Dr S Ayesha Hameed

Staff details

Position Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures
Department Visual Cultures
Email a.hameed (@gold.ac.uk)
Phone +44 (0)20 7919 7470
Dr S Ayesha Hameed

On Research Leave
Dr. Hameed explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Her speculative approach combines performance, sound essays, videos, and lectures. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstinstituut Melly (2022) and Bonniers Konsthall (2022) and group exhibitions at Zeitz MOCAA (2022), Liverpool Biennale, UK (2021), Momenta Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2019, 2021), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). She co-directed The Weapon of Theory as a Conference of Birds at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2022) and was an Art Explora Artist in Residence at Cité des Arts, Paris (2022). She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel (Sternberg/MIT 2021). She is a Kone Foundation Research Fellow (2022-6). She has two forthcoming books: the monograph Black Atlantis (Strange Attractor/MIT, 2025) and is lead editor of Radio Brown Atlantis (CARA, 2025).

Teaching and Supervision

Supervision Summary:

Politics of the landscape; oceanic studies; sound studies; the relationship between the human and more than human; speculative fiction; experimental, practice based work (film, performance, creative writing); migration; borders; histories and legacies of indenture and slavery on the Indian and Atlantic Oceans; radio and other diy forms of practice

Teaching:

Dr Hameed is on research leave during her Kone Foundation Fellowship.

Prior to this she was Co Programme Leader of the PhD in Visual Cultures and taught the courses below:

BA
Space and Time (co-taught)
Landscape and Power

MA
Ocean as Archive

PhD
Research Seminar (co-taught)

  • BA History of Art
  • BA Fine Art and History of Art
  • MA in Contemporary Art History
  • PhD in Visual Cultures

Publications and research outputs

Book

Hameed, Ayesha. 2025. Black Atlantis. London: Strange Attractor Press.

Gunkel, Henriette and Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. Visual Cultures as Time Travel. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956795381

Edited Book

Hameed, Ayesha; Eleison, Keyna; Moscoso, Manuela; Sengupta, Shuddhabrata and Valinkski, Rachel, eds. 2025. Radio Brown Atlantis. New York: Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA). ISBN 9781954939066

Gunkel, Henriette; Hameed, Ayesha and O'Sullivan, Simon D., eds. 2017. Futures and Fictions. London: Repeater. ISBN 9781910924631

Book Section

Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. Sea Changes and Other Futurisms. In: Henriette Gunkel and Ayesha Hameed, eds. Visual Cultures as Time Travel. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956795381

Hameed, Ayesha and Gunkel, Henriette. 2021. A Conversation on Time Travel. In: Henriette Gunkel and Ayesha Hameed, eds. Visual Cultures as Time Travel. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9783956795381

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border. In: Rita Kaur Dhamoon; Davina Bhandar; Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Kaur Bains, eds. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 197-212. ISBN 9780774860659

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Black Atlantis. In: Henriette Gunkel and Kara Lynch, eds. We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 107-126. ISBN 9783837646016

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. “The Bloop”; “Jupiter". In: Steve Goodman; Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou, eds. AUDINT—Unsound:Undead. Falmouth: Urbanomic Media, pp. 83-85. ISBN 9781916405219

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. “A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints)”. In: Gurur Ertem and Sandra Noeth, eds. Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement , 2018. Vienna: Passagen Verlag, pp. 35-52. ISBN 9783709203033

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. Retrograde Futurism. In: Marina Otero Verzier and Nick Axel, eds. Work Body Leisure. Rotterdam: Het Nieuwe Instituut/Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, pp. 289-297. ISBN 9783775744256

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. Black Atlantis – Dancefloors and Seafloors. In: Dan Meththananda and Martin Kohout, eds. Night Shifter. TLTRPreß, pp. 44-53. ISBN 9783981964011

Hameed, Ayesha; Eshun, Kodwo and Moreno, Louis. 2017. Sonic Utopias: The Last Angel of History. A Conversation between Ayesha Hameed, Kodwo Eshun and Louis Moreno. In: Henriette Gunkel; Ayesha Hameed and Simon D. O'Sullivan, eds. Futures and Fictions. London: Repeater, pp. 249-267. ISBN 9781910924631

Hameed, Ayesha; Gunkel, Henriette and O'Sullivan, Simon D.. 2017. 'Futures and Fictions: A Conversation between Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed and Simon O'Sullivan.'. In: Ayesha Hameed; Henriette Gunkel and Simon D. O'Sullivan, eds. Futures and Fictions. London: Repeater, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781910924631

Hameed, Ayesha. 2017. Black Atlantis: The Plantationocene. In: MAP Office, ed. Our Ocean Guide. Lightbox Publishing, pp. 205-213. ISBN 978-88-6384-041-4

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. Black Atlantis. In: Eyal Weizman, ed. Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 712-719. ISBN 9783956790119

Hameed, Ayesha. 2013. What Does the Moving Image Desire? In: , ed. Sarai Reader 09: Projections. Delhi: Sarai Media Lab, pp. 323-330.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. The Petrification of the Image. In: Godofredo Nobre Enes Pereira, ed. Savage Objects: Inhuman Political Alliances. Porto: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. Borders in the City. In: J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson, eds. Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada. Wilfrid Laurier Press. ISBN 978-1-55458-257-0

Hameed, Ayesha. 2008. Virtual and Material Topographies. In: Danny Butt; Jon Bywater and Paul Nova, eds. Place: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8471-8484-9

Hameed, Ayesha. 2004. Sailing Ships and Distant Shores: Capitalism, Slavery and the Sea. In: James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezoulka-Mailloux, eds. in Culture and the State: Landscape and Ecology (Volume 1). CRC Humanities Studio.

Article

Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. Trace. Reviews in Cultural Theory, 2(3), ISSN 1918-9710

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. Yaron Lapid: The New Zero. Photoworks, 16,

Godfrey, Mark; Demos, T.J.; Weizman, Eyal and Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. Rights of Passage”. Tate Etc, 19,

Hameed, Ayesha; Weizman, Eyal; Pereira, Godofredo Nobre Enes; Tavares, Paulo; Di Carlo, Tina and Khalili, Yazan. 2010. Universal Catastrophe - Roundtable On Terrorism. Revista Detritos, 4,

Hameed, Ayesha and Le, Viet Ho. 2007. Love and Borders. West Coast LINE 49, 40(1),

Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Animating Exclusions: Ali Kazimi’s Continuous Journey and the Virtualities of Racialized Exclusion. Topia, 17, ISSN 1206-0143

Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Embodying the Middle Passage. Topia, 18, ISSN 1206-0143

Hameed, Ayesha and Vukov, Tamara. 2005. Notes on the Politics and Potentials of New Media Engagement. Public: art, culture and ideas, 31,

Hameed, Ayesha. 2004. Nostalgic Landscapes – Andrew Hunter’s Giddy-Up! or a Darn Good Hat Act. FUSE, 27(4),

Conference or Workshop Item

Territorial Agency; Hameed, Ayesha; Jackson, Jeremy; Otolith Group and Reymann, Markus. 2019. 'Oceans in Crisis'. In: Oceans in Crisis. Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom 6 December 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha and Rosendahl, Lisa. 2019. 'GIBCA Conversations: dialogue with curator Lisa Rosendahl'. In: 10th Gotëburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. Gothenburg, Sweden 7 September 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. '"The Bloop" and "Jupiter"'. In: AUDINT - Unsound:Undead Launch. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom 26 July 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. 'Soot Breath: Trans-boarding'. In: International Symposium: Soot Breath: On Land, Law and Bodies. Showroom, London, United Kingdom 18 May 2019.

Hille, Moira and Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. 'Ayesha Hameed and Moira Hille “In conversation”'. In: Fantastic Thursday. Academy of the Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria January 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. '“Black Atlantis” at Symposium ‘Black Mediterranean’'. In: Black Mediterranean Symposium 2019, Contemporary Istanbul. Istanbul, Turkey 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. '“Retrograde Futurism” in Book Launch Panel for Work, Body, Leisure (Architectural Association)'. In: Work, Body, Leisure Book Launch, Architectural Association. Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom 2019.

O'Sullivan, Simon D.; Davies, Will and Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. 'Tank Book Talks (with Will Davies and Ayesha Hameed)'. In: Tank Book Talks. Tank, Great Portland Street, London, United Kingdom 18 October 2018.

Ferreira da Silva, Denise; Hameed, Ayesha; Sharma, Ashwani; Sagar, Anjalika and Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. 'Study Group on Black Aesthetics'. In: In formation III. Institute for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom 26 August 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. '“Retrograde Futurism” in Book Launch Panel for Work, Body, Leisure'. In: Work, Body, Leisure Book Launch. Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands 26 August 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. '“Respondent” to Denise Ferreira da Silva'. In: Denise Ferreira da Silva: Blacklight; part of In formation III. Institute for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom 25 August 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. 'The Shaping of a Message'. In: The Shaping of a Message Symposium. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 8 June 2018.

Hille, Moira; Hameed, Ayesha; Arabindan-Kesson, Anna; Guerin, Ayasha; De Lucia, Lori A. and McKelvin, Patricia. 2018. 'Ghostships & Other Narratives'. In: Resignifications 2018: The Black Mediterranean. Palermo, Italy 7 June 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha and Gunkel, Henriette. 2018. 'Visual Cultures as Time Travel'. In: Alien Time. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 25 May 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha and Perretta, Imran. 2018. '“In Conversation” with Imran Perretta'. In: 15 days. Jerwood Arts, London, United Kingdom 10 May 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. 'Echoes of the South Atlantic talk'. In: Echoes of the South Atlantic Conference Salvador 2018. Goethe Institute Salvador, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil 23 - 25 April 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. '"The Bloop“ and "Jupiter"'. In: AUDINT-Unsound: Undead. Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. 'Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism'. In: Society for Artistic Research 9th International Conference, “Artistic Research Will Eat Itself”. University of Plymouth, United Kingdom 11 -13 April 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. '“Black Atlantis” at "You Send Me" panel discussion'. In: Sharjah Art Foundation March Meeting 2018. Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 17 - 19 March 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. 'Black Atlantis'. In: BAK basis voor actuele kunst. Utrecht, Netherlands.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2017. 'A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints)'. In: Genealogies of Visual Cultures. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.

Eshun, Kodwo; Moreno, Louis and Hameed, Ayesha. 2016. 'In conversation with Louis Moreno and Ayesha Hameed'. In: Stadtklang, Sonic Utopias, Utopia Treasury. Somerset House, United Kingdom 20 March 2016.

Hameed, Ayesha and Gunkel, Henriette. 2015. 'A Lexicon of Afterlives: Visions of Future/s: Towards radical collective imaginations'. In: 6th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS-6). Paris, France 8-10 July 2015.

Hameed, Ayesha; Eshun, Kodwo and Diederichsen, Diedrich. 2015. 'Circle/ Rhythm/ Ritual'. In: Labour in a Single Shot. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 26 - 28 February 2015.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. 'Discussant and Respondent “The Free Sea” GV Art, London'. In: The Free Sea - screening and discussion. GV Art, London, United Kingdom 28 November 2014.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. 'The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border'. In: Charting Imperial Itineraries, 1914-2014: Unmooring the Komagata Maru Conference. Victoria, Canada May 2014.

Schuppli, Susan; Sfard, Michael and Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. 'Anarchists against the Law'. In: Forensis: the Architecture of Public Truth. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 15-16 March 2014.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. 'Majub's Journey screening and discussion'. In: Majub's Journey. Goethe Institute London, United Kingdom.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2013. 'The Image of Gaddafi'. In: Radical Media Forum: Aesthetics and the Politics of Moving Images. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 10 December 2013.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2013. ''Streams, Torrents and Waves''. In: South Asian Visual Arts Centre Monitor 9. no.w.here London, United Kingdom 24 April 2013.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2013. 'Perils of the Sea'. In: Devils Advocates. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 1-2 March 2013.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2013. 'Rituals and Masks at the Border'. In: Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition New Delhi. New Delhi, India 2013.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. 'The Image of Gaddafi'. In: Living Death Camp and Forensic Aesthetics: Where subjugated knowledge is, sociality occurs. Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia 5-12 April 2012.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. 'The Law of the Jungle Can't Last'. In: Objects, Practices and Territories: Guimarães 2012, European Capital of Culture. Guimarães, Portugal 2012.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. 'On Laughter and Violence'. In: On Laughter and Violence. University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. 'Border Crossings'. In: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Banff, Canada 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. 'The Body in the Jungle'. In: Forensic Aesthetics. Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 12-15 January 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. 'On Coastlines, Border Crossings and Natural History,'. In: History and Theory Reading Group. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, United Kingdom 28 May 2010.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. 'Aesthetics of Evidence'. In: Presentation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Geneva (with Centre for Research Architecture). Geneva, Switzerland 2010.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. 'The Jungle as Second Nature'. In: Regimes of Extraterritoriality. Cairo, Egypt 2010.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2009. 'Wait… a minute!'. In: Wait… a minute! e-round table discussion. OBORO, Montréal, Canada 9 May 2009.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2009. 'Vectors of the Global Border'. In: Historical Materialism. London, United Kingdom 2009.

Hameed, Ayesha and Weizman, Eyal. 2009. 'On Archives'. In: Museum of non Participation. no.w.here, London, United Kingdom 2009.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2008. 'Artist’s Talk, Rearranging Desires: Curating the "Other” Within'. In: Rearranging Desires: Curating the "Other” Within. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 6 – 31 October 2008.

Hameed, Ayesha and Robertson, Kirsty. 2008. 'What is Missing and What is There: Passages from War to Art'. In: Universities Art Association of Canada. Toronto, Canada 2008.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2006. 'Salon Femmes br@nchées #61'. In: Salon Femmes br@nchées #61 : ART.chives : art, archives, & databases. Studio XX, Montréal, Canada 16 February 2006.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2005. 'The Unspoken Archive: New Media Representations of the Middle Passage'. In: Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Banff New Media Institute, Canada 28 September - 3 October 2005.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2005. 'Invisible Evidence: History/ Diaspora/ Documentary'. In: Visible Evidence XII. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 21-25 August 2005.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2004. 'Mapping the Self, Mapping the Other: Colonialism and Metropolitan Identity'. In: Print Culture and the City. McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2004.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2003. 'Dialectics at a Standstill: a Benjaminian reading of Turner, Grandville and Industrial Seascapes'. In: Universities Art Association of Canada Conference (UAAC-AAUC) 2003. Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada 2003.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2003. 'Colonial Circuits: The Commodification of the Ocean and the Creation of Modern Space'. In: Canadian Association for Cultural Studies. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 2003.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2003. 'Sailing Ships and Distant Shores: Capitalism, Slavery and the Sea'. In: Culture and the State: Past Present and Future. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2003.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2002. 'Virtual Toronto: Interdisciplinary Knowledge and New Research Tools'. In: Bridges II: A Conference about Cross-Disciplinary Research and Collaboration. Banff New Media Institute, Canada October 2002.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2001. 'Strategies of Critique XV: Human Nature'. In: Strategies of Critique XV: Human Nature. York University, Toronto, Canada 2001.

Art Object

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. A Transatlantic Periodic Table.

Digital

Hameed, Ayesha and Pourtavaf, Leila. 2007. Border Controls/Border Movements.

Exhibition Catalogue

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. The Object that Remains.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2005. Unless.

Film/Video

Hameed, Ayesha and Kane, Hamedine. 2018. In the Shadow of Our Ghosts.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2017. A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints) - film and performance.

Performance

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Black Atlantis: Bodies and Storms. In: "Black Atlantis: Bodies and Storms", ICA London, United Kingdom, 2015-2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism. In: "Black Atlantis: Retrograde Futurism", Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany, 2018-2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. Black Atlantis: 'The end of eating everything'. In: "Black Atlantis: 'The end of eating everything'", Empire Remains, London, United Kingdom, 2016 - 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2016. Black Atlantis: The Plantationocene. In: "Black Atlantis: The Plantationocene", Alice Yard, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, 2016 - 2019.

Project

Hameed, Ayesha. 2016 - 2018 A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints).

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014 - 2019 Black Atlantis.

Show/Exhibition

Hameed, Ayesha. 2022. Radio Brown Atlantis Solo Exhibition. In: "Radio Brown Atlantis", Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, 31 August - 30 October 2022.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2022. Brown Atlantis Solo Exhibition. In: "Brown Atlantis", Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 6 May - 21 August 2022.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. 11th Gothenburg Biennale. In: "11th Gotëburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art", Gothenburg, Sweden, 4 September - 21 November 2021.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2021. I sing of the sea, I am mermaid of the trees. In: "Liverpool Biennial 2021", Liverpool, United Kingdom, 6 March –20 June 2021.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Gothenburg Biennale. In: "10th Gotëburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art", Gothenburg, Sweden, 7 September 2019 - 19 November 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Lubumbashi Biennale. In: "6th Biennale de Lubumbashi", Lubumbashi, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, 24 October 2019 - 24 November 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Glasgow Film Festival. In: "Glasgow Film Festival 2019", Glasgow, United Kingdom, 20 February 2019 - 3 March 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Academy of the Fine Arts Vienna screening. In: "Academy of the Fine Arts Vienna", Vienna, Austria.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. Wadi Rum Film Festival. In: "Al-Qamar, Al-Qamar (Valley of the Moon) Film Festival", Wadi Rum, Jordan, 19 - 22 April 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2019. And Evil Earth maybe it’s time for a rumble. In: "Life Choreographies", Public Art Agency, Stockholm, Sweden, 21 August 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha and Muyanga, Neo. 2019. And Evil Earth, Maybe It’s Time For A Rumble. In: "SAVVY Contemporary, Ultrasanity Chapter 2, Invocations at the Gnaoua Festival", Essaouira, Morocco, 20 - 22 June 2019.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. “Precarious terrain and entangled situations”. In: "“Precarious terrain and entangled situations”", Konsthall C Stockholm, Sweden, 11 April - 17 June 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. Black Atlantis, Ø Hyperdub. In: "Ø Hyperdub", Corsica Studios London, United Kingdom, 14 November 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2018. Landfall and Departure: Epilogue (Listening to the Sea). In: "Landfall and Departure", Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada, 12 January - 10 March 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha and Kane, Hamedine. 2018. “Family Function”. In: "13th Dak’Art Dakar Biennial", Dakar, Senegal.

Hameed, Ayesha and Kane, Hamedine. 2018. “Working Practices: a collaboration with Clark House”. In: "“Working Practices: a collaboration with Clark House”", Showroom London, United Kingdom, 25 May - 7 July 2018.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2017. The Destruction of Fingerprints. In: "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics", Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico, 9 September - 30 December 2017.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2017. The Destruction of Fingerprints. In: "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics", MACBA Barcelona, Spain, 28 April - 15 October 2017.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2015. A Rough History (of the destruction of fingerprints). In: "Social Glitch: Radical aesthetics and the consequences of extreme events", Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria, 25 September - 5 December 2015.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. The Destruction of Fingerprints. In: "Forensis", Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 15 March - 5 May 2014.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2014. Monitor Reruns. In: "Images Festival", A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 28 March - 3 May 2014.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2012. Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition, New Delhi. In: "Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition", New Delhi, India, 18 August 2012 - 15 April 2013.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. "La Commune". In: "La Commune", Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada, 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. “TERRITOIRES/TERRITORIOS: Une sélection d’oeuvres d’artistes espagnoles et canadiennes”. In: "“TERRITOIRES/TERRITORIOS: Une sélection d’oeuvres d’artistes espagnoles et canadiennes”", Montréal, Canada, 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. “Giv Présente: Lancement des Nouveautés”. In: "Giv Présente: Lancement des Nouveautés", Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal, Canada, 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2011. New Schools Programme Toronto. In: "New Schools Programme Toronto. SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)", Toronto, Canada, 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. “The New City Reader: A Newspaper of Public Space”. In: "The New City Reader: A Newspaper of Public Space, Network Architecture Lab", New Museum, New York, United States, 6 October 2010 - 9 January 2011.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. Borders in the City 1. In: "International Society for Electronic Art", Singapore, Singapore, 2010.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2009. Eclectik 09 (Montréal, arts interculturels). In: "Eclectik 09 (Montréal, arts interculturels)", Montréal, Canada, 29 - 30 May 2009.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2009. Folly. In: "'Folly' at MAI", Montréal, arts interculturels, Montreal, Canada.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2008. Borders in the City 1. In: "University of the Streets Café", Montréal, Canada, 2008 - 2010.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2008. Rencontre Interuniversitaire, Québec. In: "Rencontre Interuniversitaire, Québec", Montreal, Canada, 2008.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2008. Rearranging Desires: Curating the "Other” Within (Group Exhibition). In: "Rearranging Desires: Curating the "Other” Within. FOFA Gallery, Concordia University", Montreal, Canada, 6-31 October 2008.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Volatile Works short programme. In: "Volatile Works Does the Cinémathèque!", Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, 23 November 2007.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. “Monitor 3” SAVAC’s International Short Film and Video Festival, Toronto. In: "Monitor 3", Toronto, Canada.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency Exhibition. In: "Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency Exhibition", Banff, Canada, 2007.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2007. Re-presenting Diasporas in Cinema and New (Digital) Media, University of Exeter. In: "Re-presenting Diasporas in Cinema and New (Digital) Media, University of Exeter", Exeter, United Kingdom, 2007.

Hameed, Ayesha and Pourtavaf, Leila. 2007. Border Controls/Border Movements. In: "HTMlles 08: Crowd Control", Montréal, Canada, 17-21 October 2007.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2006. The Third Annual Volatile Works Series. In: "The Third Annual Volatile Works Series", Montréal, Canada, 2007.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2004. Digital Poetics and Politics. In: "Digital Poetics and Politics, Queen’s University", Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2004.

Hameed, Ayesha. 2001. Mayworks Festival. In: "Mayworks Festival, Oakville Art Gallery", Oakville, Canada, 2001.

Hameed, Ayesha and Chu, Yen. 1999. “Borderlines” at 52 Inc. Toronto. In: "“Borderlines” 52 Inc. Toronto", Toronto, Canada, 1999.

Further profile content

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Research projects

2021-2024: Brown Atlantis Radio
Radio show commissioned by the Onassis Foundation and broadcast on Stegi Radio (Athens) and Radio Alhara (Bethlehem); Exhibition Commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall; Book commissioned by CARA

2014-2023: Black Atlantis
Practice research project comprising a monograph, several published book chapters, performances, videos and soundworks exhibited internationally at several biennales and elsewhere

Media engagements

2024: "þ thorns þ", with Sara Garzón, Rose Choreographic School, Sadler Wells
Podcast

2021: Sugar. Free Thinking BBC Radio 3
Invited Guest.

2021: The Uncanny Ocean: A Proposition by Ayesha Hameed HEAD-Geneva
Symposium Convenor

2021: “Episode 31: The Revolution Continues with Dr. Ayesha Hameed talking about her Incredible Project "Black Atlantis” Another World is Poddable
Podcast hosted by Professor Peter Bloom University of Essex

2020: Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture (BBC TV )
Appearance in documentary on Afrofuturism for BBC Arena

Conferences and talks

2024: Henry ‘Box’ Brown Lecture, University of Manchester
Keynote Lecture

2024: Intersectional Materialisms: Diversity in Creative Industries, Methods and Practices, Maynooth, National University of Ireland
Keynote Lecture

2023: “The Plantationocene” Bordering Plants, ‘Exhibit Galerie,’ Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Keynote Lecture

2023: “Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms” Confluence, CCA Glasgow
Keynote Lecture

2023: “Time Travelling Devices” (with Henriette Gunkel and Simon O’Sullivan) Time Machines, Goldsmiths University of London
Keynote Lecture

2023: “The Soil and the Sea of the Plantationocene” (with Henriette Gunkel) British Association for American Studies, Kent, UK
Keynote Lecture

2020: “Black Atlantis” Nordland National Academy of Art and Film, Norway
Keynote Lecture

2018: “Retrograde Futurism” Artistic Research Will Eat Itself, Society for Artistic Research, Plymouth
Keynote Lecture

Grants and awards

2023: Publication Grant, Centre for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), NY
To produce the co-edited book Radio Brown Atlantis

2022: Kone Foundation Fellowship
To produce the monograph Black Atlantis

2021: Research Fellow in the Arts, Helsinki Collegium in Advanced Studies

2023: Videonale Scope, Videonale Festival 20
Production Grants for a new curatorial commission

2023: Videonale Video Digest
Production grant for new video commission

2022: Kunstinstituut Melly
Production grant for new commission

2022: Bonniers Konsthall
Production grant for new commission

2022: Zeitz Mocaa
Production grant for new commission

2021: Liverpool Biennale
Production grant for new commission