Morehshin Allahyari
1985–
Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, and educator whose work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She uses technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document personal and collective life struggles in the 21st century. Her 3D prints of sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS, have been exhibited worldwide.
Introduction
Morehshin Allahyari (Persian: مورهشین اللهیاری; born 1985) is an Iranian media artist, activist, and writer based in the Bay Area and an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art at Stanford University. Her work questions current political, socio-cultural, and gender norms, particularly exploring the relationship between technology, history, and art activism. Through archival practices and storytelling, her work weaves together complex counternarratives in opposition to the lasting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Allahyari’s artworks include 3D-printed objects, videos, experimental animation, web art, and publications. As a 2017 Research Resident at Eyebeam, Allahyari also worked on the concept of "Digital Colonialism"; a term she has coined since 2015.
She is known for her projects Material Speculation: ISIS (2015–2016), which is a series of 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS (2015–2016); She Who Sees The Unknown (2017–2020), The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook (2015–2016).
Wikidata identifier
Q23018046
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