Members
Mélika Hashemi
Media Archaeology, Media Theory, Sufism, Computational Rhetoric, Copper, Cosmotechnics, Poetics
Kalpana S
experimental film and media, practice-based research, film phenomenology, transcultural aesthetics, Yoga philosophy, Breath studies, Deleuze, comparative philosophy
Laura U. Marks
media art, carbon footprint of streaming media, media archaeology, intellectual genealogies, intercultural, algorithmic media, Islamic aesthetics, Deleuzian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, process philosophy, Hermetic tradition, taqiyya
Farshid Kazemi
Film Theory, Film and Media Studies, Global Cinema, Iranian Cinema, Psychoanalytic Theory, Literary Theory, Iranian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Islamicate Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Islam
Radek Przedpełski
geo-media, media archaeology, contemporary art, steppe art, Tatar art, Eurasian and Eastern European Art, art philosophy, Deleuze/Guattari/Simondon
Navid Navab
temporality, ontogensis and formation or life from none-life transmutations, life-preserving transformations, perception, complexity, movement, media, embodiment, alchemy, ethico-aesthetics and play
Cigdem Borucu
Electro-Acoustic Music, Classical Music, Classical Piano, Soundscape Compositions, Sound and Music for Film, Music for Theater, Chamber Music, Contemporary Music, Sound Installation
M Javad Khajavi
Immersive Media, Virtual Reality, Animation-based media, Animated Arts, Islamic Aesthetics, Game Design
Arash Akbari
Critical AI, Ishraqi Philosophy, Post-Digital Philosophy, Generative Art, Immersive Technologies, Interactive Art, Sound Art
Narjis Mirza
light, projection mapping, installation art, geometry, calligraphy, Islamic aesthetics, Mulla Sadra,
Shahrooz Yousefian
Iranian Studies, Intercultural Theatre and Performances, Film Aesthetics, Iranian Drama, Ta’ziyeh & Islamic Philosophy, Contemporary Arts and Literature, Orientalism, Literary Criticism and Theory.
Mena El Shazly
time-based media, visual culture, digital navigation gestures, video art, embroidery, artist-run initiatives, poetry of wine, ancient Egypt, entropy, mythology.
Ali Taheri
Philosophy, Ishraq, Embodied HCI, Enactivism and embodied Cognition, Emerging Medium, XR, Cinema, Haptic Visuality, Video Games, Interactive Experiences
Millie Chen
multimedia installation, audio, video, intervention, performativity, dialogical and relational aesthetics, land vs landscape
Jessika Kenney
Voices, Selflessness, Cultural Somatics, Micro-philology, Friendship, Enfleshment, Untranslatability, Geomusicalities, Haptic Aurality
J.R. Osborn
Media, Script, Type, Diagrams, Museums, Reflexivity, Islamic Art, African Art, Graphic Design, Semiotics, Retrofuturology, History of Technology, Comparative Media, Aesthetics, Comic Books
Gustavo Furtado
media, space and territoriality; film and media theory; questions of modernity and modernism in the Global South; Latin American literature and cinema; travel writing; documentary film studies; indigeneity and indigenous film and video
Azadeh Emadi
Film, New Media artts, intercultural study, Persian Islamic aesthetic and philosophy, Sadrian philosophy, digital technology, practice based research methods, pixels and other minimal parts.
Tarek Elhaik
Dialogues between Anthropology, Art History, and Philosophy, Images, Curation, Geo-Philosophy, the rapport between finitude and the infinite, Cogitation, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Bateson, Ibn Rushd (Averroes).
Mansoor Behnam
Media Arts, Experimental Film and Video, Film Studies, Iranian Cinema, Comparative Literature, Performance, Cultural Studies, Research-based creative work, Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy, Islamic Mysticism/Philosophy
Nezih Erdoğan
early cinema, Turkish popular cinema, film theory, storytelling, Japanese calligraphy (shodo), Islamic calligraphy
Carol Bier
algorithmic aesthetics, Islamic art, Islamic architecture, Islamic ornament, Islamic geometric patterns, symmetry, symmetry-breaking, quasiperiodic patterns, Oriental carpets, textile technologies, history of textiles, crafts and technology
Pantea Karimi
art, history, cinema, creative process, history of science, fashion, design, opera; Baroque opera, sports, dancing
Sembatya
Performing Arts, Dance Teaching and Choreography, Ethnochoreology, Interculturalism, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Dance and African traditional dances.