Mona Kasra
Mona Kasra is a media artist, projection designer, and interdisciplinary scholar. She is Associate Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia.[1]
Personal life[edit]
An Iranian-American,[2] Kasra was born and raised in Tehran. Kasra was involved with the Iranian Women's Right's Movement (Campaign of One Million Signatures) in 2006.[citation needed]
She holds a PhD in Arts and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as an MFA in Video/Digital art and a BA in Graphic Design.[3]
Awards[edit]
- 2024 Helen Hayes Award Nomination - Outstanding Media/Projections Design, Unseen (Mosaic Theater Company of DC)[4]
- 2023 Helen Hayes Award Nomination - Outstanding Media/Projections Design, The Till Trilogy: Benevolence (Mosaic Theater Company of DC)[5]
Research and professional activities[edit]
Kasra's research involves exploring the confluence of media technologies, art, and culture; reflecting on the impact of emerging media on personal, political, and creative expression; and experimenting with affordances of such media for artistic practices of performance and installation.[6]
Kasra's artwork has been exhibited in galleries and film festivals across the US and worldwide, and she has juried, curated, and programmed for many exhibitions, film festivals, and conferences.[7] She regularly presents at national and international conferences and her publications can be found in several journals including New Media & Society,[8] The Communication Review,[9] and Media and Communication.[10]
Kasra served as Conference Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH in 2016, [11] and Art Gallery Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in 2011. [12] In 2019, she was elected to serve on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee as director at large.[13] In 2023 and 2024 she served as the Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee[14]
Collectives[edit]
The DWZ[edit]
Kasra is an active member of the DWZ (standing for Dead White Zombies), which is a Dallas-based artist collective of 43 artists that formed in 2011.[15] Kasra took part in the projects Flesh World, (w)hole, T.N.B., and Karaoke Motel by creating video content.[15]
Collage Ensemble[edit]
Kasra joined the Collage Ensemble in 2005, “a Los Angeles Arts Collective of inter-disciplinary artists collaborating on multi-media artwork related to urban life and inter-ethnic experiences.” Collage Ensemble Inc. lasted from 1984 to 2015.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ "Faculty Bio: UVA Dept of Drama".
- ^ "Dwelling in the Enfolding". Anchorage Museum.
- ^ "Mona Kasra". monakasra.com.
- ^ "News: Theatre Washington Announces the 2024 Helen Hayes Award Nominees". 22 January 2024.
- ^ "News: Theatre Washington Announces the 2023 Helen Hayes Award Nominees". 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Berkeley Center for New Media Commons Conversations Events".
- ^ "Faculty Profile: UVA Dept of Art".
- ^ Shen, Cuihua; Kasra, Mona; Pan, Wenjing; Bassett, Grace A.; Malloch, Yining; o'Brien, James F. (2019). "Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online". New Media & Society. 21 (2): 438–463. doi:10.1177/1461444818799526.
- ^ Kasra, Mona (2017). "Vigilantism, public shaming, and social media hegemony: The role of digital-networked images in humiliation and sociopolitical control". The Communication Review. 20 (3): 172–188. doi:10.1080/10714421.2017.1343068. S2CID 148959909.
- ^ Kasra, Mona (21 December 2017). "VDigital-Networked Images as Personal Acts of Political Expression". Media and Communication. 5 (4): 51–64. doi:10.17645/mac.v5i4.1065.
- ^ "A Conversation with SIGGRAPH 2016 Conference Chair Mona Kasra". 18 July 2016.
- ^ "SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Make It Home".
- ^ "ACM SIGGRAPH Governance". 13 January 2022.
- ^ "ACM SIGGRAPH Chair and Chair-Elect Selected". 22 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Dead White Zombies in Dallas, Tx". Dead White Zombies. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ^ "Collage Ensemble Inc. Collection". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2022-03-07.