Karim Ben Khelifa is an undisciplined artist of Belgian-Tunisian origin.

His documentary projects lie at the intersection of narrative arts, science and technology. An adept at cross-disciplinary collaboration, he anchors his various narrative practices in reality, striving to make the invisible tangible and visible. Beginning his career as a war correspondent and photographer, commissioned by publications such as Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, Stern and Time Magazine, he has traveled to over 90 countries and received numerous international awards. He has subsequently worked with a variety of immersive media, such as virtual and augmented reality. In 2012, he was invited for a year by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

Between 2013 and 2017, he became Artist-in-Residence at the Open Documentary Lab before being promoted to Visiting Artist at the Center for Arts, Science & Technology, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Since 2018, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Virtuality at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 2020 joined the Think Tank of the Guild of Future Architects in Los Angeles.