Anahita Hekmat

Lecturer

Email: ahekmat@berkeley.edu
Website: anahitahekmat.net
Instagram: @hekmatana

Office hours: M-W 12-1 PM | AAPB 285
By appointment: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/mnhps

Anahita Hekmat is using mediums such as sound, video, installation, locative and interactive media, archives, and drawing. Her work is retracing the collective or imaginary memory, the mnemonic landscape, and our understanding of “place”.

Born in Tehran, She received her MFA from HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg and her BA in Painting from the University of Tehran. She is a former post-graduate researcher at EnsadLab in the fields of Interactive Installations and Locative Media in Paris.

Her work has been shown in various art venues including the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, Le 104 in Paris, Casa Blanca Museum in San Juan, Forum of Iranian Artists in Tehran, ICSP in NYC, and film festivals such as Rotterdam, Videoformes, Oslo, Athene or Beijing Independent. She has taught at HEAR Strasbourg, the School of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, and UC Berkeley and collaborates regularly with Beta-Local in San Juan, PR, and NMS (New Media Society) in Tehran.

She explores ethnographic methodologies in relation to contemporary art practices in local and global contexts. In addition to her personal work, she is working in collaboration with other artists and engineers to create multimedia experiences. Her recent projects trace the collective childhood acoustic memory of war in a live spatialized sound performance or the multidisciplinary portrait of the West African countries’ independence euphoria in the 60s.

Courses taught:
ART 26: Moving Image: Foundations