https://ericakermani.com Erica Kermani Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:25:53 +0000 https://ericakermani.com en https://ericakermani.com/Well-No-1 Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:34:09 +0000 Erica Kermani https://ericakermani.com/Well-No-1 = Well No. 1 2018-Ongoing Video, Performance, and Installation&nbsp; &nbsp; EXHIBITION:2022 ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Exhibition,&nbsp;The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology, and Critical Action 2018 Mona Bizmarck American Center, Paris, France, installation with sculpture, single-channel videos - “ferdows,” “tasliat,” and “peydah yesh = Well No. 1” Encours Gallery, Paris, France,&nbsp; video - “ferdows = Well No. 1”&nbsp; PERFORMANCES &amp; PERFORMANCE LECTURES WITH VIDEO: 2022 SPARKS (Short Presentations of Art and Research for the Kindred Spirit), ACM SIGGRAPH2019 Parsons, The New School, Design for This Century 2019 Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Art in the Anthropocene, “Burying Well No. 1 and You Along With It” Starr Bar, Brooklyn, New York, “Burying Well No. 1 and You Along With It” 2018 Encours Gallery, Paris, France,&nbsp;“Burying Well No. 1 and You Along With It” 1 2 3 <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e124cd0d4ada2734fffebcbdce317657763df6b3ad6b4fe2fa046e925b30c49/20180518_Exhibit_098.jpg" data-mid="23128662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e124cd0d4ada2734fffebcbdce317657763df6b3ad6b4fe2fa046e925b30c49/20180518_Exhibit_098.jpg" /> 4 <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7719744ccfe5eea3c838df2397f8c8feb8e7457bc6ada6930a6b6d94b1b3a6d0/ERICA_PPC2018-8-edit2.png" data-mid="25341349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7719744ccfe5eea3c838df2397f8c8feb8e7457bc6ada6930a6b6d94b1b3a6d0/ERICA_PPC2018-8-edit2.png" />5 Édouard Glissant builds his language with rocks.&nbsp; I re-write histories with limestone and sandstone: reservoir rocks that hold dried up blood and wet petroleum deposits.&nbsp; We come from the rocks: “fossil fuels are forms of energy in which great quantities of space and time, as it were, have been compressed into a concentrated form.” I call to the prehistories and to the mythologies that hold fractured landscapes beneath, what is now industrialized dust and wind.&nbsp; I find my place somewhere between the layers.&nbsp; Somewhere between imagination and memory.&nbsp; Somewhere between history and mythology.&nbsp; Somewhere between your traditions and my words.&nbsp; I set out to create my own Persian mythology. &nbsp;This is = Well No. 1. = Well No. 1 is a series of videos, ritual performances, and infrastructural meditations that serve to reverse this history of commercial oil extraction as a practice in radical healing and transformative possibility. In 1908, the British established Well No. 1 in Iran. This commercial oil discovery led to the creation of one of the largest oil companies, now BP, and launched the modern petroleum industry in Southwest Asia. The well acts as a symbol for the violent industrialization and imperialism led by Britain as well as France. Orientalism was key in justifying exploitation of labor and environment, cultural and spiritual erasure, and manipulation of Iranian political systems. = Well No. 1 places the oil well as a site of contestation. The sculpture displaces it from its origin to be interfered with or sabotaged. The oil well is both leading back into and emerging from limestone. The videos reclaim archive and enact ritual (burial, cleansing, mourning, and transference) as practices in resistance, sovereignty, and restoration. Since this oil was once a source for Zoroastrian fire temple ceremonies, as captured in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (Book of Kings), I attempt to restore its sacredness and cultural importance and our relationship to the Earth. Drawing on my own experience as a first-generation Iranian-American, I implicate myself into this story to unearth what has brought me to this place in time and space. Françoise Vergès suggests in this racial capitalocene we must return to our beliefs and healing practices in relationship to Mother Earth. Transformative spiritual practice ties to critical action and political movement. We put back the oil and oppose the neo-liberal political arrangements made to put us in this position and have brought on an acceleration of extractionism, global conflict, and climate destruction 1 &nbsp;“ferdows = Well No. 1” Video Still [Video thumbnail description: Dark moody scene. In the foreground are two arms with sleeves from a fuzzy leopard coat, digging into dirt at the center of the frame.&nbsp; The small dirt patch is surrounded by vivid green grass. At the bottom of the frame yellow italicized words read “this is a burial.&nbsp; this is a eulogy.” ferdows = Well No. 1 is the preface to the mythology chapters.&nbsp; In Farsi, ferdows means heaven or paradise.&nbsp; The word also draws homage to Persian poet Ferdowsi and his epic Shahnameh (Book of Kings). 2&nbsp;“tasliat = Well No. 1” Video [Video thumbnail description:&nbsp;an olive skinned femme with short pixie-cut dark brown hair, almost black, is dipping her eye into a tear catcher, crying with tears made of oil.] tasliat = Well No. 1 refers to condolences.&nbsp; It features a sacred Zoroastrian fire ritual, recalling the ones produced from the oil seepages, attempting to cleanse and make this place holy and natural again from the violent histories. 3&nbsp;“peydah yesh = Well No. 1” Video [Video thumbnail description: Washed out images show olive-skinned femme with short pixie-cut dark brown hair, almost black, standing mid-torso in the frame, her eyes looking down, oil painted on her torso up to her shoulder blades. Layered with this image is a two-toned royal blue and white scene with blue smoke wrapped in front of her face and off-white desert background] peydah yesh means genesis, proposing a new beginning, where globally speaking the oil well was a beginning to an end.&nbsp;I proclaim, “take on the burden to be an overburden” – Overburden is the industry term for rock or topsoil that stands in the way of mineable resources like petroleum. 4 Installation view. Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris 2018. © Vinciane Lebrun/Voyez-Vous [Image description: On the left of the frame, stands a floor-to-ceiling sculpture of an oil well upside down heading into a boulder. Lighting makes oil well shadows onto the rock and onto the wall by the floor-to-ceiling beige and turquoise French doors.&nbsp; On the right is a screen on a black pedestal featuring a clip from “peydah yesh = Well No. 1” of a doubled body kneeling, in the frame, from the nose to the knees with oil painted on her whole body over an azure-colored background] 5&nbsp; &nbsp;Installation view. Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris 2018. Photo Credit: Asher Sackman [Image description: On the left of the frame, stands a floor-to-ceiling sculpture of an oil well upside down heading into a boulder. On the right is a screen on a black pedestal screening a clip from “tasliat = Well No. 1”.&nbsp; In it, an olive skinned femme with short pixie-cut dark brown hair, almost black, has her eyes closed, as liquid oil drips from her left eye down her cheek in a thick trail.&nbsp; Her head appears from the neck up, close-up on the screen in front of a white background] additional images and videos upon request https://ericakermani.com/Firoozeh Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:42:04 +0000 Erica Kermani https://ericakermani.com/Firoozeh Firoozeh&nbsp; &nbsp; 2016 - Ongoing Multimedia (Video, Installation, and Community Collaboratory) 2023 Feminist Revolution in the Making, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center 2020 Video still featured as cover artwork for Catalyst:&nbsp;Vol 6. No. 2 (2020): Special Section on “Computing in/from the South,”edited by Sareeta Amrute &amp; Luis Felipe R. Murillo, November 2020 <img width="3165" height="4096" width_o="3165" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/922c18ab17d9f15f3888a536961f991a15d8604eb073ed5c1a267b603742621f/catalyst.jpg" data-mid="138989244" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/922c18ab17d9f15f3888a536961f991a15d8604eb073ed5c1a267b603742621f/catalyst.jpg" /> <img width="1407" height="868" width_o="1407" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca08a0dea11c3319a34c57bbf7e5b5207c821b446c7a4d2f713877c1b6fac805/bazaar.png" data-mid="86942613" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca08a0dea11c3319a34c57bbf7e5b5207c821b446c7a4d2f713877c1b6fac805/bazaar.png" /> <img width="936" height="529" width_o="936" height_o="529" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a24270ca9d38217006d40d89e88855cb74b60e42764b56cc0d1dc87f66c390ea/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-10.18.38-AM.png" data-mid="86941973" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/936/i/a24270ca9d38217006d40d89e88855cb74b60e42764b56cc0d1dc87f66c390ea/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-10.18.38-AM.png" /> Video stills Firoozeh is a magical realist fiction that speculates technology as talisman passed amongst feminists in the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.&nbsp; Betrayed by the Revolution, a discreet trust network of activists utilize a portable cassette player -- equipped with the mystical energy of turquoise stone -- to find collective protection, resistance, and healing for the continued fight for liberation.&nbsp; In the periods before and after the Iranian Revolution, the portable cassette player and corresponding tapes were an underground method to transmit and circulate radical ideas and cultural materials, circumventing state-sanctioned censorship and surveillance. https://ericakermani.com/Homepage Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:25:53 +0000 Erica Kermani https://ericakermani.com/Homepage <img width="3165" height="4096" width_o="3165" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/922c18ab17d9f15f3888a536961f991a15d8604eb073ed5c1a267b603742621f/catalyst.jpg" data-mid="136699532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/922c18ab17d9f15f3888a536961f991a15d8604eb073ed5c1a267b603742621f/catalyst.jpg" /> https://ericakermani.com/About Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:16:08 +0000 Erica Kermani https://ericakermani.com/About Information <img width="900" height="1600" width_o="900" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8784bf1cb8080d365f97aa71ed423067b6b44279ded2524b13b6eb7c9c5de56d/erica-BTS-times-square.png" data-mid="168007064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/8784bf1cb8080d365f97aa71ed423067b6b44279ded2524b13b6eb7c9c5de56d/erica-BTS-times-square.png" /> PHOTO BY YARA BARABOSA Erica Kermani (b. 1983, Los Angeles) is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist dedicated to movement building and collective liberation through art and media, technological sovereignty, and Iranian, Jewish, and queer mysticism. Her artwork utilizes scholarship, memory and archive to produce video, installation, and speculative fiction that interrogate and unsettle dominant narratives, towards healing of self, community, and Earth.&nbsp; Erica has presented her work nationally and internationally, at Mona Bismarck American Center (Paris), the Science Gallery Dublin, Musée des Arts Decoratif, the International Center of Photography Museum, and Frameline San Francisco. Erica serves as technologist and educator for Community Tech New York and as adjunct faculty at Parsons The New School where she teaches about ancestral and emerging technologies.&nbsp; Erica is a worker-owner of the QTBIPOC- and immigrant-led cooperative Shadow Work Media focused on transformative storytelling.&nbsp; Previously she organized the festival Radical Networks (2015-2019) which she co-founded.&nbsp; Erica has developed curriculum, public programs and published research at organizations including Digital Equity Lab, Data &amp; Society, and Eyebeam (as Director of Community Engagement).&nbsp; She is a member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and Feminists4Jina NYC.&nbsp; She holds a BA in Visual Arts (Media/Computing) and Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and an MFA in Design and Technology from the Parsons School for Design (NYC/Paris). https://ericakermani.com/Running-on-Cargo Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:16:10 +0000 Erica Kermani https://ericakermani.com/Running-on-Cargo Running on Cargo https://ericakermani.com/CV Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:37:45 +0000 Erica Kermani https://ericakermani.com/CV Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION 2018 Master of Fine Arts, Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design The New School (Paris &amp; New York City) 2006 Bachelor of Arts with Provost’s Honors, Visual Arts (Media-Computing) &amp; Political Science,&nbsp; University of California, San Diego EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES / PUBLIC ART 2024 Insistence on Another World, My Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2024&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; En Común: Bookloving y Organizing film premiere, Footlight Underground, Queens, NY&nbsp; 2024 El Corito Sano: A Caribbean Pride Event, Starr Barr, Brooklyn NY 2023 Hummingbird Whispers, Bat Haus, Brooklyn, NY 2023 Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY 2022 The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology, and Critical Action, ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Exhibition, online 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Reunification, CultureHub Re-Fest, virtual 3D gallery, online 2020 lookingGlass, Oye Drum, online exhibition 2020 lookingGlass, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; Night is Like the Ocean Release Party, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NY 2018 La Européenne Nuit des Musées, Mona Bizmarck American Center, Paris, France 2018 Parsons Paris Graduation Exhibition, Mona Bizmarck American Center, Paris, France 2018 ReFrag Festival: Cradle to Grave, En Cours, Paris, France 2018 Occupy Earth, University of Aalto, Helsinki, Finland 2017 MERGE: An Exhibition of Art &amp;&amp; Design with Code, Plateforme Gallery, Paris, France 2017 MAJOR MAJOR Spectrum, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 2015SONYA Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; BLUE, TRU Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; MIX NYC 27th Annual NY Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; SONYA Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY&nbsp; &nbsp; 2013 MIX NYC 26th Annual NY Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY 2013 SONYA Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY 2012 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; How’s the Weather (public mural in collaboration with Ellie Balk), Brooklyn, NY 2006 &nbsp; &nbsp; Frameline30 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2006 &nbsp; Cine Gay Showcase with Q&amp;A, 13th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, CA&nbsp; TEACHING 2024 Teacher, School for Poetic Computation, online Fall /&nbsp; Scripting is Scrying with Aarati Akkapeddi2018 - 2020 Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design The New School, New York, NYSpring / Core Studio Environments, BFA Design &amp; Technology 2019 Part-Time Faculty,&nbsp;Parsons School of Design The New School, New York, NY Fall /&nbsp; Digital Divination&nbsp;with Aarati Akkapeddi, MFA Design &amp; Technology Fall / Design for This Century, MFA Design &amp; Technology Spring / Core Studio Environments, BFA Design &amp; Technology 2018 Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design The New School, New York, NY Fall / Design for This Century, MFA Design &amp; Technology (Lead Lecturers: Melanie Crean and Marisa Jahn; Guest Lecturers included Lina Srivastava, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Alice Sheppard) 2018 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Adjunct Faculty, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY Fall /&nbsp; Costumes as Game Controllers, Game Innovation Lab 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Teaching Fellow, Parsons School of Design The New School, MFA Design and Technology, New York, NY 2017 Facilitator / Mentor, Digital Media Mentoring Program, Girls Write Now, New York, NY 2012 - 2013 Teaching Artist, Contemporary Art Education Program, BRIC Arts Media, New York, NY 2006 Media Arts Instructor, Teen Producers Project, Media Arts Center San Diego, San Diego SELECT CURATORIAL PROJECTS2019Radical Networks, October 18-20, Prime Produce, New York, NY.&nbsp; Organized with Sarah Grant, Björk Roi, and Nathaly Espitia Diaz 2019 #unsettle: Decolonizing Tech Research Symposium, May 17, Data &amp; Society Research Institute, New York, NY.&nbsp; Hosted by Sareeta Amrute.&nbsp; Produced with Rigo Lara Guzman.&nbsp; Presenters: Paula Chakravartty, Jessie Daniels, Jasmine McNealy, and Latoya Peterson 2018 Radical Networks, October 19-21, SPEKTRUM, Berlin, DE. Organized with Sarah Grant.&nbsp; Guest Jurists: Daphne Dragona, Marta Peirano, and Marcha Johnson 2018 ReFrag Festival: Cradle to Grave, March 28-31, En Cours, Paris, FR.&nbsp; Artists/Presenters included Safiya Noble PhD, Tabita Rezaire, Rosa Menkman, and Shawné Michaelaine Holloway 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Radical Networks, October 19-22, Chemistry Creative, Brooklyn, NY. Organized with Sarah Grant, Amelia Marzec, and Laura Welzenbach.&nbsp; Artists/Presenters include Nicolas Maigret, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Laura Lee McCarthy, Rosa Menkman, and Fran Ilich &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Radical Networks, November 4-6, Chemistry Creative, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Lady Tech Guild and Friends, with Rokudenashiko, May 19, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Artists included Pamela Liou, Salome Asega, Annelie Koller, and Sophie Zahn 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Black Spatial Matters, April 9, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Panelists: Tony Bogues, Torkwase Dyson, and Mario Gooden 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Inside/Out event series, November-December, South Street Seaport, NY.&nbsp; Artists: Gene Kogan, Lisa Kori Chung, Kenneth Kirshner, Joshue Ott, Colin Self, Joanna Cheung, Tega Brain,&nbsp;and Lilian Kreutzberger 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Radical Networks, October 24-25, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Presenters include Surya Mattu, Ingrid Burrington, NYC Mesh, Caroline Sinders 2015 Cells and Seams: A Discussion on Biotechnology and Fashion, September 12, South Street Seaport, New York, NY.&nbsp; Panelists: Stefani Bardin, Annelie Koller, Ayodamola Okunseinde, Ali Shachtschneider 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp;Re-Making Patterns, September, South Street Seaport, New York, NY 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Adorn and Subvert: A Discussion on Wearable Resistance, August 9, South Street Seaport, &nbsp; New York, NY.&nbsp; Panelists: Joanne McNeil (Moderator), Adam Harvey, Lisa Kori Chung, Iltimas Doha 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Making Patterns (exhibition and public programs), July-September, South Street Seaport,&nbsp;New York, NY SELECT LECTURES / WORKSHOPS 2023 Digital Divination, in collaboration with Aarati Akkappedi, NYC Resistor, Brooklyn, NY 2023 Feminist Fabulations and Storying, Guest Lecture &amp; Artist Talk, Visual Intelligence, Prof. Clareese Hill, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; NCZ: Not Channel Zero - The Revolution, Televised, panel with Black Planet Productions Collective, moderated by Betty Yu, hosted by Third World Newsreel, 0nline 2022 - 2023 Community Technology, Guest Lecture &amp; Artist Talk, Alternative Internet of Things (IoT), Prof. Sibel Deren Guler, Parsons MFA Design &amp; Technology 2022 The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology, and Critical Action, ACM SIGGRAPH Village, SIGGRAPH Vancouver conference 2022 SPARKS (Short Presentations of Art and Research for the Kindred Spirit), ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Tech as Talisman/Talisman as Tech, Guest Lecture &amp; Artist Talk, Objects of Revolution, Profs. Hala Malik and Anjali Nair, Parsons Design Strategies 2020 Creating a Broadband Bill of Rights, Open Data Week, with Claudina Sarahe 2020 HOT WIRED, Montez Press Radio / Wireless 24 Hour Radio Broadcast - Radio Espacio Estacion, Hosted by Guillermo Gómez, with Shannon Mattern, Yamil Lora, David Goren 2020 Digital Divination with Aarati Akkappedi, #unsettle, Data &amp; Society (postponed)2020 Network of Ethnography, Guest Lecture, Anthropology of Networks, Profs. Greta Byrum and Shannon Mattern, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, New York, NY 2019 Art in the Anthropocene Conference, Science Gallery Dublin, IR&nbsp; &nbsp; 2019 Wearable Interfaces Guest Lecture &amp; Artist Talk, Physical Interfaces &amp; Net Devices, Professor: Scott Fitzgerald, Interactive Digital Media, NYU Tisch School of Arts, New York, NY 2018 ATELIERS DE POLITIQUES TERRIENNE / Mondes possibles, in collaboration with Melanie Crean and Jamer Hunt, curated by Bruno Latour and SPEAP (Frédérique Aït Touati, Emanuele Coccia, Jean-Michel Frodon, Donato Ricci, and SPEAP students), Theatre de Nantes Amandiers, Nantes, FR 2018 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Disorienting Identities Symposium, presenter, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD), Paris, FR 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Networks,&nbsp; workshop facilitator with Miki Foster, Allied Media Conference 2016, Detroit, MI 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Computer Science &amp; The Arts, panelist &amp; presenter, CSNYC, eBay NYC, New York, NY Panelists include Daniel Shiffman, Lauren Gardner, Brian Cohen 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Art and Technology Panel, panelist, West Harlem Arts Fund &amp; Iconic Linx Present Fusion, New York, New York, NY 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The NYCMER Digital Playground: exploring new tools for creating and distributing digital content in museums, presenter, New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) Conference, New York, NY 2016 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Their visionary projects result in new public engagements that cascade far beyond our&nbsp;communities, curator &amp; panel moderator, Residency Reset, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Panelists: Joanne McNeil, Tahir Hemphill, and Kaho Abe 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Network Through Mesh, workshop facilitator with Miki Foster, Radical Networks, Brooklyn, NY 2015&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Clothing, Beauty and Identity in Technology, panelist, Facets 2015, Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Moderator: Caroline Sinders; Panelists: Arabel Sicardi, Joelle Florentin 2014 Arts and Innovation, presenter/expert, French-American Foundation / French Ministry of Culture and Communications Arts and Innovation Program, New York, NY 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; Maker Party, presenter, Mozilla Festival, London, UK 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Museums and Digital Fabrication, presenter, New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) Annual Conference, Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ArtsEdTechNYC Celebrates Fashion, panelist, Apple Store SoHo, New York, NY AWARDS / RESIDENCIES2020 &nbsp; Ars Electronica, Nomination, Golden Nica in Digital Communities Category, Linz, Austria 2019&nbsp; &nbsp; eTextile Spring Break Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY 2017 - 2018 Hive NYC Mozilla Foundation Leadership Grant 2017 Parsons The New School Teaching Fellowship 2017&nbsp; Parsons The New School Graduate Student Travel Grant 2016 - 2018The New School President’s Scholarship 2014 Ace Hotel Artist-in-Residency (Ace AIR), New York, NY 2014&nbsp;Hive Digital Media Learning Fund Travel Grant, New York Community Trust 2012 Brooklyn Arts Council Local Capacity Building Grant, Brooklyn, NY PUBLICATIONS 2021 &nbsp; Oxford University Textbook of Arts Education, Oxford University Press, Photo Credit2020 &nbsp; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Volume 6: Computing in/from the South, Cover Art, eds. Sareeta Amrute and Luis Felipe R. Murillo2020 Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Volume 6: Computing in/from the South, Cover Art, eds. Sareeta Amrute and Luis Felipe R. Murillo2020 &nbsp; Baseline Report: The People’s Internet - Measuring Progress towards Healthier Digital Ecosystems,&nbsp;with Ever Bussey and Greta Byrum – The New School for Social Research, Digital Equity Lab and Community Tech NY &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2016 &nbsp; “Using New Tools: An Interview with Erica Kermani”, by J. Soto, Temporary Art Review AFFILIATIONS Aki-Kindi-Lazul Artist Coven Eyebeam, Alum Feminists for Jina NYC Global Action Project, Board of Directors (2019-2021) Hive NYC Learning Network, Member (2012-2019) &amp; Leadership Grantee (2017-2018) Jewish Voice for Peace, various action affinity groups Just Tech Queer Arts &amp; Technology (QUAT) Research Group (2013-2015) Radical Connections Network Raha Iranian Feminist Collective Shadow Work Media, Co-Founder &amp; Worker-Owner, Collective Member STOP NYPD Spying &amp; RadTech (2019-2020) South of the Navy Yard Artists (SONYA), Secretary, Board of Directors (2012-2015) Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Volunteer, NYC and Athens, Greece (2015-2018)