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About | Heba Amin
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Info (at) hebaamin.com. B Cairo, Egypt 1980. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, American University in Cairo, Egypt. Curatorial Staff and Network Development, Ramdom, Puglia, Italy. Visual Arts Curator, Mizna, Minneapolis, USA. Co-Founder, The Black Athena Collective. University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW): Media Computing, Berlin, Germany. Alternative Memorials , DAAD Grant,. Advisor: Professor Dr. Deborah Weber-Wulff. Master of Fine Art (terminal degree). Certificate in New Media.
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SPEAKING | Heba Amin
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Artist Talk, “The General’s Stork” Gallery Zilberman Berlin, July 15. Panelist, “Middle of Where, East of What? ICI Berlin, July 14. Artist Talk, Premiere screening of “As Birds Flying” Berlinale, Germany Feb 14, Feb 15. Artist Talk, “Heba Amn in conversation with Nadine Drost”. Kunstverein in Hamburg “Fluidity”, Germany Feb 9. Panelist, “Power” Woche der Kritik 2016. Berlin Germany Feb 12. Panelist, Five Years After”. Moderated by Oliver Lerone Schultz, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany Feb 6. Artist Talk I...
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WRITING | Heba Amin
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2016 “Towards a Spatial Imaginary: Walking Cabbages and Watermelons”. 2016 “The Question of Artistic Freedom”. 2015 “Arabian Street Artists Bomb Homeland: Why we Hacked an Award-Winning Series. 2015 Graffiti artists explain: Why ‘Homeland is watermelon’ went viral. 2014 “Memory Space and Digital Remembrance: the Speak2Tweet Archive”. Techno-Ecologoes II. Acoustic Space #12. 2013 “Speak2Tweet: An Intimate Look at the Egyptian Psyche” subtle rEvolutions Hybrid City, Athens Greece. Iam the son of the #Nile.
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TEACHING | Heba Amin
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2016 BARD COLLEGE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany. Visiting Faculty, Art. TH201: Social Choreography and the Politics of the Public Sphere. 8212;———————-. 2015-2016 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, Cairo, Egypt. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art. ARTV 3211: Art Studio I: Introduction to Research-Based Art. ARTV 3212: Art Studio II: Research Methods and Concepts in Creative Practice. ARTV 4212: Art Studio IV: Archives and Collections for Creative and Curatorial Practice. 8212;———̵...2005-2008 UNIVE...
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WORKS | Heba Amin
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The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid. Mixed Media: Photography, Text, Projection, 2016. The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid is a land surveillance project that utilizes Al-Bakri’s Kitab al-Masalik wal-Mamalik (Book of Roads and Kingdoms), an eleventh-century geography text based on accounts of merchants, geologists and adventurers describing major trade routes in the Islamic empire and converges it with the narratives of contemporary migration. Walking a Watermelon in Cairo. Public art performance, 2016.
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