Zaiba Jabbar
LONDON, UK
Femme-focused director, curator and founder of HERVISIONS building the foundations of a new digital future and artistic digital encounters
Zaiba Jabbar is an award winning director, independent curator and founder of HERVISIONS (2015). With over a decade of experience in the film and media sectors, her curatorial practice is an investigation into how people in the margins are using technology to create art outside of traditional formats, making space for themselves through the experience of digital environments. Zaiba was curator in residence at LUX in 2018 and is a board member of Abandon Normal Devices.
HERVISIONS offers a portal into a vibrant world of femme-focused digital art, from augmented reality face filters to virtual dates, Algorithmic Intimacies performative workshops and online conversations and salons.
“Previously a music video director, now a curator. I am fascinated by the way she challenges how we experience art from different womxn outside of the white cube space. She has been really influential in creating accessible platforms and spaces and is building the future for a diverse and innovative online community. She is preparing a generation for the new technological age.”
— Ivan Michael Blackstock
