MITRA HEMATPOOR

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXV
email: mitra.hematpoor@uniroma1.it




supervisor: prof.ssa Francesca Gallo

Research:

PROFILE
- Experienced graphic designer with long professional experience in using digital applications;
- Assistant and scheduler to Bizhan Bassiri, Iranian-Italian artisti, including for Venice Biennale;
- Leadership experience as reasercher at the Alberto Burri Foundation;
- Worked for media agencies A4 Media in Tehran, MetUp in Rome as responsible for marketing visualist;
- Excellent knowledge of English and Italian, both written and spoken.
EDUCATION
- (2015 – 2018) Master of Arts: Spectacle, Fashion and Digital arts
Sapienza University of Rome – Rome, Italy
Dissertation: ‘Archive the documentaries and filmography on Alberto Burri and analyze five documentaries from 1974 to 2015’.
- (2012 – 2015) Master of Arts: Visual Communication
University of Tehran - Tehran, Iran
Dissertation: ‘Visual Sociology Comic Stories Stories and review the reasons for its decline after the Islamic Revolution of Iran’.
EMPLOYMENT
- (February – July 2018) Research Assistant on Project ‘Archiving Alberto Burri's Documentary’ – Tehran, Iran
Job involved:
• Assisting in research, support of data processing operations for large survey research projects;
• Cleaning and maintaining equipment in good working order;
• Planning, modifying and executing research techniques, procedures and tests;
• Recording data and maintaining source documentation following good documentation practices;
• Assisting in research support of data processing operations for large survey research projects;
• Summarizing search results by preparing written reports, graphs, fact sheets and tables;
• Stocking, organizing and preparing supplies.
- (May – September 2017) Curator and Curator’s Assistant - Contemporary Art Researcher Tehran Museum Of Contemporary Art – Tehran, Iran
Job involved:
• Networking at creative events to identify new talent and artistic works in local areas;
• Managing all paper and digital documentation related to accessions, loans, transfers and other collections- related transactions;
• Receiving, photographing, cataloguing, researching and preparing exhibition for display of the "Motlaq"
collection;
• Presenting projects to internal clients;
• Establishing and maintaining productive and professional working relationships.
INTERNSHIP
Marketing agency and Media Center MetUp, in Rome
Saatchi Gallery, in London
Title of PhD thesis:
IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART IN ITALY, 1954 - 1984



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