Make Zine's TV component, Make: Television, decided to do a profile and me and MAW. After hours and hours of talking, filming, outing and editing, a preview has been released.

The show will air sometime in Feb. 2009 on public television, all across America.

Research

Sample Works by Ali Momeni

• Smoke and Hot Air (2008)
  in collaboration with Robin Mandel
  Installation for smoke-ring quartet, synthesized voice, electronics and microcontroller
• Table Settings (2008)
  in collaboration with David Bithell
  Live table-top musical theater performance
• For Air, For Water (2008)
  in collaboration with Da Wei Xu
  Live Cinema
• Animal Warmth (#28, Now is the Time) (2008)
  Installation for carbon filament light bulbs, electronics and real-time software
• Minneapolis Art on Wheels (2008)
  Public Arts Collective formed and led by Ali Momeni
  See this page for the "About Us" information, or explore the MAW site.
• Wall Whisperer (2008)
  Live Cinema
• Eyes and Ears and the Truth it self (No People Allowed) (2008)
  In collaboration with Jenny Schmid
  Live Cinema
• What Paint Doesn't (2007-8)
  Live Cinema

Teaching

Sample Course Syllabi and Student work by Ali Momeni

I am committed to using technology in my teaching. With the help of the pedagogic tools available at the University of Minnesota, I have conducted all of my courses thus-far in a mostly paper-free manner. All course syllabi, reading assignments, references and student works are on-line. Below you will find directed links to my course materials; please use the digital copy of this document with a computer connected to the internet.

2008-2009

• ART 8400: Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art (Fall 2008)
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
  Assigned Readings and students' responses

• COLA 1521/3521/4521 Collaboratory I: Collaborative Research Laboratory (Fall 2008)
  Class Blog
• COLA 1001: The Art of Collaboration (Fall 2008)
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus

2007-2008

• ARTS 5670: Interdisciplinary New Media Collaborations: Teating Time (Spring 2008)
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
• COLA 3950/5950: Art for the People, Art on Wheels (Spring 2008)
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
  Some Sample Student Works
• ARTS 3603/5630: Experimental Video (Fall 2007)
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
  Some Sample Student Works

Service

• Art Department
• Collaborative Arts
• College of Liberal Arts/Univsersity

Other

• Grants
• Lectures
• Press

A quick overview video made of various activities form the 2008 Spark Festival at the University of Minnesota.

Still images by Sharolyn Hagen.
Video documentation by many many people, and edited by AnderPander.

The University of Minnesota West Bank Arts Quarter is proud to present the 2008 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, February 26-March 2. The festival will be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (USA) and neighboring Minneapolis performing arts venues, and will feature guest artists Iancu Dumitrescu, Anna-Maria Avram, Richard Devine, Paul Demarinis, and others to be announced. Starting this year, Spark is cosponsored by the University of Minnesota’s new Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts (IPCA), a new initiative that encourages and invites cross-genre works in the University arts community.

Now in its sixth year, the Spark Festival showcases the newest groundbreaking works of digital music and art. Last year's festival included innovative works by over one hundred international composers and artists, including featured guest artists Morton Subotnick, Paul Birken, and Zeitgeist. Leading scholars and technology specialists also presented papers relating to new technology and creativity. Audiences for the concerts, installations, and lectures last year totaled approximately 4,000 people and garnered multiple mentions in local and national media.

Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and music works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres.

Spark also invites submission of scholarly papers on Collaborative Arts, Interactivity, Cognition, Compositional and Artistic Process, Social and Ethical Issues in the Arts, Art, Music, Video, Film, Animation, Theater, Dance, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality , intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history and all topics related to the creation of new media art and music. For Spark 2008, we are particularly interested in papers discussing collaborative and interdisciplinary work; but submissions outside this topic are also welcome. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings. Please see http://www.spark.cla.umn.edu/media.html for PDF copies of the Spark 2006 and 2007 proceedings and program.

As a founding faculty member of the Collaborative Arts program, my colleagues and I have devised the major/minor requirements, established the core curriculum, created the fundamental COLA 1001 course, as well as a number of to-be-permanent course, currently offered as workshops (among the Art for the People/Art on Wheels, the precursor to MAW.