January 2000 B.A. summa
cum laude with honors in Comparative Literature, New York
University.
Areas of Specialization: Italian Literature,
Cinema Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
Distinctions: Sir
Harold Acton Memorial Scholarship, National Merit Scholarship, Dean's
Undergraduate Research Grant, Italian Departmental Award for Best
Student, elected to Phi Beta Kappa in junior year.
May
2002 MFA summa cum laude in Photography,
Video & Related Media, School of Visual Arts
Areas of
Specialization: Video, Installation + New Media
Distinctions: Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, 2001.
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists & Communities Grant, 2007-08.
Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds Grant, 2007.
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, 2006-07
Longwood Digital Matrix Commission, 2006
Smack Mellon Artist in Residence, 2005-06
NYFA Fellowship in Computer Arts, 2005
Eyebeam Atelier Artist in Residence, 2004
Turbulence.org Net Art Commission, 2004
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist in Residence, Woolworth Building, 2003-04
Artist in
the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2002-03
Soros Fellowship for New Americans, 2001-02
*indicates solo or collaborative presentation
2008
Democracy in America, curated by Nato Thompson. Creative Time, New York, NY.
Everywhere is War (and rumours of war). Bodhi Art, Mumbai, India.
Afghanistan on Film: New Video Art from Kabul, curated by Leeza Ahmady. National Gallery, Washington, DC.
Group Show. Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY.
Future Afghanistan, curated by Robert Kluijver. Gemak, The Hague, Netherlands.
2007
Infinitu et Contini: Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistances, curated by Denise Carvalho. Smack Mellon, NYC.
Encounters, Part II, curated by Femke Lutgerink. Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands.
25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General, curated by Anne Barlow, Sofia Hernandez, Anthony Marcellini. UBS Art Gallery, NYC.
Sultana’s Dream, curated by Jaishri Abichandani. Exit Art, NYC.
Mariam Ghani, Seung Pyo Hong, Damaso Reyes. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
Undisclosed Recipients: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival 2007, curated by Dale Hudson and Sharon Lin Tay. Ithaca, NY and online.
The Anatomy of Ignorance, curated by Cherry Jones. Tate Modern, London, UK.
New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival. Tribeca Cinemas, NYC.
Spectral Evidence, curated by Steven Lam. Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2006
Longwood Arts Projects: Then and Now, curated by Edwin Ramoran and Juanita Lanzo. Haven Arts, Bronx, NY.
Welcome, curated by Kara Lynch. Liebling Center for Film, Photo & Video, Hampshire College, MA.
Underfire, curated by Ryan Griffis. I Space Gallery, Chicago.
Fair Play 2006 Video Festival. Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Sommerfest 2006. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
Fast Futures: Asian Video Art, curated by Melissa Chiu, Barbara London, Leeza Ahmady. Bose Pacia Gallery / Rubin Museum of Art, NYC.
If a cat gives birth to kittens in an oven, are they kittens or biscuits? curated by Dean Daderko. Roebling Hall, NYC.
Interdigitate New Media Festival. Galatos, Auckland, New Zealand.
d/Art/2006. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.
Detained. Asian American Art Center, NYC.
Site 92. Smack Mellon, NYC.
Moving Time: Tribute to Nam June Paik, curated by Iris Inhee Moon. Gallery Korea, NYC.
The Studio Visit. Exit Art, NYC.
2005
America: Are We Drowning? Art Murmur, Los Angeles
*Security Blanket: 55 Washington Recording Sessions. d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival 2005. (site-specific installation/performance in collaboration with Nini Hu)
In the Shadow of Heroes. ArtEast, Bishkek, Kyrgysztan.
The World Is a Safer Place: A Survey of Nonconformist Art, curated by Francis Gomila. The Globe City Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Puntos Cardinales, curated by Carlos Motta. PS122, NYC.
After Effects, curated by Erin Donnelly. September 8th – 11th: What Comes After: Cities, Art + Recovery. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC. October 18th – November 4th: 15 Nassau, NYC.
18th Annual Dallas Video Festival. Dallas Museum of Art & Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX.
Media in “f”: 5th Ewha Media Art Presentation, curated by Iris Inhee Moon. Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
BROOKLin Video. Futura, Prague, Czech Republic.
Political Video from New York, curated by Louky Keijsers. Objectnotfound, Monterrey, Mexico.
IN/VISIBLE: Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists, curated by Salwa Mikdadi. Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI. (commissioned project for inaugural exhibition)
The Taste of Others, curated by Leeza Ahmady. Apex Art, NYC.
Independent Heroines 2005 Film Festival. The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK.
Produced@Eyebeam: Work in Process, curated by Benjamin Weil and Kathleen Forde. Eyebeam Atelier, NYC.
2004
Democracy Was Fun, , curated by Raul Zamudio & Juan Puntes. White Box, NYC.
CPH:DOX. Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
d.u.m.b.o. Short Film & Video Festival, curated by Les LeVeque and Daniella Dooling. d.a.c, NYC.
Liverpool Biennial 2004: The Transparent Eyeball, curated by Lauren Cornell and Astria Suparak. September 18th – 19th: FACT Centre for Film, Art & Creative Technology; September 18th – October 23rd: Biennial Mobile Cinema, 55 New Baird St. Warehouse, Independent Quarter. Liverpool, UK.
5th Biennial New Arts Program Video Festival. Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC. (tour selection, honorable mention for experimental video; jurors John Hanhardt & Sally Berger)
Fear Will Not Silence Us. Alwan, NYC.
*Six Feet Under: Make Nice : Chitra Ganesh & Mariam Ghani, curated by Melissa Chiu. White Box, NYC.
Blow the Conch, curated by Nitin Mukhul. July 24th, 2004. PS122, NYC.
Explosion LTTR: Elusive Quality, curated by Lauren Cornell and Astria Suparak. Participant Inc., NYC.
Subway Series: The Mets & Our National Pastime, curated by Carlo McCormick. Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.
Theater, Music, Words & Film on the Immigrant Experience. The Asian American Writers Workshop, NYC.
Un-American Films. July 4th, 2004. Rooftop Films Summer Season, The River Project, Pier 26, NYC.
In a Time of War. Allied Media Conference Film Festival, curated by Rooftop Films. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Tactical Action: Hit 'n Run, curated by Louky Keijsers. Gigantic Art Space/Pier 63, NYC.
Martha & Me. Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC.
Contemporaneity: An Exhibition of Contemporary Video Works, curated by Leeza Ahmady. Peace & Respect Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic; Academy of Fine Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, curated by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka. Brooklyn Museum of
Art, Brooklyn, NY.
*Seeing Through Afghanistan: Afghanistan Re-Viewed Through Music & Film. March 26th-28th, 2004. Wesleyan University, CT. (solo screening, performance & lecture within three-day event)
[R][R][F] 2004 : [Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting], curated by Agricola de Cologne. February 20th - March 15th, 2004. National Museum of Contemporary Art
Bucaresti, Romania, BEK Bergen, Norway and Folly New Media Institute,
Lancaster, UK. April 1st - May 16th, 2004: 2nd Thai New Media Art
Festival, Bangkok, Thailand; Now Music Streaming Festival, Berlin; BASICS Festival, Salzburg, Austria; Pescara
Electronic Arts & Media Festival, Pescara, Italy; Version04Festival, Chicago, IL. June 21st –August 3rd: VI Havana Salon y Coloquio de Arte Digital, Cuba; Split Festival of New Film & New Media, Croatia; public_space_festival Yerevan, Armenia; West Coast Numusic & Electronic Arts Festival Stavanger, Norway. September 13th-30th: Perth Biennale of Electronic Arts, Australia. Online at www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ through December 2004.
Universal Games/Everything Is Gonna Be Alright. Cantor Film Center, New York University, NYC. (two-person screening within the spring season of
Cinema East, co-sponsored by the Directors' Series of the NYU Film Department)
2003
13a Mostra Curtacinema.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (opening night selection)
Canal Street Projection Project. New Orleans, LA.
*Permanent Transit, curated by Francis Gomila. Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
5th Biennial New Arts Program Video Festival. Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ.
Breaking News. stART@Judson Church, NYC.
AIM 23, curated by Lydia Yee and Amy Rosenblum-Martin. Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC.
The New York Video Festival. Film Society of Lincoln Center,
NYC.
Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction. Exit Art, NYC.
transmediale.03: play global! Berlin, Germany.
[BLANK]: In Pursuit of An American History, curated by Stephanie Dinkins. SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
Init.Two. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
2002
Media(less) Medium. Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston.
Afghan-American Women in Film. Asia Society, NYC.
=7. Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY.
Lost & Found. Visual Arts Gallery, SoHo, NYC.
Mango, curated by Edwin Ramoran and Melissa Chiu. Talwar Gallery, NYC.
(far from) Home Videos, curated by Jarryd Lowder. Remote Lounge, NYC.
* Parallel Frames. Fletcher School of International Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston. (Solo screening & artist talk)
2001
* Parallel Frames. Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. (Solo screening & artist talk)
Progress/Armenia Dreams Gasoline. Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia.
* Parallel Frames. November 30, 2001. Middle East Film Series, Kevorkian Center & Center for Media, Culture, & History, New York University, NYC. (Solo screening & artist talk)
2000
Works in Progress. January 2000. The Clairaudience Collective, Williamsburg, NYC.
1999
Repeat Fugitive/Nachdenkung uber die Einsamkeit. March 1999. Dreams
Cafe, Florence, Italy.
"New World Borders." Common Possibility. San Francisco: Playspace Gallery, 2008.
Future Afghanistan. Edited by Robert Kluijver. Den Haag: Gemak, 2008.
Kabul: Constitutions - Annotated Guide to the Interactive Map. Text by Mariam Ghani, photographs by Rick Vogels. Produced by Gemak, 2008.
Encyclopedia of Arab American Art. Edited by Fayeq S. Oweis. NH: Greenwood, 2007.
New York, Of Course. Text by Ralph Herrmans. Stockholm: Wetterling Gallery, 2007.
"Afghanistan: Between the Tiger and the Precipice." FUSE 30th Anniversary Issue: Cultural Change in Real Terms. Toronto, October 2007.
25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General. With essays by Anne Barlow, Sofia Hernandez, Anthony Marcellini. New York: Art in General, 2007.
Sultana’s Dream: SAWCC’s 10th Anniversary Visual Arts Exhibition. With essays by Jaishri Abichandani, Uzma Rizvi, and Lisa Varghese. New York: SAWCC/Exit Art, 2007.
"Seeing the Disappeared," with Chitra Ganesh. Pavilion Issue 10-11: What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next. Bucharest: May 2007.
"Divining the Question: An Unscientific Methodology for the Collection of Warm Data." Viralnet, Issue Viralzerosix. Los Angeles: Center for Integrated Media, CalArts, 2006.
The World Is a Safer Place: A Survey of Nonconformist Art. Newcastle: The Globe City Gallery, 2005.
"Unwritten Histories & the Digital Divide: On Critics, Archives and Networks." Arts & Leisure. New York: e-flux / Art in General, 2005.
Index of the Disappeared: Catalogue .100. ‘zine co-edited & produced with Chitra Ganesh, distributed by LMCC during the “Cities, Art & Recovery” conference on the fourth anniversary of 9/11. Black and white, run of 150, 8.5” x 7”, 2005. Includes contributions by Ghani, Ganesh, Jenny Polak, Joan Linder, and the Visible Collective.
"Seeing the Disappeared," with Chitra Ganesh. Samar Issue 19: Spring/Summer 2005.
IN/VISIBLE: Contemporary Art by Arab-American Artists. Detroit: Arab American National Museum, 2005.
"How Do You See the Disappeared?" Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #4. Los Angeles: AK Press, 2005.
"Towards a Visual Language of Resistance: Notes on the Disappeared," with Chitra Ganesh. Bare Acts: The Sarai Reader 05. Edited by Raqs Media Collective. New Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2005.
d.u.m.b.o. Short Film & Video Festival. New York: d.a.c., 2004.
Liverpool Biennial 2004: The Transparent Eyeball. London: Black Diamond, 2004. With essay by Lauren Cornell.
Subway Series. New York: ZingBooks, 2004. With essay by Carlo
McCormick.
Open House: Working in Brooklyn. With essay by
Charlotta Kotik & Tumelo Mosaka. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2004.
13a Mostra Curtacinema. Rio de Janeiro:
Quid Cultura, 2003.
5th Biennial New Arts Progam Video
Festival. With essay by Ann Sargent-Wooster. Berks: New Arts
Program, 2003.
AIM 23. With essay by Lydia Yee & Amy
Rosenblum-Martín. New York: Bronx Museum of Art, 2003.
transmediale.03: play global! Berlin:
Hauptstadtkulturfonds, 2003.
Mango. New
York: South Asian Women's Creative Collective, 2002.
Pour La
Victoire. Edited by surface2air. Paris: Spoon, 2002.
"Sign Language as Politics." Review by Heather Diack. Afterimage vol 35, no 5, spring 2008.
"Undisclosed Recipients: database documentaries and the Internet." Essay by Dale Hudson. Studies in Documentary Film, vol 2 issue 1, pp. 79–98. doi: 10.1386/sdf.2.1.79/1
"Tracing the Index: Impossible Archives." Preview by B. Blagojevic. ArtCal Zine, February 2008.
"Bijna allemal Hazara." Article by Herman Rosenberg. AD.nl, February 27th, 2008.
"The Unsuitable Girls Grow Up." Feature by Lavina Melwani. Little India, October 3rd, 2007.
"25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General." Review by Benjamin Genocchio. The New York Times, August 31st, 2007.
"Corporate Culture." Article by Elisa Niemack. The New York Sun, August 14th, 2007.
"Ansichten des alten und neuen Europas." Article by Dietrich Heißenbüttel. Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 19th, 2007.
"Art in Review: Spectral Evidence." Review by Holland Cotter. The New York Times, February 23rd, 2007.
"Critic’s Picks: Spectral Evidence." Review by Lori Cole. Artforum.com, February 16th, 2007.
"Writing Politics on Your Flesh: An Interview with Mariam Ghani." Interview with Tom Leeser & Beth Rosenberg. Viralnet, Issue Viralzerosix. Los Angeles: Center for Integrated Media, CalArts, May 2006.
"Moving Time: A Tribute to Nam June Paik." Review by Harry Perlmutter. Art Asia Pacific Issue #49, Summer 2006.
"Kabul: Reconstructions." Review by Shaheen Rassoul. NYArts Magazine Vol. 11, No. 5/6, May/June 2006.
"The Idea of 'Illegality': Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts." Review by Nivedita Menon. Economic and Political Weekly, November 26th, 2005.
"Piecing it Together: Storytelling in the Digital Age." Feature by David Alm. The Independent, Vol. 28, No. 8. October 2005.
"U.S. Exhibition Depicts Realities of Life for Arab Americans." Article by Ramsay Short. The Daily Star (Beirut), October 13th, 2005.
"Artists Seek to Fill 9/11 Voids." Article by Christine Lagorio. CBSNews.com, September 12th, 2005.
"IN/VISIBLE Art Exhibition Inaugurates Arab American National Museum." Article by Maymanah Farhat. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XXIV, No. 6. August 2005.
"In/Visible: Contemporary Art by Arab-American Artists." Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, Issue 11, July 2005.
"Fast Tracks: Brooklyn, Brooklyn and BROOKLin VIDEO." Review by Lizzy Le Quesne. The Prague Post. July 7th, 2005.
"Transnational Artists: Arab American Artists Remapping the Boundaries of Art." Essay by Salwa Mikdadi in Neighbors in Dialogue, ed. Beral Madra and Aype Orhun Gültekin, Istanbul: Norgunk Yayyncylyk, 2005.
"Detroit Iraq City." Article by Edward Houghton in The Fader Issue 31. May/June 2005. (preview of Points of Proof Detroit edition)
"Revealing the Unseen: Mariam Ghani." Article by David Alm. RES vol. 8, no. 2: Coming Up / New Talent. March/April 2005. (cover/lead article)
"Women & Political Power." BBC Persian radio series produced by Yassaman Ameri, February 2005.
"Contemporary Art in Central Asia." Essay by Leeza Ahmady with work from the Contemporaneity exhibition. Lemar – Aftaab | afghanmagazine.com, July 2004.
"Contemporaneity: International Video Art in Kyrgysztan." Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, Issue 7 – June 2004.
"In an Unrecognizable and Unrecognized Central Asia." Marshall Swatt interview with Leeza Ahmady. NYArts Magazine, July/August 2004.
"The Art & Artists of the Year." Article
by Roberta Smith. The New York Times, December 28th, 2003.
"Kabul: Reconstructions." Feature by Melissa
Hibbard. ArteNews Issue 2 (Winter 2003-04)
"Pluralidade em Curtas." Article by Dominique
Valansi. Estaçao Virtual, December 2003.
"Cineasta registra a difícil reconstrução do Afeganistão." Article by Cristina Azevedo. O
Globo, December 1st, 2003.
"Tamanho não é documento." O Dia,
November 27th, 2003.
"Personal Work & Videogames in the Spotlight
at 2003 New York Video Festival." Article by Eugene Hernandez.
Indiewire.com, July 15th, 2003.
"Exit
Biennial: The Reconstruction." Review by William Powdha. The Brooklyn
Rail, June-July 2003.
"Mariam Ghani's Kabul: Reconstructions."
Profile & interview with Yassaman Ameri on This Week In New York. BBC
World Service Farsi radio broadcast, May 28, 2003. Text article
published on BBC Persian website, June 2003.
"Kunst Gegen Krieg."
Article by Markus Wieland. Falter No. 16/03 (Vienna, Austria: April 16,
2003).
"A Space Reborn, With A Show That's Never
Finished." Article by Roberta Smith. The New York Times, April 4th
2003.
"Victory Dance: A New Fashion-Art
Collective Turns Out the Season's Must-Have Book." Article by Janet
Ozzard. Style.com, June 24th 2002.
"Mango." Review by Holland
Cotter. The New York Times, June 22nd 2002.
(Un)Patriot Acts: The Politics of Artmaking After 9/11. Panel discussion with Karen Finley, Steve Kurtz, Rebecca Schneider, & Index of the Disappeared (Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani), moderated by Karen Shimawaka. September 16th, 2008. Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, NYU, NYC.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Mariam Ghani. June 26th, 2008. The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.
Four Perspectives from SAWCC Artists. Artist talk with Samira Abbassy, Mareena Daredia, Sara Rahbar, and Sa’dia Rehman, moderated by Mariam Ghani. June 7th, 2008. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Law and Visual Resistance. Index of the Disappeared talk for South Asian Bar Association dinner series, moderated by Fordham law professor Sonya Katyal. May 7th, 2008.
Affective Circuits: Technology, Sex, Politics. April 9th, 2008. Mini-workshop with Susanna Passonen, Mary Flanagan + Mariam Ghani, organized by Maria Fernandez at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
New Media Lecture Series: Mariam Ghani - Kabul: Reconstructions. Lecture in visiting artist series. October 3rd, 2007. Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY.
Girls of the Third Situ8ionist International Summit (G3SIS). Closed-door roundtable discussion transmitted as podcast to Berlin’s Super Bien! gallery as part of the 2007 Conflux festival. The participants in this alternative G8 summit/situationist tribute were Mariam Ghani, Julie Atlas Muz, Jana Leo, Radhika Subramanian, Kate Werble, Tianna Kennedy, Anat Egbi and Xaviera Simmons. September 16th, 2007. NGC Gallery, NYC.
The Sun Has Gone Under: Lebanese-American Artists on Art. Panel with John Jurayj and Sumaya Samaha, moderated by Doug Sheer & Shiva Balaghi. February 2nd, 2007. Artist Talk on Art lecture series, School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Mariam Ghani. Center for Integrated Media, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA.
IN/VISIBLE and the Inauguration of the Arab American National Museum. Roundtable with Salwa Mikdadi, Joe Namy & Sumaya Samaha, moderated by Shiva Balaghi. September 19th, 2005. Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies, NYU, NYC.
Cities, Art & Recovery: The Art of Aftermath. After Effects artist talk with Chitra Ganesh, Pia Lindman, Conor McGrady, & Amie Siegel. Moderated by Erin Donelly of LMCC. Sunday, September 11th, 2005. Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC.
Sites in Translation. Discussion organized and moderated as guest co-moderator for month of September, with Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Angel Nevarez, Lana Lin and Lan Thao Lam. -empyre- new media discussion list.
"Representation and Reception." Panel discussion with Ayreen Anastas and Abdelali Dahrouch, moderated by Sarah Rogers. New Forms and Meanings: A Symposium on Contemporary Arab-American Art. May 19th - 21st, 2005. Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI.
Paul Chan & Mariam Ghani: Art, War & Activism. Roundtable moderated by Shiva Balaghi. March 4th, 2005. Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies & Center for Media, Culture & History, NYU, NYC.
"Creative Alliances for Effective Activism." Workshop/panel led with Chitra Ganesh. And So Forth: A Post-Inaugural Assembly, organized by the Amnesty International Firefly Project. January 23rd, 2005. Office Ops, NYC.
Arab-American Artists & the Legacy of Edward Said. Roundtable moderated by Shiva Balaghi. September 25th, 2004. Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies, NYU, NYC.
ACCESS ZONE 0.3. Artist in the Marketplace artist talk & panel. September 7th, 2003. Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC.
[BLANK]: In Pursuit of an American History. Panel discussion with Stephanie Dinkins (moderator), Jefferson Pinder, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Tracey Walters, Scott Neumann, and Christian Rogers. February 11th, 2003. Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY.
Fall 2005-present Visiting Lecturer, Art + Technology program, Stevens Institute of Technology. Developing curriculum for and teaching video studio sequence, net art studio, media theory survey, and rotating seminars/tutorials on topics in art and technology; supervising senior thesis projects and papers.
Spring 2008: Visiting Lecturer, MFA Public Practices, Otis College of Art + Design. Teaching one-week workshop on new genre public practices for MFA students with studio visits / individual crits.
Spring 2004/5 Visiting Artist/MFA Thesis Adviser, MFA Computer Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York.
Winter 2004 Teaching Artist, Girls-Eye-View, Eyebeam Atelier.
Designed and taught six-week class in the Girls-Eye-View after-school program for sixth-graders from School of the Future.
Guest lectures, 2002-06: Hunter College, the Pratt Institute, Columbia University, The College of New Jersey, Parsons/The New School, Massachusetts College of Art, CalArts, Cooper Union.
Spring 2009: Social Work. Exhibition, public program series, public projects, and exhibition reader, co-curated with Sean Donaher for CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY, bringing together emerging artists who work with participatory forms of public practice.
Spring 2008: Tracing the Index: 4 Discussions, 4 Venues. Series of public programs organized with Chitra Ganesh and co-presented by the Vera List Center for Art & Politics at the New School, NYU’s Kevorkian Institute for Near Eastern Studies, Center for Media, Culture and History, and Center for Media and Religion, Art in General, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (in conjunction with the exhibition Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art and Community) on themes related to our collaborative project Index of the Disappeared, all of which will be recorded, added to the Index archive, and eventually transcribed to become part of an Index publication.
September – November 2007: Index of the Disappeared: Public Program Series 07. Series of public programs organized with Chitra Ganesh in conjunction with the presentation of the Index archive at UBS for the 25 Years Later show. Programs will include a library orientation and storytelling session, a screening, and a panel discussion on the theme of archiving unspeakable or censored materials.
January – May 2007: Focus on Lebanon, a series of public programs co-presented by the Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies at NYU and arts organizations across the city. Co-organized with artists John Jurayj, Sumaya Samaha, and Walid Raad, writers Elias Khoury and Jacque Moorad, filmmaker Tom McCarthy, and curators Rasha Salti and Shiva Balaghi.
Spring 2006: Detained, an exhibition and public program series at the Asian American Art Center exploring the communal convergences and conversions and the political and spiritual issues raised across the ethnic boundary lines of Arab and Asian by the story of Captain James Yee, the Asian-American U.S. Army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who converted to Islam, married a Muslim Arab, and was then detained himself for two years under suspicion of treason. Co-organized with artists Tina LaPorta, Trong Nguyen, and Tomie Arai, Rabab Abdulhadi of the Arab American Studies Center at the University of Michigan, and Bob Lee of the Asian American Art Center.
October 19th - 20th, 2000 at Exit Art: Coded Bodies, a
two-day video and performance event featuring work by South Asian women
that explored the coded meanings of the body through works examining
traditional and non-traditional dress, private and public rituals, and
body adornments and movements. In collaboration with Chitra Ganesh and
Swati Khurana of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective. With
program notes.
Member, College Art Association;
Served on CAA Diversity Practices Committee, 2004 through 2007
Member, South Asian Women's Creative
Collective
Member, Rhizome.org
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Video editing & mixing: Final Cut Pro, Avid,
Premiere, AfterEffects, VLC, ffmpegX, MPEGStreamclip, Max/MSP/Jitter.
Sound editing and design: ProTools,
Audacity, Peak.
Multimedia design: Photoshop, Illustrator,
ImageReady, InDesign, Acrobat, Quark, Keynote, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash.
Programming and
scripting: (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP.
DVD authoring:
DVD StudioPro, iDVD, Dolby mixing & compression.
Database: FilemakerPro, Access,
Paradigm, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin.
Physical computing: Basic Stamp/Board of Education, MacBS2, PBasic, soldering, circuits, sensors, serial control.
Copy editing &
proofreading experience including catalogue editing (Jan
Rauschwerger's Portraits and Papo Colo's Coloisms, both with essays by
Dominique Nahas, 2000) and fact checking (Village Voice 1999-2000).
Grants writing, budgeting & prospect research experience
including Foundation Center certificate course in proposal writing, FC
Search 7.0, 8 years of staff and freelance grants writing for non-profit art centers.
Fluent in Italian and French; working knowledge of German,
Spanish and Arabic.
Have lived in Italy (2 years), Pakistan (1
year), and Germany; extended stays in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Switzerland, France & Armenia; travel frequently to Afghanistan, Lebanon, Turkey, Germany, France, Italy and the U.K.; have also spent time in Syria, Jordan, Spain, the Netherlands,Israel, Palestine, Thailand, Brazil, Nepal and Russia.
1999
Repeat Fugitive (1 channel, 9:00)
Looped (2 channels, 14:00)
2000
Shahrazade Divided (1 channel, 50:00)
Blind Crossing/Crossing Blind (2 channels, 3:10)
Universal Games (1 channel installation, 2:20)
2001
My Name on Your Lips (sounds so foreign) (2 channel installation, 3:30)
For Your Safety: Reasons to Stay Inside (1 channel, 12:00)
The Last Home Movie (2 channel installation, 3:00)
Armenia Dreams Gasoline (2 channels, 14:00)
Beirut Nocturne (1 channel, 3:50)
2002
Permanent Transit (1 channel surround sound installation, 24:00)
Friendly Fire (1 channel installation, 3:10)
2003
Kabul: Reconstructions (3 channel installation, 6:24)
Miraculous Dissolves (Performance in the Age of Martha Stewart Living) (1 channel installation, 5:00)
The Glass House Home Movies (4-in-1 channel video installation with 5-channel interactive audio, 15:00)
2004
TRACEXCHANGEXCAVATE (1 channel surround sound installation, 19:40,
collaboration with Emily Tepper & Michael Floyd)
How Do You See the Disappeared? (1 channel, 9:28)
2005
Kabul: Constitutions (3-channel interactive installation, 2:30:00)
Points of Proof (1 channel installation, 34:00)
The Studio Visit (1 channel, 5:48)
2006
Fugitive Refrains (1 channel surround sound installation, 25:00, collaboration with Erin Kelly)
2007
Kabul 2, 3, 4 (3 channel installation, 13:00)
Three Surrenders (1 channel, 6:33, collaboration with Erin Kelly)
*Note that most video installations also exist in single-channel versions for screening. All are color and have stereo sound on each video channel unless otherwise specified.
In collaboration with programmer Ed Potter and the AINA Afghan Media Center in Kabul:
kabul-reconstructions.net
Active March 2003 – March 2005, relaunching in an expanded version in winter 2008
In collaboration with composer Qasim Naqvi, poet Zohra Saed, & programmer Ed Potter:
Permanent Transit: net.remix
Project commissioned by PS122 for the August 2004 issue of artwurl.org
In collaboration with programmers Rob Durbin & Ed Potter and visual artist Chitra Ganesh:
How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database
A 2004 commission by Turbulence.org, funded by the Jerome Foundation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Points of Proof
A 2006 Longwood Digital Matrix commission, based on an offline project commissioned by the Arab American National Museum for their inaugural exhibition in spring 2005
Download a PDF version of this c/v (last updated April 2008).