Omar Kholeif is a writer, curator and producer. He is Curator at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the UK’s national centre for film and new media, Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester, as well as Curator at the Arab British Centre, London. His writing appears in The Guardian, Art Monthly, Wired, Film International, Frieze and many other publications. He is founding Director of the UK’s Arab Film Festival, a curator for Abandon Normal Devices and a contributing curator to the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, among many others. Recent publications include: Vision, Memory and Media (Liverpool University Press 2010),Far and Wide: Nam June Paik (Leonardo, 2012), Art and Subversion (forthcoming, 2013), and a reader on new media art practices in the Arab region. Omar is an editor of the bi-lingual semi-annual architectural journal, Portal 9 (Beirut) and is Senior Editor for Ibraaz Publishing. Recent curatorial projects include: What Have I Done to De (serve) this? (Blank Space Media 2012); Safar (ICA London, 2012);Subversion (Cornerhouse, 2012); Ahmed Basiony (FACT 2012), and the Samsung+ Award winning, Semiconductor: Worlds in the Making (FACT 2011). Omar holds degrees from the University of Glasgow, Screen Academy Scotland, and the Royal College of Art, London. He is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London (by previous publication), a Churchill Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He can be reached through his website.

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