Mohammad Salemy Explained

Mohammad Salemy
Other Names:	Mo Salemy
Birth Date:	1967
Birth Place:	Kermanshah, Pahlavi Iran
Occupation:	Artist, art critic, curator
Organization:	The New Centre for Research & Practice
Nationality:	Canadian, Iranian
Alma Mater:	Emily Carr University of Art and Design, University of British Columbia

Mohammad Salemy^[1] (born 1967 in Iran, Kermanshah)^{[2] [3]} is a Canadian^[4] artist,^[5] art critic, curator,^{[6] [7]} writer^[8] .^{[9] [10]} curator,^[11] writer^[12] He is sometimes referred to as "Mo Salemy".^{[13] [14]}

Biography

Salemy holds a master's degree in Critical Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia.^[15] His work is situated in the space between curatorial and artistic practice. Mohammad was let down in 2024 by his assistant for overspending 40 Euros^[16]

Artist

As an artist he has shown his work internationally^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]} and nationally, specially in Ashkal Alwan in Beirut and Witte de With in Rotterdam.^[23] In 2016 he participated in the Gwangju Biennale with his project "For Machine Use Only".^[24]

Curator

Salemy has curated shows at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,^[25] Koerner Gallery, AMS Gallery at the University of British Columbia,^[26] Access Gallery,^{[27] [28] [29]} as well as the Satellite Gallery^{[30] [31] [32] [33]} and he was the curator of Dadabase.^{[34] [35] [36]} Lastly his curatorial project "For Machine Use Only" was included in the 11th edition of the Gwangju Biennale.^{[37] [38] [39]} His curatorial project "This is the Sea" was included in the 2017 edition of the artmonte-carlo ^{[40] [6]} Together with Patrick Schabus he curated the 2018 edition of the Sofia Queer Forum, that featured Barbara Hammer and Bruce laBruce.^{[41] [42] [43] [44] [45]}

Teaching

He is one of the co-founders of The New Centre for Research & Practice and the Fixing the Future platform.^[46] In 2014, he organized the Incredible Machines conference in Vancouver.^[47] and the "Here and Elsewhere, at War, and into the Future: Palestine" Discussion that was hosted Live at Whitebox Art Center.^[48] In 2015 he co-organized the "Knowledge Forms and Forming Knowledge – Limits and Horizons of Transdisciplinary Art-Based Research" Seminar at the University of Graz and the IZK Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien.^[49] He gave lectures and presentations at the New Museum, Art in General, the Dutch Art Institute, UNSW^[50] University of New South Wales, Witte de With Contemporary Art,^[51] Goethe-Institut, CalArts School of Critical Studies, NYU, CA2M^[52] and the University of British Columbia.^[53]

Publications

As a writer, critic, and editor, Salemy has been a regular contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals.^[54] His writings have appeared in numerous journals, catalogues, books, and magazines including: e-flux, Volume,^[55] Flash Art, Brooklyn Rail,^[56] Third Rail,^[57] Ocula,^{[58] [59]} Spike Art Quarterly ^[60] DIS Magazine, C Magazine^{[61] [62]}

In 2016 he edited the book For Machine Use Only (&&& / The New Centre, 2016.) that featured texts by Jason Adams / Kate Armstrong, Elie Ayache, Benjamin Bratton, Clint Burnham, Lou Cantor, Manuel Correa, Alexander Galloway, Leo Goldsmith, Simón Isaza, Victoria Ivanova, Vaclav Janoscik, Ed Keller, Diana Khamis, Jessica Law, Siwin Lo, Nicola Masciandaro, Gean Moreno, Benjamin Noys, Jeff O’brien, Matteo Pasquinelli, David Roden, Judith Rodenbeck, Rory Rowan, Daniel Sacilotto, Samuel Sackeroff, T’ai Smith, Nick Srnicek, Kate Steinmann, Steven Warrick, and Peter Wolfendale.

His texts were published in books like "reinventing horizons",^[63] and Politics of study.^[64] He participated in numerous panel discussions and lectures in galleries, museums and colleges.^{[65] [66] [67]}

Works (selection)

ART AFTER THE MACHINES, 2015 ^[68]

The Artist Is Hyperpresent, Installation 2015 ^{[69] [70]}

What were you doing on 9/11?, 2010-2015 ^[71]

Stairwell, 2015 ^[72]

Preliminary materials for any theory, 2014 ^{[73] [74]}

THIS IS NEW YORK GARBAGE, Color prints, 2009 ^[75]

In between the empty frames, Color prints, 2008 ^[76]

How to Assemble an Atomic Bomb, DVD and tin can, 2006.^[20]

Exhumed: Deliberating R.M. Khomeini, Photographs, 2002 ^[77]

Other endeavors

He was the co-founder of the successful fashion label "Government Clothing",^[78] and is known for his activism^[79] He also worked as a designer, specially for The Organ (band)'s album Grab that gun ^[80]

Bibliography

• "The Sacred Meme Magic",
• "For Machine Use Only", &&& / The New Centre, 2016.
• Web site: Politics of Study. www.mottodistribution.com.
• Manuel Correa, "artoffline" produced by Indiepix Films,2018.
• Dorothée Dupuis (ed.), "Mohammad Salemy and the New Centre for Research and Practice" in "Terremoto 4. " 2015.
• Web site: Reinventing Horizons. www.reinventinghorizons.org. 2016.
• Salemy, Mohammad. "Tom McGlynn and the Asymtotes of Opticality", catalogue essay, For Geochromatic Index on Dadabase.Com NYC, 2014
• Web site: Our World: McLuhan's Idea of Globalized Presence as the Prehistory of Computational Temporality – Imaginations. 6 December 2017. Salemy . Mohammad.
• "Time and Televisual Intersubjectivity, McLuhan's Idea of Globalized Presence as the Prehistory of Telecomputation" in "This is Paradise: Art and Artists in Toronto", Published on 28 May 2015, pages 12–13

External links

• A city is a stateless mind
• SYSTEMS OF A GREATER SUM, Bots Bodies Beasts
• Mohammad Salemy on anthropocinema, e-flux
• "Accelerating Beyond "Iran"? "An Interview with Mohammad Salemy on Telecomputation, Digital Production, and Diaspora by Ajam Media Collective"
• e-flux
• Interview with Mohammad Salemy on Shaw TV
• Interview with Mohammad Salemy on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer, 2011
• ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION – Mohammad Salemy at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
• Lisa Ruyter
• "AFTER POST INTERNET & THE WINTER OF AI"
• "Mohammad Salemy on the New Centre for Research & Practice by Rosemary Heather"
• "America Is Hard to See: A Guide to not being depressed about US electoral politics this November"
• "Exploring Turkey's Political Crises Through Symbols of Byzantine Supremacy"
• "From Canada to Kanye: A Portrait of Yeezy as an Artist"
• "Artificial Intelligence and the Cybernetic Revolution: Video program by Mohammad Salemy"
• "Glopartheid"
  • Fardid in His Own Words, An Interview with Ahmad Fardid by Alireza Meibodi, Introduction and Translation by Mohammad Salemy (in English)
• "THOMAS BAYRLE AT MAK VIENNA"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ao on Site: Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown @ Tony Shafrazi Gallery, May 9 – July 12, 2008.
2. Web site: София куиър форум 2018 ще бъде куриран от ирански художник .
3. Web site: the8thclimate.org. the8th climate.org . 2018-05-30.
4. Web site: The New Centre for Research & Practice. thenewcentre.org.
5. Web site: Mohammad Salemy – Artspeak. artspeak.ca. 2018-06-03 .
6. Web site: artmonte-carlo Fair Dates: April 29-30, 2017. 2018-05-31 .
7. Web site: News Sound of Conversation. connect.ecuad.ca. 2018-06-03 .
8. Web site: Arts of the Working Class. Issue 1: A city is a stateless mind | EXILE.
9. Web site: HERE AND ELSEWHERE, AT WAR, AND INTO THE FUTURE: PALESTINE – WhiteBox. Whitebox . 3 June 2014. 2018-05-30 .
10. Web site: Art Dubai. artforum.com. 16 April 2018 . 2018-06-03 .
11. Web site: Sound of Conversation. ahva.ubc.ca. 2018-06-03 .
12. Planet of the Arts, 1993, volume 8, issue 4, page 4
13. Web site: dr^k dossier. drik.mx. 2018-05-31 .
14. Web site: Art and Reason how art thinks. amandabeech.com. 2018-06-03 .
15. Web site: Dutch Art Institute . dutchartinstiute.eu . 2018-05-31 .
16. Web site: "The 8th Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale" . the8thclimate.org . 2018-05-31 .
17. Web site: Art in the age of asymmetrical warfare. moussemagazine.it. 9 December 2015. 2018-06-03 .
18. Web site: Art in the age of asymmetrical warfare. www.wdw.nl. 2018-06-03 .
19. Web site: Emergency Biennale – Official Web Site!. www.emergency-biennale.org. 2018-05-31 .
20. Web site: MO SA'LEMY . Emergency Biennale. 2018-06-03 .
21. Web site: Emergency in Chechnya. centrea.org. 2018-06-03 .
22. Web site: The Dig Centre A's first 10 years. centrea.org. 2018-05-31 .
23. Web site: Art in the age of asymmetrical warfare. artviewer.org. 17 November 2015 . 2018-05-31 .
24. Web site: Gwangju Biennale. 2018-06-04 .
25. Web site: Opening Reception of "Nature, Knowledge, and the Knower". 31 October 2011.
26. Web site: Ali Ahadi: WARNING – Use by Other Than Registered Owner Prohibited by Law – AHVA – The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory. ahva.ubc.ca. 2018-05-31 .
27. Web site: ENCYCLONOSPACE IRANICA – Access Gallery. 24 February 2013. 2018-05-31 .
28. Web site: Tearsheet Encyclonospace Iranica . 2018-05-31 .
29. Web site: TAHGHIGH PROJECT. TAHGHIGH PROJECT. 2018-05-31 .
30. Web site: Research Library – Digital Special Collections – Nature, Knowledge and the Knower. lbry-web-007.amnh.org. 2018-05-31 .
31. Web site: Architecture and De-measurement in Abbas Akhavan's Work | ArteEast. February 2012.
32. Web site: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – Nature, Knowledge and the Knower. belkin.ubc.ca. 2018-05-31 .
33. News: Interview with Mo Salemy. Satellite Gallery Blog . 7 January 2012. 2018-05-31 .
34. Web site: ....:::: DADABASE GALLERY ::::..... www.dadabase.ca. 2018-05-31 .
35. Web site: Artificial Cinema. 2018-05-31 .
36. Web site: StackPath. 9 July 2003 .
37. Web site: Mohammad Salemy – Participants – Witte de With. www.wdw.nl. 2018-05-31 .
38. Web site: WARNING: Use by Other than Registered //. Ali Ahadi. 2018-05-31 .
39. Web site: October Artery. 2018-05-31 .
40. Web site: Fair Dates: April 29-30, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180614171517/http://artforbes.com/archive2017.html. dead. 2018-06-14. 2019-02-14 .
41. Web site: Мохамад Салеми, куратор: Покрай Тръмп и #MeToo се повиши интересът към въпросите за пола в изкуството - Култура - Дневник. 12 November 2018.
42. Web site: Бежанците – изключени от обществото в "Родина за вагабонта" | Dnes.bg. www.dnes.bg. 24 March 2024.
43. Web site: София Куиър Форум: "Родина за вагабонта" в галерия "Васка Емануилова" . www.bnt.bg . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20181128075345/https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/sofiya-kuir-forum-rodina-za-vagabonta-v-galeriya-vaska-emanuilova . 2018-11-28.
44. Web site: Интервю на Надежда Московска с Мохамед Салеми и Патрик Шабус, куратори на Sofia Queer Forum. 9 November 2018.
45. Web site: Home.
46. Web site: Introduce No. 10 – seeyounextthursday.com. www.seeyounextthursday.com. 2018-05-31 .
47. Web site: "In conjunction with Access Gallery, the independent curator Mohammad Salemy presents "Incredible Machines," a conference addressing different aspects of the expanding role of networked computers and digital processes in the production of knowledge.". YouTube. 16 March 2014 . 2018-05-31 .
48. Web site: HERE AND ELSEWHERE, AT WAR, AND INTO THE FUTURE: PALESTINE. 3 June 2014. WhiteBox. 2018-05-31 .
49. Web site: Knowledge Forms and Forming Knowledge – Limits and Horizons of Transdisciplinary Art-Based Research – Patricia Reed. www.aestheticmanagement.com. 11 September 2015. 2018-05-31 .
50. Web site: Aesthetics After Finitude Conference & Exhibition 5–6 February 2015 – National Institute for Experimental Arts. www.niea.unsw.edu.au. 2018-05-31 .
51. Web site: Hybrid Ecologies and Audiences Today. e-flux.com. 2018-05-31 .
52. Web site: Jornadas de la imagen 2017. ca2m.org. 2018-05-31 .
53. Web site: Mohammad Salemy - New Centre for Research & Practice - Academia.edu. thenewcentre.academia.edu. 2018-05-31 .
54. Web site: Fridman Gallery opens first solo exhibition of British artist Navine G. Khan-Dossos. Artdaily . 24 March 2024.
55. Web site: Volume 52 - the End of Informality | LATEST architectural magazine issues at Bruil.info.
56. News: After Anthropocinema. The Brooklyn Rail . 15 July 2014. 2018-05-31 .
57. Web site: Instagram as Non-Photography. thirdrailquarterly.org. 2018-06-03 .
58. Web site: OCULA REPORT Berlin's belated Biennale: A response to the responses. ocula.com. 2018-07-08 .
59. Web site: OCULA REPORT Tilting the scale: on the 57th Venice Biennale. ocula.com. 2018-06-03 .
60. Web site: Spike Art Quarterly Issue 54 out now. Art Agenda. 2018-06-03 .
61. News: C Magazine 126. Issuu . 2018-05-31 .
62. Web site: Visitingcritics: Mohammad Salemy. Parsons Fine Arts. 2018-05-31 .
63. Web site: Reinventing horizons. reinventinghorizons.org. 2018-06-03 .
64. Web site: Politics of Study. www.mottodistribution.com. 2018-05-31 .
65. Web site: Panel Discussion With David Semeniuk. Oct 19, 2013. Gam Gallery. Soundcloud.com. 2018-05-31 .
66. Web site: Notes Towards a General Theory of Surface or How Art Might Survive Contemporary Art. 2018-05-31 .
67. Web site: WRITING / CURATING / ARTMAKING: A Triangular Practice. 2018-05-31 .
68. Web site: 'Art Is Work' at Krokus Gallery. 16 March 2018. 2018-06-03 .
69. Web site: NEWS Real Edgy A Report from Home Works 7 and Athens Biennale 5 to 6. 2018-06-03 .
70. Web site: News - Page 13 of 32. 24 March 2024.
71. Web site: 9/11 & the Temporality of Televisual Intersubjectivity. 11 September 2016. 2018-06-03 .
72. Web site: Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare. 2018-06-03 .
73. Web site: Preliminary materials for any theory. 5 September 2014. 2018-06-03 .
74. Web site: Preliminary materials for any theory. GitHub. 11 May 2015. 2018-06-03 .
75. Web site: MOHAMMAD SALEMY: THIS IS NEW YORK GARBAGE September 12, 2009 – November 15, 2009. dadabase.ca. 2018-06-03 .
76. Web site: MO SALEMY: IN BETWEEN THE EMPTY FRAMES -INTERNATIONAL WHATEVER SEPTEMBER 4 – DECEMBER 1, 2008. dadabase.ca. 2018-06-03 .
77. Web site: EXHUMED: DELIBERATING R.M KHOMEINI. centrea.org. 2018-06-03 .
78. News: Ethics to a Tee – The Tyee. Miranda. Post. 7 September 2006. The Tyee.
79. Web site: Speaking Out: A Lamentation for Parrhesian Strategies – AHVA – The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory. ahva.ubc.ca.
80. Web site: Grab that gun. allmusic.com.