Education

M.Arch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019-2022

B.Sc., University of Tehran
2013-2018

Recent Employments and Experiences

Lecturer
January 2025-
Comparative Media Studies Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Providing an overview of historical developments and critical analysis of virtual reality

Instructor
September 2023-Present
Art, Culture and Technology program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-instructing the class Creating Art, Thinking that looks at contemporary art precedents and history of image-making through the lens of nanoscience and nanotechnology

Project Manager and Developer
March 2023-Present
Immersion Lab, MIT.nano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visualizing scientific data, prototyping advanced tools, and developing software and hardware concepts

Computational Linguistic Researcher
June 2021–June 2022
The Trope Tank. Comparative Media Studies Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I worked on developing a computational model of narrative theory

Editor
February 2021–May 2022
SA+P, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I co-edited Before/After, the 50th volume of MIT Architecture’s peer-reviewed journal Thresholds published by MIT Press

Founder and Editor
September 2018-December 2019
JadeRANG! Magazine, an Iranian independent quarterly magazine based in the University of Tehran, offering multiple genres and perspectives on politics, economics, and culture through thirteen recurring fictitious characters

Coordinator and Film Curator
January 2016-March 2018.
Cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
I screened movies, exhibited panels and reviewed film studies subjects such as French short cinema of the 1920s, Soviet montage theorists, and Japanese cinema of the 1950s

Recent Publications, Talks and Conferences

JC Meets PP: Pino Poggi and Arte Utile
October, 2023
A roundtable organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška

Of Science and Mysticism
April 13, 2023
Artist talk in conversation with List Center exhibition, Lex Brown: Carnelian.

Dream of Seamless Movements: A Neo-Aesopian Tale
Yale University’s Paprika! Volume 8, Issue V: FABLES.
April, 2023.

Mortars and Pestles
Salon talk at the Department of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
April, 2021.

Using Referring Expression Generation to Model Literary Style
Published in the ACL Anthology.
December, 2021.

Oleum Rivulet: An Homage to Julio Le Parc
Published in Taper Magazine, Issue 7: WONDERS.
November, 2021.

U3 | Against the Stream of Time (10th Triennial of Contemporary Art)
June 2024
MG+ Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Order of Sweetness (with Tobias Putrih)
June 2024
Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Green Groag
July 2024
Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

TAKWIN (solo)
June 25-September 1, 2022
Wiesner Art Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

QUIESCE (solo)
May 2022
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University

ZERO.ZEROZEROZEROZEROZEOZEROZEROZEROONE (curator)
First Edition: February 2022, Second Edition: December 2023
MIT.nano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I co-curated this show that included works envisioning and scrutinizing ways to intertwine nanoscience and nanotechnology toolsets and visualization methods to extend the bounds of art and culture

Fovea and Evolution (in collaboration with Tobias Putrih)
March 25–June 20, 2021
Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (Moderna Galerija)

Unbounded (group)
October 18-November 23, 2021
Wiesner Art Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Desktop (group)
September 23-November 1, 2021
Keller Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Houdini, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, Illustrator.

Python, Perl, VEX, C++, JavaScript, Processing, Assembly, Ruby, Shell, BASIC, Lisp.