Curriculum Vitae. Personal Data. Academic Qualification. Emma Benany. Mobile:

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1 Curriculum Vitae Emma Benany Mobile: Online Video Channel: Personal Data Date Of Birth Place Of Birth Cairo - Egypt Gender Female Nationality Address Egyptian 17th Merashly ST. Zamalek Cairo, Egypt Postal Code High School Dar El Tarbiah American School. Cairo, Egypt Academic Qualification The Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts Major Media Art and Design The German University in Cairo Bachelor of Arts: (2010) Digital Media and Performance Art Pre-Masters: (2011) Media intervention in public spaces. Product Design: Public media design - Cairo Airport Green-Design, Developing Renewable Wind Energy 1

2 Elaborate Academic Experience Foundation Courses of: Graphic Design Branding Typography Design History and Theory Product & Industrial Design Marketing Drawing & Illustration Advanced Research Methodologies Main Courses of: Video Concept Camera and Sound Digital Editing Animation Social Sciences Story Development and Story Boarding Motion Graphics and Analysis Media Theory Digital & Analog Photography Interactive Arts and Design Workshops: 3D Modeling Molding Wood crafts Book Binding Dark-room (Photo developing) Printing Internships 'ipost' post-production house summer 2007 Task: Digital Compositing Mosadak ST. Dokki, Cairo-Egypt 'Al Karma Edutainment' production house summer 2008 Task : Documentation / assistant director Nawal ST. Dokki, Cairo-Egypt 2

3 Working Experience Independent Media Artist and Supplier present Freelance Videographer and Editor present Medrar for Contemporary Arts Project Manager / Office Manager The German University in Cairo Teaching assistant / video production Al Karma Edutainment Set photographer Al Jam3a TV series Freelance Photographer Alwan w Awtar NGO Photography instructor Workshops Multi Media Lab 2011 ZINC/ECM (France), Studio Emad Eddin Foundation, within the framework of the J.M Liverato Project Cairo Web Design Diploma 2011 The Russian Culture Center Cairo, Egypt Instant Composition, Contemporary Dance & Theater 2011 Studio Emad El Din Foundation Cairo, Egypt Fundamentals of Contemporary Dance 2010 MAAT Dance Foundation Cairo, Egypt Multi Media Hacking- project based 2010 Prohelvetia Cairo, Egypt Master Class in PureData & Arduino, programming environments 2010 OLE project - Hangar Spain Cairo, Egypt Arduino interactivity and programming- project based 2009 OLE project - Hangar Spain Cairo, Egypt Bits & Pieces, interactivity and electronics - project based 2008 Contemporary Image Collective Cairo, Egypt Manual Composition and Printing 2007 HGB University Leipzig Germany 3

4 Skills Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Macintosh Linux Design Applications: Adobe Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Web Applications: DreamWeaver Flash Flash Catalyst Post-production Motion Graphics Final Cut Pro AfterEffects Sound Track Pro Compressor Cinema 4D DVD Design: DVD Studio Pro Interactive Programming: PureData Max MSP Processing Isadora Physical Computing: Arduino Editing in Programming Languages: HTML CSS C+ ActionScript Spoken Languages: Native Arabic Fluent English Basic French Basic German Presentation Skills: Several academic visual presentations using hybrid media. 4

5 Media Art Performances & Exhibitions Not Yet - Contemporary dance performance 2011 Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum Cairo, Egypt Exit Does Not Exit - Contemporary dance performance 2011 Falaki Main Theater Cairo, Egypt Social Hacking - Contemporary dance performance 2010 Ahmad Shawki Museum Cairo, Egypt Open Lab Egypt - Contemporary media exhibition 2010 Venois Building Downtown Cairo, Egypt Seismic Body Memory - Hybrid Media exhibition 2010 Goethe Institute Downtown Cairo, Egypt Bread - Contemporary art exhibition 2009 Darb 1718 Cairo, Egypt Cairo Looks - Hybrid contemporary exhibition 2007 Townhouse gallery Cairo, Egypt Annual Student Exhibitions years The German University in Cairo - main Faculty Building Cairo, Egypt Participation in Artistic Research Projects Cairo Round About 2010 Task: Development and Organization Seismic Body Memory 2009 Task: Video Documentation Cairo Looks 2007 Task: Photo Documentation, Blogging blog.goethe.de/cairolooks 5

6 Projects in Progress La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille - France Artist in residence, November 2011 Dancing On the Edge - Amsterdam, Holland Performing the piece Exit Does Not Exit in the annual dance festival. Bang the Visual Lab A hub/studio for commercial and non-commercial media art productions. Stories from Pavements Photography project - documenting objects blending in pavements in Greater Cairo. Goha Fel Midan A mobile street Performance, dealing with shadow puppetry about the events of the revolution. Mentions & Awards First Prize 2008 The National Geographic - Nahdet Misr annual photography competition. Daily News Egypt 15 October 2008 Bread exhibition - Art review Sawret El Lool 2011 A book about the contemporary art scene in Egypt. Seated dinner on the occasion of the international dance day, at the head of delegation of the European Union to Egypt, ambassador Marc Franco and Ms Rita Janssen. Other Activites Ranking 3rd - The National Championship for Rowing Alexadria 2011 First place in the female football tournament Rome 2009 First place in the female football tournament Moscow