Mani Mehrvarz is a media artist and filmmaker, currently a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. His areas of research interest include database, media archaeology, nostalgia, post-history and cultural techniques. Mani has been working on several media projects with a focus on the unstable processes of the analog and digital in technologies of recording memory in the context of post-Kittlerian media studies. His media-installations and documentary films have received recognition and awards and been exhibited and screened worldwide since 2004.