University of North Texas alumna Adela Andea. Photo Gary Payne/UNT Photo Morehshin Allahyari
Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She was the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine.
Born and raised in Iran, Allahyari moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Allahyari is the co-author of The 3D Additivist Cookbook in collaboration with writer/artist Daniel Rourke (published online in 2016, in 3DPDF format and in print by the Institute of Networked Cultures). Her Material Speculation: ISIS models, 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide.
Morehshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation: ISIS (2015-2016). 3D print
Morehshin has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including Venice Biennale di Archittectura, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Pori Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Morehshin Allahyari was a participating artist in the Framer Framed exhibition As If: The Media Artist as Trickster (2017), curated by Annet Dekker and David Garcia, and in collaboration with Ian Alan Paul.
She has been an artist in residence at BANFF Centre (2013), Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (2015), Autodesk Pier9 Workshop in San Francisco (2015), and the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research in association with Transmediale, Berlin (2016). Her work has been featured in the New YorkTimes, Huffington Post, Wired, National Public Radio, Parkett Art Magazine, Frieze, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, and Al Jazeera, among others.
Allahyari was an artist in residence at Eyebeam’s one year Research Residency (2016-2017) in NYC where she developed a new body of work on Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’ as a Feminism and de-colonialism practice, using 3D scanners and 3D printers as her tools of investigation. Researching dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises a narrative through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving.
- Dark Matters - een interview met Morehshin Allahyari
- Persoonlijke website van Morehshin Allahyari
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