record this period in time, you are contributing to a worldwide narrative. To tell your story, we created a platform that consists of the multiplicity of voices on this Earth. Your submission is planned to be planted on the Moon in 2022 as well as a digital repository with several time capsules distributed on Earth. Participate in 3 easy steps!
Step 1: Share your thoughts! // (9 questions)
Step 2: Take a photo from your window! // (upload here)
Step 3: Help us compile images of COVID-19 // (upload here)
Your responses will be anonymous and archived on our digital open-source platform to inform social sciences and the arts."
Learn More >>
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(Image courtesy of Isabel Beavers)
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30 May
Re-Fest | CLIMATE CHAMBER:
A Mini-Hackathon
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Facilitated by Isabel Beavers, CLIMATE CHAMBER (CC) is a mini & virtual hackathon convening artists, scientists, technologists, designers and other creatives to ignite new collaborative projects that address climate through technology and art.
Climate chambers can be used to simulate the conditions of an unknown environment in order to test and experiment. In our CLIMATE CHAMBER (CC), participants test new collaborative arrangements to inspire radical use of technology and art in the face of climate change. Cross-disciplinary teams will ideate and design new, remote, collaborative projects that imagine-art-and-tech based solutions to climate challenges while testing remote processes of teamwork.
This participatory social experiment embodies the processes of art-sci collaboration utilized by the artists in Re-Fest’s Artificial Ecologies thread, curated by Isabel Beavers. It aims to break open existing modes of teamwork and, in this fracture, formulate various small resistances.
The winning team, to be announced on May 31st, will receive a $150 honorarium and a feature in UCLA ArtSci PARTICLES, an online series of short interviews.
This hackathon is a part of Re-Fest LA 2020, taking place entirely online. Click here to view the full schedule and line-up of Re-Fest. Please click the button below to register for the hackathon.
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OPEN CALL : ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
BIOFACTION
CLOSES 30 June
Biofaction is seeking applications for new Artist in Residence programmes. Four artists will be invited to work for four to six weeks at various laboratories across Europe. The residencies will start in Fall 2020 and will conclude in May 2021. They will be held in two parts, and the exact dates will be set by taking both artist and laboratory schedules into account, and with an eye to the situation in each locale (e.g. travel, safety regulations etc.).
As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with scientists working on one of three Synthetic Biology related projects that delve into fascinating areas: plant molecular farming, new-to-nature reactions, and cell factories. We welcome applications from artists, designers, biohackers, musicians, or other cultural practitioners who want to carry out artistic work with biological media. The collaborating laboratories will make sure to provide space and personal interaction for mutual exchange with the artists. Biofaction is responsible for organising and curating the residencies. At the end of the residency programmes all works and/or their processes will be documented and compiled in form of a book, initiated by Biofaction and co-created together with the participating artists and scientists.
For each artist, a stipend of up to 7000 € is provided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation projects MADONNA, NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. It covers travel, local expenses, living allowance as well as (partial) support for the production and showcasing of the artistic prototype or finished work.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY + PROCEDURE HERE! >>
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LEONARDO / ISAST
COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE TOOLKIT FOR ART AND SOCIAL CONNECTING
Our friends at Leonardo are offering virtual space, creative platforms and partnership to facilitate socially connecting, even while physically distancing. This includes a curated reading list of free articles from Leonardo journal, virtual LASER programming and community resources.
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