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…

Presented Paper at Di-Egy Festival in Cairo, Egypt in 03/31/13-04/02/13

Presented a Paper at Di-Egy Festival in Cairo, Egypt in March 2013 as part of the Di-Egy Festival Consciousness Reframed Conference Series, International Research Conference on Art, Technology, and Consciousness, Cairo, Egypt.

Gave Artist Talk at University of Massachusetts Boston 11/2012

In November 2012 I was invited to give a lecture at The University of Massachusetts Boston. I gave a talk on my own work, as well as examples of hacker art, inspiring examples from artists working with technology that make public statements with media relating to unsaid cultural and socio-political standards in the West. 

Professional Activities for 2012-2013:

upcoming: * Feb 16, 2013. Exhibiting a Computer Vision Installation titled “The Kiss” at The Loving Market and Exhibition, a daytime pop-up shop and auction of arts and crafts made with love, and an evening cocktail reception featuring love bites, love potions and love songs. http://benevolentmedia.org/lovingmarket WHERE: Epic Yoga, 1323 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C….

Published a paper in Technoetic Arts Journal from Conference in Kefalonia

I published a paper in Technoetic Arts Journal from the “Technoetic Telos: Art, Myth and Media” Conference in Kefalonia. The paper is published in the Volume 10 Number 1, 2012 of Technoetic Arts Journal. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=142/

Representing refarmthecity.org at the Open Hardware Summit at Eyebeam Sept 27

Representing http://www.refarmthecity.org at the Open Hardware Summit at Eyebeam in New York City In NYC the weekend of Sept 27th. http://summit.oshwa.org/2012/04/18/open-hardware-summit-2012-call-for-submissions-2/

Went to Valencia, Spain to participate in the Conboi a la Fresca Farm/Intervention

  Conboi a la Fresca is a collaboration of a number of architecture collectives around Spain and Valencia to establish a collection of oases from abandoned spaces in the center of old town Valencia. The first space shown in the photo is on a foundation of Roman ruins, which has been excavated. Over the course…

Served as a Collaborator at Medialab Prado’s Visualizar ’11

I’ve been participating in Medialab Prado’s Workshops and events from Interactivos to AV Lab for a few years now. This was my first experience with the Visualizar event. It was great experience. The projects had much to do with what many know as visual information systems, scraping data from a source and finding creative ways…

Invited to Participate on Panel discussing FAST FORWARD at the DMA April 26th 7PM at Horchow Auditorium

Coordinator and DMA Curatorial Director Suzanne Weaver of the Dallas Museum of Art has invited me to participate on a panel in May covering the topics mentioned in the recent Yale University Press publication “Fast Forward” which celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with…