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Web Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-damiani/fivars-is-the-most-cuttin_b_11987898.html
Title, Date: FIVARS Is the Most Cutting-Edge Storytelling Festival in the World, and it Kicks Off This Weekend, 09/16/2016 12:42 pm ET by: Jesse Damiani
Circulation: Online, In print
Intended Audience: A general but educated and well-read audience with an interest in art and politics
The destination for news, blogs, and original content offering coverage of US politics, entertainment, style, world news, technology, and comedy.
Article in British Council/Theatre and Dance website discussing “Above”
Web Link: https://theatreanddance.britishcouncil.org/projects/2015/above-a-festival-of-imaginary-events-for-rooftops-in-tehran-and-london/
Title: Above A Festival of Imaginary Events
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: A general but educated and well-read audience with an interest in art and culture
The British Council is the UK’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
Article in Sampsonia Way discussing “Netformance”
Web Link: http://www.sampsoniaway.org/interviews/2014/01/21/a-kiss-in-the-right-direction-an-interview-with-nima-dehghani-and-behzad-tabibian/
Title, Date: A Kiss in the Right Direction: An Interview with Nima Dehghani and Behzad Tabibian, January 21, 2014, by Adam Ernette
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Educated and well-read audience with an interest in art, politics, and literature
Sampsonia Way is an online magazine sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh celebrating literary free expression and supporting persecuted writers worldwide.
Interview with Nima Dehghani in TheTartan Way discussing his work: “Decompensation”
Web Link: https://thetartan.org/2016/4/4/pillbox/miller
Title, Date: MFA student Nima Dehghani exhibits thesis in Miller Gallery/Apr 3, 2016
by Kabir Mantha
Circulation: Online, In Print
Intended Audience: Educated and well-read audience with an interest in art, politics, and literature
Sampsonia Way is an online magazine sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh celebrating literary free expression and supporting persecuted writers worldwide.
Article in Fivars discussing “Decompensation”
Web Link: http://fivars.net/news/fivars-spotlight-nima-dehghanis-decompensation/
Title, Date: FIVARS Spotlight: Nima Dehghani’s “Decompensation”, June 24, 2016
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Artists and general audience with interest in Technology and art.
FIVARS is not only about innovation but has also been an innovator, leading the charge for new modes of storytelling with a series of firsts. The first 100% Virtual Reality stories festival in Canada, launching in Summer 2015 in a series of preview showcases including at Camp Wavelength in August 2015 (the first music festival to allow overnight camping on Toronto Island) with the first official full scale show in September 2015.
Article in Underline Magazine discussing “Above”
Web Link: https://iran.britishcouncil.org/en/underline/theatre/above
Title: Above: A Festival of Imaginary Events for Rooftops in Tehran and London
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: General audience with an interest in art and culture
Underline is a bilingual online magazine bringing you reviews and critiques on the latest artistic practices in Iran and the UK. We facilitate exchanging visions, experiences, projects, and networks between Iran and the UK and aim to contribute towards sustainable cultural relations and a better understanding between the two countries. We focus on literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts and follow events in these fields in Iran and the UK.
Article in English Theater Berlin website about Monotalkhak (The Clown and I)
Web Link: http://www.etberlin.de/production/monotalkhak-me-and-the-clown/
Title, Date: MONOTALKHAK (THE CLOWN AND I), 10 June 2013
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Artists and a general audience interested in theater and performance art
Video Interview and Article in iMal Website discussing “Telepuppet.tv”
Web Link: http://imal.org/en/telepuppet
Video Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHb4VRgvTBs&t=46s
Title, Date: Telepuppet.tv - Ali Momeni & Nima Dehghani, 4 October 2014
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Artists
iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), is a non-profit association created in Brussels in 1999, with the objective to support artistic forms and creative practices using computer and network technologies as their medium
Article in Connecting Cities Website discussing “Telepuppet.tv”
Web Link: http://connectingcities.net/project/telepuppettv
Title: Telepuppet.tv
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Artists
Connecting Cities is a European and worldwide expanding network aiming to build up a connected infrastructure of media facades, urban screens, and projection sites to circulate artistic and social content. In opposition to the commercial use of these urban media, we establish them as platforms on which citizens can exchange – within the city as much as between cities.
Article in Medialab-Prado Website discussing “Telepuppet.tv”
Web Link: http://medialab-prado.es/article/cnn092014
Title: Telepuppet.tv
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: General audience with an interest in Arts and Technology
Medialab-Prado is a citizen laboratory of production, research, and broadcasting of cultural projects that explores the forms of experimentation and collaborative learning that have emerged from digital networks. It is part of the Department of Culture and Sports (former Department of Arts, Sports, and Tourism) of the Madrid City Council.
Article and announcement in Mote 078 website discussing “PoolParty”
Web Link: http://mote078.org/post/64049159859/pool-party-nov-15th-thru-dec-8th-by-hoda
Title: Pool Party
Circulation: Online, In print (handout)
Intended Audience: Artists, general audience with an interest in experimental arts
Mote 078 Gallery’s mission is to exhibit experimental contemporary art from all corners of the world while instigating conversations about the role that artists play in shaping the gallery context. From installation art to objects, or video to performance art, Mote 078 Gallery strives to become a catalyst for conversations, interventions, and hacks around the notions of: art + display + commerce + social engagement = The Art World.
Article in Awesome Pittsburgh discussing “KissForPeace” and “Letters”
Web Link: https://awesomepgh.com/2014/01/14/award-26-kiss-for-peace/
Title, Date: Award #26: Kiss for Peace!, January 14, 2014, by Tony Macklin
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Artists and general audience with an interest in Technology and art.
Awesome Pittsburgh grants money – cold hard cash with no strings attached – to people or groups with brilliant ideas. Pittsburgh, already a hotbed of awesomeness, is brimming with smart, passionate, creative, crazy people.
Article in Archdaily discussing "Tehran business Hotel”
Web Link: http://www.archdaily.com/72900/tehran-business-hotel-bonsar-architecture-studio/
Title, Date: Tehran Business Hotel / Bonsar Architecture Studio, 12 August 2010, by Sebastian Jordana
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Designers, Architects, and general audience with an interest in architecture, design and art.
A platform to collect the most important information to help architects create better architecture became a fast-growing technology company that delivers inspiration, tools, and knowledge to the 10 million architects that visit and use ArchDaily each month.
The announcement in Conflict Kitchen Website discussing “ Tour of Tehran (2016) | non-fiction virtual reality”
Web Link: http://conflictkitchen.org/events/iranian-film-video-festival-2/
Title, Date: IRANIAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
Circulation: Online, InPrint
Intended Audience: General audience and people with interest in art and culture
Conflict Kitchen is a non profit organization and its website is part of an art project. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration is augmented by events, performances, publications, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus region. The restaurant rotates identities in relation to current geopolitical events.
Announcement and essay in Brussels Nuit Blanche 2014 catalogue discussing “Telepuppet.tv”
Web Link: http://nuitblanche.brussels/media/2014/10/brochure_web_nuitblanche_2014_P1_40.pdf
Title: Telepuppet.tv
Circulation: Online, In print
Intended Audience: General audience with interest in Arts
As a cultural, artistic and popular event, NUIT BLANCHE invites everyone to reclaim the city for just one night. It is a night to get together, to share unusual and creative aspects of the contemporary artistic scene in a warm and festive atmosphere that encourages discovery and wonder. Installations, multimedia projections, performances and interactive shows are everywhere, into the early hours.
Announcement in In Between Time Festival website discussing Nima Dehghani's talk: “Producers as international change makers”
Web Link: http://ibt15.co.uk/producers-international-change-makers/
Title: PRODUCERS AS INTERNATIONAL CHANGE MAKERS
Circulation: Online, In print (Festival)
Intended Audience: A general but educated and well-read audience with an interest in Art, Performance Art, and Theater
Exploding out of leading art institutions into streets, homes and public spaces, In Between Time has grown over two decades to become a critically acclaimed and globally respected producer of contemporary and live art. IBT Bristol International Festival is the culmination of all our commissioning and producing work, weaving its programme across our home city every two years.
Article in STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Blog discussing “Home Tweet Home”
Web Link: http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/grants/home-tweet-home
Title: Home Tweet Home
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: General audience with an interest in arts and technology
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry is a flexible laboratory for new modes of arts research, production and presentation. Founded in 1989 within the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the STUDIO serves as a locus for hybrid enterprises on the CMU campus, the Pittsburgh region, and internationally.
Article in Evolo website discussing “Tehran Tower”
WebLink:http://www.evolo.us/competition/tehran-tower/
Title, Date: Tehran Tower/Honorable Mention/2012 Skyscraper Competition , 2 March 2012
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: General audience with interest in Art, Design and Architecture
eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on technological advances, sustainability, and innovative design for the 21st Century. Our objective is to promote and discuss the most avant-garde ideas generated in schools and professional studios around the world. It is a medium to explore the reality and future of design with up-to-date news, events, and projects.
Article in Archiscene discussing “Tehran Tower”
WebLink: http://www.archiscene.net/residential/tehran-tower/
Title, Date: Tehran residential skyscrapper, March 6, 2912
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: General audience with interest in Art, Design and Architecture
Archiscene began as a sister site addition to fashion and design destination Design Scene, taking over daily architecture and design updates. Today it is a daily journal, focusing on groundbreaking projects, in the already mentioned fields, as well as timeless eye-catching design. While our intent is not to be a database, we do keep a wast archive for our readers. You are able to search for architecture destination by the countries and cities around the globe, furthermore leading firms in the domain are listed on our pages.
Announcement in Persian Academic and Cultural Student Association
discussingNima Dehghani's workshop: “Creative writing workshop; from form to performance”
Web Link: http://www.uscpacsa.org/event/nimadehghani
Title, Date: A Creative writing Workshop by Nima Dehghani
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Students and well-read audience with an interest in arts and writing
Persian Academic and Cultural Student Association is a nonprofit, nonreligious and non partisan student organization at the University of Southern California. PACSA, founded in 2011, prides itself in being one of most active participants of the culturally diverse Trojan community.
Note and Announcement in “This is Live Art” discussing “Above”
Web Link: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/catalogue/above-a-festival-of-imaginary-events
Title: Above: A Festival of Imaginary Events
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: Artists and Art lovers
Established in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is the world’s leading organisation for Live Art, producing specialized projects, opportunities, resources and publications for those who make, watch, research, study, teach, produce, present, write about and archive Live Art, and creating conditions in which diversity, innovation and risk in contemporary culture can thrive.
Report in “Mehr News” discussing “Where is the capital of Rio De janeiro”
Web Link: http://www.mehrnews.com/news/2081630/
Title: Above: Stage reading of the play “Where is the capital of Rio De Janeiro” in favor of low-income single moms, June 22, 2013
Circulation: Online
Intended Audience: General audience
Mehr News Agency (MNA), as a private and non-official media was officially launched with Farsi (Persian) and English language services on June 22, 2003. As a matter of development and based on the will of clients, Arabic language service was also introduced on January 4, 2004.
“Mehr” in Persian means: kindheartedness.