'All conditions are material'
'All conditions are material'
SAMARITUAL: A QUANTUM CRAFT™ PRACTICE -
SAMARITUAL: A QUANTUM CRAFT™ PRACTICE -
SAMARITUAL is a post-disciplinary transcultural practice by Samar Younes.
It works through Quantum Craft™: a craft-based, artistic and embodied way of sensing, composing, and transmitting culture.
The practice moves across three ritual states: sensing (Catalyst), tending (Cultivator), and materializing (Creator).
It operates where disciplines break down, countering dominant systems that dilute complexity so new cultural forms can emerge.
PRACTICE CARTOGRAPHY
Samar Younes is a Beirut-born artist and theorist whose practice works through craft, ritual, and emergent technologies as living materials. She developed Quantum Craft™, an entangled intelligence shaped through craft, material cognition, and lineage, engaging technological systems as mutable material rather than fixed destiny - where ancestral, ecological, artisanal, and synthetic knowledge are held in relation through Silk Road accumulation.
Trained in architecture and scenography at Central Saint Martins, and shaped by decades transforming environments across global cultural and commercial contexts, her work examines how lineage, provenance, and marginal knowledge persist within dominant systems despite forces of erasure, abstraction, and flattening. Projects function as living artifacts: mutable, circulatory, and unfinished, tracing how memory and culture move through bodies, materials, and technologies.
She works through SAMARITUAL, mentors at NEW INC (New Museum), and speaks internationally across spatial, artistic, cultural, and technological contexts. Her practice is often engaged at moments of systemic transition, where dominant hierarchies fail and long-standing forms of cultural intelligence -historically dismissed, feminized, or rendered illegible- reassert their necessity.Based in Brooklyn and Beirut.
ANCESTRAL FUTURES X QUANTUM CRAFT™: REMIXING CULTURAL DNA
Analog <> Digital • Artisanal <> Computational • Earth <> Cosmos • Ancestry <> Futurity • Vernacular <> Iconic • Hard <> Soft • Instinct <> Intelligence • Chaos <> Code • Hand <> Machine • Ritual <> Speculation • Myth <> Algorithm • Ephemeral <> Monumental • Local <> Global • Wild <> Engineered • Sacred <> Synthetic • East <> West • Traditional <> Contemporary • Physical <> Digital • Art <> Craft • Anarchic <> Disciplined • Light <> Dark • Young <> Old
Analog <> Digital • Artisanal <> Computational • Earth <> Cosmos • Ancestry <> Futurity • Vernacular <> Iconic • Hard <> Soft • Instinct <> Intelligence • Chaos <> Code • Hand <> Machine • Ritual <> Speculation • Myth <> Algorithm • Ephemeral <> Monumental • Local <> Global • Wild <> Engineered • Sacred <> Synthetic • East <> West • Traditional <> Contemporary • Physical <> Digital • Art <> Craft • Anarchic <> Disciplined • Light <> Dark • Young <> Old
Entangled Intelligence for post-disciplinary futures
Where does transformative cultural work happen?
CATA
→ Catalyst Ritual →
shift s perception
Sensing what systems
cannot see
CULTI
→ Cultivator Ritual → shifts methodology
Tending capacity
over time
Crea
→ Creator Ritual →
shifts form
Materializing
the intangible
The practice moves through three states:
CATALYST (sensing what systems cannot yet see)
CULTIVATOR (tending cultural capacity over time)
CREATOR (materializing worlds, artifacts, and forms)
CULTURAL RESONANCE
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CULTURAL RESONANCE *
Published in: Compass Magazine | Collaborative Frequencies | 2024
Interviewed for: Everything is Political | Cultural Archaeology | 2025
Featured in: WGSN | Signal Recognition | 2024
Interviewed for: Everything is Political | Cultural Archaeology | 2025
Published in: The AI Art Magazine | Number 2 | 2025
Published in: The AI Art Magazine | Number 2 | 2025
Ghosts in the feedback Loop Exhibit
Techno Mirage Publication | ...in the Age of AI | 2026
Techno Mirage Publication | The Age of AI | 2026
Techno Mirage Publication | The Age of AI | 2026
Interviewed for: SLIMI Magazine | Transmission | 2024
Featured in: SPUR Magazine | Tomorrow's Column by Geraldine Wharry | Oct 2024
Publshed in: A school of critical design series of very-human-prompts | #1 Rebellion
Published in: A school of critical design series of very-human-prompts | #1 Rebellion
Published in: Compass Magazine | Futures Of Creativity | Aug 2025
Published in: Compass Magazine | Collaborative Frequencies | 2024
Interviewed for: SLIMI Magazine | Transmission | 2024
Published in: The Quester's Guide for exploring your world Book (Magic Issue)
Quantum Culture Substack | Sept 2025
Interviewed for: YUNG Magazine | Cultural Archaeology | 2024
Featured in: Vector Zine | Collaborative Frequencies | 2024
Featured in: Afikra | Signal Recognition | 2024
Featured in: Afikra | Signal Recognition | 2024
Featured in: AL HAYYA Issue 2 | Collaborative Frequencies | 2023
Featured in: FRAME mag: Spatial Therapy | Signal Recognition | 2023
Featured in: FRAME mag: Spatial Therapy | Signal Recognition | 2023
Interviewed for: PRAZZLE: Green Canvas | Cultural Archaeology | 2024
Interviewed for: PRAZZLE: Green Canvas | Cultural Archaeology | 2024
Interviewed for: PRAZZLE: Green Canvas | Cultural Archaeology | 2024
Interviewed for: GQ Middle East | Collaborative Frequencies | 2023
Interviewed for: GQ Middle East | Collaborative Frequencies | 2023
Featured in: Blanc Magazine | Transmission | 2023
Featured in: Burro Spotlight | Signal Recognition | 2024
Featured in: WIRED Middle East | Signal Recognition | 2024
Interviewed for: Coveteur | Signal Recognition | 2021
Interviewed for: MIND magazine | Transmission | 2017
Interviewed for: UAL ALumni | Transmission | 2015
Interviewed for: Aïshti Magazine Issue 98 | Transmission | 2019
Interviewed for: Aïshti Magazine Issue 98 | Transmission | 2019
Featured in: VMSD Magazine | Signal Recognition | 2015
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025
Interviewed for: Hia Mag on Quantum Craft™ in the context of MENA | Nov 2025

