RESEARCH & ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Transposition, Desertified, Worlding, Speculative Aesthetic, Middle Eastern Mythology, Immersive and Interactive Art, Video Game Art, Video Installation, AI Art, Docufiction.


EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices (ETMAP), University of Colorado, Boulder. 2023
• MFA in Studio Art (transmedia), the University of Texas at Austin. 2019
• MA in Studio Art, School of Arts, Gent, Belgium. 2014
• BFA in painting, University of Kerman, Iran. 2012

ACADEMIC  POSITIONS

• (August 2023 - Present) - Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver.
• (January 2023 - May 2023) - Graduate Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder.
• (August 2021 - August 2022) - Research Assistant at the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, University of Colorado Boulder.
• (August 2019 - May 2021) - Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado Boulder.
• (August 2017 - May 2019) - Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin.
• (July 2014 - June 2015) - Lecturer, University of Kerman, Iran.

AWARDS

2022 - Raymond Johnson Award, CMCI, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2021 - The New Centre for Research & Practice Fellowship.

2021 - NEST Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder.

2018 - Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin.

2017 - Bruton Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, the University of Texas at Austin.

2017 - Graduate Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin.

RESIDENCES

2024 - Materia Abierat Art Residency, Mexico City, Mexico.

2024 - Foreign Objekt Residency, Deep Objekt [0]: Agency at the Computational Turn.

2024 - Denver Digerati Artist Residency, Denver, CO.

2018 - SOMA Summer Residency, Mexico City, Mexico.

EXHIBITIONS

• May 2025 (Upcoming) - at Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF), Lafayette, CO.
• March 2024 - WORD / SOUND / IMAGE / WORMS, Performance at Evans School with August Black, Denver, CO.
• September 2023 - Welcome to the Here and Now, Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Denver, CO.
• August 2023 - Doc Arts, Mimesis Documentary Festival, NEST, Boulder, CO.
• September 2022 - Future Forging: Mythos of the Cybernaut, Supernova 7th Dimension at Experience Gallery, Denver, CO.
• June 2022 - Possibles, at ISEA 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
• May 2022 - Return, at Kandovan Gallery, Tehran. Iran.
• May 2022 - Open Air Media Festival at Public Space One, Iowa City. IA.
• November 2021 - Digital Native, at TBC Concept galleries as part of Tbilisi Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia.
• September 2021 - Operational Light, at NEST, Boulder, CO.
• August 2021 - Doc Arts, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO.
• September 2020 - Single Sentence publishing, presented by CONQUIT Gallery as part of Maiden LA, Los Angeles, CA.
• April 2020 - Sarkhoshi.com (online), Tehran, Iran.
• February 2020 - Video In/Video Out, CONQUIT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
• August 2019 - Yard Video Festival, AG Galerie, Tehran, Iran.
• July 2019 - No. 15, BIT projects series, Kerman, Iran.
• May 2019 - Hero Ready: Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX.
• March 2019 - No. 69, BIT projects series, Tehran, Iran.
• July 2018 - Paperweight biennale, Mexico City, Mexico.
• March 2018 - Leave Well Enough Alone, Magic the Gallery, Austin, TX.
• February 2018 - Subjective Perspective, The Dude Ranch Gallery, Austin, TX.
• November 2017 - 11 Strangers, Visual Art Center, Austin, TX.
• July 2017 - Invisible Present Tense 2.0, video program Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany.
• April 2017 - Remote Homecoming Chapter Two, Limited Access Festival 7, Tehran, Iran
• October 2015 - Bits and Pieces, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
• December 2014 - Wandering Islands 3, Limited Access Festival 5, Tehran, Iran
• January 2014 - Wild Horses & Trojan Horses, Group Exhibition/Marres, House of Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands.
• June 2013 - Thesis Exhibition at KASK Gallery, Gent, Belgium.
• May 2013 - Home Sweet Homeless, ZwarteZaal Gallery, Gent, Belgium.
• May 2013 - BitMap Project, Zwart Wild Gallery, Gent, Belgium.

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR

• ”Unearthed Objects” at Media Archaeology and Art published by MAST (The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory), The State University of New York at Buffalo, NY.
• “From Sensor Anxiety to Restless Image Syndrome” at PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot, published by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Science.
• “Study of a Movement” at xCoAx 2021 Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, published by i2ADS Research Institute in Art, Design and Society School of Fine Arts, University of Porto.

CONFRANCES & TALKS

• April 2025 - Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes - University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• October 2024 - The End of Us, at Open Fields Conference 2024, RIXC Center for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia.
• September 2024 - Panelist at "Moving Beyond the Algorithm: The Near Future of Human-Centric Creativity," Denver Digerati, Union Hall. Denver, Colorado.
• March 2024 - Creative Convergence; Teaching Digital Art in the Age of Machine Learning. Online: Mid-America College Art Association.
• March 2023 - The limits of observation: ethnofiction and documentary horizons, at Royal Anthropological Institute, RAI Film Festival, London, UK.
• July 2021 - Artist Talk at xCoAx, virtual exhibition and conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, online, Graz, Austria.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2025 to Present - Editorial Board Member at Transformations Journal.
• 2021 to Present - Festival Programmer at Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO.
• 2025 - Art Paper Reviewer, Conference Paper, SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2024 - Art Paper Reviewer, Conference Paper, SIGGRAPH 2024, Denver, CO.
• 2023 to Present - Committee member at Performance Art Week (PAW) Festival - Denver, CO.
• 2024 - Festival programer at Paadmaan Video Event #3 (PVE 3), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 2020 - co-founder of S3026.space art platform, In collaboration with Laurids Andersen Sonne, Boulder, CO.
• 2014 - Founder of Asayeshgah Art Platform, Kerman, Iran.
• 2012 to 2013 - Curator Intern, Croxhapox experimental art platform, Ghent, Belgium.

CURATORIAL AND PROGRAMMING PROJECTS

• March 2022 - MINOR CATASTROPHES - a conversation with Hugh Raffles, University of Colorado Natural History Museum, Boulder. S3026 in collaboration with NEST, Studio for the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder, CO.
• 2021 - STOPOVER IN LAST CHANCE- a talk and a round table conversation with Reza Negarestani, B2. S3026 in collaboration with NEST, Studio for the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
• October 2015 - No. 141618, BIT projects series, Kerman, Iran..
• December 2014 - Metaassemblage, Limited Access Festival 5, Vista Gallery, No.6 Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
• March 2014 - Breath From a Warm Locale, Croxhapox art platform, Ghent, Belgium.
• July 2013 - POV, Window to Contemporary Art in Iran, Croxhapox art platform, Ghent, Belgium.
• May 2013—BitMap Project, an International art festival Based on“By Artist, For Artist,” Zwart Wild Platform, Gent, Belgium.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• MIMESIS Documentary Festival
• Transformations Journal
• New Centre for Research and Practice
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• The Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA)