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

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.

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

Research and professional activities

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.[5]

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.[6] She regularly presents at national and international conferences and her publications can be found in several journals including New Media & Society,[7] The Communication Review,[8] and Media and Communication.[9]

Kasra served as Conference Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH in 2016, [10] and Art Gallery Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in 2011. [11] In 2019, she was elected to serve on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee as director at large.[12]

Collectives

The DWZ

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.[13] Kasra took part in the projects Flesh World, (w)hole, T.N.B., and Karaoke Motel by creating video content.[13]

Collage Ensemble

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.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty Bio: UVA Dept of Drama".
  2. ↑ "Dwelling in the Enfolding". Anchorage Museum.
  3. ↑ "Mona Kasra". monakasra.com.
  4. ↑ "News: Theatre Washington Announces the 2023 Helen Hayes Award Nominees".
  5. ↑ "Berkeley Center for New Media Commons Conversations Events".
  6. ↑ "Faculty Profile: UVA Dept of Art".
  7. ↑ "Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online".
  8. ↑ "Vigilantism, public shaming, and social media hegemony: The role of digital-networked images in humiliation and sociopolitical control".
  9. ↑ "VDigital-Networked Images as Personal Acts of Political Expression".
  10. ↑ "A Conversation with SIGGRAPH 2016 Conference Chair Mona Kasra".
  11. ↑ "SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Make It Home".
  12. ↑ "ACM SIGGRAPH Governance".
  13. 1 2 "Dead White Zombies in Dallas, Tx". Dead White Zombies. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  14. ↑ "Collage Ensemble Inc. Collection". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
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