Kamel GhabteFRENAR
Franco-Moroccan digital artist · interaction designer

Digital art where memory meets code.

Interactive installations, augmented & virtual reality, and heritage-driven works — shown in 52 international festivals & exhibitions since 2017. I design experiences for festivals, museums and cultural institutions, bridging France and Morocco.

Selected works

A practice at the crossroads of digital art, ethno-mathematics and interaction design.

Installation · Arcade

ZELLIGE ARTCADE

Arabesque geometry turned into collective play — ancestral ornament redefined through mobile interaction and multiplayer gameplay.

VR · Haptics

KOUTCHI — Memory in Transit

A real Moroccan cart instrumented with haptic sensors: six stations, twelve minutes, one question — who owns the memory of a migration?

Generative · Data art

DATA RUG Protocol

A city's climate data woven, in real time, into generative rugs following the visual grammars of Atlas weaving.

Arcade · Heritage

DERB.EXE

Amazigh heritage escaped into an arcade cabinet: geometric structures formalized into the rules of a two-player game.

Linguistic archive

THE WORD_BROKER

An interface that turns a living linguistic archive into an experience — language as material, memory as system.

VR · Urban memory

Medina CyberCity

A virtual-reality journey through the layered urban memory of the medina.

Working with institutions

Clear, turnkey formats for festivals, museums and cultural centers — bilingual (FR/AR) or trilingual (+EN), with local production when relevant.

Touring installation

Deploy an existing work for an exhibition, festival or residency — turnkey.

Masterclass & workshop

Creative coding, interaction design, generative heritage — for students & professionals.

Keynote & artist talk

On digital heritage, code as material, and North-African creative technology.

Commission & residency

A new work designed with your institution and its audiences.

They trust the work

"Zellige Artcade transformed our mediation: within minutes, children and adults enter the geometry of zellige through play, without jargon. Kamel combines rare artistic rigor with genuine pedagogical generosity."

— Younes El Jaouhari · Founder, EPANWE

"On the ground, Kamel's work hits home: it instantly connects with audiences and makes heritage alive, tangible, playable."

— Nejwa Saber · Cultural & artistic mediation lead, EPANWE

"FIAV has championed digital creation across Africa and the Arab world for thirty years. Kamel Ghabte's work belongs to that legacy: a practice that binds memory, code and audience."

— Majid Sedati · Founder, FIAV Casablanca

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