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Mariam Ghani is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work in video, installation, new media, photography, performance, text and public dialogue examines how the past is reconstructed in the present and how the present is constructed as future history. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including screenings at the Liverpool Biennial, the Danish Film Institute, transmediale and PLAY in Berlin, Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, Futura in Prague, Curtacinema in Rio de Janeiro, EMAP in Seoul, d/Art in Sydney, Cinema East, the Asia Society, and the New York Video Festival; and installations at Eyebeam Atelier, the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Queens Museum. Her web and community-based projects have been commissioned by Turbulence.org, artwurl, the Longwood Digital Matrix, CEPA in Buffalo, and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn for its inaugural exhibition. Her critical writing on disappearance, warm data, the politics of new media, and networked archives has been featured in FUSE, Viralnet, Pavilion, the Sarai Reader 05, Samar, Arts and Leisure, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and she has participated in, organized, and moderated related discussions across the USA. She received her B.A. with honors in Comparative Literature from NYU in 2000 and her MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in 2002, where she was awarded the Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship. She has received grants from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Experimental Television Center, and has been a Soros New Americans Fellow, a NYFA Fellow in Computer Arts, and an artist in residence at LMCC in the Woolworth Building, Eyebeam Atelier, Smack Mellon, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She also teaches in the Art + Technology program at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
*I will have new work in the summer show at Lemmons Contemporary, up through July 12th.
*Kabul 2,3,4 will screen at the National Gallery in DC (US premiere) on July 20th at 4:30 pm as part of their Afghanistan on Film series.
*I'll be giving a lecture at Boston University on June 26th at 7:30 pm as part of the Art Institute at Lesley visiting artist series.
*Index of the Disappeared's recent discussion series, TRACING THE INDEX, is now archived here. Video and audio for some discussions is already available, with more media and transcripts coming soon. The Index will also present work in Mumbai from 8/23-9/28/08 as part of Bodhi Art's exhibition Everywhere is War.
*I've also written a new text, "New World Borders," as part of Index of the Disappeared's contribution to the newspaper Common Possibility, produced for the exhibition How to Talk About Utopia Without Saying Utopia (a project by Anthony Marcellini +Matthew David Rana) and distributed in San Francisco in April.
*Erin Kelly and I will be shooting a new video in New Mexico in July; please contact me if you are interested in performing or helping out.
