Ali Eslami

IR, 1991

resident
- 2021 – 2023

Ali Eslami (1991) is an Iranian artist based in Amsterdam. His work deals with long-term, practice-based research that builds and grows through speculative thinking and world-building. His work engages and plays with temporal and spatial investigations of memory, human cognition, and emotions. Often results in the form of poetic engineering as journeys to seek the potential that lies in the blurred lines between the real and unreal.

His engineering background and passion for video games nurtured an obsession with cybernetics and computation and continue to build his curiosity towards the shifting roles of form and function that create virtual worlds. He utilises various mediums such as VR, Film, writing, Installation, and performance lectures. In 2016, his VR project won the IDFA DocLab Award for “Best Immersive Non-fiction”, and in 2020 the Golden Calf for Best Interactive at Nederlands Film Festival with fellow artist Mamali Shafahi for Nerd_Funk project.