I'll be speaking as a part of the panel at this year's conference for the American Society of Landscape Architects, in Phoenix, AZ.  The panel is titled:

Illuminated Landscapes: Using Light Projections to Transform the Built Environment

The panel, organizerd by Jeff Schnabel of Portland State University, focuses on the repertoire and potential for projected light as a medium for urban intervention and landscape design.

I will present plis/replis at this years ACADIA conference.

Our collaborator Hyoung-gul Kook will join me in San Francisco for the conference.

The detailed conference program is here.

Sponsored by:

2012 (CMU)

• Fall
• ART 60436: Digital Fabrication for the Arts
  Class Blog and Syllabus
• ART 60131: 3D Media Studio II (Animated Theater)
  Class Blog 1, Class Blog 2 and Syllabus

2011  (University of Minnesota)

• Spring: Research Fellowship

2010 (University of Minnesota)

• Fall
• ART 8410: Introduction to Time and Interactivity
  Class Blog and Syllabus
• ART 5490: Make Anything Talk To Anything
  Class Blog and Syllabus
• Spring
• ART 5670/8600: Mechanical Theaters and Toy Orchestras
  Class Blog and Syllabus
• COLA 3950/5950: Art for the People, Art on Wheels
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus

2009 (University of Minnesota)

• Fall
• ART 1601: Introduction to Time and Interactivity
  Class Blog and Syllabus
• COLA 3950/5950: Make Anything Talk To Anything
  Class Blog
• Spring
  • ARTS 3305: Kinetic Sculpture
    Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus, Sample Student Works
  • COLA 3950/5950: Art for the People, Art on Wheels
    Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
  • COLA 1521/3521: Collaboratory I/II: Collaborative Research Laboratory

2008 (University of Minnesota)

• Fall
• ART 8400: Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
• COLA 1521/3521/4521: Collaboratory I: Collaborative Research Laboratory 
  Class Blog
• COLA 1001: The Art of Collaboration
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
• Spring
  • ARTS 5670: Interdisciplinary New Media Collaborations: Treating Time
    Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
    Assigned Readings and students' responses
  • COLA 3950/5950: Art for the People, Art on Wheels
    Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
    Sample Student Works

2007 (University of Minnesota)

• Fall
• ARTS 3603/5630: Experimental Video
  Class Blog and Course Information/Syllabus
  Sample Student Works

I joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art in the Spring of 2012.

I'll be documenting all of my teaching at http://teach.alimomeni.net.  

I taught a workshop Anderson Ranch the summer of 2011. Here's the low-down (revised description):

Workshop Title: Miniature Worlds: Movement, Light, Gesture And Electronics

When: Jul 09, 2012 - Jul 13, 2012

Where: Anderson Ranch @ Snowmass, Colorado

Media and Techniques: 

Electronics, Arduino-based micro-controllers, electromechanics (motors, solenoids and servos), dynamic lighting, software and programming (Arduino IDE, Cycling '74 real-time programming and Max/MSP/Jitter).

Concept:  

This workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to working with live electronics, kinetics, light and imagery. Students explore the basics of electronics work with micro-controllers and strategies for using light and movement to animate a miniature space. The metaphor of a miniature world invites students to integrate their own creative practices (in two- or three-dimensional media) into mixed-media interactive installations.

Course Web-Page: here

Work samples: check out all the final project videos from last year's course blog!

This workshop shares much of its concept/content with a course that I teach at CMU called "Animated Theater".  Look at the blog from this course to get a better sense of the approach.

Here are a few of my favorite final projects from last year....

I gave a lecture on "The Body of Iranian Contemporary Art" as a part of the "Shared Cultural Spaces" conference held at the University of Minnesota in February 2011, using the the prezi.com Prezi presentation below.  

I am indebted to the community of artists, some of whose work are included in this lecture, for providing me with the material and inspiration to pursue this research.

alimomeni.net: this site

MAW: 

      Magic and Wizardry,

            More Art Wherever,

                 Media at Will,

                       Maybe after work,

                            Minneapolis Art on Wheels

Fall 2019: Art 5490: Make Anything Talk to Anything

Professor: Ali Momeni

This course is intended for visual artists, musicians, designers, computer scientists, engineers and architects (among others) interested in exploring real-time interactive software applications. Such applications allow translations/interactions among various media; examples include sound to video (e.g. music visualizers), gesture to sound (e.g. the theramin, Wii controllers as musical instruments), gesture to video (e.g. motion tracking for interactive visualizations, interactive architecture), interactive sculptures (e.g. sensor controlled mechanics, robotics, lights, LEDs). The Max/MSP/Jitter new media programming environment will be the primary instrument of the course. Max/MSP/Jitter is a graphical programming environment that provides user interface, timing, communication with electronics, communications with the web, MIDI support, real-time audio and video synthesis and processing.

For more information see the class blog and the course syllabus.

Fall 2010: ART 8410: Studio Critique

Professor: Ali Momeni

The topic for the semester is "Practice, Research and Teaching". We explore the subtleties of how creative research intersects with making and teaching through studio based critiques, iterative refinements of personal research and teaching narratives, analysis of local arts organizations/institutions/collectives, stabs at grant-writing strategies, and round table discussions with invited guests.

For more information see the class blog and the course syllabus.