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How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database
Project Credits


Mariam Ghani (Concept, Design, HTML/Javascript) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work in video, installation and new media maps the contrapuntal narratives that emerge in the border zones between cultures. Her work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999, with recent projects featured at the Liverpool Biennial, the Danish Film Institute, transmediale in Berlin, Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, Curtacinema in Rio de Janeiro, Cinema East, the New York Video Festival, White Box, Exit Art, Participant, Inc., the Asia Society, the Bronx Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Queens Museum. She is currently an artist in residence and teaching artist at Eyebeam Atelier, where she is working on the second phase of her ongoing interactive documentary project Kabul: Reconstructions.

Rob Durbin (Flash) is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media department at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and a founding principal of the company Thoughtful Robot Inc., which develops interactive CD-ROMS and online games as freelancers for corporate clients including Nickelodeon and AOL.

Chitra Ganesh (Who Are the Disappeared? visuals; Disappeared project collaborator) received her MFA from Columbia University in 2002,  a Masters in Education from CUNY Lehman College, and her BA from Bown University in 1996. Her work explores how memory and its repression shape moments of personal and social crisis and has been exhibited in North America, South America, Europe and India.

Edward J. Potter (PHP/MySQL) is a programmer specialized in designing browser-based database interfaces via PHP, XML and mySQL for ventures ranging from e-commerce to non-profit, with clients including AT&T, Apple, Earth Pledge, T3, Wiley and Metrobeat. He is also a partner in the software development company Art Box Technologies and the IT manager of the nonprofit gallery Exit Art in Manhattan. He has previously collaborated with Mariam Ghani on the web-based projects kabul-reconstructions.net for Exit Art and Permanent Transit: net.remix for artwurl.org.

Translators: Fahima Danishgar (Dari), Rula Ghani (French), Mariam Ghani (Italian), Carla Iny (Spanish), Mohammed Jehangir Khan (Urdu), Hind Shoufani (Arabic). Please let us know if you find any mistakes in or have trouble with one of the multilingual forms.

Our thanks are due to a number of people whose input, advice, participation and/or support helped to shape various stages of the project, including: Rehan Ansari, Partha Banerjee, Pablo Canillas, Erin Donnelly, Jo-Anne Green, Rula & Ashraf Ghani, Carla Iny, Ramzi Kassem, Subhash Kateel, Fawad Khan, Aster Kidane, Yamini Nayar, Jenny Polak, Sam Quiah, Julissa Reynoso, and Saurav Sarkhar.