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Fellowship

Fellow 2021/2022

Photo: Lucas De Ruiter

Karl Moubarak

Karl Moubarak is a designer, researcher, and web developer whose practice is rooted in the digital sphere and focuses on the development of on- and offline sites for connectivity and exchange. He is a member of Amsterdam-based workshop cooperative Hackers & Designers (2019–ongoing), Eindhoven-based interstitial collective body Office of Queer Affairs (2017–ongoing), and Beirut-based historical oral archiving initiative OH4L (2020–ongoing). Moubarak works on projects that aim to make visible the processes, tools, and mechanisms that co-constitute them, and generates experimental methods of liveness and dissemination, as facilitated by the sensitivities of free, libre, and open-source software. The Cell for Digital Discomfort (CfDD) is interested in developing practices that foster a “solidary discomfort” by circulating questions and experiments that deal with turbo-capitalist domination, linear solutionism, and seamless operations. CfDD wants to stay with the unease despite too-comfortable modes of infrastructural becoming, in order to intersectionally imagine ways to refuse compliance with totalitarian innovation, and to do so in a more explicit conversation with crip techno-science, anti-colonialism, queer struggles, and environmental justice. Recent projects include: The Love Letters Audio Tour, Van Abbemuseum (2021–ongoing); Platframe for the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation (2021); How to Serve Your Trash to the Public Domain (2020); and The Network Imaginaries Hyperdrive Portal (2020). Moubarak lives and works in Amsterdam and is part of the online Cell for Digital Discomfort in the Fellowship for Situated Practice.

Karl Moubarak

Karl Moubarak is a designer, researcher, and web developer whose practice is rooted in the digital sphere and focuses on the development of on- and offline sites for connectivity and exchange. He is a member of Amsterdam-based workshop cooperative Hackers & Designers (2019–ongoing), Eindhoven-based interstitial collective body Office of Queer Affairs (2017–ongoing), and Beirut-based historical oral archiving initiative OH4L (2020–ongoing). Moubarak works on projects that aim to make visible the processes, tools, and mechanisms that co-constitute them, and generates experimental methods of liveness and dissemination, as facilitated by the sensitivities of free, libre, and open-source software. The Cell for Digital Discomfort (CfDD) is interested in developing practices that foster a “solidary discomfort” by circulating questions and experiments that deal with turbo-capitalist domination, linear solutionism, and seamless operations. CfDD wants to stay with the unease despite too-comfortable modes of infrastructural becoming, in order to intersectionally imagine ways to refuse compliance with totalitarian innovation, and to do so in a more explicit conversation with crip techno-science, anti-colonialism, queer struggles, and environmental justice. Recent projects include: The Love Letters Audio Tour, Van Abbemuseum (2021–ongoing); Platframe for the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation (2021); How to Serve Your Trash to the Public Domain (2020); and The Network Imaginaries Hyperdrive Portal (2020). Moubarak lives and works in Amsterdam and is part of the online Cell for Digital Discomfort in the Fellowship for Situated Practice.