Hasan Elahi, an internationally known artist whose work has been featured by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, NPR and Al Jazeera, will present the 16th annual Deem Distinguished Artist Lecture in the WVU Division of Art and Design, Thursday, March 11.

Elahi will speak at 5 p.m. in the Creative Arts Center’s Bloch Learning and Performance Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers.

His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof and the Hermitage and Venice Biennales.

Elahi is currently assistant professor at San Jose State University and also a 2009 resident faculty member and Nancy G. MacGrath Endowed Chair at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

The annual Deem Distinguished Artist Lecture is made possible through a donation by Alison and Patrick Deem of Bridgeport, W.Va.

For more information about the lecture, contact the WVU Division of Art at 304-293-2140, ext. 3108.

For more information about the artist, see Elahi’s website at elahi.org.

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03/10/10

CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4841 ext. 3108, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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