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Morehshin Allahyari

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Gloriously Defiant Expressions of Cultures Perceived as Threatening to the West

Avatar photo by Roula Seikaly February 18, 2020February 14, 2020

At Southern Exposure in San Francisco, South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African artists evoke the challenges they face in celebrating their cultural origins.

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Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 11, 2019April 14, 2022

In her new performance lecture title “Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism,” Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized.

Posted inArt

The New Museum Hits “Save” on Net Art

Avatar photo by Frani O'Toole February 20, 2019February 19, 2019

The Art Happens Here favors a less technical definition of net art, as material based in or for internet cultures.

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Fighting Colonialism with Feminist Fabulation at Eyebeam

by Jillian Steinhauer May 24, 2017

Artist Morehshin Allahyari has invited four artists, activists, and scientists to join her on May 27 to explore myths, colonialism, and storytelling.

Posted inArt

Post-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past

by Joseph Nechvatal May 16, 2017May 17, 2017

A group show at Paris’s Galerie Charlot uses bygone tools and techniques to explore modern media.

Posted inArt

3D-Printing an Army of Forgotten Goddesses to Fight Colonialism

by Claire Voon December 27, 2016May 24, 2017

Morehshin Allahyari is developing a series of a dozen 3D-printed statues based on ancient images of forgotten, proto-feminist deities.

Posted inArt

What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?

by Claire Voon April 19, 2016September 19, 2016

Seven months after ISIS destroyed Palmyra’s 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph, the structure has risen once more — this time 2,800 miles away from the ancient city, in London’s bustling Trafalgar Square.

Posted inArt

“Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s #Additivism

by Gretta Louw February 15, 2016February 12, 2016

Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s expansive project #Additivism is a call for the radical rethinking of new technologies like 3D printing, the plastification of the world, and the position of humans within it.

Posted inArt

In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past

by Claire Voon January 27, 2016January 31, 2016

In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.

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Where Are the Women of Color in New Media Art?

by Ben Valentine April 7, 2015April 11, 2015

Not long ago I wrote an article celebrating the work being done by cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. After the piece was published, a writer, curator, and friend wrote to me to express concerns about the lack of women of color artists in the group.

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A New Media Artist Looks to Iranian Spam

by Ben Valentine September 3, 2014September 4, 2014

Completed in June, “Like Pearls” in as an animated and interactive web-based collage inspired by Farsi spam from Morehshin Allahyari’s inbox.

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