| performed places (04-ongoing) | warm data projects (05-ongoing) | Index of the Disappeared (04-ongoing) | Kabul: Partial Reconstructions (02-07) | Parallel Frames (00-03) | photographs + prints | collapse |
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site-responsive videos 2004-09 - info + mp4s performance documentation 2009 HD excerpts + performance documentation 2010-11 |
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Link to or PDF download of text on warm data for Viralnet (2006) documentation of warm data projects (05-ongoing) |
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speculations: photographs 06-10 landscape studies: production stills 08-10 photographs + prints 2000-06 |
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| syllabi + class projects 2005-10 |
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You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download here) to download these documents.
PDF syllabus for Artists and Dialogue (Spring 2009) in the Art + Public Policy program at NYU / Fall 2010 revision
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You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download here) to download these documents.
Through the Screen: Notes to Permanent Transit (2002)
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*Work-in-progress notes, stills, etc. from A Brief History of Collapses now online here. |
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Permanent Address:
Mariam Ghani
372 DeKalb Ave #3i
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Email
mariam at kabul-reconstructions.net
Sales
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Bio:
Mariam Ghani is a Brooklyn-based artist whose research-based practice examines places, spaces and moments where social and political structures take on visible and tangible forms. She has been awarded the NYFA and Soros Fellowships, grants from CEC ArtsLink, 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 Beijing 798 Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, 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 in New York, CEPA in Buffalo, the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, Visual Correspondents in Berlin and Amsterdam, and Turbulence, artwurl, and the Longwood Digital Matrix online. Her critical writing on disappearance, warm data, and networked archives has been featured in FUSE, Viralnet, Pavilion, the Sarai Reader 05, Samar, the Radical History Review, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and the artist newspapers Common Possibilities and Arts and Leisure. 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, Turkey's Hurriyet, New Delhi’s Economic and Political Weekly, the Prague Post, the Gulf News, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the VOA and BBC Persian radio services, internationally; and Artforum, Art Papers, Art Asia Pacific, Afterimage, the Art Newspaper, Canvas, Studies in Documentary Film, the Independent, the Fader, Viralnet and RES, in the art press. Index of the Disappeared, her collaboration with Chitra Ganesh, has also been discussed in a number of academic journals, dissertations, essays and books. 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 in NYU's Art + Public Policy program.
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The fine print:
all reproductions of work by Mariam Ghani on this site and sites linked to it are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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