Film | Sound | Performance
Essays
About
Ghida Anouti is a writer, artist, and architect. She is interested in narrative-building, visual culture, and acoustemology in relation to the production, reception, and consumption of multisensorial media.
She recently graduated from MIT with a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, specifically in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Her research at MIT focused on films as archives of war, acoustic violence, and experimental video-making during and after the Civil War in 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 has conducted research at MIT 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.
She recently graduated from MIT with a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, specifically in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Her research at MIT focused on films as archives of war, acoustic violence, and experimental video-making during and after the Civil War in 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 has conducted research at MIT 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.