ABOUT

Amir Husak is a multimedia artist and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Combining film, video, sound, emergent and interactive media, essay and experimental techniques, Husak’s work explores documentary as social practice and investigates media representations of cultural memory, borders and migration. His works have been shown at international venues including the Cinemateca Distrital (Bogota, Colombia), Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Stadtmuseum Graz (Austria), and Anthology Film Archives (New York, US) among others. Husak also serves as an artistic director of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York. He is a co-editor of a volume on socially engaged art and activist media in Bosnia-Herzegovina titled “Kriza, Umjetnost, Akcija” (Crisis, Art, Action; 2016) and holds a PhD degree from the University of Leeds, UK.