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Haytham Nawar is an artist, designer, and researcher who currently lives and works in Cairo. He is Assistant Professor at the Graphic Design program,and Chair of Department of the Arts at the .He is the founder and director of the Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic, and New Media Arts Symposium. Nawar received his Ph.D. from the Planetary Collegium, Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts, School of Art and Media - University of Plymouth. He holds a Masters of Advanced Studies ZFH in Spatial Design, Institute of Design & Technology, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland and an MFA in New Media and BFA in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt. He is a https://www.cies.org/grantee/haytham-adel-mohamed-nawar. Since 1999, he has participated in several international exhibitions, biennales and triennials, the latest of which was Venice Biennial in 2015. Nawar won awards and acquisitions nationally and internationally in Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Portugal, Kuwait, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Syria, UAE and the United States.

Education
Nawar’s practice is interdisciplinary and incorporates the mediums of drawing, printmaking, light and sound installation, video and photography. He is Fulbright Research Affiliate SVA School of Visual Art NYC. He received a BA degree in Fine Arts, a master’s degree in Fine Arts majoring in New Media from Cairo, Egypt and another master’s degree in Art, Design and Technology from Zurich University of the arts, Switzerland in 2009, a PhD from The Planetary Collegium, Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts, School of Art and Media - Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth in England in 2015.

Art Work and Curation
In 2018, Nawar created art installation "Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of Protest" at which people from all over the world are granted the opportunity to draw and share their personal visual representations of bread as a symbol of one’s peculiar voice and political statement 100+ black vector drawings of bread were collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), created by participants from different areas in Europe, Asia, and Africa The results are exceptionally reproduced drawings by a machine, with no apparent threads to culture, tradition, or history, emphasizng the conscious perception of one’s distinct identity.

Impact
In 2016, Haytham Consulted and supervised Khotout West El Balad A project that captures fonts from different eras in Downtown Cairo, recreates them in a contemporary setting, and makes them available for use by today’s artists, businesses and retailers. The initiative shows various uses of the fonts and how they are integrated into the daily lives of the societies they addressed. The Project since then has won several local and international awards (refer to rewards section). In the same year Haytham Nawar also Founded a biannual A Symposium of Electronic and New Media arts in Cairo, Egypt. The program included activities, exhibitions, talks, workshops and screenings by local, regional, and international artists as well as academics, and technology experts. The event served as an active learning environment where students, artists, and an entire audience came together to explore and understand the link between technology and art.

Currently(2019), IMPAKT and Cairotronica are together setting up an exchange platform with the aim of building an interdisciplinary community in the Netherlands and Egypt that integrates new technologies with the art and design practice. Within the programme, important discussions will be held about the effects of the current data-driven society on our world. Under the theme of “We Are Data” we aim to connect researchers, technology experts, engineers and academics with artistic makers and designers to generate more attention for the question of 'why' we use new technologies, instead of the more traditional and technical 'how' approach.

Publications
BOOKS

2020- Nawar, H., “Langauge of tomorrow”, Intellect Ltd. Bristol, UK. 2019 -Nawar, H., Shehab, B., “A History of Arab Graphic Design”, American University in Cairo Press, Egypt.

BOOK CHAPTERS, JOURNAL PAPERS AND ESSAYS

2019Nawar, H. “Collective bread diaries: cultural identities in an artificial intelligence framework.” AI & SOCIETY (2019): 1-8. 2018 Nawar H., Designing a Generative Pictographic Language. Design, User Experience, and Usability: Designing Interactions. DUXU 2018. Springer, Cham, Volume 10919, pp. 285–296, 2018 2016 - Elsrakbi, G., Nawar, H., "Arabic Calligraphy of Downtown Cairo: From Holy to Vernacular", Khotout West ElBalad, J. Walter Thompson, Cairo, 2016, pp 22-53. 2014 - Borysevicz, M., Bing, X., Nawar, H., "Cross-cultural shift: from alphabets to pictographs", The book about Xu Bing’s Book from the ground, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014, pp 55-63. 2013 - Nawar, H., Gabr, H., "Multicultural/Cross-Cultural Emotional Design:” The Usage of Pictographs to Design Emotional Interactive Environments, Universal access in human-computer interaction, UAHCI 2013, Springer, Volume 8010, pp 383-393 2012 - Nawar, H., Multilingualism, visual integration, and transculturalism, Technoetic Arts 10 (2-3), 239- 2012 - Nawar, H., Multicultural transposition: From alphabets to pictographs, towards semantographic communication, Technoetic Arts 10 (1), 59- 2011Nawar, H., Multilingualism, Visual Integration and Trans-culturalism, Contemporary Art & Investment Magazine, Article: Shanghai, China. Issue: 57/ 09-2011. 2011Nawar, H., Samir, N., Identity and integration on the verge of visual multiculturalism,Consciousness Reframed 12 - Presence in the Mindfield | Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation, Skilled Art - Art Share, pp 199-203. 2010Nawar, H., Shifting Senses, [master thesis, Zurich University of the Arts MAS Scenography], Zürich: Eigenverlag, 2010.

Memberships
Printshop, Hong Kong.
 * 2018,2019 --AtypI Conference proposal reviewer, Antwerp, and Tokyo.
 * 2018 - Prix Ars Electronica Advisory Board, Linz, Austria.
 * 2016,2018 - Member, Nomination Committee, (New Media Art) Prince Claus Awards.
 * 2018 - Jury Member, Selection Committee, Reviewer, for the Egyptian Scholar Program,Binational Fullbright Commission in Egypt
 * 2017 - Jury Member, Masters at (ESAV) L’École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech.
 * 2015,2016,2017 - Jury Member, Granshan International Competition for Non-Latin Type Design.
 * 2014,2015,2016 - Jury Member, Selection Committee, Reviewer, for the Egyptian Student Program,Binational Fullbright Commission in Egypt.
 * 2014 - Jury member in the 25thYouth Saloon, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.
 * 2014 - Jury member in XinYiDai: An International Univesity Students, Hong Kong Open

Awards and Grants

 * 2019 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie: Project We Are Data,Impakt and Cairotronica (Phase One).


 * 2018 AUC Faculty Research Grant: Founding the AUC Design Experience Lab (DX Lab)


 * 2018 Mophradat Fund, Travel Grant Fund.


 * 2017/2018 Fulbright Egyptian Scholar Program (UCLA) ArtSci Center, LA, USA.


 * 2016 AUC Faculty Research Grant: The History of Graphic Design in the Arab World

Silver Lion for Design in Cannes Lions, International Festival of Creativity, France. Graphite Pencil for typefaces (Nefertari typeface) in D&AD, London, England. Gold in Direct in Dubai Lynx 2016, Dubai, UAE. Gold in Interactive in Dubai Lynx 2016, Dubai, UAE.
 * 2016 Khotout West ElBalad Project Team Awards:


 * 2015 AUC Faculty Research Grant: The Seven Days, The Heavens and The Earth “The Myth
 * of Creation”, Venice Biennale 56.


 * 2011/2012 Fulbright Egyptian Student Program (SVA) School of Visual Arts, New York, USA


 * 2008 Shortlisted for Venice Architecture Biennale “Urban design Competition,
 * EVERYVILLE”, Venice, Italy
 * 2007Resident Artist Grant from Pro Helvetia – Artist In Residence in F+F School for Art and Media Design, Zurich, Switzerland.


 * 2006 Certificate of Appreciation, The Supreme Council of Culture, Egypt


 * 2005 A Sabbatical Grant from the Egyptian, Ministry of Culture, Egypt


 * 2004 Third Prize in Drawing, The 17th Annual Salon of Youth, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.


 * 2004 Second Prize in Photography, The 5th Nile Salon, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.