Mohamed Chamas

Image by Hashem McAdam

Mohamed Chamas is an artist, independent gamedeveloper and poet based in Naarm (melbourne) who channels the ‘dijitaldjinni’; a rewiring agent for practice-based research. Chamas’ work evokes ancient mysticism to fuse and synergize with emerging technologies. This diffractively interfaces with religious studies, ludology and play, performance, language, and critical and contemporary theory. Mohamed’s Virtual Reality (VR) works exist as unsurveilled sites of healing for orientalized bodies, receiving multiple nominations at Freeplay Independent Game Festival. In 2020 Mohamed was part of Experimenta x Hedie’s Mixed Realities Symposium, a public program for Heide’s major exhibition TERMINUS. Mohamed is also a Co-founder of Connection Arts Space; a volunteer-run organization that delivers workshops, community events and exhibitions for new and emerging artists of underrepresented backgrounds.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.