Tina Bastajian

Tina Bastajian
 

Tina Bastajian is a media artist, researcher, and archival dramaturge born in Los Angeles, who formulated her cinematic proclivities in San Francisco during the 1980s. In 2005, she moved to Amsterdam to continue with her curatorial and archival research in the Master’s programme, (UvA) Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. Her artistic research has investigated and reconfigured moving image heritage and the archive within experimental and expanded modes of cinema in praxis and theory; which include interactive, recycled, mobile, and location-based storytelling with an emphasis on documentary forms, the essay film, archival, and subtitle/textual dramaturgy. As an occasional curator, she co-curated a two-week film festival (Armeense Cinema) at Filmhuis Den Haag, which consisted of contemporary and historical films from Armenia and the expanded diaspora. Alongside her own artistic research practice, she teaches courses in documentary film at AUC/Amsterdam University College, and in the fall of 2018, she joined the Sandberg Institute as a core tutor within the Design department guiding the thesis writing and research. In 2021, she became the research lecturer and thesis in the BA program Moving Image at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts – AKI Academy of Art & Design.

As a media artist, independent researcher, and essayist, her work uses experimental approaches to narrative and documentary forms to explore themes of memory, the fragment, erasure, interstitiality, and the contours of voice and translation. Bastajian’s work has been shown at festivals, galleries, museums, and symposia in the US, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and other countries.