37 min
Ep 3: “Synesthesia” feat. Mariam Rafehi Digital Doha Podcast
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Welcome back to the Digital Doha Podcast, our new series focused on bringing listeners informative conversations with local experts exploring the cutting-edge of emerging media happening in the dynamic international capital of Doha. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD Digital Media prof at Northwestern Qatar, and co-hosted by Natasha Das, Media Info & Tech student at NU-Q.
We’re thrilled to present our third guest of the season, Mariam Rafehi—an interdisciplinary artist and designer, who has lived half her life in Europe and half in the Middle East. Growing up in Berlin, she was looking for Narnia in her closet and a white rabbit in a hurry. In her work, she creates alternative worlds and brings them to life through artifacts or immersive virtual reality (VR). In VR, Mariam can transport an audience to unthinkable experiences, such as flying or shrinking in size.
After receiving her bachelor’s in media and communications, her work developed into transmedia storytelling. During her MFA, she became interested in immersive world-building and sense-stimulation. Some of her recent work deals with sense-stimulation through a synesthesia experience in VR by coupling 3D spatial audio with reactive colorful patterns. As an artist and designer, she has exhibited in the US, Germany, Russia, and Qatar. We hope you enjoy our conversation with one of Doha’s leading innovators in the cutting-edge space of immersive world-building, sense-stimulation, and synesthesia experience in VR.
Hosted by: Spencer Striker, PhD
Co-hosted by: Natasha Das
Special Guest: Mariam Rafehi
Producer: Shaikha Alkubaisi
Sound Design & Editing: Ayah Mohamedain
Social Media Manager: Samson Mbogo
Project Management: Laiba Mubashar
Emerging Media Research: Greg Bergida, PhD, Farina Amir, and Christopher Fwalanga
Emerging Media Research: Venus Jin, PhD, John Pavlik, PhD, and Justin Gengler, PhD
Artwork: Fernanda Jimenez
Music and Sound Effects: Courtesy of Epidemic Music
Official links for Special Guest, Mariam Rafehi
https://www.mrafehi.com/about
https://www.instagram.com/im.me.mi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariam-rafehi-pmp
Official website and social media links for the Digital Doha Podcast
https://www.qatarpodcasts.com/digital-doha
https://www.facebook.com/DigitalDoha
https://www.instagram.com/digitaldoha
https://twitter.com/doha_digital
The Digital Doha Podcast is supported by funding from the Qatar National Research Foundation, and produced by Northwestern University in Qatar professor, Spencer Striker, PhD
Welcome back to the Digital Doha Podcast, our new series focused on bringing listeners informative conversations with local experts exploring the cutting-edge of emerging media happening in the dynamic international capital of Doha. Hosted by Spencer Striker, PhD Digital Media prof at Northwestern Qatar, and co-hosted by Natasha Das, Media Info & Tech student at NU-Q.
We’re thrilled to present our third guest of the season, Mariam Rafehi—an interdisciplinary artist and designer, who has lived half her life in Europe and half in the Middle East. Growing up in Berlin, she was looking for Narnia in her closet and a white rabbit in a hurry. In her work, she creates alternative worlds and brings them to life through artifacts or immersive virtual reality (VR). In VR, Mariam can transport an audience to unthinkable experiences, such as flying or shrinking in size.
After receiving her bachelor’s in media and communications, her work developed into transmedia storytelling. During her MFA, she became interested in immersive world-building and sense-stimulation. Some of her recent work deals with sense-stimulation through a synesthesia experience in VR by coupling 3D spatial audio with reactive colorful patterns. As an artist and designer, she has exhibited in the US, Germany, Russia, and Qatar. We hope you enjoy our conversation with one of Doha’s leading innovators in the cutting-edge space of immersive world-building, sense-stimulation, and synesthesia experience in VR.
Hosted by: Spencer Striker, PhD
Co-hosted by: Natasha Das
Special Guest: Mariam Rafehi
Producer: Shaikha Alkubaisi
Sound Design & Editing: Ayah Mohamedain
Social Media Manager: Samson Mbogo
Project Management: Laiba Mubashar
Emerging Media Research: Greg Bergida, PhD, Farina Amir, and Christopher Fwalanga
Emerging Media Research: Venus Jin, PhD, John Pavlik, PhD, and Justin Gengler, PhD
Artwork: Fernanda Jimenez
Music and Sound Effects: Courtesy of Epidemic Music
Official links for Special Guest, Mariam Rafehi
https://www.mrafehi.com/about
https://www.instagram.com/im.me.mi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariam-rafehi-pmp
Official website and social media links for the Digital Doha Podcast
https://www.qatarpodcasts.com/digital-doha
https://www.facebook.com/DigitalDoha
https://www.instagram.com/digitaldoha
https://twitter.com/doha_digital
The Digital Doha Podcast is supported by funding from the Qatar National Research Foundation, and produced by Northwestern University in Qatar professor, Spencer Striker, PhD
37 min