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Laila Shereen Sakr <VJ Um Amel> is an Egyptian-American poet, vj, activist, and digital media artist. Formerly multimedia and publications editor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Laila is currently a graduate student in Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current endeavor is building a repository for Arab Digital Media, and projecting “Remixes from the Archive by VJ Um Amel.” (Um Amel is Arabic for “Mother of Hope”).
202: Genealogies and Theories of Digital Arts and Culture
220: Computer Programming Arts!
201: Recent Methods and Approaches
- Ideology of Media: Walter Benjamin and Espen Aarseth
- Survelliance/Biopolitics: Michel Foucault, Slavoj Zizek, and Victor Burgin
- Game Theory: Henry Jenkins and Jesper Juul
- Cyborgs: Donna Haraway
- Emergence: Sarah Kember and Mark C. Taylor
- Virtuality: N. Katherine Hayles and Brian Massumi
- Globalization: Iba Ndiaye Djiadji, Arjun Apadurai, and Olu Oguibe
- Embodiment: Henri Bergson, Marc Hansen, and Jean-Francois Lyotard
Beyond Walls: Arab Urban Arts Collaborative
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