| Calendar | Biography | Writings | Installations | Film | Contact |
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In Conversation
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August 2017, Miami Independent Film Festival, (MINDIE) Miami, FL and Online |
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I was delighted to have my multimedia project Salton Sublime included at the Soundpedro cultural event. |
JUNE 3, 2017 Angels Gate Cultural Center San Pedro, CA 90731 |
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Salton Sublime meditates on the meaning of sublime today in the midst of massive environmental degradation. The Salton Sea in southern California brings a whole new meaning to the sublime as it contains both the awe-inspiring possibilities of a spiritual experience as well as terror and abject fear - especially of death. This project is a remnant of that same heritage of sublime art that seeks to engage the beauty and the terrifying danger of nature while examining both our reliance on and abuse of nature... it asks, what is ultimately left of the sublime? Can we inspire awe from terror? |
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Media Festival, CAMRA AT PENN, Philadelphia, PA, March 2017Panelist on Experimental Methods in Ethnographic ResearchScreening of Salton Sublime at Off-Screen Festival [info] |
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Pannelist on "Engaging Iran" conference.October 21, 2016 [info]San Jose State University |
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Book Reading and Signing at the Book Culture Book Store August 24, 2016 [info] 450 Columbus Ave., New York, New York
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Book Reading and Signing at the Elliot Bay Book Company June 20, 2016 [info] 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 |
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| BOOKS COMBINED | Biographical Essay: Persia is my Heart, January 2016, [info] |
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Book Reading and Signing at Pages Bookshop December 15, 2015 19560 Grand River Ave., Detroit, MI 48223 [info] |
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"Iran nuclear deal offers flicker of hope to Persians in Southern California", Interview for the article, JULY 22, 2015 [info] |
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“Fictive Truths” Aeon Magazine of Ideas and Culture, June 2015 [info] | |
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“Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between” Savage Minds, Anthropology blog [info] | |
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“Keeping it Reel: ‘Reality’s’ Role in the Production and Reception of Independent Iranian Cinema” Film International Volume 12 no. 3 [info] |
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Impolite Conversations, meta-ethno-non/fictional representation of the conversations; An online web series by John Jackson Jr. and Cora Daniels, November 25, 2014 [info] |
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Pictura Poesis: The interplay of poetry, image and ethnography in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black, vol 18, issue 9/Sept 2014 [info] |
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ANTHROPOLOGIES NUMÉRIQUES / 2ND EDITION, Le Cube, Paris, March 19-20, 2014 [info] |
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Media Festival, CAMRA AT PENN, Philadelphia, Sunday March 2, 2014 [info] | |
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Performing Iran Conference, February 22, 2014 [info] | |
Spaces for the Future: Religion in Urban Place-making group member since 2014 [info] |
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Facing the Future: The Artistic and Diasporic Afterlife of the Iran-Iraq War, Anthropology of the Middle East, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2013, pp. 40-62(23) [info] |
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Iran Art & Discourse, Oct 26, 2013, Asia Society, NYC, [info] |
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Noor Iranian Film Festival, Oct 18-24, 2013 Los Angeles [info] |
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"Whole World Blind", online sound installation and accompanying essay, Public Books, April 2013 |
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The Whole World Blind, Ethnographic Terminalia at SOMArts, In collaboration with American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2012 San Francisco, CA |
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January 25, 2012, 9:30 PM PST Roxanne Varzi at Soundwalk and other projects[info] | |
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December 16, 2012 Berlin: Sound performance and Talk @ Project Uqbar | |
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My documentary film "Plastic Flowers Never Die" is distributed through DER | |