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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.
*Chitra and I will be at NYU's Silver Center on Tuesday, 9/16 from 7 to 9 pm for the discussion (Un)Patriot Acts: Art, Activism, and State Power from the "Culture Wars" to the "War on Terror," with Karen Finley, Steve Kurtz and Rebecca Schneider.
*Index of the Disappeared will have a new site-specific installation in Creative Time's Democracy in America project, a week-long exhibition and series of special speeches and performances with over 40 artists. The Democracy Convergence Center at the Park Avenue Armory will be open daily 9/21-27 from 12-10 pm (2-10 on 9/21 and 12-6:30 on 9/23).
*Our 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 (and Rumours of War) curated by Shaheen Merali.
*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.
*I'll be interviewing residents of Buffalo for a new version of Points of Proof in October; please contact me if you are interested in participating or helping out.
