ARTIST TALK - Alina Nazmeeva, Media Artist

Alina Nazmeeva is a Tatarstan-born media artist, and educator working across physical installation, digital simulation, textile, and XR. With these diverse media, her practice builds complex worlds that investigate how technologies - emerging and established - shape, and are shaped by, situated spatial, social, and ecological practices.

Alina is Assistant Professor of Computation at the Illinois School of Architecture at UIUC. She holds a Master's degree from MIT SA+P and has held fellowships & residencies at Monira Foundation, Art Omi, the University of Michigan, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Strelka Institute.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Architecture + Design Museum in LA, the Beall Center for Art + Technology, and in art and design festivals including DA-Z, Slamdance, Sona, HKWalls, Collectible NYC, Collectible Brussels, Alcova Milano and Maison&Objet HK. She has presented at Harvard GSD, UMPRUM, Parsons, SIVA, SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA and IEEE VR.

Talk is free and open to the public.