Adapting to invisibility in Marseille

As a mirror to the Mimicry-Empathy exhibition, as part of the Grande nocturne of the 14th Printemps de l’Art Contemporain in Marseille and in partnership with the Goethe Institut, Fræme and Susanne Bürner invite you to discover a series of experimental films selected by the curators Amirali Ghasemi and Anne-Sophie Dinant.

Panel on Artist-run Spaces in Iran & Austria

Room for Doubt Presents:  With Peyman Shafieezadeh, Kayvan Paydar & Amirali Ghasemi Time: May 19, 2022, 7–9 pm  (Iran Standard Time) Address: No. 3, Araabi 3 Alley, North Kheradmand St. Karimkhan Ave. Tehran The event will also take place online on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83698419375?pwd=ru3KEtn8mEXYYsYMpENVfStUva4AM9.1 About Room for Doubt: “Room for Doubt” is a temporary, mobile, artist-run […]

Book Review Session: Visibility and Photography

The New Media Society hosted an online meeting on Wednesday, August 11, about the book “Visibility and Photography” with the presence of Arash Dehghani and Mehdi Habibzadeh.

Online Exhibition “Narrative Texts and Maps”

From “1001: Collective Narrative” Workshop Exhibition:  With contributions from: Nahal Jafari / Shamim Taassob / Anahita Rezaei / Azadeh Zakeri / Shahab Anousha / Mobina Kastani‌khah / Amirali Ghasemi / Sarvanaz Yasari / Azadeh Behkish / Ali Ajdari Led by: Amirhossein Khorshidfar and Rojia Forouhar In Collaboration with New Media Former Summer School The online multimedia […]

Game as Participatory Art

Online Presentation by Shaghayegh Kamyar Tuesday May 4th, 2021 Time: 6:30 Tehran Time Link to zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86333215284 In this session, Shaghayegh Kamyar will present excerpts from her master’s thesis entitled “Game as a Participatory Art”. In this paper, she had considered the game as a medium with potential possibilities for artistic expression. Albeit these […]

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On Small File Media; Online Talk With Laura U. Marks

Animation; Experiment in Collaboration With New Media Society | No. 35 Thursday, April 29 8:30 to 10 pm (Iran Standard Time) 9 to 10:30 am (Pacific Time) Link to the session on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84006910209 (The talk will be held in English with live translation to Persian and will be recorded for future access.) In this […]

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Online Talk With Abigail Addison, Producer and Programmer

Animation; Experiment in Collaboration With New Media Society Thursday, April the 15th  1 to 2:30 Pm (Time in United Kingdom) 4:30 to 6 Pm (Iran Standard Time)   Link to the session on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85052623471 (The talk will be held in English and will be recorded for future access.)   In this online session, we […]

Online Artist Talk: Leila Pazooki

The Former Summer 2020 School and New Media Society  Present: Monday, March 8, 202106:30 pm Please click on the following link to join the zoom session:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84349198124 Born in Tehran in 1977, multimedia artist Leila Pazooki was educated at the National Art Academy of Tehran, The Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and The Berlin University […]

Book Review Session: Archive & Photography

In an online panel with Arash Dehghani, Golara Jahanian, and Nasrin Talebi Sarvari Saturday, March 6, 2021 Hour: 7:30 PM  Link to join the zoom session:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85711897312 The following collection tries to reflect on the archiving system and try to find these resonances and buried salvations. Although the texts in this volume follow different methodologies […]

Artist Talk with Kim Noce

In this online session, we will have a conversation with Kim Noce about her latest animation; “Cities of Ladies”.

Production of Place in the Works of Abu Turab Khosravi

Click here to access the recorded lecture (in Persian) Poetica Project in collaboration with New Media Society: Online Lecture by Khalil Dermanaki Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Hours: 6 to 8 p.m. In this online lecture, Khalil Dermanki, who has previously written several articles and essays on the works of Aboutorab Khosravi, addressed the issue […]

Online Talk With Maryam Mohajer, Award Winning Animator/director

Tuesday, 22 Dec 20203-4:30 pm Tehran Time Maryam Mohajer is a British-Iranian, BAFTA Winning animator-director who was born in Tehran, Iran just before living through revolution, war and immigration. With a background in painting, she discovered animation after moving to the UK in the year of 2000. She got her MA degree in animation from […]

Arbitrary Lines

“Arbitrary Lines” is a project by New Media Society – Tehran and Parking Video Library, which gathers seven lens-based artists who live around the globe.

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“Dust to come…” | Online screening Program | Mosaic Rooms​

“Dust to Come…” Curated video program by New Media Society to be featured in Future Threads: Mosaic Rooms’ Digital Programme. Saturday – Sunday: Aug 8-9, 2020 Watch a series of experimental art films by contemporary Iranian artists and filmmakers curated by the New Media Society. Exploring futures and alternative visions, most of the selected videos […]

Territorial Challenges – Baku

February 15, 5 pm This event will mark the closing of the current “Fragile Frontiers” exhibition. “Territorial Challenges” Moving Images from Parking Video Library  Curator’s statement: The lines which interconnect the works are oscillating between the tangible and the intangible: Water and geography play a role, being shot at Iranian coasts of Caspian sea in […]

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Continuous | Multimedia Performances

New Media Society in collaboration of Vali Art Gallery Presents: Continuous (Motavali) | Multimedia Performances Opening: Friday, Feb 14, 2020 – 6 pm Visiting Hours: 4-8 pm Visting days: Weekdays except for Saturdays and Friday, Feb 21st. Motavali (Continuous) brings together various performative positions across different disciplines from Lecture Performance to Multimedia Installations. Projects which […]

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Public Presentations “Artist/Curators” | with Negar Farajiani

Sunday Feb 2, 2020 | 6pm New Media Projects After a brief pause, New Media Society resumes its talk sessions in 2020 with “Artist/Curators”, an array of activities such as events, presentations, and panels in the field of the curatorial. This series of meetings will focus on the works of artists who took the initiative […]

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Public Presentation (1) “Artist / Curators”: Defy the Competitive Norms | Amirali Ghasemi

Tuesday, Jan 7, 2020 At 6 pm A Repeated Question: Where Does It Come From? This presentation began with a set of questions that could help shape the boundaries, position, mechanism, and application of curatorial practice. As the title of the presentation suggests, the focus was on the relative proposition between the artist/curators, not a […]

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Isfahan Animation Walk

Isfahan Animation Walk 2019 Saturday – Sunday, November 9-10 Animation; experiment and Asifa Isfahan in Collaboration with New Media Society and Parking Video Library Present: 4:30 to 8:30pm Participating Artists in Alphabetical Order Kianoush Abedi | Amin Aghaei| Nazanin Aharipour |Mehdi Alibeigi |Hamid Amjadian | Nairy Eivazy | Mobin Eslamie | Mansoureh Ghasemi | Yasaman […]

Open Panel Discussion on Second Anniversary of “Animation; experiment”

Animation; Experiment in collaboration with New Media Projects #28 | Open Panel Discussion with the Audience Oct, 23, 2019 | 7 pm On Wednesday, 23rd Oct 2019, “Animation; experiment” collective is going to kick start its 3rd year by an open panel discussion with the audience members. After a brief presentation on the past two […]

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Multiple Access in Isfahan | Curated by Minoo Iranpour

Multiple Accesses 28-30 Sep 2019 3 to 7 pm Two generations of Isfahani Video Artists Curated by Minoo Iranpour Artists: Shahram Ahmadzadeh Torkmani, Mojtaba Espanyani, Hamid Amjadian, Mana Aghababaei and Howrah Danesh, Morteza Basravi, Farid Bana, Ehsan Tahvilian, Hossein Tahvilian, Paya Khakbaz, Raha Dehghani, Amir Rajaei, Reza Razvani, Forouzan Safari, Elaheh Rafiei, Behzad Zohari,Ali Akbar […]

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Animation; Experiment #26 | Nikki Schuster

Animation; Experiment in collaboration with New Media Society Artist Talk with Nikki Schuster Wed, Sep 18, 2019, |7 pm Nikki Schuster (AUT), based in Berlin, works as an experimental animated film artist and sound designer. In 2001, she founded her animated film label “Fiesfilm” In her films, she mixes conventional stop-action with 2D computer technology. […]

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Yard Video Festival in cooperation with New Media Society

Yard Video Festival in cooperation with New Media Society August 9, 2019- August 16, 2019 Parking Video Library in cooperation New Media Society participated in the first edition of Yard Video Festival -initiated by ag Galerie- with the three screening programs: Invisible Present Tense 03, curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Shar(e)d Cinema curated by Marlies Pöschl […]

Munich: A Detour to Tehran

Munich: A Detour to Tehran July 12 -14, 2019 Screening Programs, Installations, and Talks on Iran`s Capital through Documentaries, Videos, and Experimental Films Curated by Amirali Ghasemi | Parking Video Library Cinema Iran The 6th edition of Cinema Iran, a festival of Iranian films, will be held in the German city of Munich from July […]

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Videography Open-studio | led by Nazgol Emami

Summer School for Film, Video and New Media Presents: Open Studio: Nazgol Emami New Media Projects Sunday, Jul 7, 2019 | 6-9 pm   Nazgol Emami was born in Tehran in 1978. She lives and works as a filmmaker and media artist in Cologne. Nazgol holds a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from the University […]

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Artist Talk with Minoo Iranpour

Summer School for film, video and New Media present Artist Talk With Minoo Iranpour New Media Projects Tuesday, June 25, 2019 – 7 pm Minoo Iranpour Mobarakeh Born in 1964, Isfahan (IR) works and lives in Isfahan, Iran. she received her B.A in Painting from the Azad Art university of Tehran in 1993 and M.A […]

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swimاو | An Open Studio by Setareh Fahtehi

Summer School for film, video and New Media presents: An Open Studio by Setareh Fahtehi New Media Projects June 19, 2019 In her open studio at New Media Projects (swimاو) on June 19, 2019, Setareh Fatehi shared parts of her current researches which have been developed out of her online encounters with her family and […]

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“Moving Images; Presentation Contexts and the Separation of Perception” | Wolfgang Knapp

“Moving Images; Presentation Contexts and the Separation of Perception” A Public Lecture by Wolfgang Knapp New Media Projects 2019 Summer School Saturday, June 15 – 7:30 pm Wolfgang Knapp on Saturday, June 15 will The lecture focuses on new exhibitions like e.g. Venice Biennial 2019 and recent shows in China (Shanghai and Hangzhou). The focus […]

Animation; Experiment #24 | Sheila M. Sofian

Animation; Experiment in collaboration with New Media Society | #24 Artist talk with Sheila M. Sofian June 12, 2019 | 8 pm In this session of animated-documentary series, we will have a conversation with American artist and professor; Sheila M. Sofian via Skype, about her works and her technique. Sheila M. Sofian creates films that […]

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Animation; Experiment #23 | Pooya Razi

Artist talk with Pooya Razi Screening “The Noise” and “Not Being “ Pooya Razi is a 34-year-old visual artist living and working in Tehran. Flash Art magazine has described his paintings, which have been exhibited in Tehran, Paris, New York and Dubai–as explorations of « the poetry of the human psyche. » Razi holds a […]

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Elena Alonso Fernández | Ay mija, no es fácil! (Ay mija, it’s not easy!)

Elena Alonso Fernández – “Ay mija, no es fácil!” (Ay mija, it’s not easy!) Exhibition & Artist Talk New Media Projects exhibition: May 22 – June 8, 2019 Opening reception, New Media Projects: Wednesday, May 22, 7 – 10 pm  Closing reception & Artist Talk, New Media Projects: Saturday, June 8   Elena Alonso Fernández will show her project […]

Animation; Experiment #22 | Dante Zaballa

Animation; Experiment #22 | Documentary Animation#2 May 8, 2019 | 7 pm In this session of animated-documentary series, we will have a conversation with Dante Zaballa via Skype and talk about his works and his unique approach towards using animated-documentary. Dante Zaballa is a frame by frame animator from Argentina, who enjoys generating a colorful […]

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Animation; Experiment #21 | Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib

Animation, Experiment in collaboration with New Media Society #21 | Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib Apr 24, 2019 | 6 PM New Media Projects Animated Documentary or Documentary Animation, is a relatively new discourse in utilising expressive and aesthetic possibilities of traditional and modern animation techniques and formats to represent or speak about reality and the real. In […]

Ghazel/ARCHIVES 1/ 1993-1999: Iran

Feb 15 -17, 2019 New Media Projects  Newmedia projects will host “Archives 1993-1999/ Iran” part of Ghazel’s earlier and less shown video works on Feb 15 -17, 2019. These videos are the pioneer works in the Iranian video art scene: a collaboration of Ghazel with Kaveh Golestan at the Golestan Gallery, a video/ performance show […]

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Moving Dust | Isfahan

Dustopedia: Moving Dust, Isfahan  New Media Society in collaboration with Mehregan Atelier Curator: Amirali Ghasemi / Parking Video Library 25 Jan, 2019 Moving Dust features works by Anahita Hekmat, Arash Khosronejad, Arash Fesharaki, Saman Khosravi, Nazgol Emami, Ali Momeni, Minou Iranpour, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Aria Farajnejad, Nassrin Nasser, and Bahram Beyzai, Jale Nessari Address: No 40, Nilforoushzadeh crossroad, Kasra St, Bozorgmehr st, Isfahan. More info here: Moving […]

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Moving Dust | Bandar Abbas

Moving Dust | Bandar Abbas Curator: Amirali Ghasemi / Parking Video Library Moving Dust brings together a series of videos from the Parking Video Library revolving around the representation of dust in moving images in the works of artists and filmmakers. Moving Dust features works by Anahita Hekmat, Arash Khosronejad, Arash Fesharaki, Saman Khosravi, Nazgol […]

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Moving Dust | Kerman

Curator: Amirali Ghasemi / Parking Video Library in collaboration with Yadegaran art gallery 14 – 20 Dec 2018 address: Between Valiasr and Somaye Crossroads | Beheshti St | Kerman | Iran Moving Dust brings together a series of videos from the Parking Video Library revolving around the representation of dust in moving images in the […]