Ali Momeni UMN Tenure and Promotion index: This page contains an expanding outline to my research, teaching and service contributions to the University of Minnesota as probationary tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Art and the Collaborative Arts Program. Links to detailed descriptions, still, video and audio documentation of projects are included throughout.

As a founding faculty member of the Collaborative Arts program, my colleagues and I have devised the major/minor requirements, established the core curriculum, created the fundamental COLA 1001 course, as well as a number of to-be-permanent course, currently offered as workshops (among the Art for the People/Art on Wheels, the precursor to MAW.

Some panoramics from the recent trip to Guatemala and Columbia.

Here are some more panoramics, and the other pictures are on my Google Picasaweb albums.

This continues to be an incredibly rich playing field....

Now composing for sound and light in the same environment....
A very exciting development....

My first course at the University of Minnesota's Art Department focusing on generative video with Max/MSP and Jitter.

Check out the course's blog.

The goal of this anonymous survey is to evaluate the understanding that the department and the University community has about the Time and Interactivity area of the Department of Art; and to help the area function more effectively within the department. The survey is intended for faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students.

They be 120V AC bulbs at last, blink!

What Dhruvi and I do on a Sunday in Minneapolis....

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we never come a feet a venue
well that must have mean one love you
still hold alley for you ye i
never let them hood wink i venue
now make hood hood wink you at the venue
ye ah ah ha,

a a a a a a a a a a
ye
ah ah ah

parade confeti paper view
hero and heru, move your iris and selicio
hey
it is the best of the indio
it is the best of the indio
fly over them en solo, solo

metaphorical radio
oh oh, ye
green jack spaniard in the gheto
black rooster crow
oh oh oh
say so
blacker sun rooster oh
ah ah ah

4:19 minutes (8 MB)

What Dhruvi and I do on a Saturday in Minneapolis....

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set master grass
admire discipline beemya
solder ja
traditional vaboona ma honor
traditional vaboona ma honor

ah ahah
ah ah ahah
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don't you enemies wonderin us all
rocket about them kill them all
marksman shippin on me general dawn
oh killers would seed the song
like they up on the corner
on the street formation song
roots back
selassie truth be known
all be known
human define
drifters around the town
jolly go
tell 'em how we go
ey
attention drifters

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