Amir Ali Ghassemi

Amirali Ghasemi (امیرعلی قاسمی in Persian), born on 20 August 1980 in Tehran, Iran is an Iranian artist. His focus area is mainly graphic design, photography and digital art. Amirali Ghasemi is also a well known curator of Iranian new generation artists, showing their works through various programs such as "Deep Depression" & "Deeper Depression".

Early life

He grew up in a family where his grandparents were publishing a magazine entitled "Arash" in the 80s which covered arts, literature and cultural affairs.

After high-school he started experimenting with photography and illustration, and later in 1998 he entered the Art faculty of Azad University in Tehran. While studying toward a bachelor degree in graphic design, he became interested in wide range of artistic possibilities offered by multi-media techniques.

Entering the world of art

He won the 2nd prize for web design and multimedia at the 7th Biennale of Iranian Graphic Designers, which was followed by his participation in many graphic competitions and exhibitions in Iran, France, Germany, South Korea, and Japan.

In addition, he has directed many audiovisual projects with Iranian rock bands, such as Meera, D.N.A, and 127. Also, because of his blogging experience, he was selected to contribute to the "International Art Blog Project" by The Centre of Attention in London.

He graduated in 2004 with a BA in graphic design, with a research thesis emphasized on the history of digital art.

Parkingallery

In 1998, he established Parkingallery, an independent art gallery and studio in Tehran. Following that, in 2002, Parkingallery.com, a virtual gallery, which has become an online platform for many young Iranian artists has been launched.

Current

He is currently working as Art director/curator of parkingallery - an independent art space in Tehran - and also as a freelance photographer for various artistic and cultural magazines, and is busy with his video installations and interactive projects, and writing about the Tehran arts scene and contemporary Iranian art in his web-log.

Works

Projects

* Contribution to The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/imagineartafter/ Imagine Art After] project.
* Participation in Fast Forward Curatorial workshop on the occasion of the [http://www.berlinbiennale.de 4th berlin biennial for contemporary art] .

Exhibitions

As a curator, he has directed many exhibition projects for Parkingallery. Some of them listed below :
* " [http://www.parkingallery.com/Harddisk/ Amirali's Hard Disk] " Posters, Photos and Multimedia works
* " [http://www.parkingallery.com/limited/ Limited Access] " Video Screening
* " [http://www.parkingallery.com/deep Deep Depression] "
* " [http://www.parkingallery.com/transition/ The Transition] " installations
* " [http://www.nomad-tv.net/conscious_in_coma/ghassemi.htm Lost in no Space] " video Screening as a guest curator of Conscious in Coma project Istanbul

Video & Interactive Art

Also, his video art pieces was appeared on different occasions inside and outside Iran :
* "Pulp Tehran"
* "Plays the TV - TV scratching for OK video festival"
* "Day Dream Sleeper - Documentation of a Performance With Wolfgang Knapp"
* "Meeting her online - Collaboration with sound artists: Erfan abdi and Amir Lashgari"
* "Happy face/Snow Head -Short Film Nominated for "Fairplay 2007" Film/Video award"
* "The Dancing Fan"
* "DepTV Series of Video Diaries [http://www.amiralionly.com/video/User06.htm ] "
* "Video Diaries [http://www.amiralionly.com/video/User07.htm ] "
* "Random Tehran Diaries"
* "Word for Word"
* "Coffee shop ladies [http://www.amiralionly.com/interactive/CoffeeshopLadies.htm ] " Interactive project
* "Tehran remixed" Interactive collaboration with other Iranian artists

Magazine Features

His writings and his designs have been featured in different magazines including :
* " [http://www.bidoun.com/ Bidoun Magazine] " (USA/UAE)
* " [http://www.frieze.com/ Frieze Magazine] " (UK)
* " [http://www.etapes.com/ étapes Magazine] " (France)
* "(2+3)D" (Poland)
* " [http://www.magtypo.cz/ Typo Magazine] " (Czech Republic)
* "Neshan (Iran)"
* "Andishe-e-Iranshar" (Iran)
* "Tasvir:Image Of the Year" (Iran)

And also different Iranian newspapers :
* "Akhbar"
* "Entekhab"
* "Iran"

Awards

* The fifth prize of "Tokoha CG Art Exhibition" for "Portrait of Forough" [http://www.amiralighasemi.com/biography/tokoha.htm] , Jan. 2002, Tokoha Art Museum, Tokoha, Japan.
* The second prize of web and multimedia section for the design of the site: iranianprofile.com, at the 7th Biennial of Iranian Graphic Designers, March 2002.
*The Jury's special award from 2005 Taiwan International Poster Design Award
* [Icograda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icograda] [http://www.icograda.org/] Excellence Award [9th Tehran International Poster biennial] [http://www.tehran-poster-biennial.com] for designing " [Group video installation] [http://www.parkingallery.com/amiraliposters/06.htm] ' poster 2007 *Excellent award, 6th Seoul triennial of Asia graphic poster, South Korea, 2006

Source

* [http://www.amiralionly.com/bio.html Artist personals website]

External links

* [http://www.parkingallery.com.com Parkingallery website ]
* [http://pix.amiralionly.com.com Amirali's photo-graphic blog ]
* [http://www.amiralionly.com/amirali.doc Amirali Ghasemi's CV ]

The Guardian "Imagine Art After Project"

* [http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.774834db/53 Dialogue page]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/imagineartafter/gallery/0,16639,1595839,00.html Artist page]