Heba Y. Amin

HEBA Y. AMIN
b. 1980, Cairo, Egypt
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

2017                DCRL Fellow, Digital Cultures Research Lab, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana
                        University, Lüneburg, Germany
2016-present   Doctorate Fellow, Art History, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie
                        Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2010 - 2012     Post-Graduate Certificate, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW): Media Computing,
                        Berlin, Germany
2005 - 2009     MA (terminal degree), College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2009                Certificate, New Media, Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany
2004 - 2005     Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Drawing/Painting, Minneapolis College of Art and Design,
                        Minneapolis, Minneapolis, USA
2002 - 2003     Post-Graduate Study, Painting, with Macalester Professor Christine Willcox, Macalester
                        College, St. Paul, Minneapolis, USA
1998 - 2002     BA, Studio Art, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minneapolis, USA

CURRENT POSITIONS

Lecturer, Bard College Berlin, Germany
Doctorate Fellow, BGSMCS, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Visual Arts Curator, Mizna, Minneapolis, USA
Curator, Ramdom Association, Italy
Co-Founder, The Black Athena Collective

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018    A highlight of ‘A Rectilinear Propagation of Thought’, Zilberman Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
            A Rectilinear Propagation of Thought, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017    The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
            An Astronomical Determination of the Distance Between Two Cities, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul,
            Turkey
2016    The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2007    Latitudes, California Building Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (Mizna Granting Program)
2006    “Heba Amin” Atwood Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019    Still Burning, curators: Giulia Casalini and Camilla Påhlsson, Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg, Sweden
            Crossing Lines, curators: Christian Oxenius and Jan Tichy, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
            Deep Sounding: History as Multiple Narratives, curators: Anna Catharina Gebbers and Melanie
            Roumiguière, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
            I’m An Eye, A Mechanical Eye, curator: Naz Beşcan, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
            The Edge of the Sea, curator: Benedikte Holen, Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Ålesund, Norway
            Touch Me, curator: Helen Karlsson, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden
            Tomorrows fictions: spéculatives pour l’avenir Médittérranéen, curators: Panos Dragonas and
            Daphne Dragonas, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
            Climbing Through the Tide, curator: Başak Şenova, B7L9 Lazaar Foundation, Tunis
            Earth/Sky, curators: Jussi Parikka and Ryan Biship, University of California, San Diego, USA
            Still Burning, curators: Giulia Casalini and Camilla Pahlsson, Varbergs Konsthalle, Sweden
2018    Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World, curators: Janet Bellotto and Dr. Woodman
            Taylor, Katzen Arts Centre, American University Museum, Washington DC, USA
            Playing Innocent, curator: Alejandra Labastida, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
            CrossSections_Potentials, curator: Başak Şenova, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
            Chapter #6: Species of Spaces, curator: Karma Ltd. Extended, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
            Geographies of Imagination, curator: Antonia Alampi, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, SAVVY
            Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
            Videos Echoes: Waves from the Eastern Mediterranean, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
            Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse – Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
            African Metropolis: An Imaginary City, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo,
            Rome, Italy
            En Mal d’Archive – Memory Revisited, Station Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
            10th Berlin Biennale: We don’t need another hero, Berlin, Germany
            Motherland in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
            The General’s Stork, Radio Reina Sophia, Spain
            The Island is what the sea surrounds / Dal Bahar Madwarha, Valetta European Capital of Culture,
            Valetta, Malta
            Walls of Silence, Platforme Paris, Paris, France
            Crosssections_Potentials, curator: Başak Şenova, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
            Recent Histories, Huis Marseille Museum Voor Forografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017    UNTITLED Miami Beach, Miami, USA
            Sound Effects Seoul: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Seoul, South Korea
            Video Diaries I, Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, New York, USA
            11th African Biennale of Photography: Afrotopia, Bamako, Mali
            Karachi Biennale KB17: Witness, Karachi, Pakistan
            15th Istanbul Biennial: a good neighbor, curator: Elmgreen&Dragset, Istanbul, Turkey
            BAUhahaHAUS: bebaut bewohnt belustigt, Architekturforum Oberoesterreich, Linz, Austria
            Deep Memory, Kalmar Art Museum, Kalmar, Sweden
            Afriques Capitales: Cape of Good Hope Here We Come, curator: Simon Njami and Gare Saint
            Sauveur, Lille, France
            Afriques Capitales, curator: Simon Njami and La Villette, Paris, France
            Film Program, Art Basel, Hong Kong
            How Much of This is Fiction, Haus der elektronischen Kuenste, Basel, Switzerland
            How Much of This is Fiction, FACT, Liverpool, UK
            As If – The Media Artist as Trickster, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016    Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest
            Berlinale Spotlight TENT Little Cinema International Festival, Kolkata, India
            Transparency Machines: Image Ex Machina, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
            Nowhere is a Place, Black Athena Collective, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, USA
            Still Lost, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
            Beton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
            The City in the Blue Daylight, Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
            Cairotronica, Cairo, Egypt
            Ultrahabitat, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
            Screening, As Birds Flying/Kama Tohalleq al Teyour, Art Dubai Film Program, Dubai, UAE
            The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid, Marrakech Biennale, Parallel Projects, Marrakech, Morocco
            Making Use, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
            66th Berlinale, As Birds Flying/Kama Tohalleq al Teyour, Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany
            Fluidity, curators: Bettina Steinbrügge (Kunstverein in Hamburg), Nina Möntmann (Royal Institute
            of Art, Stockholm) and Vanessa Joan Müller (Kunsthalle Vienna), Kunstverein in Hamburg,
            Hamburg, Germany
            Homeland is Not a Series, Field of Vision, International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
            Netherlands
2015    To What End?, curator: Gülsen Bal, Walter Seidle at Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
            Say What?, curator: Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidle, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
            Difference Screen, curator: Bruce Allan and Ben Eastop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb,
            Croatia
            Displaced, Schlachten Contemporary Arts Festival, Brandenburg, Germany
2014    CONTINGENT: ONLY IF PARTICIPATION OCCURS, curators: Erandy Vergara and Mark
            Clintberg, Studio XX, Montreal, Canada
            UND HIER: DINGENS…,, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany
            Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo de Fes–8eme edition, curators: Selva Barni and
            Francesca Girelli, Institut Francais Fes, Morocco
            Hopes and Impediments, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            MEI Film Festival Davenport, St. Ambrose University, Iowa, USA
            Art of Peace, curator: Nikki Marquardt, Artraker Award Exhibition, London, UK
            Invisible Borders, Medina Galerie Mediatheque, Bamako, Mali
            IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art: A Time for Dreams, curator: David Elliot,
            Moscow, Russia
            9th Forum Expanded: What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is?, 64th Berlinale,
            Berlin, Germany
            Difference Screen, curator: Bruce Allan, Ben Eastop, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, New York, USA;
            Naregatsi Art Institute, Yerevan, Armenia; Gotlands Art Museum, Visby, Sweden; Kriterion Kino,
            Winter Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
            9th Gyumri Biennale for Contemporary Art, Gyumri, Armenia
            Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, Canada
2013    I’m the Son of the Nile, Light and Wire Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
            Pioneering Values, WRO 15th Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
            Subtle rEvolutions, The Hybrid City II, Athens, Greece
            Recording Against Regimes, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt
            Difference Screen, curator: Bruce Allan and Ben Eastop, ARKO Arts Centre, Seoul, South Korea;
            Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia; Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia;
            Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean, UK
2012    Letters From the Field, Node Center, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
            The Download, Rhizome, The New Museum, New York, USA
            It’s in the ‘Can, Open Space Systems, Zentrum Für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria
            (Is there) Light in outer space?, exUrban Screens, Melbourne, Australia
2011    Let’s Get Ready, Pixxelpoint New Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
            Mizna’s 7th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, USA
            Fluid Spaces, Alfilm Arabisches Film Festival Berlin/ifa Galerie, Northern Spark, Macalester
            College, St. Paul, Minneapolis, ABD
            1256 Stunden Schein, Industriesalon Schöneweide, Berlin, Germany
            Exhibition ONE: zero gravity, International Women Artist’s Salon, New York, USA
2010    Windows: Collaborative Multichannel Video Installation, Townhouse, Cairo, Egypt
2009    White Desert Projection, Minneapolis Art on Wheels, White Desert, Egypt
2008    Root Shock, Obsidian Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
            MAW X Country, Zero 1 New Media Festival, San Jose, USA
2006    Praxis/Practice, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
            Tekween: Making Art in Arabic, Center for Independent Artists, Minneapolis, USA
            Global Unity, MOSAIC Festival of the Arts, Minneapolis, USA
            Prism of Longing, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, Wisconsin, USA
            Immigrant Status, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
            Heba Amin, Atwood Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
2005    Haneen: Between Home and Homeland, Mira Gallery, El Colegio, Minneapolis, USA
            9 Degrees: Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, USA
2004    Mideast-Midwest: A Tesselation of Artists, Mira Gallery, El Colegio, Minneapolis, USA
2003    Revealing Truths: Muslim Women Artists, The Anne C. Fisher Gallery, Washington, D.C and A
            Ramona Studio, New York, USA
2002    Arab Eye, Babylon Art & Cultural Center, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, USA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPS

2018-2019       Curator, History is not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, MIZNA, Minneapolis, USA
2017                Curator, Extreme States of Impossibility Exhibition, San Gagliano, Italy
                        Curator, DEFAULT17 Extreme Land, Artist Residency, Ramdom, San Gagliano, Italy
2016                Workshop Director, When My Future is Silent, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt
                        Workshop Director, Urban Poises, AUC_Lab, Cairo, Egypt
2015-2019       Visual Arts Curator, Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Journal, Minneapolis, USA
2015                Co-founder, The Black Athena Collective (Artist Collective)
                        Curator, DEFAULT15 Extreme Land, Artist Residency, Ramdom, Puglia, Italy
2014                Workshop Director, Les Petites Pierres Association, Dakar, Senegal
2013                Curator, DEFAULT13 Masterclass: Art, Cities and Regeneration (Europe and Asia)
                        Ramdom, Puglia, Italy

RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS

2019    Fellow, Field of Vision, First Look Media, founded by Laura Poitras, Charlotte Cook, AJ Schnack,
            New York, USA
2017    Fellow, Digital Cultures Research Lab, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Lüneburg,
            Germany
2016    Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015    Artist in Residence, Walking the Line: Art of Border Zones in Times of Crisis, Heidelberg
            University, Heidelberg, Germany
            Artist in Residence, Getting Lost, with Julie Mehretu, Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain
2014    Artist in Residence, Resisting the News, Moviemento/Puruli Kültür Sanat, Ankara, Turkey
2010-2012       Fellow, University of Applied Sciences, DAAD Stipendium, Berlin, Germany
2011    Artist in Residence, DEFAULT Masterclass: On Art, Cities and Regeneration, Ramdom, Lecce, Italy
            Artist in Residence, Art and Politics, Platforma 11, Leipzig, Germany
            Artist in Residence, REPlace PROGRAM, Berlin, Germany
2010    Artist in Residence, Streets of Cairo, DEDI, Cairo, Egypt
2005    Artist in Residence, Women’s Art Institute, MCAD, Minneapolis, USA
2002    Artist in Residence, Creative Community Leadership Institute, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, USA

HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

2018    Prize, Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse short-list, nominated by Hamburg Kunstverein, director:
            Bettina            Steinbrügge
            Production Grant, Valletta 2018 Commission, European Capital of Culture, Malta
            Production Grant, Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln, Germany
2017    Production Grant, Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
2016    Production Grant, Interkultur Ruhr Commission, Metropole Ruhr, Germany
2014    Prize, Artraker Artist Prize short-list
2009    Production Grant, Rhizome Commissions Program, New Museum, New York, USA
            Book Award, Skipping Stones Honor Award: MulticulturalInternational, Awareness category
2008    Book Award, Middle East Book Award: Youth Non-Fiction category
            Book Award, National Best Book Award: Religion: Islam category
            Book Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards:Moonbeam, Peacemaker Award
            Production Grant, Block Grant Fund Graduate Student Grant, University of Minnesota, USA
2007    Production Grant, Latitudes, Mizna Granting Program, Minneapolis, USA
2004    Curatorial Grant, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant, Minneapolis, USA

JURIES AND COMMITTEES

2019    Guest critic, MFA Graduate Studio, Regis Center for Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
            USA
            Guest critic, Berlin Program for the Arts, Berlin, Germany
2018    Guest critic, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Expanded Cinema), Leipzig, Germany
2016    Jury, PhD selection committee, Art Academy Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
            Guest critic, Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands
            Guest critic, School of the Art Institute in Chicago (Parlor Room), Chicago, USA
            Guest critic, Staedelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
2013    Jury, “Disrupt!/Design!/ Competition: Entrepreneurs in the Creative Industry”, Cairo, Egypt

PANELS, LECTURES AND ARTIST TALKS

2019    Artist Talk, “Windows on the West”, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “Radio Mutiny”, DAI Roaming Academy Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy
            Artist Talk, “Female Subjectivities and Technological Dystopias”, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
            Performance Lecture, “The General’s Stork” Digital Earth, Khoj International Artists’ Association,
            New Delhi, India
            Artist Talk, “Cultural Subversion as Artistic Practice”, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, USA
            Performance Lecture, “The General’s Stork”, Fondation Thalie/Goethe Institute, Brussels, Belgium
            Performance Lecture, “Operation Sunken Sea: Draining the Mediterranean”, Konstfack, Stockholm,
            Sweeden
2018    Artist Talk, “Technological Dystopias”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Sweeden
            Performance Lecture, Black Athena Collective “Regimes of Passage” UdK, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “No More Dick Soup”, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
            Performance Lecture, “The General’s Stork”, ACUD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “A Rectilinear Propagation of Thought”, Catalog Launch, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin,
            Germany
            Panelist, “Subverting the colonial narrative: inscribing history through artistic practice”, Out of the
            Archive, Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “The General’s Stork”, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
            Artist Talk, “The Devil’s Garden”, endstation.kino/interkultur Ruhr, Bochum, Germany
            Artist Talk, “When Rain Falls on the Mountain of Punt”, Black Athena Collective, 1-54 African Art
            Fair, Marrakech
            Panelist, “The Specter of Artificial Intelligence”, spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures,
            Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2017    Panelist, “Visualizing the Imaginary: Artistic Interventions for Geographical Sovereignty”, Art and
            Activism conference, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
            Artist Talk, “Cultural Subversion as Artistic Practice”, Cosmopolis, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
            Panelist, “Can Creativity Change the World?”, Fondazione lettera27, Moleskin Foundation, Milan,
            Italy
            Performance Lecture, “The General’s Stork”, 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
            Panelist, “Producing Image Activism after the Arab Uprisings”, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
            Sweeden
            Panelist, “Techno-Utopian Fantasies and Digital Nation States: Transfiguring Realities of the Middle
            East” Imaging a Middle East, ICI Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “Subverting the Media as Artistic Practice” Fill in the Blank III, Weissensee Art
            Academy, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “Unruly Art? Performances in the Public Square”, Heba Amin and Center for Political
            Beauty, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, Heba Amin with Anahita Razmi, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “Mediterranean Tomorrows”, moderator: Daphne Dragona, Transmediale, Berlin,
            Germany
            Panelist, “Afropolitan Festival”, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2016    Panelist, “The Politics of Form: What Does Art Know About Society”, Zentrum fuer Literatur und
            Kulturwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “The General’s Stork”, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Solomon R. Guggenheim
            Museum, New York, USA
            Lecture, “Homeland is not a Series”, Impakt Festival Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
            Artist Talk, “Subverting the Media as Artistic Practice”, Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, The
            Netherlands
            Panelist, “State of Urban Art, Oxymoron III”, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense University, Paris,
            France
            Artist Talk, “Subverting the Media as Artistic Practice”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
            Chicago, USA
            Artist Talk, “The General’s Stork”, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “Middle of Where, East of What?”, ICI Berlin, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “Subverting the Media as Artist Practice”, Staedelschule Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
            Artist Talk, Premiere screening of “As Birds Flying” Berlinale, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, “Heba Amin in conversation with Nadine Drost” Kunstverein in Hamburg “Fluidity”,
            Hamburg, Germany
            Panelist, “Power”, Woche der Kritik 2016, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “Five Years After”, moderator: Oliver Lerone Schultz, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “MediaActs”, moderator: Clemens Apprich, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “Culturehacking: A Panel with Simon Denny, Heba Amin, Ryan Gallagher and Brett Scott,
            in conversation with Charlotte Higgins” Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
            Lecture, “Techno-Social Dreams: Digital Remembrance in the Egyptian Revolution” After Tahrir
            Symposium, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA
2015    Lecture, “The Phantom-State: Mediating “Zones of Transmigration” through Images”, The Black
            Athena Collective, Medina Gallery, Bamako, Mali
            Lecture, “Reconfigured Territories: Urban Topologies and New Technologies” Future Perfect,
            Steirischer Herbst Conference, Graz, Austria
            Lecture, “Maps of Myths” Videonale.15: Festival for Contemporary Video Art Bonn, Bonn,
            Germany
            Artist Talk, “Glocal (Hi)stories”, Free University, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2014    Artist Talk, “Invisible Borders”, Goethe Institute, Accra, Ghana
            Artist Talk, “Invisible Borders”, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
            Lecture, “Maps of Myths: Memory Space and Digital Remembrance in the Egyptian Revolution”,
            Pecha Kucha Berlin #36, Berlin, Germany    
            Lecture, “Maps of Myths: Memory Space and Digital Remembrance in the Egyptian Revolution”,
            re:publica 14 conference Berlin, Germany
            Panel, “The Media of the Revolution” Laboratory of the Futures, w/ Edwin Bendyk, Mariya
            Gonchar, Klio Krajewska, Warsaw, Poland
            Artist Talk, “Project Speak2Tweet”, Esc atelier, Rome, Italy
            Panelist, “THINK:FILM NO° 2: What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is?” Forum
            Expanded w/ Ala Younis, Maha Maamoun, 64th Berlinale, Berlin, Germany
2013    Lecture, “Voices from the Revolution” Media Art Histories Conference 2013: RENEW Riga, Latvia
            Keynote Speech, “Project Speak2Tweet” Berlin Social Media Week, Berlin, Germany
            Artist Talk, DEFAULT 13 Masterclass, Ramdom, Lecce, Italy
            Lecture, “Speak2Tweet: An Intimiate Look at the Egyptian Psyche” The Hybrid City Conference II:
            Subtle rEvolutions Athens, Greece
            Lecture “The Revolution of Jokes”, re:publica 13 Conference Berlin, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, “Recording Against Regimes” Bayt Al Sinnari, with Mona Abaza, Piotr Krajewski, Jacek
            Niegoda and Hartmut Jahn, Cairo, Egypt
2012    Lecture, “Voices from the Revolution: A Speak2Tweet Project “, Critical Information Conference
            School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
            Lecture, “Voices from the Revolution”, re:publica 12 Conference Berlin, Berlin, Germany
            Panelist, State of the World Week “Censorship”, ECLA Bard, with Evgeny Morozov, Berlin,
            Germany
2011    Panelist, “Art in Revolution” University of Minnesota, with Fadia Afashe, Mohammed Bamyeh,
            Waleed Mahdi, and Imed Labidi, Minneapolis, USA
            Invited Attendee, Falling Walls Conference Berlin, Berlin, Germany
            Lecture, “The Egyptian Revolution and its Historical Context”, The Public School Berlin, Berlin,
            Germany
2009    Lecture, Guerilla Projection Department of Art, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
            Artist Presentation, “Minneapolis Art on Wheels”, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
            Invited Attendee, WISE Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2005    Artist Talk, “Heba Amin Lecture” St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, Minneapolis, USA
2004-09           Artist Talk “Moving Lives Speakers Bureau”, Intermedia Arts/Minnesota Advocates for
            Human Rights, Minneapolis, USA