Film | Sound | Performance
Essays
About
Ghida Anouti is a second-year graduate student in the SMArchS History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture (Aga Khan Program) at MIT. She is interested in narrative-building, visual culture, and acoustemology in relation to the production, reception, and consumption of multisensorial media.
Her research at MIT focuses on films as archives of war, acoustic violence, and experimental video-making during and post-Civil War Lebanon. Through close readings of audiovisual material, she unravels latent philosophies and distills provocations that have percolated in the Arab world for so long.
She also conducts research at MIT, currently for Professor Azra Akšamija and the Future Heritage Lab, and previously with the LCAU on the Living Heritage Atlas project set in Beirut. Prior to her candidature at MIT, Ghida obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut.
Her research at MIT focuses on films as archives of war, acoustic violence, and experimental video-making during and post-Civil War Lebanon. Through close readings of audiovisual material, she unravels latent philosophies and distills provocations that have percolated in the Arab world for so long.
She also conducts research at MIT, currently for Professor Azra Akšamija and the Future Heritage Lab, and previously with the LCAU on the Living Heritage Atlas project set in Beirut. Prior to her candidature at MIT, Ghida obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut.