December 20, 2016

The 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016)

The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, is a free compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains 3D .obj and .stl files, critical and fictional texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times.

In March 2015 Allahyari & Rourke released The 3D Additivist Manifesto, a call to push creative technologies to their absolute limits and beyond into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird. The 3D Additivist Cookbook is composed of responses to that call, an extensive catalog of digital forms, material actions, and post-humanist methodologies and impressions.

#Additivism is a portmanteau of additive and activism: a movement concerned with critiquing ‘radical’ new technologies in fablabs, workshops, and classrooms; at social, ecological, and global scales. The 3D Additivist Cookbook questions whether it’s possible to change the world without also changing ourselves, and what the implications are of taking a position.

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Gallery

Morehshin Allahyari - Your Night/My Day Project
February 8, 2012

Your Night / My Day Project (2011-2013)

Your Night/My Day is an online and digital intercultural collaborative art project between artists in Iran and the U.S. which began in the Fall of 2010. Curated by Morehshin Allahyari and Eden Ünlüata, this project explores the process of cultural exchange- or lack thereof – between Iran and the United States. The project employs digital media and online collaboration and serves as a bridge to create an intercultural dialogue and exhibition.

In Your Night/My Day, the process of art making is based on a series of invitations from the curators, called Inspiration Notes featuring topics that are commonly referenced in discussions about culture. Through the Inspiration Notes, teams in each country write instructions in their native language for the opposite team to perform and document. However, before the opposite team receives the instructions, they are sent electronically through an artist/editor from Turkey who put them through Google Translate (Farsi>Turkish>English / English>Turkish>Farsi) and edits them as she sees fit. The translated works then follow the same path back with the Turkish artist editing the artwork at will. Using this multi-part series, we are not only deciphering and depicting the nature of the dysfunctional dialogue between Iranian and American cultures, but through art, we are seeking to fnd paths that may lead to a better understanding of each other as human beings. Your Night/My Day presents the fruit of these two-years; a collection of intercultural pieces designed to celebrate cultural differences and find harmony through art. Participating artists are: Andrew Blanton, Negin Ehtesabian, Zeren Göktan, Patrick Lichty, Vana Nabipour, and Allie Pohl.

For the first time at the University of North Texas, Your Night/My Day displayed the result of this collaboration to the public, beginning March 22 until April 3 at UNT on the Square. Your Night/My Day will be on a travelling tour for the next one year. More info soon. For more information about this project please contact: morehshin@gmail.com or uneden@gmail.com.

***Your Night/ My Day has been brought to UNT by The Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute (CAMCSI). For more information about CAMCSI please visit the CAMCSI website or contact Tiffany Floyd.

Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari – Your Night/My Day Project
Morehshin Allahyari - IRUS Art Project
January 4, 2012

IRUS Art Project (2008-2010)

IRUS art is an intercultural collaborative art project between the artists in Iran and the U.S. I am the co-founder, organizer, and one of the artists of this project. Our team was consist of eleven artists in Tehran and nine artists in Denver. For one year, we established collaborative projects between our groups. By mailing incomplete artworks from Tehran to Denver and from Denver to Tehran through Istanbul or friends traveling between the two countries (no object can be mailed directly between Iran and U.S.), completing them in our respective cities and sending them back, we have built a collection of completed pieces.Using the theme of “Dialogue,” it was our goal to the perspectives of each group in a respectful, trusting and encouraging manner. In this process, we were not only developing art, but also participating in a functional dialogue with each other as artists and individuals (and not necessarily “nations”). A combination of painting, video art, drawings, photographs, software, street art, and design was featured in Denver at the Andenken gallery in the spring of 2009. A selected version of this show was featured at the Co-Prosperity Sphere gallery in Chicago, January 2010.

Morehshin Allahyari – IRUS Art Project
Morehshin Allahyari – IRUS Art Project
Morehshin Allahyari – IRUS Art Project
Morehshin Allahyari – IRUS Art Project
Morehshin Allahyari – IRUS Art Project
Morehshin Allahyari – IRUS Art Project