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On December 5th, 2011, The New Yorker published an article by our member Aleksandar Hemon

The article can be found in the attachment.

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Thursday, July, 21 2011. at 8pm

From the Life of Engineer D.M.

Isak Berbić

Galerija Novi Hram, Sarajevo

Novi Hram is pleased to present Isak Berbic, a solo exhibition of new work 'From the Life of Engineer D.M.'

Berbic assembles photographic material, drawing from private, found and media images, staging a story of expatriate guest-work, political conflict, a rare vacation, and life back home. The narrative, presented as a sequence of photographs and footnotes, records fragments from the life of engineer D.M., an expert on thermostable materials for the production of industrial chimney-stacks. D.M.'s work took him, and his camera, through Lybia, Lebanon, East Germany, Italy, the Non-Aligned, and Africa dating from the 1970's until the 1990's.

Complicating the binary of fiction and nonfiction, Berbic proposes a history of an individual, whose account unfolds into current global politics. From the Life of Engineer D.M. combines archive material, technical photographs, documentary images, tourist snapshots and text, speculating on the visualization of histories, cultural, ideological, socio-political and aesthetic production of memory.

Isak Berbic is an artist born (1983) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied Photography, Film and Electronic Media at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Chicago, he practiced art, worked in theater, and was art director of a political monthly journal. In 2007 he moved to work in the Middle East, where he currently teaches photography and media at University of Sharjah. He is a contributor to numerous projects and publications on contemporary art. His research deals with histories, politics, tragedy, memory, humor, exile, and the limits of representation.

Isak Berbic has exhibited in Brief Histories 2011, Sharjah, UAE; Dojima River Biennale 2009, Osaka, Japan; Singapore Biennale 2008; Jatiwangi Art Festival 2008, Indonesia; The First International Photography Biennial, Teheran, Iran 2007; Normalization in honor of Nikola Tesla, Galerija Nova, WHW Zagreb, Croatia 2004. He participated in Images Moving Across the Arts and Disciplines 2010, 12th. Laterna Film Academy, Pecs, Hungary; the International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA 2008 Singapore; Take a Deep Breath: an interdisciplinary symposium, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007. In 2010, Isak Berbic was a resident at the Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Novi Hram is a cultural institution in Sarajevo with a mission to foster the growth and understanding of contemporary art and culture through exhibitions, events and publications. Novi Hram (The New Temple) is under the patronage of La Benevolencija, the Jewish society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

www.isakberbic.com

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Keith Doubt recently taught a course titled "Sarajevo: Surviving Urbicide," which involved a one week visit to Sarajevo.  The course with eight students at Wittenberg University studied just Sarajevo: its multi-cultural heritage, its distinctive historical periods, and its tragic war experience. First, students watched films such as "Remake" and "Grbavica" and read books such as "Sarajevo Blues" by Semezdin Mehmedinović and "Sarajevo Marlboro" by Miljenko Jergović.

Students then visited Sarajevo for seven days and upon their return they constructed their own online walking tour of Sarajevo, using digital photos with narratives collected in Sarajevo. In Sarajevo, students followed two excellent guidebooks, one written for the Winter Olympics in 1984 by William Tribe and another after the war in 2005 by Majo Dizdar.

The link to the Web pages that students constructed can be found at:  http://www9.wittenberg.edu/academics/soci/sarajevo.html

BHAAAS member Dr. Mirzada Kurbasic, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville, Louisville Kentucky, received 2010 MOSAIC  Award (Multicultural Opportunities for Success and Achievement In our Community), honoring new Americans who have made major contribution to the community and their profession. Dr. Kurbasic was honored for her work on providing pediatric care to Louisville immigrant and international population, her efforts to decrease tobacco use and second hand exposure to tobacco smoke among citizens of Louisville with limited English proficiency,  and her accomplishments on the national level in the area of global child health. Honorable Jerry E. Abramson, the Mayor of Louisville declared Dr. Mirzada Kurbasic a Distinguished Citizen.

Photo1: Dr. Kurbasic at the Award Ceremony following the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Photo2: Other Mosaic Award winners were from Australia, Pakistan, Germany, and Mexico