Sami Khoury (Beijing, China)
Awnings, Forbidden City
Beijing
December 2006
Lambda C-Print
15 3/4”h x 19”w
Framed

Sami Khoury has been practicing the visual arts since 1994 when he worked with the Berkeley Contemporary Opera as a digital artist on its production of William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. The work he completed, a sequence of ten pieces to be projected on a 60’x20’ screen above the production, was featured at an opening held in the fall of 1995 at the San Francisco Academy of Art as part of a show for the artwork produced for the opera.

In 1997, Sami was able to merge his interests in photography and software through the making of a movie for the annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles. This short film illustrated a technique for generating three-dimensional models of buildings from two-dimensional photographs of those buildings and seamlessly transitioned from live action footage to computer-generated footage of impossible flight paths and camera angles. The movie was screened at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, a privilege reserved for only the most noteworthy submissions to the conference.

Sami formally studied photography while completing his degree in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley at the end of 1997.

Sami’s work has appeared in The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Minty Magazine, Aphid Magazine, America Online City Guides, online magazines around the world, and in promotional materials for art galleries, restaurants, and bars all around Seattle, Washington. He now lives in Beijing, China.

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