Lectures and Presentations

2017 - Technology, Storytelling and Representation, Tang Museum’s Accelerator Series program, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2017 - A New Medium: How AR & VR Are Shaping Our Future Lives, Augmented World Expo, Munich, Germany

2017 - Emergent Cultures, School of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Prof. Karen Wong, Columbia University, NY

2017 - Articulations, Seminar in Dance, Performance and Popular Culture, Theater and Performance Studies, Prof. H. Rastovak, Stanford University, CA

2017 - The {AR}t of Storytelling, Seminar on Visualizing Identities and Differences, Tisch School of the Arts, Critical Studies, Prof. I. Brielmaier, NYU

2016 - Conversations with Technology Entrepreneurs, Interactive Media Arts, Tisch School of the Arts, Prof. Jason King, New York University, NY

2016 - AR and {AR}t Making: Future of Cinema, International Dubai Film Festival, UAE

2016 - The Creative Machine: Making great art through algorithms, big data, augmented and virtual reality, 3D printing and more, Creative Technology Week—Art Hub, N.Y.

2016 - Conversations with Technology Entrepreneurs, Department of Writing, History & Emergent Media Studies, NYU

2016 - How Augmented Reality Is an Art Form, Silicon Harlem, Creative Technology Week, Saint Francis College, N.Y.

2016 - Augmented Realities & How Artificial Intelligence Is Becoming Less {AR}t-ificial!, TEDx Talk, Boca Raton, FL

2016 - A Critical Praxis: Augmented Realities and Innovation, Boulder, University of Colorado, CO

2015 - Spectacle, Spectre, and Performance, Conversations with Hyperallergic Magazine, PULSE Perspectives, Miami

2015 - Performance and AR potentialities, Media and Performance Lab, Graduate Crossover Seminar, Utrecht University, Netherlands

2015 - Augmented Potentialities: Re-Thinking Augmented Reality and Digitalised Vision in Relation to Installation {AR}t, Soho House Istanbul, Turkey

2015 - City-AR(t) and Politics of Visibility, Soho Talks, Soho House, Miami Beach, FL

2015 - Palimpsests in Making: Contemporary Augmentation, Instituto Buena Bista, Art Center, Curacao Island

2015 - Augmenting The Augmentable, The Talk Series, Standard Hotel Group, Miami Beach, FL

2014 - Sexualities in the Muslim Worlds, Gender Studies, Wellesley College, MA

2014 - Representations of the Middle East in Performance and Popular Culture, University of California, Berkeley, CA

2014 - Artist’s Talk on AR and Beyond, National Arts Club, ARNY, New York

2013 - Sexuality In the Muslim and Arab Worlds, Women and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2012 - The Possibilities of Augmented Reality in Art Making, University of California Berkeley Institute for Research in the Arts, Art Practice and Rhetoric, Center for the Humanities, Center for New Media, Center for Race and Gender, Arts Research Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, New Media Working Group, Program in Comparative Ethnic Studies, Program in Critical Theory, Berkeley, CA

2012 - Challenges of Utilizing AR as a Medium, Augmented Reality Event (ARE), Santa Clara, CA

2012 - Re-Traditioning the Verse: Poetry to Performance, ReOrient Forum, Z Space, San-Francisco, CA

2011 - Representing the Middle East, NYU Graduate Seminar Guest Lecture, New York

2011 - FutARism: The Possibilities of AR in Art Making, Augmented Reality Event (ARE), Santa Clara, CA

2011 - Artist’s Talk on Augmented Reality, ARNY Columbia University, New York

2011 - AR and Art, Mobile Cultures and Wireless Communications Conference, Concordia University, Montreal

2011 - The FutAR of Modern Art, Convergent Media, Pace University, New York

2007 - Sexual Representation in Cinema: Queering Muslim Bodies, The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2006 - Women and Development, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2006 - Culture Shock: HIV/AIDS, Quebec Public Interest Research Group, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2005 - Iranian Women after Twenty Years of Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

2005 - Representing Muslim Bodies: Death Over "Here" and Over "There,” Researchers and Academics of Color in Canada for Equity (RACE), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

2005 - Sexuality and the Diaspora, Second Generation Iranians Looking Inward: Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB), University of Maryland

2005 - Orientalism and Middle Eastern Desires, Ethics of Sexuality, School of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2004 - Re-Orienting the Queer and Queering the Orient, 5th Biennial Conference: Iranian Cultural World as an "Other,” Critique Magazine: Critical Middle East Studies, Bethesda, Maryland

2003 - Racism & Identity Formations, School of Social Work, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2003 - Resistance Against the Empire, Annual International Conference/Retreat, Alternatives, Montreal, Canada

Print Reviews & Publications

-Baradaran, Amir & Brielmaier, Isolde, “Augmenting Empathy and Decolonizing AR/VR Mediums: How Do We Reimagine Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences?” In Museums Designing for Empathy and Compassion Ed. By Gokcigdem, Elif, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2019).

-Daftari, Fereshteh, Modern and Contemporary Art of Iran and Its Diaspora, London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishing, (2019)

- Isolde Brielmaier, Editor. Culture As Catalyst (working title). Edited Volume. Skidmore College Press (Tang Museum) (2019)

-Tan, LiQin, Singularity Art: How the Future Technology Singularity Will Impact Art, Beijing: China Machine Press (Forthcoming)

-Rahimi, Babak, Ed., Cultural Identity and Theatrical Performance, London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishing, (Forthcoming)

- Isolde Brielmaier, Editor. Accelerator Series: Technology Visual Culture and Politics of Representation. Skidmore College Press (Tang Museum) (2018)

-Rastovac, Heather, Performing Iranianness: The Choreographic Cartographies of Diasporic Iranian Dancers and Performance Artists, PhD Dissertation, UC Berkeley, (2016)

-Malavoy, Tristan, Createur Clendestin, L’Actualité Magazine (2016)

-Stam, Robert, Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics, Oxford University Press (2015)

-‪Wassom, Brian, Augmented Reality Law, Privacy, and Ethics: Law, Society, and Emerging AR Technologies, Syngress Publications (2015)

-D’Urso, Sandra, “Reading Islamic Identity in Contemporary Islamic Art and Reconsidering the Secular Lens of Western Performance Praxis,” in Casey Embodying Transformation: Transcultural Performance, Ed. by Monash, Maryrose, University Publishing (2015)

-Gries, Laurie, Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetoric. Utah State University Press, forthcoming (2015)

-Vazquez, Neil, Artist Amir Baradaran Plans to Augment Miami’s Reality, New Times Miami (2015)

-Marcus, Sharon, "Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramović," Public Culture 27, no. 1 (2015).

-Balme, Christopher, The Theatrical Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press (2014)

-Geroimenko, Vladimir (ed.) Augmented Reality Art: From an Emerging Technology to a Novel Creative Medium, Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2014)

-Bellido Grant, Luisa (ed.) Arte y museos del siglo XXI: entre los nuevos ámbitos y las inserciones tecnologicas, Accioncultura, Museos y Patrimonio, Editorial UOC (2013)

-with Ryan, B., Brotman, S. & Lee, E. (eds.) The Color of Queer Health Care: Experiences of Multiple Oppression in the Lives of Queer People of Color. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, Coll. Santé et Société (2008)

-with Ryan, B., Brotman, S. & Lee, E. (eds.) Intersections: Cultures, sexualités et genres. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, Coll. Santé et Société (2006)

-Le Grand Cahier, Translation from French into Persian of Agota Kristof’s novel (in progress)