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Ali Hossaini (b. West Virginia) is an American artist, philosopher and businessperson. In 2010 the New York Times described him as a "biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet"^[1] in reference to a body of work which spans art, science and philosophy. He has served as an executive in a number of media and technology-oriented businesses, where he has been responsible for introducing innovations in content, interaction and distribution that developed into industry standards.

The son of an Iraqi father and American mother,^[2] Hossaini came of age during the Reagan Era, when he became a producer for Alternative Views, a television program that offered progressive news, commentary and interviews.^[3] He also produced short films that were distributed by Deep Dish Television. He went on to write for the Village Voice and other publications.^[4] In 1994 he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, then became involved with academic publishing and the Internet. He launched The Surrealist Revolution at the University of Texas Press, a book series whose inaugural volume, Surrealist Woman, revealed the suppressed histories of female artists. He also published one of the first electronic books, Istanbul Boy, in 1996.^[5] and produced one of the first public webcasts, Come to Me, that same year.^[6]

Hossaini left Texas to join the staff of The Site, a San Francisco-based television newsmagazine on MSNBC, as a producer and commentator. His focus was on involving audiences in television broadcasts. He moved to ZDTV where he continued to develop interactive projects that integrated audience tools like chat and webcams into television programs.^[7] As vice president for community at Oxygen Media, he developed applications for video sharing and managed presence to integrate numerous corporate acquisitions into a single network.^[8] He served as executive producer and director of programming for Equator HD, high-definition television channel devoted to travel, culture and natural history until 2009.^[9]

As executive producer of LAB HD, Hossaini fostered the creation of several dozen films in avant-garde and experimental genres, including the Voom Portraits Robert Wilson, a project that became well known after Vanity Fair^[10] featured one of its subjects, actor Brad Pitt, on its cover.^[11] The series of HDTV videos feature performances by Hollywood stars, European and Persian royalty and notable artists.^[12] The Voom Portraits Robert Wilson exhibition opened in 2007 at Paula Cooper Gallery and Philips de Pury Gallery in New York City.^[13] His productions have also been featured in the Whitney Biennial,^[14] the Tribeca Film Festival^[15] and other venues.^[16]

In 2011 Hossaini became CEO of CAN: Cinema Arts Network, a UK-based consortium of cinemas and art centers, launching the company with a live broadcast of the London Symphony Orchestra from the Barbican Centre.^[17] Cinema Arts Network completed a national broadband "Network for the arts" in 2014, and in 2015 Hossaini announced CAN 2.0, an initiative to engage audiences via smartphones in sixteen UK arts venues.^[18]

Exhibitions

2015

Epiphany, video installation & live performance, BAM, New York^[19]

2013

Oceanic Verses, video installation & live performance, The Barbican, London, UK^[20]

2012

Illusory Production, video installation, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China^[21]
Epiphany, video installation, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland^[22]
Ouroboros, video installation, Clews Foundation, Denver, Colorado
Oceanic Verses, video installation & live performance, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC^[23]
Ouroboros, video installation, Clews Foundation, Denver, Colorado
Oceanic Verses, video installation & live performance, River to River Festival, New York City^[24]
Ouroboros, video installation, Clews Foundation, Denver, Colorado
Hermetica, video screening, Electronic Art Intermix, New York City
Divine Machines, Museum of Optography, Sharjah

2011

Fabric of Life, solo show of prints & video, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City
Executive Privilege, video installation, White Box, New York City
Fading Civilizations, video triptych, SoundRes Festival, Lecce, Italy
The Aging Magician, musical theater, The Kitchen, New York City
Fading Civilizations, video triptych, The Kitchen, New York City
Ouroboros, video installation, Museum of Outdoor Art, Denver, Colorado
Memory Begins, video installation, SudLab, Naples, Italy

2010

Memory Begins, video installation, White Box, New YorkCity
Ouroboros, video installation, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York City
Oceanic Verses, operatic video, New York City Opera
Caro Ben Mio, live video, Galapagos Art Space, New York City

2009

Baghdad Transcendental, sculpture & photography installation, The Drop, New York City
Epiphany: Prints, The Kaufman Arcade, New York City
Epiphany: Volcano, Gallery 8, New York City

2008

Divine Machines, film , The Hackney Empire, London, UK
Epiphany, video installation, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York City
Noumema, Time is the Moving Image & The Same River, short plays, Water Mill Center for the Arts
Installation of productions from LAB, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York City
Curated selection of LAB productions, Scope Art Fair, New York City
Unperception Now, film, Montreal Festival of Film on Art, Montreal, Canada

2007

Living Voom, curated selection of LAB productions, Scanners Film Festival, The Lincoln Center
Curated selection of LAB productions, Borderlines Festival, Beijing, China
Unperception Now, Janos Gat Gallery, New York City
Curated selection of LAB productions, SF Cinemateque, San Francisco
Curated selection of LAB productions, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Curated selection of LAB productions, Orchard 47, New York City
Jeanne Moreau & Isabelle Huppert Video Portraits, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris

Filmography

2012

Story/Time, 3D HD feature, director: Bill T Jones, producer: Ali Hossaini

2009

KOOL: Dancing in My Mind, 3D HD feature, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini

2008

Mario’s Green House, 8 x 30’ HDTV series, director: Mario Van Peebles, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
The Monkey Thieves, 13 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Lost in China, 6 x 60’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Wildlife Nannies 2, 20 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Earthtripping, 6 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Natural Born Traveler, 4 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
4Monkeys, multichannel video installation, artist: Ali Hossaini
The River, theater and video, writer: Ali Hossaini
Noumena, theater and video, writer: Ali Hossaini
Time is the Moving Image, theater and video, writer: Ali Hossaini
Beethoven's Toothpaste, experimental video, director: Camille Morin, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Wildlife Nannies II, 20 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini

2007

Medicine Woman, 13 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Ultimate Tourist Scams, 13 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Wildlife Nannies, 20 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Penny Revolution, 6 x 60’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Green Wheels, 13 x 30’ HDTV series, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Video Portrait: Renée Fleming, director: Robert Wilson, HDTV, experimental short, executive producer: Ali Hossaini
Video Portrait: Skunk, director: Robert Wilson, HDTV, experimental short, executive producer: Ali Hossaini

2006

Epiphany: The Cycle of Life at IMDb, experimental feature, director: Ali Hossaini
Unperception Now, director: Ali Hossaini
Video Portrait: Princess Caroline: of Monaco, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: * Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Queen Farah Diba, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Prince Alexis Schleswig-Holstein, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Gao Xingjian, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Rite of the Black Sun, director: Bradley Eros, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
The Aquarium, director: Pavel Wojtasik, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
The Landfill, director: Pavel Wojtasik, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin, HDTV
Sahara Mohave, director: Leslie Thornton, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Portrait of Shanghai, director: Lili Chin, HDTV, experimental short
Sorry, director: Gail Vachon, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Meredith Salient Field, director: Theo Angell, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Spectropia (episode), director: Toni Dove
25 Letters (3 episodes), director: Grahame Weinbren, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
The Tension Building, director: Erika Beckman, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
The Mythmakers, directors: Sabine Gruffat & Ben Russell, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Poem, director: Mary Lucier, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin, HDTV
Light Mood Disorder, director: Jennifer Reeves, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
The Bridge, director: Fred Taylor, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Urban Sonata, director: Jud Yalkut, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Stiff, director: Jenny Reeder, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
Carrara Landscape, director: Angie Eng, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin
The Shadow Lords, director: Jose Figeroa, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer: Lili Chin

2005

Video Portrait: Isabella Rossellini, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Sean Penn, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Willem Dafoe, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Robin Wright Penn, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: J T Leroy, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: William Pope L, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Gabriella Orenstein, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Lucinda Childs, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Esther Gordon & Noah Khoshbin

2004

Video Portrait: Brad Pitt at IMDb, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Robert Downey, Jr., director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Jeanne Moreau, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Isabelle Huppert, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Juliette Binoche, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Marianne Faithfull, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Zhang Huan, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Steve Buscemi, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin
Video Portrait: Mikhail Baryshnikov, director: Robert Wilson, executive producer: Ali Hossaini, producer Noah Khoshbin

2002

artTV, director
Abstraction 1, director
Abstraction 2, director

1995

Come to Me, director

1989:1994

Alternative Views weekly newsmagazine, producer

1986

Sometimes a Blessing Can Be a Curse, director
Ich bin Du, director
Pentagram, director

References

^ For 3-D Travelers, A Cosmic Journey
^ Beyond the multicultural ghetto. openDemocracy (2004-09-28). Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ By Douglas Kellner PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION: ALTERNATIVE VIEWS (PDF)
^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ Nesin, Istanbul Boy, University of Texas Press. Utexas.edu. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ Elaine Dove in A Million Miles Away. Cyberopera.org (1996-10-23). Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ Ali Hossaini. infonortics.com
^ Ali Hossaini. opendemocracy.net
^ NHK docs head for Equator. c21media.net
^ Colacello, Bob. (2011-08-01) The Subject as Star | Culture. Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ HD takes still life to next level for artist Robert Wilson. Broadcastengineering.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ [2]^{[dead link]}
^ Kalb, Jonathan. (2007-01-30) Robert Wilson, Beckett and a Celebrity From the Neck Up – New York Times. Nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ TRANS>arts.cultures.media. Transmag.org (2006-06-28). Retrieved on 2012-01-29.
^ Robert Wilson Video Portraits: Isabelle Huppert & Brad Pitt. tribecafilmfestival.org
^ [3]
^ [4]
^ [5]. Art for Tomorrow
^ [6] Epiphany
^ [7] Oceanic Verses
^ [8] Illusory Production
^ [9] Mediations Biennale
^ [10] Music is mostly compelling
^ [11] The Mediterranean Sea, Singing Along in Italy

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[1] For 3-D Travelers, A Cosmic Journey

[2] Beyond the multicultural ghetto. openDemocracy (2004-09-28). Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[3] By Douglas Kellner PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION: ALTERNATIVE VIEWS (PDF)

[4] [1]^{[dead link]}

[5] Nesin, Istanbul Boy, University of Texas Press. Utexas.edu. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[6] Elaine Dove in A Million Miles Away. Cyberopera.org (1996-10-23). Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[7] Ali Hossaini. infonortics.com

[8] Ali Hossaini. opendemocracy.net

[9] NHK docs head for Equator. c21media.net

[10] Colacello, Bob. (2011-08-01) The Subject as Star | Culture. Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[11] HD takes still life to next level for artist Robert Wilson. Broadcastengineering.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[12] [2]^{[dead link]}

[13] Kalb, Jonathan. (2007-01-30) Robert Wilson, Beckett and a Celebrity From the Neck Up – New York Times. Nytimes.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[14] TRANS>arts.cultures.media. Transmag.org (2006-06-28). Retrieved on 2012-01-29.

[15] Robert Wilson Video Portraits: Isabelle Huppert & Brad Pitt. tribecafilmfestival.org

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[18] [5]. Art for Tomorrow

[19] [6] Epiphany

[20] [7] Oceanic Verses

[21] [8] Illusory Production

[22] [9] Mediations Biennale

[23] [10] Music is mostly compelling

[24] [11] The Mediterranean Sea, Singing Along in Italy

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 == Exhibitions ==
+'''2015'''
+* ''Epiphany, video installation & live performance, BAM, New York<ref>[http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/epiphany-the-cycle-of-life] Epiphany</ref>
 '''2013'''
 * ''Oceanic Verses, video installation & live performance, The Barbican, London, UK<ref>[http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?id=14165&pg=4178] Oceanic Verses</ref>