The Design Department welcomes guest tutor Ali Eslami. Ali will start his guest classes with a talk about his recent work, followed by a discussion afterwards.
Students of all departments are welcome to join from 10.00-11.00.

• 8th of April 2024
• 10.00-11.00
• Auditorium, 3rd floor BC Building
• Fred. Roeskestraat 96

Ali Eslami (b. 1991) is an Iranian artist based in Amsterdam. His work deals with long-term, practice-based research that builds and grows through speculative thinking and world-building. His work engages and plays with temporal and spatial investigations of memory, computation, human cognition, and emotions, often resulting in the form of poetic engineering as journeys to seek the potential that lies in the blurred lines between the real and unreal. His engineering background and passion for video games nurtured an obsession with cybernetics and computation and continue to build his curiosity towards the shifting roles of form and function that create virtual worlds.Often utilizing various mediums such as VR, film, writing, interactive simulations, installation, and performance lectures, he is an alumnus of Rijksakademie (NL) and has a BA in Civil Engineering from Zanjan University (IR). In 2016, his VR project "DeathTolls Experience" won the IDFA DocLab Award for “Best Immersive Non-fiction.” And in 2020, the Golden Calf for Best Interactive at Nederlands Film Festival with fellow artist Mamali Shafahi for the Nerd_Funk project. In 2023, he received the Cremer Prize from LWL-Museum Münster.

Visual by Laura Segala