It seems that every 30 years we destroy memories. With each photo burnt or Deleted we allow a tiny pixel to be lost from the greater image which is our Collective memory, that’s when reality can be re-arranged to suit the editor of the day. AKSbazi.com started working in April 2009 with an express hope to provide a forum for ordinary Iranians to recreate their own image, away from the prevalent clichés and exotic short-hands used by various acting editors. In a series of games our members show Iranian spaces and moods familiar to us all, but not ordinarily available to the outsider. Although it started life as a personal digital installation, AKSbazi.com has now become an invaluable archive of moments of life in Iran through the lens of it’s ordinary citizens. It is now a collective effort creating a platform for ‘citizen documentation’; a vault to safe-keep pixels that must not be lost again.
Haleh Anvari, founder of AKSbazi.com
Haleh Anvari, founder of AKSbazi.com
Selecting Committee: Kaveh Kazemi, Shohreh Mehran, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Razavipour, and Ramin Sedighi
Selected Players for this exhibition: Sara Abri, Sasan Abri, Hediyeh Ahmadi, Mehdi Alizadeh, Ehsan Amani, Banafsheh Amin, Hoda Amin, Arash Amir Azodi, Farhad Bahram, Siavash Bakhtiarnia, Ramin Beyraghdar, Shaghayeh Cyrous, Shirin Eghtesadi, Hamed Farhangi, Dana Farzanehpour, Ershad Fattahian, Sara Ghanbari, Sepanta Ghassemkhani, Ceemin Golshan, Hoofar Haghighi, Hana Hanayi, Mehdi Hassani, Samira Hatamizadeh, Mokhtar Hosseinzadeh, Amir Jadidi, Mostafa Jafari, Poolad Javaher Haghighi, Sohrab Kashani, Fardid Khadem, Mahsa Khalilpour, Bahman Kiarostami, Abbas Kowsari, Majid Lashkari, Niloofar Lohrasbi, Ehsan Mansoori, Babak Mehrabani, Nazanin Mirzabeigi, Nima Moghimi, Behnam Moharrek, Ali Akbar Mohamadkhani, Amir Mousavi, Afrooz Nabavi, Pendar Nabipour, Siavash Naghshbandi, Mohammad Nickdel, Majid Niketeghad, Omid Omidvari, Aliyar Rasti, Hamideh Razavi, Bita Reyhani, Sara Reyhani, Sara Salahi, Hessam Samavatian, Amir Arad Sanaei, Delbar Shahbaz, Behnaz Shamshiri, Hesam Tahamtan, Mahsa Tahamtan, Mohammad Mehdi Zaboli, Sara Zandevakili