Dr. Maryam Muliaee is a media artist and published scholar. She holds a PhD in Media Study in a practice-based research program that combines media art creations with theoretical investigations from the State University of New York at Buffalo where she also has designed and taught courses in video/sound production, as well as film and media theory seminars since 2015. She was a Post-doctoral Associate in the department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder in conjunction with the Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance program and the Media Archaeology Lab in 2021-2022. She also has taught media production and documentary courses at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Maryam is the founding editor of MAST (The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory), a peer-reviewed journal published by the University at Buffalo and dedicated to media art research and practice-based studies. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals (such as Frames Cinema Journal, Ekphrasis Journal, and Metacritic Journal) and in book chapters with Peter Lang (2019), and Bloomsbury Publishing (2021). She was the recipient of Advanced Dissertation Fellowship Award from the UB Gender Institute (2019-2020) for her doctoral project on Feminist Media Archaeology.

Maryam is the art director, researcher, and animator of Buffalo Documentary Projectwhich combines oral history and documentary filmmaking to explore the lived experiences in Buffalo and Western New York beyond mainstream narratives. She is the co-founder of Media-as-things, a collective art-based research project focused on media archaeology and non-communication aesthetics in media arts. In 2019, Maryam was featured in LIVE YOUR ART, a documentary film that celebrates the spaces of art creation across diverse disciplines and portrays female artists living and working in Buffalo, New York.