Dr Ameera Kawash is an artist, researcher, and startup founder bringing together digital humanities, deep R&D, and generative AI visual practices and pipelines. Her work explores alternatives to technological scalability, treating databases as cultural and embodied archives informed by social, political, and environmental contexts. She is interested in emergence in technological systems and applying digital humanities to reshape how technologies are developed across both industry and cultural projects.
She focuses on emergence in systems and uses digital humanities to rethink how technology is developed—across both industry and community-oriented projects.
She is the co-founder of Ark Knowledge Networks, which develops bias aware AI tools with cultural context, and Future Botanic, which creates the cultural layer for sustainable infrastructures by transforming environmental data into immersive artworks.
Ameera holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, where her research explored how artists can creatively retool dominant technologies through frameworks of agency, alternative value creation, and co-vulnerability.
She has delivered talks on the ethics of AI and digital technologies at Oxford University, Mawred Thaqafy, WorkTech, and the Photo Ethics Centre, and has appeared on Al Jazeera’s The Stream.
Her work has been recognised with prizes from Ars Electronica, the Terra Carta Design Lab, and an Innovate UK Creative Catalyst Grant, and exhibited internationally including at Stanford University, the London Design Festival, and the Dubai Design Festival.
To get in touch, please email: ameerakawash@network.rca.ac.uk
