Saeed AlMadani is an Emirati artist. He has a Master’s degree in printmaking from the Royal College of Art in London. Saeed’s practice draws on elements of conceptual, minimalist, scientific and abstract strategies, where he explores the relationship between identity and place, and the process of writing and non-representational art in articulating attachments and in (de)constructing identities. His work also questions how objects and performance combined allow for the construction of meaning, obsession and a sense of place.

 

Selected exhibitions include Intimaa: Belonging, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi (2020), March Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2019); Nom, Guest Projects, London (2018); Portrait of a Nation, Me Collectors Room, Berlin (2017); and Emirati Expressions, Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (2015). His work is part of private and public collections such as Royal College of Art Print Collection and ADMAF. He delivered artist talks locally and internationally on topics concerning time, space and place, as well as printmaking in the expanded field.

 

In 2014, Saeed completed the Sheikha Salama Foundation and Rhode Island School of Design Emerging Artist Fellowship. He was the recipient of the Abraaj Innovation Scholarship Award and the Salama Emerging Artist Scholarship.

Ahmad completed his Bachelors in Mechatronic Systems Engineering in Simon Fraser University, Canada back in 2017, where he graduated with honors. His thesis was speech recognition and dialog management. He obtained his Masters in Electronics Engineering and Management from King’s College London in 2019, where his thesis focused on using deep learning for balancing an inverted pendulum. Ahmad is now pursing a PhD in Robotics and AI Engineering at Imperial College London. His research focuses on robot motion learning. 

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Ahmad published several papers in both journals and conferences that include: MDPI Robotics (2020), MDPI Applied Sciences (2021), IEEE Aerospace Conference (2021), Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2022), and RoboSoft (2023). He also gave talks about the fundamentals of robotics and programming to a wide range of audiences.

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Ahmad is interested in exploring the intersection of art and technology through the creation of mechatronic systems and how they can embody human emotions and portray sociocultural dilemmas.