September 2014 - Marjan Moghaddam

“Occupycommonground” Group Exhibition at Church of St. Paul the Apostle September 11- October 23, 2014.

Corner of West 60th & Columbus Ave. Opening Reception Thursday September 18th, 7-9pm
St. Pauls Group Show

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Marjan Moghaddam Studio

10 months ago

Today is my brother's birthday, the late Dr Baback Moghaddam. This is an old Picture from a 1990s Issue of Newsweek on Nicholas Negronponte's MIT Media Lab back then. Baback was one of the research stars there, he's the second one from the right with a black leather jacket wearing an early HMD VR headset.

Baback pioneered many of the techniques in Machine Learning, Facial Recognition that are used today. His early automatic visual recognition system won the 1996 DARPA "FERET" Face Recognition Challenge, and his Phd dissertation on Face Rec at MIT has one of the highest number of citations in the field. He then went to publish and develop alot more in Machine Vision & Face Rec first as a Senior Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab in Cambridge, and then as a principal Scientist at NASA/JPL.
He sadly died in 2012. But he got to work on his true love before his death, Cosmology and using his Machine Vision techniques for Space Imaging, and also developing the Machine Vision for Mars Explorer II. In his short life he managed to have 70 publications and received 12 patents in the areas of computer vision, statistical modeling, pattern recognition and machine learning

I owe much of my art practice to Baback, we both got into computers early on when we were very young, and his encouragement and inspiration were the foundations for my art practice, and his brilliance, genius, and true iconoclasm continues to inspire me, each and every day.
Baback also played guitar in Hardcore and experimental punk bands in Washington DC back in 1981. For his punk friends from back then, his genius was not his major scientific accomplishments and innovations, but rather his music, and guitar playing virtuosity. He was a Badass, in everything, and every way. Today I celebrate him, and his remarkable achievements <3 ... See MoreSee Less

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I did meet him through the music, but he shared his enthusiasm for astronomy with me quite a lot. When he lived with your mother in Annandale, i would drive out and he had a Commodore and an Amiga computer. He had a program where you could virtually fly around the solar system and see the planets and their moons from various angles, even slipping between Saturn's rings. The graphics were quite good for the time (1986). We also took his telescope out and checked out the heavens on two occasions. He was always interesting to hang out with.

Thank you Marjan for your inspiring hommage to your brother and for keeping his memories alive.

Absolutely inspiring! 100 percent .

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10 months ago

"Taking The Knee #ArtBasel2020 #Arthack by #MarjanMoghaddam Posted 6/21/20 #TOMOMA

#3D #CG #ChronometricSculpture Animation #GAN #AI Generated Painting #SFX Digital Art, Net Art, Music, Glitch, Mixed Reality, Conceptual Art, Digital Sculpture Contemproary Art, Virtual Art Exhibition, #ArtBasel #Basel Art Fair #Lightwave3d Octane #OctaneRender ... See MoreSee Less

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Congrats 🎈 fabulous

Congrats absolutely Awesome

Magnifique👏👏👏

Really cool!

Your art is awesome. I hope one day to view in person. You are definitely ahead of the techies! Keep on stretching your skills and imagination. I love your presentations. 👏👏👏

EXTRA LIKE !+)

Amo tu trabajo.❤️

Cambios normales, segun tu faceta en la vida y quien o cual es tu contexto,GENIAL!!!

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Marjan Moghaddam Studio

11 months ago

If you already thought that Fox, Sinclair and Breitbart were bad enough, as the spawn of successive FCC deregulations starting with Reagan, welcome to the Mobile Hell, 21st century mutation. An app for #trumpsupporters #fakereality , this is really beyond Orwell at this point, its a whole new level! Excellent piece on a new political blog you should be checking out from an important voice Jesse Damiani, which promises to expose the technological underbelly of our politics.
damiani.substack.com/p/the-trump-campaigns-pathological?fbclid=IwAR3nGD5L-BdK72Op6_qv3OcOXmHB7Wtm... ... See MoreSee Less

The Trump Campaign's Pathological Reality Gambit

damiani.substack.com

A hardcore Trump base is being convinced to only get its news and entertainment from one place—and it's neither Fox News nor Breitbart

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11 months ago

I will be the Moderator on this Awesome Webinar tomorrow, with Creatives and Industry Figures from #AR,VR, XR (all the Rs really), CG, Animation & VFX. this Webinar is free & open to the public, you have to register on Zoom, and I will post the Zoom link in the comments, plus additional info. Tomorrow, Thursday June 18th, 7pm, EST or NY Time. There will be time for Q & A, so come with your questions. With @Elizabethbarelli, Jesse Damiani, @AlonGreenshpoon, Kathryn McDonald, @joannasalaazar, Jayme Wilkinson.

How will recent events and remote work change the AR, VR, and Animation industries? ... See MoreSee Less

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Virtual Production: What’s Next for Animation, AR and VR How will recent events and remote work change the AR, VR, and Animation industries? Join us for a FREE webinar with leading creatives and industry figures, in association with Media Arts and the Polk School of Communication, featuring: Elizabeth Barelli Principal Product Marketing Manager, 3D & AR, at Adobe She has also worked for brands like Sony, Blurb and Medium, of developing products for creators. Jesse Damiani Deputy Director of Emerging Technology at SNHU, a Forbes Contributor, and Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum Alon Grinshpoon Founder CEO @echoAR.xyz MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University specializing in AR/VR and human-computer interaction and BSc in CS & EE specializing in distributed cloud. Katherine Macdonald Executive Vice-President of Production and Marketing for Paramount Animation During her career, she has worked on a variety of both large and more targeted films such as Wedding Crashers, the Saw horror franchise, World War Z, the Star Trek franchise, Wolf of Wall Street, and The Big Short. Marjan Moghaddam, Moderator Digital Artist/Animator, Professor and CG Area Head, LIU Brooklyn Award-winning/pioneering artist known for her viral animations and XR projects in museums such as the Smithsonian and AR installations. Recent Adobe AR Artist-In-Resident. Johanna Salazar COO of Two Goats, Inc. Co-Founder of Two Goats, Inc., with almost 20 years of experience in TV Production, Operations, Content Strategy, Digital Strategy, XR Strategy, Platform Development and Format Development. I'm a transformation leader, leading via digital disruption. Jayme Wilkinson VFX & CG Supervisor at Lightstorm Entertainment Visual Effects Supervisor for the Avatar Sequels with an extensive history in Feature Film, Visual Effects, Animation, Video Games and Visualization Technologies. Join us: Thursday, June 18 7:00 PM EST

Marjan Moghaddam Studio

11 months ago

In solidairty with #blacklivesmatter I share this op-ed from Karimabduljabbar
www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people... ... See MoreSee Less

Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don't understand the protests? What you're seeing is people pushed to the edge

www.latimes.com

The main concern of black people right now isn’t whether they’re standing three or six feet apart, but whether their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers will be murdered by cops.

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Month: September 2014

“Are We Already Gone”

“Occupycommonground”

Marjan Moghaddam is the featured artist for the September issue of ArticulAction Art Review magazine