Selected Works

RÉESPIRATION

2024 - 2025

William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies – The Lectures

About

Oussama Mubarak is 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.

He 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). His 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, including the Philharmonie de Paris and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media.

His passions include digital art, interaction and interface design, sustainability, and technology.

For more information, please refer to the 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

William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies – The Lectures

Online version of the CD-ROM Improvisation Technologies: A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye, (1999), by choreographer William Forsythe
Forsythe Productions and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2023

Mission

Website development

Project

William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies—The Lectures is an online version of the groundbreaking CD-ROM William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies. A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye (1999).

The CD-ROM having become unplayable on current computer systems, Forsythe Productions and the ZKM | Karlsruhe undertook the elaborate process of re-generating the historical animations of the videos to create an online version of the project that makes the content freely accessible worldwide in the long term.

Credits

Concept
William Forsythe

Based on the CD-ROM William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies. A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye by William Forsythe, Nik Haffner, Volker Kuchelmeister, Yvonne Mohr, Astrid Sommer, Christian Ziegler; published in 1999 by ZKM | Karlsruhe and Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln.

Web design
smile. Visuelle Kommunikation, Johanna Unterberg, Roland Wulftange

Programming
Oussama Mubarak

Reconstruction of the lecture demonstrations
Timo Kraus, Max Reuber, Christoph Benden, Sebastian Klein

Intro animation
Andreas Babenko

Team
Petra Kaiser (project management)
Alexandra Scott, Julian Gabriel Richter (Forsythe Productions)
Margit Rosen, Felix Mittelberger, Volker Sommerfeld (ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe)

A joint project of Forsythe Productions and ZKM | Karlsruhe

For full credits, please visit https://improvisation-technologies.zkm.de/credits/