Screens Exposing Employed Narratives (SEEN)

Omar Khan is an architect whose work spans the disciplines of architecture, installation/performance art and digital media. His research deals with “responsiveness” in architecture enabled by digital, material and programmatic mediation. In 1995 in collaboration with Laura Garófalo he established Liminal Projects, a practice that has developed performance spaces for video artists, dancers and musicians, produced installations, domestic interiors and award winning competitions. Their work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, NYC; The Whitney Annex, NYC; The Urban Center, NYC; The Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC; The National Building Museum, Washington DC and Northeastern University, Boston. Their publications include, "Migration and the Collapse of Space" in Thresholds 20, "Body A(r)mour" in Thresholds 21, "Time-Share Hotel Room" in 306090 v.1, and "Recent Work" in Young Architects: Scale. They were winners in the Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Competition (2000) and the Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Forum 1999.
Omar is a co-director of the Center for Virtual Architecture at SUNY Buffalo. His current research includes Machine Vision for Responsive Architecture and Variable Materials: Composite Elastomers.
Omar received his BArch from Cornell University and SMArch from MIT. He was a member of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.