“Madritmos” (“Mad”: Madrid “ritmos”: Algorithms) is an interactive digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project, that uses algorithmic functions calculated in a custom GPS Tracking Android Phone App to direct the user’s or “passengers,” to move around the city of Madrid, Spain. Influenced by the French Situationists who experimented with numerous rules for navigating Paris with the…
“Fishing for Butterflies & Bourgeoisie” (2016) by Max Kazemzadeh
“Fishing for Butterflies & Bourgeoisie” (2016) by Max Kazemzadeh was an interactive installation with an artificial firefly created using Arduino, an Ultrasonic Rangefinder, an ultrabright multicolor LED, and an altered computer fan tethered to a steel suspended rod that would fly, light up with different colors, and bounce around using the natural weight and physics…
Colombiritmos 2017 (Manizales, Colombia, for ISEA 2017) by Max Kazemzadeh & Reza Safavi
“Colombiritmos” (“Colombi”: Colombia “ritmos”: Algorithms) is an interactive, digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project that uses an algorithmic functions to direct the field-user to navigation of the city of Manizales, and to interact with its people and products, which is presently the main center for the production of Colombian coffee. Influenced by the Situationists who, before…
Paggank Daywaygun (2017) aka. PagDay’17 by Max Kazemzadeh and Reza Safavi
Paggank Daywaygun (2017) is a multi-user interactive digital, kinetic, geo-locative performance media project that uses algorithmic functions calculated in a custom GPS Tracking Phone App that directs participants around Governors Island and back through Manhattan in order to repopulate NYC with nut trees and island soil. The soil that makes up more than half of…
Chaotic Isolation vs. Peaceful Reunion (2017) by Max Kazemzadeh
Chaotic Isolation vs. Peaceful Reunion (2017) uses the random array of triggers and responses that are generated by the confluence of too many photoresistors (analog light sensors) assembled in a specific configuration where all attempt to read at the same time, thereby generating a kind of electrical randomness that is unpredictable. While this configuration generates…
Poseidon’s Pull (Revisited, 2018): “Part 1: Channeling the gestures of a god” (by Max Kazemzadeh & Reza Safavi)
“Poseidon’s Pull (Revisited): Part 1: Channeling the gestures of a god” is a continuation of the 2012 project by Max Kazemzadeh & Reza Safavi that intends to identify connections between Greek myth, “actual” place, and the phenomena of apophenia in identifying significant messages from Poseidon that are communicated through his gesture, aka. the control of…
Beirithms Project in Beijing 2016
Beirithms (2016) was a collaborative project that Max Kazemzadeh and Reza Safavi completed in Beijing using cell phones and a custom built robotic rice dropping machine. Beirithms (2016) in Beijing, China (by Max Kazemzadeh & Reza Safavi) from max kazemzadeh on Vimeo.
“Re-Defining A Line: Ubiquity” Project at Gallaudet University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1inx4S9GHI&feature=youtu.be The “RE-DEFINING A LINE: UBIQUITY” project is an energetic initiative intended to serve the greater DC, NoMA, and Gallaudet communities as an outpost and destination for events and creative/academic projects in order to attract interest and attention to the NoMA area, as well as serve as an active, creative and academic beacon for multi-disciplinary…
Code, Dance and Draw Workshop at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, Netherlands (12/14)
http://www.kabk.nl/newsitemEN.php?newsid=0921&cat=10 Under the guidance of Interactive Media teacher Lauren Alexander and professor / programme director of Art & Media Design at Gallaudet University in Washington (US), Max Kazemzadeh, the Graphic Design department of the Royal Academy of Art is currently giving an introduction to the possibilities of interactive open-source software and robotics. Workshop student blogs…
ISEA 2014 (ISEA.DUBAI) Dabarithms: Palm Wish
by Reza Safavi and Max Kazemzadeh “Dabarithms: Palm Wish” (“Daba”: Dubai “rithms”: Algorithms) is an interactive digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project, that uses algorithmic functions calculated in a custom GPS Tracking Android Phone App to direct a “wish-scavenger” around the man-made Palm Jumiera Island (Dubai, UAE) in search of wishes. The Palm Jumiera is named…
Artist Talk “Art Is Hacking” at University of Massachusetts, Boston 06/25/13
I was invited to give a lecture on my work and the subject “Art Is Hacking” to students and faculty at University of Massachusetts, Boston on 06/25/13.
Gave a Workshop on Creative Coding & Computer Vision w/Processing
In the Creative Coding & Computer Vision w/Processing (CC&CVwP) Workshop attendees were exposed to creative coding with Processing from the ground up, in a hands-on environment that will had attendees, designing their own computer vision and face recognition projects and writing and resolving the code to make their projects function. Within the CC&CVwP workshop, students…
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