Dr. Ameera Kawash is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, journalist, and startup founder. Her practice ties together critical and creative approaches to art, media, and technology.
She is currently researching generative AI in popular culture and its impact on representa-tional and epistemological justice, especially for Palestinians and other marginalized and oppressed groups. Her work examines how synthetic media mediates and manipulates current understandings of political violence. Additionally, she is developing frameworks for reimagining generative AI technologies, including for speculative future archives and af-firming futurity today.
In her studio practice, she explores painting and pattern-making in relation to diasporic identity.
Her other current projects include: developing artistic interventions to challenge repressive and discriminatory tech; developing architectures of artistic agency and alternative modes of documentation for performance artworks; and creating place-based and localized ap-proaches to sustainability through data-driven digital biomes.
She is a co-founder of Orbital Bloom, an award-winning startup at the intersection of art and sustainability. Orbital Bloom was a recipient of an Innovate UK grant, a finalist in the Terra Carta Design Lab, as well as part of Innovation RCA.
She earned a PhD from the Royal College of Art in 2022. Her thesis focused on how art-ists can radically retool existing technologies as an artistic and social practice.
Her articles have been published in Al Jazeera, The New Arab, and +972, among others.
She is Palestinian-Iraqi-American and based in the UK.
Please email for inquiries or a CV: ameerakawash@gmail.com