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Lectures/Presentations/Panels

  • Art in Conversation | Talk Series hosted by Amirali Ghasemi | Bidar School | Spring 2025
  • Grin & Bear | Boomsoo Studio | Dec 2024
  • Rapture/Rupture | Vantaa | Finland | Nov 2024
  • On Diaspora(s), Artistic Knowledge Transfer in Iran and Beyond | Apartment Der Kunst | Munich | July 2023
  • VIDEO AS AN ARTISTIC MEDIUM: Digital Technologies From The 1990s To The Mid-2000s | Keynote Speech | Cinema IRAN | Gasteig HP8 | July 2023
  • Informal modes of education | Acud Studio | Organized by Mohit.art | Berlin | Feb 2023
  • Iran Making Space for New Media | Sis Art Space | Bojnourd | Iran | June 2022
  • On Artist-run space in Iran and Austria (w Keyvan Paydaar and Peyman Shafiezadeh) | OKF – IRAN/Room for Doubt | May 2022
  • On curating and New Media | 3rd Tehran curatorial symposium | April 2022
  • “True Story” | Lecture Performance | Giselle’s Books | Marseille | March 2022
  • On Video art, progress & development | Online Panel | 6th annual student photo festival | Dec 2021  
  • Archives and Creation in Iran | Online Panel | Amirali Ghasemi in conversation with Maryam Niazadeh, and Michel Dewilde, Hermap Art Project | Bozar | Brussels
  • Ideas & Methodologies for a Collaboratively Curated Network Festival | Online panel | Amber Network Festival | April 2021
  • Digital art and New Media in Iran, a survey | Art & Technology program by Didaar Art Collective | March 2021
  • a’21: Nodes Presentation: New Media Society | Online panel | Amber Network Festival​ | March 2021
  • Iran; Making space for new media | Yarat Contemporary Center| Baku | Feb 2020
  • Artist/curators? |New Media Projects | Tehran | Feb 2020
  • Future threads: Dusto to come | Online Panel | Hosted by Mosaic Rooms | London | August 2020
  • Artist-run Independent spaces In Tehran | Panel | Vartan House |Tehran | Iran| Jan 2019
  • The full Capacity of a Passport | Research week Tehran Art University | Iran | Dec 2018
  • On New Media and Moving Dust | Yadegaran Gallery | Kerman | Dec 2018
  • Iranian contemporary photography | The 3rd annual Photo Exhibition of Tehran University | Iran | Dec 2018
  • Iran Making Space for New Media | Dusseldorf Art Academy | Germany | Nov 2018The alternative Art scene and Platforms | Panel | Iran 101 Seminar | UdK-Berlin | Nov 2018
  • Bon Art Book Fair | Keresht | Iran | September 2018
  • Iran; Making space for new media | in the frame of IRAN : IRAN at New Horizon Festival 2018| Wroclaw | Poland | July 2018
  • The Full capacity of a Passport at Les journées d’études Mobilités humaines et Création | Safavi House | Isfahan | November 2017
  • Post Curatorial Turn | Weissensee University | Berlin | June 2017
  • Tehran International Contemporary Music Festival | Tehran-Moca | April 2017
  • Iran; Making space for new media | das Kapital – Berlin | March 2017
  • Iran; Making space for new media | Gdansk City Gallery | Feb 2017
  • ROUTES|Panel at RESARTIS – Tehran  | Darbast Platform | Nov 2017
  • Platforms & Cultural projects | Panel – Platforms Project at Art Athina | Athens | May 2016  
  • Limited Access Sound | Aknoon Gallery – Isfahan | Feb 2016
  • Semi-Dark Room |in conversation with Navid Salajegheh and Bahar Samadi | Lajevardi Foundation | Sep 2015
  • Standup Talks on “Video” by Pelleh Magazine | Iranian Artist’ Forum | Feb 2015Iran & co, curatorial talk with Amirali Ghasemi and Michel Dewilde | Azad Art Gallery | Jan 2015
  • Iran; Making space for new media | Interface Culture: Kunstuniversität Linz | Linz | July 2014Iran; Making space for new media | Kunst & Designdiskurs Muthesius Kunsthochschule| Kiel | July 2014
  • Iran Making space for new media | A-I-R LABORATORY – CCA Ujazdowski Castle | Warsaw  | june 2014
  • on “Iran & co” – Archive and exhibition – A-I-R LABORATORY – CCA Ujazdowski Castle | Warsaw  | june 2014
  • video artist Festival Jury Panel, Nakhshkhaneh Auditorium | Isfahan |
  • On Documenting video art in Iran Lecture & Screening | Exit  3 meeting | Hormoz Island | Dec 2013
  • Unusual Encounters |  NYU Department of cinema studies | New York | Oct 2013
  • Iran: Making Space for video | NYU Department of cinema studies | New York | | Oct 2013
  • Artist talk | Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series | CalArts | October 2013
  • Sadegh Tirafkan 100 Image and an Interview | Amirali Ghasemi and Abbas Kowsari | Dastan’s Basement | Tehran – June 2013
  • Documenting video art in Iran Lecture & Screening | Sanandaj – April 2013
  • Documenting video art in Iran Lecture & Screening | Iranian Artists’ Forum – Tehran – March 2013
  • “I’ll never be the same” | Open lecture | Konstfack – Stockholm – Feb 2013
  • “True Story” | Presentation/Talk | Gallery 44 – Toronto – May 2012
  • Moving Around The Parking | Lecture | Saw Gallery – Ottawa – April 2012
  • Moving Around The Parking | Curatorial Hub Talks| ICI Independent curators International – New York – Dec 2011
  • Panelist in Iranian Pulse Panelist | Oi Futuro, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Sep 2011
  • Breathing in the Morning, on public art practices in IRAN | Patil Art Festival. Kashan – 2011
  • Breathing in the Morning, on public art practices in IRAN | Chargah Meetings – Ferdowsi Hall, Mashhad – 2011
  • Iran & co. at The Knowledge – Stop 2: Tehran Delfina Foundation, London Oct 2010
  • Iran Vs. (Etc.) | Pist /// Istanbul, Turkey Jan-Feb 2010
  • Tehran: How long a career will sustain? Open Lecture | Institute Art in Context /Berlin University of the Arts, UdK, Berlin, May 2009
  • Art and Culture in post conflict zone Panelist | Suleymaniyeh Iraqi Kurdestan, 2009
  • No Nails, No Pedestals Guest Lecturer | SCCA Ljubljana, May 2009
  • Tehran Art city Panelist | Global Art Forum | Dubai, March 2009
  • ” True Story” Lecture/Presentation | Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstädt, Germany April 2009
  • “Tehran” Panelist | ART ATHINA TALKS, May 2008
  • “Tehran art scene” Presentations in Istanbul, Frankfurt & Malmö Sep-Oct 2006
  • Beyond Mediterranean Panelist | ART FORUM BERLIN: ART TALKS, Oct 2006

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Distant war memories – 2007