Blames and Flames The history of the Iranian revolution is interwoven with the history of cinema: In 1978, on the verge of the revolution, more than 130 cinemas burned down across Iran, 28 of these in Tehran. Who was responsible? Cinema became a major matter of contention on the cultural battleground as the revou The […]
Wall Newspaper project in its second event, presents two documentary films directed by Robert Safarian we gather at new media projects to watch, 14 of Aban, The Day of Fire and Dialogue with Revolution on Monday, Feb 27, 2017 at 6 pm.
A Decade of Pictorial Narrativity New Media Talk Series #37 | Aria Kasaei A Review on War, Revolution & Socio-political posters in IRAN 1975 – 1985 Sunday, February 19, 2017 – 7pm The talk will focus on review of political, social, revolutionary and Iran/Iraq War posters during 1977-1987 and various active orientations toward this period […]
New Media Talk No 36 | Neil van der Linden ‘The Invisible Orchestra. Losing Sense of Space and Time.’ How initially plain Romanticist composer Richard Wagner conceived the idea of the Total Work of Art and not only revolutionised music and theatre, and aimed to change visual art, but also deeply influenced philosophy (Nietzsche) and […]
Rokhdad-e Tazeh Documentary hold its 35th Session in collaboration with Rybon Documentary, Studio 12 & New Media Society: 2nd session from City and Urban Man Series Among the Waves – 2014 Film by Mina Keshavarz Sunday, Feb 12, 2017 – 6 pm Among the waves is a documentary about Rogheyeh, is a woman living in the city […]
New Media Talk Series #35| HamidReza Sheshjavani – Satar Zarkalam Artistic Confusion: Artists and challenges of artistic property rights in Iran Hosted by Zarvan Rouhbakhshan Wednesday, February 1, 2017 – 7pm The artistic property rights law enables artists to protect their works from unauthorized use by others. These rights, in their general sense, are regulations […]
Rokhdad-e Tazeh Documentary hold its 34th Session in collaboration with Rybon Documentary, Studio 12 & New Media Society: 1st session from City and Urban Man Series 3 short films by Khosrow Sinai Sunday, Jan 29, 2017 – 6 pm Program: A sound that becomes antique 1966 Ars Poetica 1968 Sardi Ahan (1969) We will watch […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tehran present: Michał Szlaga ‚Theirs‘ Jan 20-24, 2017 New Media Projects – Tehran Opening: Friday Jan 20, 2017, 5-9 pm Curators: Patrycja Ryłko, Dorota Walentynowicz Guest screening by Paweł Althamer, Honorata Martin The exhibition‚ Theirs‘ involves different forms of artistic collaboration and […]
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017 5-9 pm Tehrsfahan is a fixed media composition consisting of three parts: Isfahan, Tehrsfahan, and Tehran. Leonie recorded all the material used during her residency at New Media Society, where she spent two weeks as a guest artist/performer/teacher during the Limited Access Festival 6 in February of 2016. Isfahan and Tehran […]
MADE UP A one-day open studio with Amirali Mohebbinejad New Media Projects – Tehran Amirali Mohebbi Nejad (b. 1981, Iranian) is a Tehran-based video artist, singer/songwriter, and photographer. His artistic journey has started with photography and music since 2001, followed experimentations in video and installation. He enthusiastically pursues his video practice ever since he made […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Noise Works presents New Media Talk Series #33 | Andreas Specht Memory in Circle Artist talk with Andreas Specht Wednesday, December 21, 2016 – 7pm New Media Projects Andreas Spechtl, born in Austria 1984, studied Media Science in Vienna and is currently living in Berlin. Now and then he […]
New Media Talk Series No 32 | Atousa Bandeh New Media Projects Tuesday, November 29, 2016 – 7pm New Media Project on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 will hold another session of New Media Talk Series with Atousa Bandeh, visual artist and filmmaker based in Asmterdam. She has traveled to Tehran to work on her new […]
Parking video library in collaboration with New Media Society present Parishani A film and video program on Mental Distress Curated by Amirali Ghasemi Friday, November 25, 2016 5-8 pm The program wishes to investigate Mental illnesses and its reflection in a gradient of works by Iranian artists from different disciplines, Using moving images. Ranging from […]
Which world do you live in? Sunday Nov 13, 2016 – 7 pm Jovana Komnenić is New Media Society’s current artist in residence who travelled to Tehran for the exhibition “All Other Passports”, on the last day of the exhibition she will talk about her recent works in conversation with exhibition curator Amirali Ghasemi, and […]
Roots, through the eyes of filmmaker Julie De Clercq Saturday Nov 5, 2016 – 8 pm When can a movie been called a movie ? This is a question that I keep asking myself while making films in different ways and contexts. In the past I made movies in the «classical way» which means WITH […]
New Media Talk Series #29 Setareh Fatehi & Shahrzad Irannejad Bodiless Heads No.2 Introduction New Media Society & Lajevardi Foundation cordially invite you to join Bodiless Heads on Tuesday Oct 18, at 7:00 pm; For the 29th session of New Media Talk Series, Setareh Fatehi & Shahrzad Irannejad will share with us their latest collaborative […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Parkingallery Projects presents All Other Passports The exhibition brings together artists living in various locations on the globe from Los Angeles to Isfahan and from Milan to Berlin. Platforms Project @ Art Athina Booth: P 35 Faliron Pavilion, Athens, Greece Athens 26-29 May, 2016 When one arrives at the […]
New Media Talk Series #23 New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Foundation City Walls, a film by Aidin Bagheri Wednesday, 27th April 2016 – 7 PM On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, “City Walls” a documentary film by Aidin Bagheri will be screened at Lajevardi Foundation from 7 pm, the event follows with a conversation between the director […]
Amirali Ghasemi, Curator / Media Artists and a founding member of New Media Society on Friday April 15, 2016 will exhibit few unseen/less seen projects such as Tehran Remixed: Party Series, Coffee-shop Ladies, White Reconstruction & Recent irritations together with three videos from the past years : Dancing Fan (1999), As Doctor prescribed (2009) and […]
On Friday April 1st, 4-8 pm, New Media Projects will host an open studio with Shirin Fahmi (Montreal). She will present her diagrams, installation and screen her previous video works. Shirin Fahimi’s practice as a visual thinking process intends to traverse the distance between theoretical research and the process of art making through diagramming. Questioning […]
Checkpoint poster | New Media Projects Friday March 11, 2016, 5-8 pm New Media Project for the last time before Nowrouz opens its door to public for an exhibition by two Iranian designers Amir Moghtada & Saman Khosravi during the years have been designing cultural posters with exemplary passion and unique quality. Selflessly supporting independent […]
Last day of Limited Access Festival at Aaran Projects, we will have a special guest Erfan Abdi will share his Notesaaz experience with us with a short performance at the end. Erfan Abdi (1983 – Tehran) is an artist, designer and performer based in The Hague, the Netherlands since 2009. He graduated from the Masters […]
New Media Society & Limited Access Festival in collaboration with Aaran art Gallery and Polish Embassy in Tehran present: Polish Video Art (1973-1979) – Yet Unwritten Story Lectuer by Dr. Marika Kuzmicz Saturday 27 Feb, 2016. 6 – 7 PM Aaran Projects, room 2 Video art in Poland first emerged in the early 70s. Despite the […]
Friday, Feb 19, 2016 – 5-9 pm New Media Projects Leonie Roessler Sound Installation Installation – Stop en Luister, Den Haag! (Stop and Listen, The Hague) “Stop en Luister, Den Haag! is a series of six pieces documenting six different, sonically interesting locations in the city of The Hague. What does The Hague sound like? […]
New Media Society and Lajevardi Foundation present New Media Talk Serie #17 | Sam Samiee Visual Ethics, Forgotten points in pedagogy of painting Sunday, Dec 27, 2015 – 6 pm The pedagogy of painting in Iran is directly under the influence of both the European painting tradition as well as modern and contemporary art pedagogy. […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Aaran Gallery presents New Media Panel | Art In Public Space Round-table with Behzad Khosravi Noori, Neda Razavipour,Mohammad Motamedi, Abbas Badihi, Hooman Alizadeh & Zarvan Rouhbakhshan Sunday, Dec 7, 2015 6 pm.
Bits And Pieces Group Exhibition at Aaran Gallery – Tehran Curated by Amirali Ghasemi 27.11.2015- 17.12.2015 Presenting works by: Talieh Kamran Jan Matavoussian Ardeshir Mohasses Participating Artists: Abbas Badihi- Amirali Mohebbinejad- Alireza Malekian- Ayeh Rahimi- Yousha Bashir Bahar Vafaei- Farshad Nekoumanesh – Hooman Alizadeh Sani- Tannaz Daneshmand- Kiyan Forouzesh – Maede Jenab – Mahtab Alizadeh- […]
New Media Talk Serie # 15 | Bahar Samadi & Navid Salajegheh Lajevardi Foundation Monday 28 Sep. 2015 7-9 pm For closing session of Luminous Void at Lajevardi Foundation, Bahar Samadi and Navid Salajegheh in conversation with Amirali Ghasemi talking about Semi Dark Room, their recent exhibition at Aaran Projects. “Studio 51” Since 2014, experimental […]
“Things said once” Esperanza Collado | Performance – Lecture plus Q&A Lajevardi Foundation Thursday Sep. 24, 2015 6-8 pm Esperanza Collado (Valencia 1976) is an artist-researcher based in Spain. Her research focuses on the relationships between visual arts, performing arts and cinema, and is rooted in a historical understanding of the dematerialization of the art […]
EFS Screening & Talk Sep 19, 2015 Film Programme (Platform Darbast): 1_1/2 (2015) By Jann Clavadetscher / Switzerland-Ireland / 1min 2_Filament (2015) By Michael Higgins / Ireland / 1min 3_Out Of Service (2015) By Michael Higgins / Ireland / 5mins 4_Unknown (2015) By Dean Kavanagh / Ireland / 1min 5_Ornaments Of The Bone (2015) By […]
Parking Project & New Media Society in Collaboration with Iranian Artists’ Forum Group Video Exhibition [light-meter] Videos from Parking Video Library curated by Amirali Ghasemi with works by Mohammad Abbasi, Rasoul Ashtary, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Mani Mazinani, Shirin Mohammad, Allahyar Najafi, Hamed Sahihi, Neda Zarfsaz & Mo H Zarei There are two ways of spreading light: […]
SUMMER OF SOUND New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection presents: New Media Sound Session # 13 | Sohrab Motabar, Sina Shoaie & Arman Moghadam Recursive “-” Deform At the end of the New Media Society’s Summer of Sound program which is dedicated to practices around sound, Sohrab Motabar, Sina Shoaei and Arman Moghadam […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection presents: New Media Talk Serie #12 | Aftab Darvishi Between the Sound and the Shadow In the 12th session of New Media Talk Series we have the chance to sit with Aftab Darvishi. She will talk about film music and her experiences in the field and her […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection presents: New Media Talk Serie #11 | Sohrab Motabar & Saba Alizadeh | Auditory re-arrangements This August New Media Society focuses on Sound and through a number of sound sessions and talks tries to shed light on practices which various individuals and collectives whom dedicated their activities. […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection – Embassy of the republic of Poland in Tehran & SazBaz . A SOUNDWALK electro-acoustic performance of contemporary music What is a SOUNDWALK? It is a journey through the sounds, experiencing their slightest details in a nutshell, created by SpectroDuo (Martyna Kosecka and Idin Samimi Mofakham) with specially invited […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection presents: New Media Talk Serie #9 | Daniel Kötter Q&A Daniel Kötter in conversation with Amirali Ghasemi Daniel Kötter is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection presents: New Media Talk Serie #8 | Sam (Siavash) Anvari P-English | Problems & Side Effects Along with the growth of the Internet and mobile technology in Iran, a mixed-sub language called, “P-English” by which chat and email users utilize Roman English characters to convey messages […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts and Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tehran LOST IN ARCHITECTURE New Media Talk Serie # 7 | Nicolas Grospierre Nicolas Grospierre is an artist and photographer. He has achieved a mastery in balancing the artistic quality with anthropological approach to photographic subject. His background in political sciences […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection – Tehran present New Media Talk Series # 5 & 6 | Parissa Mohit & Maneli Aygani Maneli Aygani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1981. She received her BA in Graphic Design on 20005 from Sooreh University in Tehran, Iran. Later in 2012 she received her […]
New Media Society in collaboration with Lajevardi Collection – Tehran present New Media Talk Serie # 4 | Marko Stamenkovic THE WORTHLESS COMMUNITY Global Necrocoloniality and Social Inclusion through Dying in Abandonment There is no shortage of ugliness in the world. If man closed his eyes to it, there would be even more. But man […]
The third session from New Media Society talk series will take place at Aaran Gallery with Staci Gem Scheiwiller. The title of the talk is “Teleologies of New Media: Digimodernism, Post-Postmodernism, and the Post Contemporary” professor Scheiwiller is an assistant professor of Modern Art History at California State University, Stanislaus. She received her Ph.D. in […]
Exhibition: ‘we rather look back to futures past’ | 6-11 MAR 2015 Lajevardi Collection and Polish Embassy in Tehran present ‘we rather look back to futures past’ Exhibition Curated by Patrycja Ryłko featuring works by Anna Ostoya, Alicja Karska / Aleksandra Went, Agnieszka Polska, Karol Radziszewski, Janek Simon, Michał Szlaga, Dorota Walentynowicz, Rafał Wilk & Ania […]
“Strangeness of Banality and other stories” New Media Society in Stockholm / 16-19 APR 2015 New Media Society/Parkingallery’s presence at Supermarket 2015 is cuarted by Behzad Khosravi Noori and Amirali Ghasemi with kind support of Aaran art gallery – Tehran.
Talk Series #2 : Sona Safaei Sooreh | 8 MAR 2014 Sona Safaei-Sooreh is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Tehran, Iran. She studied painting at Azad University and after graduating with a BFA She moved to Canada in July 2006. She is currently a student at OCAD University in Toronto. Safaei-Sooreh has exhibited […]
Iran & Co – Amirali Ghasemi & Michel Dewilde in conversation | 26 jan
Talk Series #1 : Bita Razavi | 23 DEC 2014 Bita Razavi Born in Tehran in 1983, Bita Razavi lives and works in Helsinki and Metsakivi, Estonia. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Tehran Art University and holds a Masters in Fine Art from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. While collective […]
re-sonic re-view | 19-25 DEC 2014
