Oral history interview with Omar Mismar, 2020 August 25, Digital Video Recording
Oral history interview with Omar Mismar, 2020 August 25, Transcript
An interview with Omar Mismar conducted 2020 August 25, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Mismar's office in Beirut, Lebanon.
Omar Mismar is a Lebanese digital, video, and installation artist and educator in Beirut, Lebanon. Mismar teaches at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
This interview is open for research.
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Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)