Ayah Bdeir Les Années Lumière 22 x 30 inches Electronics on Canvas produced June 2008 in collaboration with Rouba Khalil A bird’s eye view of a little over 3 years of violence, strife, and very bright lights rocking Lebanon, remembered and replayed in 45 minutes of proportionally timed light display. http://www.ayahbdeir.com/categor... Biography Ayah Bdeir is an artist, engineer and interaction designer. She graduated from the MIT Media Lab with a Masters of Media Arts and Sciences after studying Computer & Communication Engineering and Sociology in the American University of Beirut. With an upbringing between Lebanon, Canada and the United States, Ayah’s work uses technology to look at cross cultural dialogue and media representation of the Middle East and its identities. Her work spans a range of mediums including interactive installations, electronic fashion, gadgets, reactive furniture, and has been published and exhibited in conferences, festivals and galleries in Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Rhode Island, Boston, London and others, and taught in the graduate Design Technology (DT) Department at Parsons School of Design. Ayah is now an senior artist fellow at Eyebeam, a gallery for art and technology in Chelsea, New York and teaches at NYU as part of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) a class entitled ‘Technology as Identity’. http://www.ayahbdeir.com/about... Contact ayah AT ayahbdeir DOT com +617 372 3729 540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues) New York, NY 10011 - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet