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PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2025
Heba Y. Amin (2025). The Operative Logic of an Image, EUR_Asia Digital Brochure, Museo Delle Civilità, 18-24.
2023
Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey (2023). The techno-politics of programming vision, Visual Studies, 38:2, 192-195, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2023.2198393
2022
Amin, H., Downey, A., Kazan, H., Mohaiemen, N., & Schuppli, S. (2022). Witness statements and the technologies of memory: A conversation between Heba Y. Amin, Anthony Downey, Helene Kazan, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Susan Schuppli. Memory, Mind & Media, 1, E16. doi:10.1017/mem.2022.10
“Heba Y. Amin and Maja Figge on Colonial Erasures in Postwar German Film”. Ocula, 10 Aug 2022, https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/heba-y-amin-and-maja-figge-on-colonial-erasures/.
“Programmed Visions and Techno-Fossils: Heba Y. Amin and Anthony Downey in conversation”. Third Text Online, 21 July 2022, www.thirdtext.org/downey-amin.
Amin, Heba Y. “Allegorizing”. Archives on Show: Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing - A Curatorial Glossary, edited by Beatrice von Bismarck, Archive Books, 2022.
2021
Amin, Heba Y. “The General’s Stork”. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics: The Changing Ontology of the Image, Vol. 30, No. 61-62, 02 July 2021.
“Drone Technologies and the Future of Surveillance in the Middle East: Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey in conversation”. The MIT Press Reader, January 2021, https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/drone-technologies-future-of-surveillance-middle-east/.
“Egypt’s 2011 Internet Shutdown: Digital Dissent and the Future of Public Memory – Heba Y. Amin, Abdelkarim Mardini, and Adel Iskandar in Conversation, moderated by Anthony Downey”. Camera Austria, March 2021.
Amin, Heba Y. “The General’s Stork”. di’van: A Journal of Accounts. Art | Culture | Theory., No 9, pp. March 2021.
2020
Downey, Anthony, Ed., Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020. Print.
Amin, H.Y., Downey, A. “Contesting post-digital futures: drone warfare and the geo-politics of aerial surveillance in the middle east”. Digital War, Palgrave Macmillan, Volume 1, No 103, Dec 2020, https://doi.org/10.1057/s42984-020-00021-y.
Amin, H.Y., Downey, A. “Avian Prophecies and the Techno-Aesthetics of Drone Warfare: Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Anthony Downey”. (W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War and Contemporary Art, edited by Daniela Agostinho, Solveig Gade, Nanna Thylstrup and Kristin Veel, Sternberg Press, 2021, pp. 143-161.
Amin, H.Y., Downey, A. “A Brief History of Drone Warfare”. Frieze, Issue 215, 30 Oct 2020, https://www.frieze.com/article/brief-history-drone-warfare.
2019
Amin, Heba Y., “A Universal View from Nowhere: Tracing the Boundaries of Digital Space” Digital Earth, 11 Oct. 2019, https://medium.com/digital-earth/a-universal-view-from-nowhere-tracing-the-boundaries-of-digital-space-94bd45b77c9f.
Amin, Heba Y. et al. “Political Protest Not for Sale! Why the Homeland Hack is not a Commodity”. Open Democracy, 21 Jan. 2019, https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/arabian-street-artists/political-protest-not-for-sale?fbclid=IwAR23Mco75ytPtysreRV-pi8SKQSzy_bpco9NK51wYGEPUaX8WoZBGXty5mE.
2018
Amin, Heba Y., “Autonomous Power of Resistance? On South-South Relations” 10 Years Zilberman Gallery, 2018, Print.
2017
Amin, Heba Y., Dawit L. Petros. “To Think and Rethink the Terms of History” Medina: Au coeur de Bamako, 2017, Print.
Amin, Heba Y., Francesca Girelli “Default” Sino Alla Fine Del Mare, Investigation on the Extreme Lands, Viaindustriae publishing: Foligno, 2017, pp. 47-51.
2016
Amin, Heba Y. “Towards a Spatial Imaginary: Walking Cabbages and Watermelons” Ibraaz, 5 July 2016, www.ibraaz.org/essays/160/.
Amin, Heba Y. “The Question of Artistic Freedom.” Doppiozero, 30 Mar. 2016, www.doppiozero.com/materiali/why-africa/question-artistic-freedom.
2015
Amin, Heba Y. “'Arabian Street Artists' Bomb Homeland: Why We Hacked an Award-Winning Series | Heba Amin.” hebaamin, 2015, www.hebaamin.com/arabian-street-artists-bomb-homeland-why-we-hacked-an-award-winning-series/.
Amin, Heba Y. et al. “Graffiti Artists Explain: Why 'Homeland is Watermelon’ went viral'.” CNN, Cable News Network, 23 Oct. 2015, edition.cnn.com/2015/10/23/opinions/opinion-homeland-graffiti-artists/index.html.”
2014
Amin, Heba Y. “Memory Space and Digital Remembrance: The Speak2Tweet Archive.” Technoecologies 2: Media Art Histories. Ed. Rasa Šmite, Armin Medosch, and Raitis Šmits. Riga, Latvia: RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture, 2014, pp. 147–154. https://www.academia.edu/12317272/Memory_Space_and_Digital_Remembrance_the_Speak2Tweet_Archive
2009
Amin, Heba. “Fragmented City: Visualizing the City-Psyche Relationship of Cairo.” Media N Online Journal, 24 Apr. 2009, median.newmediacaucus.org/archives_in_progress/pre_2009_issues/issue}.phpf=papers&time=2009_spring&page=amin.
SELECT CATALOGS
2024
The Last Witness, Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
2022
When I see the Future, I close my Eyes: Chapter II
Zilberman Gallery Berlin
2018
A Rectilinear Propagation of Thought
Zilberman Gallery Berlin
2017
An Astronomical Determination of the Distance Between Two Cities
Zilberman Gallery Berlin
MONOGRAPHS
2022
Laub, Lotte (essay). “There is No Cessation”. Heba Y. Amin - When I see the Future, I Close my Eyes: Chapter II, Zilberman Gallery, 2022 exhibition catalogue.
2020
Downey, Anthony, Ed., Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020. Print.
Downey, Anthony (essay). There’s Always Someone Looking at You: Performative Research and the Techno-Aesthetics of Drone Surveillance. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020. Print.
2020
Muller, Nat (essay). “Between the Eye of the Stork and the Eye of the Drone”. A Wildness Distant, Columbia GSAPP. Dec 2020.
2018
Njami, Simon (essay). “Chimera”. Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße Prize Bremen 2018, exhibition catalogue, 2018.
Kherbek, William (essay).”Interior Landscapes: The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid Project of Heba Amin”. A Rectilinear Propagation of Though: Heba Y. Amin, exhibition catalogue, 2018.
Senova, Basak (essay). “Flipping the History: A Collection of Notes and Quote Responses on Heba Amin’s Project Operation Sunken Sea”. di’van: A Journal of Accounts. Art | Culture | Theory. No 4, p. 54-62.
SELECT INTERVIEWS
2022
Routhier, Dominique. “Bringing Colonialism into the Frame: A Conversation with Heba Y. Amin”. MAST, Volume 3 Issue 1, April 2022, https://mast-nemla.org/archive/vol3-no1-2022/Bringing_Colonialism_into_the_Frame.pdf.
2020
Furtado, Will. “Understanding the Contemporary Condition via Historical Megalomania”. Contemporary And, 8 Jan. 2020, https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/understanding-the-contemporary-condition-via-historical-megalomania/?fbclid=IwAR38POkMiFqLtqp-a6Tov3pmN5a14eZVJyTEb-uab5RHG7T2DwQYJ-BrLrA.
2019
Humphreys, Calum. “The spy stork or the Nazi Pyramid”. zenith Magazine, 17 Dec. 2019, https://magazine.zenith.me/en/culture/egyptian-artist-heba-y-amin-discusses-toxic-german-legacy?fbclid=IwAR17cipSBh7pqu8MW0xcvyqKE7tiBTKx_6U-wIO_cARD31lKyojcZ5jsgMc
2018
Reed, Patrick J. “Master Plan: a profile on Heba Y. Amin.” Canvas: Art and Culture from the Middle East and Arab World, Issue #, 2017, Print.
Halpert, Juliana. “Interviews: Heba Y. Amin.” Artforum, 5 June, www.artforum.com/interviews/heba-y-amin-discusses-her-work-in-the-10th-berlin-biennale-for-contemporary-art-75675.
2016
Iskandar, Adel. “Status Audio Journal.” Art as Interruption: On "Homeland," Revolutionary Utterances, and Surveillance, 20 Feb. 2016, www.statushour.com/en/Interview/73.
2015
Hynes, Eric. “Interview with Heba Yehia Amin, Caram Kapp, and Don Karl of Homeland Is Not a Series.” Field of Vision, 20 Dec. 2015, fieldofvision.org/interview-with-heba-yehia-amin-caram-kapp-and-don-karl-of-homeland-is-not-a-series.
Abraham, Stephanie. “Homeland Hacker Challenges Media Portrayals of Muslims.” Paris Attacks, Al Jazeera, 19 Nov. 2015, www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/11/homeland-hacker-challenges-media-portrayals-muslims-151119074438617.html.
Mackay, Mairi. “'Homeland Is Racist': Graffiti Sneaked onto TV Show.” CNN, Cable News Network, 15 Oct. 2015, edition.cnn.com/2015/10/15/middleeast/homeland-grafitti-racist/.