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🦕️✨️🧠️🌐️🎺️🚨️⏳️🧻️📚️🚸️🏁️💬️🔮️🌀️🤸🏽‍♂️💻☎️⏳⚙️Hadeer Omar (1988) is an Egyptian new media artist and Assistant Professor at VCUarts in Qatar. Her work centers on exploring socio-cultural issues through immersive XR media, graphics, photography, A/V performances, 360 storytelling, and video art installations. One of the key focuses of her artistic practice is to utilize technology to examine complex issues of cultural identity, memories, and the self in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Her approach to storytelling challenges conventional perceptions of art and design, inviting viewers to examine in new and thought-provoking ways. She was one of the co-chairs of the Tasmeem Doha Art and Design Conference in 2019. She participated in the artist-in-residence program at Doha Fire Station from 2019 to 2021, where she developed her project "Fragmented Realities," an audiovisual installation. Also, got accepted to Electric South AR/VR Lab in South Africa in 2018.

As a dedicated educator, she teaches Time-based media and storytelling. Hadeer empowers her undergraduate/grad. students to utilize XR technologies to create immersive and engaging works. She bridges arts, new media processes, and storytelling to introduce her students to emerging technologies that will shape the future of art and design. Her teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that students' creative potential can be unlocked by fostering their unique perspectives and approaches to new media art. Her students explore and produce video art installations, 360 short films, photo sequencing, and more. 

In 2023, Hadeer collaborated with Sonic Jeel and Katia Kolovea on "And thereafter," a commission that activated the Alkoot Fort heritage site for the Tasweer Qatar Photo Festival. As the creative director for the FIFA World Cup Official Music Videos "Light the Sky" and "Ezz Alarab" in 2022, Hadeer demonstrated her expertise in visual storytelling.

Hadeer's XR practice is expanding to 360 filmmaking, with her short film "Gihan" got developed in Doha Film Institute's Documentary Lab, led by Rithy Panh, from 2022 to 2023. Hadeer's exploration of performance has led her to collaborate with musicians and sound artists on numerous projects, including an A/V performance at Shubbak Festival in the UK, "Sonic jeel Performance" Projection mapping and light installation, Printed Matter's virtual art book fair in NYC 2021 with Youssef Alimam, and "Everywhere" Tam Gallery/Karim Francis Gallery/Medrar in Egypt, and Tasweer Festival in Qatar.

Hadeer's previous projects include directing the documentary short film "Ouda w Sala" (2011), "Hack You" video art at Cairo video festival and Roznama (2015), and the experimental documentary short film "Chaos Antidote" (2017), screened at Facade Video Festival in Bulgaria and selected for the Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Qatar. And “The Reason _ July 2017” was officially selected at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK, 2018.

In 2017, Hadeer's project "3arabizi keyboard" received an honorary mention at the STARTS Prize – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry, and Society Stimulated by the Arts, and was showcased at Drive: Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin, Germany.



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2023: "And thereafter" audiovisual and light installation in collaboration with Sonic Jeel and Katia Kolovea, Alkoot Fort, Doha, Qatar
2023: “And thereafter” audiovisual performance in collaboration with Sonic Jeel, Alkoot Fort, Doha, Qatar
2023: QUMRA, Doha Film Institute, “Gihan” VR Doc Film
2022: “Ezz Alarab” Official Music Video, FIFA World Cup x Katara Studios Productions, Creative Director / Visual Artist, Qatar
2022: 3d Projection work, “Majaz: Qatar Contemporary Art” Doha Fire Station, Qatar
2022: “Light the sky” Official Music Video, FIFA World Cup x Katara Studios Productions, Creative Director / Visual Artist, Qatar
2022: “Gihan” short VR doc film selected, Doha Film Institute Documentary Lab 2022-2023
2022: “It’s everywhere” with @youssefalimam aka @jaydenoath at @fromtamgallery, Cairo, Egypt
2021:
“Al-Arda” installation, Eiwan Algassar Gallery, Doha, Qatar
2021: “When the world closed” Shubbak Festival in collaboration with Sonic Jeel, London, UK
2021: "And thereafter" audiovisual and light installation in collaboration with Sonic Jeel and Katia Kolovea, Alkoot Fort, Doha, Qatar
2021: "Sonic jeel Performance" Projection mapping and light installation, Printed Matter's virtual art book fair, NYC, U.S.A.
2021: "Fragmented realities" audiovisual installation, Grey Times Exhibition, Doha Fire Station, Doha, Qatar
2019: Co-chairs for Tasmeem Doha Art and Design Conference 2019, Doha, Qatar
2018: “The reason - July 2017” "Official selection" France and "Official selection" Qatar
2017: “3arabizi keyboard” project was given an honorary mention at the STARTS Prize – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry, and Society Stimulated by the Arts, Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The project was showcased at Drive: Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin, Germany
2017: “Chaos Antidote” co-directed the experimental documentary short film, screened at Facade Video Festival, Bulgaria, and "Official selection" Ajyal Youth Film Festival, Qatar
2015: “Hack you” screening at Cairo video festival and Roznama, Cairo, Egypt
2011: “Ouda w Sala” documentary short film