Amar Bakshi
Born
Amar C. Bakshi

(1984-05-12) May 12, 1984
Washington, D.C., USA
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)Artist, creative director
Known forPortals, Shared Studios
Websitewww.sharedstudios.com

Amar C. Bakshi (born May 12, 1984) is an artist and founder of Shared Studios and Portals. Bakshi lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2][3][4][5]

Early life and education

Bakshi was born in Washington DC, USA. He went to high school at St. Albans and attended Harvard University, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Yale Law School. He won a Truman Scholarship in 2005 and a Soros Scholarship in 2013.[6][7][8][9]

Career

The Washington Post

Bakshi began working at the Washington Post. He created the video blog How the World Sees America.[10] It featured daily articles, which include text and short video clips, about citizens around the world impacted by the United States politically, economically and culturally.[11][12]

Bakshi is the founder of The Legal Medium, which explores how artists use law as material with notable academics including Jack Balkin and Keller Easterling, and artists including Mary Ellen Carroll, Liam Gillick, and Tehching Hsieh.[13][14][15][16][17][18]

Shared Studios

In 2014, Bakshi created the global initiative Portals, initially connecting the cities of New York and Tehran in gold shipping containers. Portals are gold spaces equipped with immersive audiovisual technology. When you enter a Portal, you come face-to-face with someone in a distant Portal live and full-body, as if in the same room. Bakshi started the project "to connect people who wouldn't otherwise meet”.[19][20][21][22][23][24]

References

  1. ↑ Murphy, Tim (December 3, 2014). "A New Exhibition Offers a Virtual Link to Tehran". The New York Times. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Gold-Painted Shipping Containers Create a Global Public Space". nextcity.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Portals Links Miami to Afghanistan and Iraq". artnet News. December 7, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Media, Nov 25 2008 - Video - C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Views Abroad, May 8 2008 - Video - C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Meet the Fellows - Amar Bakshi". www.pdsoros.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Strangers step inside this portal to make global connections". PBS NewsHour. August 11, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Creating global community center one conversation at a time". Fox News. October 11, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  9. ↑ "The New Anti-Americanism". www.wbur.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  10. ↑ "How the World Sees America". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013.
  11. ↑ Andrea Seabrook (March 23, 2008). "Blogger Researches 'How the World Sees America'". NPR. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Mary Carole McCauley (September 15, 2015). "Portal on U-Md. campus connects Americans to strangers worldwide". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Barely Legal". www.artforum.com. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  14. ↑ Murphy, Tim (December 3, 2014). "A New Exhibition Offers a Virtual Link to Tehran". The New York Times. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  15. ↑ Drennan, Justine. "The Gold, Skype-Equipped Shipping Container Being Used to Connect America With Iran". foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Right Now, a Golden Shipping Container in Times Square Is Connecting People Around the World". artnet News. November 3, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Art Installation Opens Passage To A Different World". NPR.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  18. ↑ "The Emergent Chorus: Collaborative Creativity, Simple Tech, and Giving Voice to the Voiceless". Aspen Ideas Festival. Archived from the original on February 7, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  19. ↑ "How You Can Meet a Stranger on the Other Side of the World". ABC News. June 28, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  20. ↑ Hager, Emily B. (March 27, 2015). "Video: The Iran Nuclear Talks, and a Matter of Trust". The New York Times. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  21. ↑ Naik, Rohan (February 25, 2015). "YUAG 'portal' connects New Haven, Iran". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  22. ↑ Sharma, Shubha (January 12, 2017). "Portal to connect strangers across continents". The Hindu. Retrieved February 6, 2019 – via www.thehindu.com.
  23. ↑ "American Image Abroad". www.c-span.org. March 28, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  24. ↑ "Big Men on Campus - News - The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
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