Selected Works

metaScore

2011 - present

About

I am Oussama Mubarak, a freelance creative coder, researcher, and Full-Stack web developer based in Karlsruhe, Germany with over 20 years of experience in designing and developing generative and interactive media and web applications in collaboration with internationally renowned artists, creative agencies and cultural institutions.

I have also obtained in 2018 a PhD in computer science from Cnam (the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris) in partnership with EnsadLab (the research laboratory of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs - PSL Research University, Paris). My thesis explored art installations that enable co-located interactions, focusing on the conditions – whether spacial, material, or human – which affect the ability for participants to co-construct a common aesthetic experience in the absence of orchestration or a preannounced goal to be achieved, and proposes a set of tools and guidelines when designing such installations.

My main interests include digital art, interaction and interface design, sustainability, and technology.

For more information, please refer to my curriculum vitae.

Publications

Map, Mapper, Mapping (co-auteurs : Samuel Bianchini, and Dominique Cunin), in Vincent Ciciliato, dir., Collecter Cataloguer Cartographier - Arts et pratiques de l'archivage numérique, Publications Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2020.

Designing and Modeling Collective Co-located Interactions for Art Installations, Doctoral Thesis, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris, France 2018

Collective Loops: Multimodal Interactions Through Co-located Mobile Devices and Synchronized Audiovisual Rendering Based on Web Standards (co-auteurs : Norbert Schnell, Benjamin Matuszewski, Jean-Philippe Lambert, Sébastien Robaszkiewicz, Dominique Cunin, Samuel Bianchini, Xavier Boissarie, and Gregory Cieslik), in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI ’17, pages 217–224, New York, NY, USA, 2017. ACM

Art Installations: A Study of the Topology of Collective Co-located Interactions (co-auteurs : David Bihanic, Pierre Cubaud, and Samuel Bianchini), in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Arts, ARTECH2017, pages 23–30, New York, NY, USA, 2017. ACM

Designing Collaborative Co-Located Interaction for an Artistic Installation (co-auteurs : Pierre Cubaud, David Bihanic, and Samuel Bianchini), in Regina Bernhaupt, Girish Dalvi, Anirudha Joshi, Devanuj K. Balkrishan, Jacki O’Neill, and Marco Winckler, editors, Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017, Proceedings, Part I, pages 223–231. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017

Dispositifs & installations artistiques : étude de la topologie des interactions collectives colocalisées (co-auteurs : David Bihanic, and Samuel Bianchini), in 28ième conférence francophone sur l’Interaction Homme-Machine, alt.IHM, pages 10–19, Fribourg, Switzerland, October 2016

Contact

metaScore

An authoring tool for the creation of educational music media
created at Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris

Mission

Technical direction
Software engineering

Project

Primarily designed for teachers and other professionals working in music education, metaScore is a web-based authoring and publication tool for interactive educational music media in which textual and graphical elements are synchronized with the listening of an audio or video piece.

Credits

metaScore is developed by Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris with the support of the French Ministry of National Education and Youth.

Education and Resources Department, Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris:

Marie-Hélène Serra, director
Rodolphe Bailly, deputy director of Resources Center
Anne-Florence Borneuf, musicologist, responsible for digital educational tools
Floriane Goubault, musicologist, responsible for digital education

With the collaboration of:

Jean Delahousse, project manager
Oussama Mubarak, web and tool technical direction
Roman Cieslik, front-end web development
Lucas Zanotto, shared library characters & animations
Marianne Tricot, shared library instruments
Jérémie Cohen, web UX design
Alexandra Simon, web UI Design
Vadim Bertrand, tool UX design
Sigrid Carré-Lecoindre, design and realization of musical applications
Mikael Cixous, graphical interface design of musical applications
Olivier Gaulon, editorial
Julien Jugand, trainings, writing of the user manual and FAQ
Jean Benjamin, copyright protection
Lipsie, translation
Arekipa, teaser video

Special thanks to:

The teams of the Philharmonie de Paris who took part in this project (Resource Centre, Financial Affairs Department, General Secretariat, Communication)
The Éduthèque team and the General Music Inspectorate of the Ministry of National Education and Youth
All teachers who participated in the development of metaScore
Olivier Koechlin, designer and developer of metaScore from 2005 to 2015