Visible Collective
Our work over the last three years has looked at hyphenated identities, questions of "loyalty" and security panic. The project is directed by Naeem Mohaiemen. To contact us, e-mail info@disappearedinamerica.org.
Naeem Mohaiemen is founder of Visible Collective.
His film Muslims or Heretics: My Camera Can Lie looks at Hawthorne effect and was screened at UK House of Lords.
An excerpt from "The Young Man Was No Longer...", his project on guerilla movements, was shown at the Dictionary of War, Munich.
Forthcoming essays include "Islam & Hip Hop" (Sound Unbound, DJ Spooky ed., MIT Press), "Terrorists or Guerillas in The Mist?" (Sarai Reader, part of Documenta 12 journal project),
"Why Mahmud Can't Be A Pilot" (Nobody Passes, Matt Bernstein ed.), "Invisible Migrants" (Men of the Global South, Adam Jones ed., Zed Books). He is co-curating System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning at Palazzo Papesse (Siena) and
From Point A to Z through Danish Arts Council.
He runs Shobak listserv as an intervention in art-activist conjoined spaces.
Naeem works with Bangladeshi media activists, including Drishtipat and Drik.
Uzma Z. Rizvi is a cultural producer based in Brooklyn for the last five years, and before that in Philadelphia. Her work includes directing and producing theater, filming and editing documentary, working with artist collectives, and producing and DJ-ing radio. Uzma is completing her PhD in Anthropology/Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, is currently
teaching at Pratt Institute, in Departments of Social Science & Cultural Studies, and Critical & Visual Studies, and is Faculty Fellow for the initiative on Art, Community Development, and Social Change at the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Aimara Lin is national coordinator of Not In Our Name , an activist organization that is focused on stopping war, opposing police state restrictions and ending detention and deportations of Muslims. They have fifteen chapters across the US, with national offices in New York and Oakland. Not In Our Name was the first national organization to run full-page newspaper advertisements in American newspapers opposing the "war of terror". They also ran advertisements condemning the Abu Ghraib atrocities in international newspapers. Not In Our Name developed the "pledge of resistance" with Starhawk and Saul Williams, which has become a key tool of organizing at antiwar rallies. AiMara has talked extensively about the parallels between the current crisis and the World War II internment of her Japanese-American grandparents.
Donna Golden is a Brooklyn-based video editor/artist. Since 1991, she has worked as a producer, editor, and educator with alternative/art/activist/media organizations in New York City including Not Channel Zero, Paper Tiger Television, Deep Dish TV, Educational Video Center, and Eyebeam Atelier. Donna's work has shown at The National Black Programming Consortium's Prized Pieces Film & Video Festival, the Africa In The Picture Festival (Amsterdam), the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival (New York), and the Women of Color Film Festival (Berkeley). Collaborative work with the award-winning media literacy/community affairs video collective Not Channel Zero has been shown on PBS and cable affiliates, and at festivals, and museums in the US and abroad, including the Whitney Biennial.
