Mariam Ghani mariam@-reconstructions.net 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, 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, , 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. [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, 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, 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, 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, . Open House: Working in Brooklyn. April 16th-August 15th, 2004. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. *Seeing Through : 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. 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. (Solo screening & artist talk) 2 0 0 1 * Parallel Frames. August 22, 2001. Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. (Solo screening & artist talk) Progress/Armenia Dreams Gasoline. Sept-Oct 2001. Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia. 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 * Parallel Frames. November 30, 2001. Middle East Film Series, Kevorkian Center & Center for Media, Culture, & History, New York University, NYC. (Solo screening & artist talk) 2 0 0 0 Works in Progress. January 2000. The Clairaudience Collective, Williamsburg, NYC. 1 9 9 9 Repeat Fugitive/Nachdenkung über die Einsamkeit. March 1999. Dreams Café, Florence, Italy.

C A T A L O G U E S & P U B L I C A T I O N S Drop by Drop, We Make A River: Afghan Writings of War, Exile, & Return. Edited by Zohra Saed and Lida Abdul. New York: Up-Set Press, 2005. “Seeing the Disappeared,” with Chitra Ganesh. Samar Issue 19: Spring/Summer 2005. http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=183 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. London: Spoon Publishing, 2002.

S E L E C T E D R E V I E W S & I N T E R V I E W S “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. “Revealing the Unseen: Mariam Ghani.” Article by David Alm in RES vol. 8, no. 2: Coming Up/New Talent. March/April 2005. (cover/lead article) http://www.res.com/magazine/articles/revealingtheunseenmariamghani_2005-04-21.html 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 “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. http://www.afghanmagazine.com/2004_07/visualarts/casia.shtml “Contemporaneity: International Video Art in Kyrgysztan.” Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, Issue 7 – June 2004. http://www.universes-in- universe.de/islam/eng/2004/03/contemporaneity/index.html “In an Unrecognizable and Unrecognized Central Asia.” Marshall Swatt interview with Leeza Ahmady. NYArts Magazine, July/August 2004. http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/articles.php?aid=192 “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): http://www.arteeast.org/artenews-ArteNews.html “Pluralidade em Curtas.” Article by Dominique Valansi. Estacao Virtual, December 2003. http://www.estacaovirtual.com.br/arquivo/eventos/curta-cinema2003/curta- cinema2003.htm “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 (http://bbc.co.uk/Persian/arts/la-za- ghani.html), 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.

S E L E C T E D L E C T U R E S , P A N E L S + R O U N D T A B L E S

New Forms & 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. 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 “Creative Alliances for Effective Activism.” Panel 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.

C U R A T O R I A L P R O J E C T S Fall 2005 at the Asian American Art Center: Detained, an exhibition and public program series 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 UMichigan, and Bob Lee of the Asian American Art Center.

October 19-20, 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.

P R O F E S S I O N A L A F F I L I A T I O N S Director, Collective Praxis, a collaborative media arts studio in Brooklyn. Member, College Art Association; Appointed to CAA Cultural Diversity Committee, term 2004 through 2007. Member, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. www.sawcc.org Member, Refuse & Resist! Member, Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers. Member, Rhizome.org. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.

T E C H N I C A L S K I L L S Video editing & mixing: Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Premiere, AfterEffects, Max/MSP/Jitter Sound editing and design: ProTools, SoundEdit, Peak 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 Multimedia design: Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, Cleaner, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash Programming and scripting: (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Lingo Web authoring: BBEdit, JEdit, SFTP, Fetch DVD authoring: DVDStudioPro, APack, iDVD. 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.

T R A V E L & F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E S Fluent in Italian and French; working knowledge of German, Spanish and Arabic. Have lived in Italy (2 years) and Pakistan (1 year); 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 and Russia.

V I D E O G R A P H Y 1999 Repeat Fugitive Looped 2000 Shahrazade Divided Blind Crossing/Crossing Blind Universal Games 2001 My Name on Your Lips (sounds so foreign) For Your Safety: Reasons to Stay Inside The Last Home Movie Armenia Dreams Gasoline Beirut Nocturne 2002 Permanent Transit Friendly Fire 2003 Kabul: Reconstructions Miraculous Dissolves (Performance in the Age of Martha Stewart Living) The Glass House Home Movies 2004 TRACEXCHANGEXCAVATE (collaboration with Emily Tepper & Michael Floyd) How Do You See the Disappeared? 2005 Kabul: Constitutions Points of Proof 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 W E B - B A S E D P R O J E C T S In collaboration with programmer Ed Potter and the AINA Afghan Media Center in Kabul: www.kabul-reconstructions.net March 2003-present

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 www.artwurl.org_awprojects.html mirror: www.kabul-reconstructions.net/transit

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 www.turbulence.org/works/seethedisappeared