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Mariam Ghani [email protected] kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam 372 DeKalb Ave. #3I Brooklyn, NY 11205 tel 718.638.9867 fax 718.398.0894 cell 917.676.8322 E D U C A T I O N & D I S T I N C T I O N S May 2002 MFA summa cum laude in Photography, Video & Related Media, School of Visual Arts Areas of Specialization: Video & the Moving Image; Installation; Computer Arts Distinctions: Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, 2001. January 2000 B.A. summa cum laude with honors in Comparative Literature, New York University. Areas of Specialization: Italian Literature, Visual Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Junior Year Abroad: University of Florence, Italy (Indirizzo: Italianistica) 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. F E L L O W S H I P S , A W A R D S & R E S I D E N C I E S Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, 2005-07. 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, 2001-03. R E L E V A N T P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E Fall 05 Visiting Artist, Art & Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. Co-teaching Video I and developing site-specific installation in collaboration with students in the Department of Art, Music and Technology. Spring 05 MFA Thesis Adviser, MFA Computer Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York. Co-advised student on interactive video installation thesis project (with collaborator Ed Potter). Winter 05 Teaching Artist, Eyebeam Atelier, New York. Developed curriculum, prepared lessons, and taught practical and project-based classes in the Girls-Eye-View after-school program for middle school students. 11-6/05 Fundraising Consultant, ArteEast. Developed funding plans, tracking documents, organizational and project narratives, researched prospects and advised on fundraising strategies for new nonprofit that presents and supports the cinema of the Middle East, including work towards the launch of their first film festival. Mariam Ghani [email protected] kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam 372 DeKalb Ave. #3I Brooklyn, NY 11205 tel 718.638.9867 fax 718.398.0894 cell 917.676.8322 Fall 04 Guest lecturer, Central Asian History, The College of New Jersey Spring 04 Visiting Artist, MFA Computer Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York. Gave lectures, audited courses and advised students in conjunction with residency to develop web project. 1/00 –1/04 Grants Writer & Digital Projects Coordinator (formerly Development & Programming Assistant) at the nonprofit art center Exit Art in New York. Primarily responsible for developing project proposals & budgets, researching prospects, tracking and reporting on grants received, & managing relations with all institutional funders, as well as managing the launch of two new digital initiatives, Exit Art’s Center for Digital & Cinematic Images and the Exit Art Digital Archive. Previous responsibilities included individual cultivation, board liaison, film/video review and curating, public program development, copy editing and archive management. 10/03 Guest lecturer, grants writing and professional practices, Pratt Institute MFA Fine Arts Internship Seminar, Brooklyn, NY. 8/03 Teaching Artist, Bronx Museum of the Arts. Created and implemented an arts education project for 3 to 12-year-olds. 2/03 Taught grants writing workshop for the Urban Artists Initative of the Urban Institute, New Haven, CT. 9/02-6/04 Guest lecturer, Intro to Arab-American Literature and Topics in West Asian Literature, Hunter College English Department. 9/01 – 12/02 Teaching assistant for Collier Schorr’s first-year MFA Master Critique class, MFA Photography & Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts, New York. Fall 01 Guest lecturer, grants writing, Columbia University MFA Fine Arts Professional Practices Seminar. 6/01 Taught 1-week grants writing workshop for Palestinian NGOs in Ramallah. S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S & S C R E E N I N G S *indicates solo presentation 2 0 0 5 18th Annual Dallas Video Festival. August 3rd – 7th. Dallas Museum of Art & Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX. Mariam Ghani [email protected] kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam 372 DeKalb Ave. #3I Brooklyn, NY 11205 tel 718.638.9867 fax 718.398.0894 cell 917.676.8322 Media in “f”: 5th Ewha Media Art Presentation. June 21st – 30th. Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea. BROOKLin Video. May 28th – August 30th. Futura, Prague, Czech Republic. New Video from New York. May 27th. Objectnotfound, Monterrey, Mexico. IN/VISIBLE: Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists. May 20th – October 31st. Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI. (commissioned project for inaugural exhibition) The Taste of Others. March 5th. Apex Art, NYC. Independent Heroines 2005 Film Festival. February 9h. The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK. Produced@Eyebeam: Work in Process. January 20th – March 5th. Eyebeam Atelier, NYC. 2 0 0 4 Democracy Was Fun. November 19th – December 23rd. White Box, NYC. CPH:DOX. November 7th-16th. Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark. d.u.m.b.o. Short Film & Video Festival. October 15th – 17th. d.a.c., Brooklyn, NY. Liverpool Biennial 2004: The Transparent Eyeball. 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. September 7th – 25th. Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC. Fear Will Not Silence Us. August 21st. Alwan, NYC. Six Feet Under: Make Nice. July 27th-31st, 2004. White Box, NYC. Blow the Conch. July 24th, 2004. PS122, NYC. Explosion LTTR: Elusive Quality. July 19th, 2004. Participant Inc., NYC. Subway Series. July 18th – October 24th, 2004. Queens Museum of Art, NYC. Theater, Music, Words & Film on the Immigrant Experience. July 15th, 2004. The Asian American Writers Workshop, NYC. In a Time of War. Allied Media Conference Film Festival curated by Rooftop Films. June 16th-18th, 2004. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Un-American Films. July 4th, 2004. Rooftop Films Summer Season, The River Project, Pier 26, NYC. Martha & Me. June 12th – July 17th, 2004. Gallery 128, NYC. Tactical Action: Hit ‘n Run. June 1st, 2004. Gigantic Art Space/Pier 63, NYC. Contemporaneity: An Exhibition of Contemporary Video Works. Peace & Respect Festival, Fine Arts Museum of the City of Bishkek, Kyrgyz Rephublic. April 24-30, 2004; May 2-7, 2004: Academy of Fine Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Open House: Working in Brooklyn. April 16th-August 15th, 2004. 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]: Global Networking Project. 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; Version04 Festival, 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 & Mariam Ghani [email protected] kabul-reconstructions.net/mariam 372 DeKalb Ave. #3I Brooklyn, NY 11205 tel 718.638.9867 fax 718.398.0894 cell 917.676.8322 Electronic Arts Festival Stavanger, Norway. September 13th – 30th: Perth Biennale of Electronic Arts, Australia. Online at www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/ through 12/04. Universal Games/Everything’s Gonna Be Alright. February 19th, 2004. 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) 5th Biennial New Arts Program Video Festival. January 12-February 27, 2004, Marywood University Art Galleries, Scranton, PA; May 15th, 2004, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC. 2 0 0 3 13a Mostra Curtacinema. November 27th – December 7th, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (opening night selection) Canal Street Projection Project. October 26th-November 1st, 2003. New Orleans, LA. Permanent Transit. October 30th, 2003. Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 5th Biennial New Arts Program Video Festival. October 12, 2003 – January 3, 2004, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ. Breaking News. October 9th, 2003. stART@Judson Church, NYC. AIM 23. July 16-September 28, 2003. Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC. The New York Video Festival. July 23-27, 2003. Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC. Open Zone XII. June 29, 2003. Ocularis at Galapagos, Williamsburg, NYC. Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction. March 8-May 31, 2003. Exit Art, NYC. transmediale.03: play global! February 2003. Berlin, Germany. [BLANK]: In Pursuit of An American History. January 24-February 12, 2003, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Init.Two. January 2003, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. 2 0 0 2 Media(less) Medium. November 17 & 23, 2002. Boston Center for the Arts, Boston. Afghan-American Women in Film. October 2002. Asia Society, NYC. =7. September 19, 2002. Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY. Lost & Found. July 11-27, 2002. Visual Arts Gallery, SoHo, NYC. Mango. June 28-July 27, 2002. Talwar Gallery, NYC. (far from) Home Videos. June 16, 2002. Remote Lounge, NYC. * Parallel Frames. February 10, 2002. Fletcher School of International Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston.