Mariam Ghani

syllabi + class projects 2005-10

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PDF syllabus for Artists and Dialogue (Spring 2009) in the Art + Public Policy program at NYU

PDF syllabus for Video I (Spring 2010) at the Cooper Union School of Art

Online syllabus for Video I (Fall 2008) in the Stevens Art + Technology program

Online syllabus for Digital Imaging III (Fall 2008) at Stevens ARTC

Online syllabus, resource page, and class links for Intro to Media Culture and Theory (Fall 2006/Spring 2008) at Stevens ARTC

Online syllabus and resource page for Video II (Spring 2006/Fall 2007) at Stevens ARTC

Online syllabus and class links for Net Art & Design (Fall 2007) at Stevens ARTC

Editing Video in the Media Arts Center (MAC) Lab: A Quick Start PDF Guide for Stevens ARTC

Updated FCP/DVDSP quick start PDF guide for Cooper Video 1 F09

PDF outlines for rotating seminars on topics in art + technology at Stevens ARTC

Class project and resource page from Girls-Eye-View after-school program for junior high girls at Eyebeam (Winter 2005)

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critical writing + text-based projects

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Through the Screen: Notes to Permanent Transit (2002)

Appendix: Permanent Transit: net.remix statement for artwurl (2004)

Diasporic Networks & the Collaborative Construction of Identity in Kabul: Reconstructions (2004)

Towards a Visual Language of Resistance: Notes on the Disappeared (collaborative text with Chitra Ganesh for Bare Acts: The Sarai Reader 05)

Unwritten Histories and the Digital Divide: On Critics, Archives and Networks (2005)
Excerpts from an IM roundtable with Jeanette Ingberman (Exit Art), Richard Rinehart (Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, CIAO, Archiving the Avant-Garde), Beth Rosenberg (Eyebeam Atelier), and Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace Archives), July 2005. Moderated by Mariam Ghani for Arts + Leisure, a tabloid newspaper on art, criticality and complaint, published by e-flux and Art in General. A longer selection of excerpts from the roundtable appears here than in the published text.

Divining the Question: An Unscientific Methodology for the Collection of Warm Data (2006)
Link to or PDF download of essay written for issue Viralzerosix of Viralnet, the online journal published by the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts.

Writing Politics on Your Flesh (2006)
PDF download of an interview with Tom Leeser and Beth Rosenberg for Viralnet, conducted in spring 2005 and published in spring 2006.

Afghanistan: Between the Tiger and the Precipice (2007)
"News-collage" article commissioned for the 25th anniversary issue of FUSE, Cultural Change in Real Terms

Kabul: Constitutions: Annotated Guide to the Interactive Map (2008)
A 21-page text that serves as a guide to both the web-based and installation versions of the interactive map that is the heart of the project Kabul: Constitutions. A booklet with this text and photographs of the installation process by Rick Vogels was produced by Gemak when the Kabul project was exhibited there in February 2008.

New World Borders (2008)
Essay and "corrective redaction" project commissioned from Index of the Disappeared as a 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 2008.

Bidoun Questionnaire (2009)
Questionnaire sent by Bidoun, editors of the Sharjah Biennial 9 catalogue project (three books in total), to artists in the Provisions for the Future exhibition, several months before we produced our projects. Erin and I describe our goals for the new video that SB9 commissioned in alternating blue (EEK) and green (MG) handwriting. This version was published along with a partial shooting script in the first Provisions catalogue, which focuses on the production process.

Artist Statement (2010)

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Shows + News:

*I've been uploading HD / full-size SD versions of (or excerpts from the longer) videos to Vimeo. Hey, you can watch full screen!
*Erin and I are artists-in-residence at LMCC's space on Building 110 on Governor's Island through December 2010. We'll have open studios October 8th-10th.
*"Going, Going, Gone" and "Kabul 2, 3, 4" will be on view at the VCU Gallery in Qatar this fall as part of the exhibition New York City Chronicles, curated by Maymanah Farhat and Osama Abusitta.
*Selections from the Index of the Disappeared archive can be browsed in our installation at the downtown Buffalo public library through August 19th.
*"Going, Going, Gone," the video commissioned for the 2009 Visual Correspondents series of public projections in Berlin commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will continue to screen in rotation on the CASZuidas urban screen in Amsterdam in 2010. The full video, an interview and an article about the project can be found at the VFC site and in the online edition of Die Zeit.
*The exhibition reader for Conversation Pieces, the show I co-curated with Sean Donaher for CEPA Gallery in Buffalo in fall 09, is currently in production and will be forthcoming in fall 2010. Conversation Pieces featured artists whose work stages, subverts, provokes or intervenes in public dialogues. You can now find documentation of the entire exhibition here (just click through the links on the left side of the screen for the different projects).
*I've posted documentation of "Varations (on a Haunted Wood)," the new multimedia performance Erin Kelly and I produced for the opening of the show Tarjama/Translation at the Queens Museum in May 09.

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Bio:
Mariam Ghani is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores how histories, places, identities and communities are constructed and reconstructed. She has been awarded the NYFA and Soros Fellowships, grants from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Experimental Television Center, and residencies at LMCC, Eyebeam Atelier, Smack Mellon, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Her work in video, installation and photography has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at the Sharjah Biennial, the Liverpool Biennial, the Tate Modern, the National Gallery in DC, the New York Video Festival, the Asia Society, the Danish Film Institute, transmediale and PLAY in Berlin, Smart Project Space, Gemak and the Stadsgalerij Heerlen in the Netherlands, Futura in Prague, Curtacinema in Rio de Janeiro, EMAP in Seoul, d/Art in Sydney, Bodhi Art in Mumbai, and the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens Museums. Her public, community-based and interactive projects have been commissioned by Creative Time, Turbulence, 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, 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. Press coverage includes the New York Times, New York Sun, Brooklyn Rail, CBS and WNYC, locally; Germany's Die Zeit and Stuttgarter Zeitung, Beirut’s Daily Star, Brazil’s O Globo, New Delhi’s Business Standard and EPW, the Prague Post, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the VOA and BBC Persian radio services, internationally; and Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Afterimage, the Art Newspaper, Canvas, Studies in Documentary Film, the Independent, the Fader, Viralnet and RES, in the art press. Ghani also lectures widely and organizes/moderates exhibitions, workshops, and discussions. She has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA in Photography, Video + Related Media from SVA, and currently teaches at Cooper Union and in NYU's Art + Public Policy program.

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