New Media Society in collaboration with Rooberoo Mansion presents:
“Video in Theater”
Monday April 10, 2017
Panel participating Pegah Tabassinejad, Hesam Nourani: 6 pm
RooBeRoo Mansion: No. 7, Kianpour Deadend, Enghelab St. (east to west), Tehran, Iran

“Video in Theater” with Pegah Tabassinejad, Hessam Nourani

Pegah Tabassinejad is an Interdisciplinary artist with interests in directing experimental performances, net performances, and interactive installations. She holds MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Simon Fraser University and BA in Stage Directing from the Art University of Tehran. She also studied contemporary dance and choreography in Paris at Conservatoire de la Danse.
Her research is mostly around the notion of ‘presence’ as she is trying to negotiate between mediums of creation. Pegah believes that the boundaries between disparate forms of art are thin; they constantly interact, influence and impact each other.
She recently had a virtual installation named ‘Monitoring [Tehran]’ at TADAEX04 (Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition) that had been installed for 12 days, questioning what is the real presence of Tehran dwellers. Other projects she had in Canada were included ‘Monitoring[A Doll’s House]’, an almost 60 hours durational performance with the virtual installation, ‘a doll’s room’, ‘Fake Memories’, ‘Read Me’ and ‘Charisma’ (as part of ‘Push Festival- Push-OFF’, Canada, and ‘Dancing on the Edge Festival’, Netherlands).

Hessam Nourani
b. 1971, Tehran
Hessam Nourani is graduated from Architecture school and worked in the field between 1993-2000. He started his career in the movie theater industry since 2000.
His cinematic works include: first assistant director and planner in films directed by Bahman Farmanara, Kambozia Partovi, Bahman Kiarostami, George Ovashvili, Rasoul Molagholipour, Mani Haqiqi, Ali Rafeie, Fereydoun Jeyrani.
He had also worked as a video-artist and technical manager at some theaters directed by Amir-Reza Kouhestani, Hassan Majouni, Stefen Wilder, Mohammad Aghebati, Nima Dehghan and Kiomars Moradi.
His work has been presented internationally, at Marienbad Performing Arts Center, Freiburg (2009), Aun Gallery (2012), Ariana Gallery (2014). He did execute more than 20 video-installations for the other artists.