Hasan Elahi, Stay, 2011
Hasan Elahi, Altitude v3, 2007
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Quotes
"There is a certain immateriality that has been taking place in our economy in the last couple of generations and as this goes further, its only appropriate to look at how art practice evolves with that."
"That flashing pixel, thats actually me, right here and you can track me in real time and you can go anywhere and follow me around."
About
Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers.
His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi was recently invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and at TEDGlobal. His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, a Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship, and an artist grant from the Asociacion Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, Fox, and has appeared on The Colbert Report.
He is currently Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland where he is Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity in the Honors College. He was a 2010 Alpert/MacDowell Fellow and in 2009, he was Resident Faculty and Nancy G. MacGrath Endowed Chair at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Links
◆ Hasan Elahi's Website
◆ Clive Thompson: "The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online", Wired Magazine, issue 15.06, 2007 - article on Hasan Elahi's artistic practice