About
Designer / Creative Director FFL
Yara is a French Lebanese designer working at the intersection of architecture, video games, and immersive technologies. She is a Design Faculty at UCLA AUD, and the creative director of Folly Feast Lab co-founded with Viviane El Kmati based in Los Angeles, California. Viviane is a Lebanese programmer and the technology director working through coding, tech art, and AI technologies. Through worldbuilding and storytelling they design immersive and interactive experiences, applications, software, design tools, and video games around queer identity, sustainability, and technology. Yara and Viviane are committed with Folly Feast Lab to designing fantastic experiences that are as aesthetically engaging as they are technologically performing. Their XR work has been part of XR2C2 Cannes, MOMA AR, Onassis ONX, MIT ODL, Fiber Festival Amsterdam, A+D Museum LA, LA Forum, Ars Electronica + Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Austria, AD Magazine, Re-Fest Culture Hub, Cyberia Playground India, Cal Arts Visions 2030, MU Hybrid Art House, ZKM Germany, Pompidou Paris, and Art Science Museum Singapore.
yara@follyfeastlab.com
https://www.follyfeastlab.com/
Yara is a French Lebanese designer working at the intersection of architecture, video games, and immersive technologies. She is a Design Faculty at UCLA AUD, and the creative director of Folly Feast Lab co-founded with Viviane El Kmati based in Los Angeles, California. Viviane is a Lebanese programmer and the technology director working through coding, tech art, and AI technologies. Through worldbuilding and storytelling they design immersive and interactive experiences, applications, software, design tools, and video games around queer identity, sustainability, and technology. Yara and Viviane are committed with Folly Feast Lab to designing fantastic experiences that are as aesthetically engaging as they are technologically performing. Their XR work has been part of XR2C2 Cannes, MOMA AR, Onassis ONX, MIT ODL, Fiber Festival Amsterdam, A+D Museum LA, LA Forum, Ars Electronica + Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Austria, AD Magazine, Re-Fest Culture Hub, Cyberia Playground India, Cal Arts Visions 2030, MU Hybrid Art House, ZKM Germany, Pompidou Paris, and Art Science Museum Singapore.
https://www.follyfeastlab.com/