Haymarket RIOT
Social theory translated into moving image, sound, montage and early networked media.
Artworks
Selected work
Projects are grouped as an archive of media systems: tactical, virtual, low-resolution, woven, augmented, scanned, collaborative and synthetic.
RTMark / The Yes Men / Tactical Media
Corporate language, parody and institutional mimicry used as artistic and political media.
Grasping at Bits
A nonlinear work on art, resistance and control in digital culture.
net.art
The web as medium: browser as gallery, link as gesture, the network as a public, contested space.
After On Kawara.com
A networked homage to On Kawara: the website as a machine for marking days, presence and existence.
SPRAWL: The American Landscape in Transition
A nonlinear documentary on suburban expansion and the American landscape as mediated interface.
The Reality Principle / Zen for Bot / die wunderkammer
Objects and images about belief, verisimilitude, commodity culture and technological miracles.
Second Front
A pioneering Second Life performance collective extending Dada, Fluxus and tactical media into virtual space.
8 Bits or Less / Pixel Grain
A long-term investigation of pixelation, degraded images, compression and seeing with less.
Slow Scan TV
Imagined territories — Vicapore and Duntoria — transmitted line by line as banded, lossy images.
Sound
The audible layer of the practice: signal, noise, sonification and listening as a way of reading media.
Ex Nihilo / Improbable Objects
A major turn toward the object: digital works translated into physical form.
Digital Tapestries / Jacquard Works
Pixels, glitches, AI images and screen culture translated into woven computational objects.
Machine Drawings / Calligraphy / Personal Taxonomies
Asemic writing and machine learning used to examine gesture, authorship and deep structure.
Augmented Reality Works
Augmented reality as a struggle over who can annotate public space.
Augmented Reality
AR as a claim on public space: who gets to annotate buildings, borders, monuments and airspace.
World Without End
A Middle Eastern VR world of tiny planets, architecture, memory and literary homage.
Virtual Reality
Captured space re-authored as navigable, intimate worlds — tiny planets, pandemic rooms, forbidden countries.
Confinement Spaces
An existential record of COVID isolation in the UAE made through 3D scans, video and fractured virtual space.
NPTProjects
Joint projects with Negin Ehtesabian exploring distance, domesticity, media and transnational imagination.
Googled Earth
A collaborative work with Negin Ehtesabian using Google Earth VR to visit forbidden or inaccessible countries.
The House on the Water
A collaborative installation on uncertainty, home, water, migration and shared domestic imagination.
Studio Visits: In the Posthuman Atelier
A speculative exhibition in which a human curator visits the studios of 50 AI artists.
GAN Carpet Project / Forbidden
Machine-learning pattern works drawn from Persian, Azeri and Armenian carpet traditions.
These 7000 Oaks Don’t Exist
A critical AI project reflecting on Joseph Beuys, environmentalism, NFTs and the carbon cost of synthetic images.
AI Art
Machine learning as material and subject — GANs, generative image, woven AI and the politics of the synthetic.
Writing and Curation
Critical writing and exhibition-making as parallel forms of media practice.