Studio: Personal Work
Role: Creative Technologist / Director
Year: 2023-
Selected by the Venice Biennale College for a one-week workshop with experts in UX, sound design, storytelling, and creative technology.
Participated in the Venice Biennale XR Market, connecting with global industry professionals.
Further developed at the European Creators Lab, with intensive mentoring and concept refinement.
Winner of the XR Market Award at New Images Festival (France), April 2024—invested the prize into developing the project.
Collaborated with two scriptwriters to create a first Arabic-language script treatment.
Partnered with the creative team at No Ghost to develop visual assets.
Built a working prototype on Meta Quest, with additional testing on Apple Vision Pro.
Approaching storytelling through LBE VR (Location-Based VR) in a more accessible manner, 'Irregular Heartbeats' offers a narratively rich experience set inside a virtual coffee shop. Thematically delving into both mundane chit-chat and deeply intimate conversations, the piece invites its audience to immerse themselves in moments of intimate conversations between people who care about each other but have conflicting world views.
Motivation
This experience is set inside a coffee shop. Coffee Shops are important places in my culture and they are also spaces where our paths cross with other people. They have been a important part in my story, giving me a sense of grounding.I like to consider myself as a coffee shop traveler, I find those public places, a private safe space for me to express myself and be vulnerable.
We’ve all picked up snippets of conversations from the next table over. Some may be trivial, some profound. And in this coffee shop, it’s the profound ones we will be listening to….
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