Abdulla Albaitam

Abdulla Albaitam holds a bachelor's in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the University of Bahrain. He also holds a diploma in digital fabrication from the fab foundation which emerged from MIT 2019. And many art courses including Jeff Koons art and creativity masterclass . Abdulla combines art with technology to come up with unique ways of expressing his thoughts and solving local and global challenges. He builds hardware solutions for industrial problems and functional mechanical kinetic art.

One of his creations for a burger shop is a mechanical channel that transports packing boxes from the first floor to the ground floor to the chef. This system helps in selling more burgers in less time, helps decorate the reception, creates a memory that resonates with people, and inspires kids to innovate.

Abdulla’s work is inspired by his dreams, plants, animals, machines, and random patterns of movements. He explores different mediums and tries new approaches, processes, and materials. Abdulla works with found objects, kinetic interactive art, and the visualization of music. His technique combines digital fabrication and manual skills.

He published a paper and built the vacuum forming adaptive mold machine. Abdulla’s Banoosh clock won the contemporary crafts competition organized by the Bahrain authority for culture and antiquities. Abdulla helped in the creation of a 6 meters kinetic wall which was exhibited in youth city organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. He currently works on a kinetic mirror for Lexus.