Amir Baradaran Studio

Amir Baradaran is a New York based Iranian-Canadian Augmented Reality (AR), new media and performance artist. As the Creative Research Associate at Columbia University’s Computer Science department, Baradaran’s praxis focuses on the {AR}ticulation of visual vocabularies that use Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies around notions of interactivity, storytelling, po{AI}try, data-mining, failed utopias, infiltration, identity, body, and the ephemeral. Baradaran is a TEDx speaker and the recipient of the Knight Foundation Art Award, Canada Council for the Arts’ New-Chapter/150th Anniversary Prize, International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality prize, UC Berkeley’s Artist Residency (from Center for Critical Theory, New Media, Race and Gender Studies) and Morgan Stanley’s Pulse Art Fair grant. Reviews include Oxford University Press, Art in America, New York Observer, ARTNET, National Public Radio, BBC, Forbes, Euro-News, and L'Actualité...