Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed is an artist and writer who lives in Montreal. Her video and interactive works look at the relationship between migration, history, incarceration and colonialism. She’s written for Public, Fuse Magazine and Topia as well as a few collections of essays like PLACE: Location and Belonging in New Media Contexts (2007) and is a part of the No One is Illegal Collective in Montreal. She’s almost finished her PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University where her dissertation explores the imagery of the sea in the discourse of modernity and the middle passage.

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HTMlles 8 – 2007 :: crowd control

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17 October 2007

Étiquette(s)

  • festival
HTMlles 2007, eighth edition of Festival. Theme: crowd control Despite the influx of technological tools and ubiquitous communication networks, mobility and the state of being mobile still do not exist without negotiating systems of inclusion or exclusion. It remains necessary for an individual to navigate personal and external control…

Salon Femmes br@nchées #61 :: ART.chives: art, archives and databases

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16 February 2006

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  • presentation
_with Ayesha Hameed J. R. Carpenter Projet Matricules outer space Ayesha Hameed outer space is a web-based project that will look at the parallels between tropes in science fiction and the fantasies of colonial expansion. What unites science fiction and the colonial-metropolitan imaginary, is a changed conception…

outer space | Ayesha Hameed

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14 September 2005

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  • artist residency
http://www.ayeshahameed.net/ Dates: September 2005 Length : 8 weeks Format: interactive website Studio XX was proud to welcome Ayesha Hameed in its thematic residency program on Science fiction – or the reinvention of our time and space. outer space is a web-based project that look at the…