Work
ISEA2026, Dubai · From Up There, The Hub Gallery, 2018 · ACM SIGGRAPH member · American University of Kuwait, since 2009
Five lines of inquiry into how images become perceptual experience, through viewpoint, computation, and the viewer’s body.
Proximity of Welcome
An interactive calligraphic installation where Kufi typography responds to the viewer’s distance. Part of Interactive Spatial Systems.
Interactive Systems
Interactive Systems presents a series of computational and interactive works that explore motion, perception, and emergence through real-time visual systems.
Aerial / Spatial Imaging
This category gathers a series of experimental imaging studies using aerial perspective as an analytical instrument.
Computational Imaging
Computational Imaging explores images that are not captured by a camera but produced through rules, measurements, and temporal reconstruction.
Live Systems
Generative works built from data streams that never stop moving (live Wikipedia edits, live planetary activity) refreshed continuously rather than composed once.
Research
My research is practice-based: each project is built to test one of three questions about how images shape what we perceive.
Viewpoint
How does an aerial viewpoint change how we read time, scale, and place?
Computation
When an image is computed from rules, sensors, or live data instead of captured, what still makes it believable?
Presence
Can a viewer’s body and movement become part of how a text or image is read?
Teaching
Designers who can reason about systems, not only produce artifacts.
Students test ideas by making them. In the studio, production and critique run side by side, with room to experiment and iterate.
Courses: Motion Graphics, Film Production, Digital Imaging, Web Design, 3D Modeling, Time-Based Media.
About
Ramy Khair is an artist-researcher and Associate Professor of Graphic Design & Multimedia at the American University of Kuwait, where he has taught since 2009.
He builds interactive installations, computational images, and aerial studies that explore how viewpoint and motion shape what we see. His interactive Kufi installation Proximity of Welcome was selected for ISEA2026 in Dubai. A licensed drone pilot, he held the solo aerial exhibition From Up There at The Hub Gallery, Kuwait (2018).
Contact
For collaborations, exhibitions, research, or student supervision: