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About — Kamel Ghabte

Kamel Ghabte — digital artist and AI integration architect based in Bordeaux. 52 international exhibitions. Interactive systems for museums, institutions and businesses.

One sentence

I design interactive systems — for museums and businesses alike.


The thread

Since 2017, one territory: the connections between heritage, gesture, and code.

The work moves between installation art, game interfaces, and AI automation. The medium changes. The question stays the same: what does a system know, and how does it communicate that knowledge?


The thesis: the thread is the ancestor of the pixel

A Berber carpet encodes information in a grid of coloured knots.
A screen displays information in a grid of coloured pixels.
Same structure, same logic — four thousand years apart.

This is not a metaphor. It is a formal observation: pre-digital cultures already built structured, programmable, transmissible information systems — woven, carved, tiled. The pixel inherits from the knot. The algorithm inherits from the pattern.

This thesis drives everything: the artworks, the AI architectures, the teaching.


Works

Title Format Description
ZELLIGE ARTCADE Multi-player platform, smartphones A collective game drawn from Moroccan geometric tiling. Each player's phone becomes a tile in a shared mosaic.
KOUTCHI VR installation, 6 stations, physical reins Immersive journey through the medinas of Fez and Marrakech. The reins control movement — a gesture borrowed from the guides who led tourists through narrow streets.
DERB.EXE Arcade cabinet, 2-player co-op A cooperative game set in the urban labyrinth of the derb. Two players, one cabinet, no map.
THE SCRIPT_MINER Voice → AI → print installation Visitors speak a word. An AI mines a corpus of historical texts. A printer outputs what it finds.
THE WORD_BROKER Voice → AI → quotation Words become assets. Visitors trade linguistic commodities in a real-time market driven by speech.
DATA RUG Urban data → textile Urban datasets — traffic flows, air quality, population density — translated into weaving patterns. The city as carpet.

Exhibition record

52 international participations since 2017 — festivals, biennials, institutional exhibitions, residencies — across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Partners: Fondation EPANWE (Nouaceur, Morocco) · 1337 Ben Guerir (Morocco).


Services

AI Architecture

I design and deploy AI integration systems for organisations that build for the long term.

Pack Price Duration Deliverable
Discovery Call 190 € 90 min Diagnostic + written note
AI Audit 490 € 5–10 days Analysis + implementation roadmap
Pilot 2 900 € 3–4 weeks 1 live workflow + 2h training
Full Integration 9 500 € 8–12 weeks 3–5 workflows + docs + 6h training
Retainer 890 €/month Ongoing Monthly review + support + evolutions

All prices are VAT-exempt under French micro-enterprise regime (art. 293 B CGI).

Full offer: ia.kamelghabte.me

Teaching

Interaction design · creative coding · generative AI.

Available for workshops, schools, and residency programmes.


Contact

Email: [email protected]
SIRET: 489 325 308 00026
Location: Bordeaux, France