EDUCATION |

  • 2020-2021| KASK & Conservatorium, Gent, Belgium | Audiovisual Arts
  • 2013-2015 | Tarbiat modares university faculty of art and architecture, Tehran, Iran| M.A. in Animation
  • 2008-2012| Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran| B.Sc. in Biology

PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS |        

  • 2019| Sound, interaction and audiovisual aesthetics in contemporary experimental animation: Workshop at the department of cinema and theater, Tehran University of Arts, Tehran, Iran
  • 2019| “Animation;experiment” collective’s panel discussion: Experimental animation expansion and the importance of film collectives, Emruz Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
  • 2019| Reconsidering animated documentary: Interview with Sylvie Bringas, Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.15
  • 2019| “Animation;experiment” collective’s panel discussion: Experimental animation expansion and the importance of film collectives,11th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran
  • 2019| Experimentalism and Alternative Spaces for Animation (seminar), Tarbiat Modarres University’s Animation week, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2019| Returning omitted History with Animation, Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.14
  • 2018| Protest in Motion: Discover how political animations thrived behind the Iron Curtain (Translation), Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.13
  • 2018| Who’s who in Filmmaking: James Whitney (Translation), Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.11&12
  • 2017| A Curious Chapter in the Manual of Animation:   Stan VanDerBeek’s Animate Spatial Politics (Translation), Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.9
  • 2017| Expressive characteristics of animated performances, Animation and the World to come: 2nd Iran national animation conference selected Articles book, DECF publications, Tehran, Iran
  • 2017| The intersection between animation and new media arts, 10th Tehran   International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran
  • 2017| Embodied Site-specific animation (Translation), Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.7
  • 2016| Animated GIF Art: a future of three modern visual artists (Translation), Cinema Animation  quarterly, vol.6
  • 2016| The Future of Visual Music (Translation), Cinema Animation  quarterly, vol.5
  • 2016| Animation installation: beyond simple screening, Cinema Animation Quarterly, vol.4
  • 2016| The intersection between animation and new media arts, Cinema Animation Quarterly, vol.3
  • 2016| Alchemy of light: the edge of reality and fiction, compilation and translation, Cinema Animation quarterly, vol.3
  • 2015| Expressive characteristics of animated performances, 2nd Iran National Animation Conference, Kish Island, Iran

GRANTS, AWARDS|    

  • 2023| Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community, Research Scholarship for Visual Arts
  • 2019| Roberto Cimetta Fund, Selected for General Fund focus Persian speaking countries
  • 2019| 11th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran, (ASIFA Iran’s special prize to “Animation;experiment” collective)
  • 2017| 10th Tehran International Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran, (Winner: Best Master’s Thesis)
  • 2016| Atf Film Festival (Research, Technology and Innovation) Tehran, Iran, (Winner: main prize in experimental and new media category)

SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS |     

  • 2023| Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
  • 2023|  Unveiling the Past: Films by female filmmakers from Iran, Arche Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
  • 2023|  Generations, Exhibition at SoundsAbout Gallery, Projektraum Zwitschermachine, Berlin, Germany
  • 2023|  Not knowing That it is Alive and Preagnent, Film screening curated by Experimental Film Society, fsk Cinema, Berlin, Germany
  • 2023 |  SoundS Master Exhibit, Group Exhibition at Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany
  • 2022|  Taube Erde, Part of The Driving Factor, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
  • 2022|  The Other Side of Water, Group exhibition at Podroom Gallery in the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2022|  Slow Hearing, Opening exhibition of Rabt space, Tehran, Iran
  • 2021|  UdK Rundgang: Lietze mon amour , Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • 2021|   Noxte vol. IV group exhibition, curated by Nullsight, Part of Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
  • 2021|   Mémoires des autres mondes group exhibition: Espace Croisé center for contemporary arts, Roubaix, France
  • 2021| Dust to come, Amber network Festival, Berlin Germany
  • 2020| Future Threads digital program: Dust to Come, The mosaic rooms in collaboration with new media society, London, UK
  • 2020| The Room: First Phase, Pejman Foundation’s non-physical exhibition platform, Tehran, Iran
  • 2019| H/F digital exhibition space, New Media Caucus non-profit association for the development of new media art, Evanston, IL, USA
  • 2019| pose Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2019| Animation Walk, Isfahan, Iran
  • 2019| Limited Access 8 Festival, Platform 3, Tehran, Iran
  • 2019| Limited Access 8 Festival, Aaran Gallery and New media Projects, Tehran, Iran
  • 2019| Animation Walk, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  • 2018| ARGH show group exhibition, Argh! Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017| Action On Film Festival, World Cinema Iran, Las Vegas, USA.
  • 2017| Limited Access 7 Festival, Animation Forum, Aaran Gallery and Rooberoo Mansion, Tehran, Iran
  • 2016| 14th Image of the Year Film Festival, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2016| Atf Film Festival (Research, Technology, and Innovation), Tehran, Iran.
  • 2016| 33rd Tehran International Short Film Festival (parallel section), Tehran, Iran.
  • 2016| Alberta College of Art and Design Calgary, Canada.
  • 2015| Aliha art gallery, De/Attach Performance, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2015| Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat modares university, Tehran, Iran
  • 2015| OKTO.TV, Vienna, Austria
  • 2015| 5thBideodromo experimental film festival, Bilbao, Spain
  • 2015| 9thTehran international animation film festival, Tehran, Iran
  • 2015| 12thNahal film festival, Tehran, Iran
  • 2014| 12thImage of the Year film festival, Tehran, Iran
  • 2014| 12th Image of the Year Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran
  • 2014| Eastern Breeze film festival, Toronto, Canada
  • 2014| 2ndDelete-Tv film festival, London, England
  • 2014| 4thKhorshid film festival, Tehran, Iran

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |

  • 2022 | Documentary Filmmaker | neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin, The Driving Factor projectgroup, Taube Erde tour, Zinnwald/Freiberg, Germany
  • 2021 | Video Documentor | Korea Verband e.V.,  30 Jahre Brechen des Schweigens, Berlin, Germany
  • 2021 | Curator |  Animation;experiment in collaboration with New media society, Visual velocities, KASKcinema and X-ray projects, Gent, Belgium
  • 2015 – present | Art Director, Animator, Writer, Media Concept Maker, Photographer and Editor | JOL Creative Studio, Tehran, Iran
  • 2017 – present | Board Member | Animation;Experiment Collective, Educational series of sessions dedicated to experimental animation, in collaboration with New Media Society, Tehran, Iran
  • 2015 – 2019 | Experimental Animation Department Editor, Writer, Translator | Cinema Animation Quarterly, Iran’s only Specialized Magazine in Animation Studies, Tehran, Iran
  • 2018 – 2019 | Art and Media Supervisor | RAH foundation, Non-profit health organization (Committed to Sexual health awareness in Middle east and northern Africa), Terhan, Iran
  • 2016| Coordinator and  video Documentor | Cooperation with Conflict Kitchen (an experimental public art project based in Pittsburg founded by Jon Rubin). Iranian virtual cooking lesson project, Tehran, Iran
  • 2016| Editor, Photographer| RAH foundation (Ctrl+s and Hide & Seek project), Tehran, Iran
  • 2015| Moderator | Cooperation with New media Society, “Animation and beyond” talk session, Lajevardi foundation, Terhan, Iran
  • 2017- 2018| Animation and Experimental Filmmaking Teacher| NODET (National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents), Farzanegan, Tehran, Iran
  • 2016 – 2017 | Member of Board of Directors, Art Consultant | Basement 2208, Multimedia Art Platform, Tehran, Iran