I was interviewed by writer Amy Haddad for her article “The Human Touch: Artificial Intelligence and Art” published on Creative Hub this week.
Press
Ali Momeni featured in Pittsburgh City Paper profile
Thanks to Bill O’Driscoll for nice write up about me and my work, including the recent bug exhibition “All Around Us” that I curated at the Wood Street Galleries.
“Tragedy of the Commons” in The Living
Terrific Canadian magazine The Living featured Robin Meier and my installation Tragedy of the Commons in their spring/summer 2016 issue.
Interview with The Scientist on “All Around Us”
My bug exhibition “All Around Us” that is on display at the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh will be featured in an interview for The Scientist, “the magazine for life science professionals—a publication dedicated to covering a wide range of topics central to the study of cell and molecular biology, genetics, and other life-science fields” based in Ontario.
Here is a link to the article.
Momeni quoted in Newsweek article on Artificial Intelligence and Art
I was contacted by Seung Lee to comment on the relationship between artificial intelligence and art practice. Here is the article, and a PDF version in case the web breaks down.
“All Around Us” on TribLive
“All Around Us” in Pittsburgh Magazine
“All Around Us” listed among “The month’s best bets in The ‘Burgh” by Pittsburgh Magazine
“All Around Us” listed among Best Art Exhibitions in PGH in 2016
Thank you CBS for this listing.
“All Around Us” on Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Press Room
“A Manual for Urban Projection” on Hyperallergic
Claire Voon of Hyperallergic did a wonderful write-up on the Manual for Urban Projection on this celebrated blog.
Momeni’s Manual for Urban Projection on prosthetic knowledge
The Manual for Urban projection was written up on prosthetic knowledge.
“Dranimate” on Future of StoryTelling
Rachel Cohen of the Future of StoryTelling network/festival/posse did a nice write-up of Dranimate,
“Dranimate” on Motherboard blog on VICE
Adam Owen from the celebrated Motherboard blog from VICE, did a nice write-up of Dranimate.
“A Manual for Urban Projection” on Creative Applications
Filip Visnjic, editor-in-chief at CreativeApplications.Net, gave us a good shout-out in this celebrated blog.
Dranimate on Prosthetic Knowledge
Link to article…
“Gutless Warrior” featured in Start Tribute’s Northern Spark write-up
Mary Abbe of the Star Tribune did a nice write-up of the Gutless Warrior in her pre-Northern Spark article about the night festival.
telepuppet.tv featured on Europe Créative
telepuppet.tv (collaboration with Nima Dehghani) featured on the European Commission’s Europe Créative page…
“Gutless Warrior” in Pittsburgh City Paper
Robert Raczka of the Pittsburgh City Paper did a nice write-up of Gutless Warrior, performed at Artist Image Resource for DRAW 2015.
“Telepuppet.tv” on La Quinzaine Numérique
A nice announcement for Telepuppet.tv for Connecting Cities: Participatory City 2014. Includes a video of the puppets we used!
“Telepuppet.tv” on iMAL.org
A pretty comprehensive review and explanation of the Telepuppet.tv installation as part of Participatory City 2014 for Connecting Cities. It includes a media library with photos and video! Read it here.
“Telepuppet.tv” on Connecting Cities
A nice write-up on Telepuppet.tv for Connecting Cities, as part of Participatory City 2014, including artist biographies and a schematic of how the installation works. Read it here.
“Telepuppet.tv” on MediaLab Radio
A write-up on Telepuppet.tv as part of Participatory City 2014 for MediaLab-Prado’s Digital Façade. Read more here.
“Telepuppet.tv” in Nuit Blanche Brussels 2014 program
An announcement for the Telepuppet.tv installation at the 2014 Nuit Blanche Brussels, including a brief introductory video for the project.
“Telepuppet.tv” at Nuit Blanche Brussels
An announcement of Telepuppet.tv at Nuit Blanche Brussels, including a link for a live stream of the event! Read it here.
“Telepuppet.tv” on Arts Numériques
Arts Numériques has a nice press report of “Telepuppet.tv” as part of Nuit Blanche Brussels. Read it here.
“Gutless Warrior” at Lawrence Arts Center
“Gutless Warrior” featured in the Free State Festival at the Lawrence Arts Center. Read more here.
Ali Momeni’s profile at Liine
“Ali Momeni studied composition, improvisation and performance with computers at the UC Berkeley before spending three years collaborating with performers and researchers…”
See my profile on Liine at this link.
“Smoke and Hot Air” on Meanderings
“Smoke and hot air animates my response to the relentless threats against Iran by a myriad of more fortunate countries in recent years. ”
See more at Meanderings.
“Smoke and Hot Air” on mediamatic.net
There is a good photograph of “Smoke and Hot Air” on mediamatic.net.
“Human Use of Human Beings” on Arte Creative
Arte Creative has as nice write-up of Human Use of Human Beings, including some beautiful photographs that are better than most photos I took of our installation.
“Truce” on the BBC
“Two artists have harnessed the flying power of mosquitoes to create sound.”
An interview and web article by the BBC on my work Truce with Robin Meier. The radio interview was broadcast on the radio, an online article and beautifully filmed and edited video lives on the web.
“Truce” on Artlyst
“The Tragedy of the Commons” on Sculpturecenter
“The Tragedy of the Commons is an installation piece created by artists Ali Momeni and Robin Meier, produced in collaboration with the Cleveland Botanical Garden. …”
Here is the Sculpturecenter’s announcement of “The Tragedy of the Commons” installation at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
“Human Use Of Human Beings” on Digitalarti
Digitalarti News’s blog has a nice write-up of “Human Use of Human Beings“, including a photograph and a video .(in French)
“Serenity and Serendipity” in India, on Whatsupbharat
The “Sound Reasons Festival” for Sound Art and Experimental electronic music took place in Delhi in November 2012 and included our work Serenity and Serendipity. There is more information about my project at Whatsupbharat.
The festival comprised of sound Installations, live music, sound performances and workshops.
“Animal Warmth” on Toistudio
Announcement of my project – Animal Warmth (60S EDITION)- on Toistuido website.
“Ali Momeni, self described “builder, composer, and performer,” has been creating Animal Warmth, a serial artwork with arrangements of carbon filament light bulbs and computer generated sound, for several years. With only timed movements of light and sound emanating from the bulbs the artist transforms manufactured, non-living objects into lively, space animating, and audience pleasing beings. “
Interview with Robin Meier in Nature
In a Q&A entitled “Maestro of the Swarm” [Nature 481, 144 (12 January 2012)], my other half Robin Meier answers Laura Spinney’s questions about our collaborative works with insects, namely Truce and Tragedy of the Commons
“Plis-Replis” on Archdaily
“Taking place at the Vranken Pommery Monopole in Reims, France, La Fabrique Sonore combines ancient paper folding techniques with contemporary computer-aided-design and manufacturing processes…”
Read the full review and see more photos and diagrams on Archdaily.
“The Tragedy of the Commons” on Violaine Boutet De Monvel
“The Tragedy of the Commons consists of a live experiment in the form of an installation, in which thousands of Atta ants – commonly known as leafcutter ants – create a choreography while reacting to certain flavors and smells expertly selected by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni with the help of the Laboratory of Comparative and Experimental Ethology of Paris 13 University.”
Read the full article on “The Tragedy of the Commons” here.
“The tragedy of the Commons” on Archeologue
There is review on “The tragedy of the commons” on Archeologue. Including some photographs of the project.
“The Tragedy Of The Commons” on Palais de Tokyo
Here is a video of Interview with Robin Meier & Ali Momeni about “The Tragedy Of The Commons” by Palais de Tokyo on 2011.
“The Tragedy of the Commons” in Arts Programme
A nice write-up on “The tragedy of the commons” in Arts Programme. It includes a photo of the piece.
“Truce” on Slash-Paris
“Both musical training, Robin Meier & Ali Momeni develop a complex practice where science mixes with a hybrid art form. In real ethologists, and in close collaboration with scientists and laboratories.”
Slash-Paris covered the “Truce”project here at their website.”
“The Tragedy of the Commons” in Art Review
Art writer Violaine Boutet de Monvel contributed a nice write-up of The Tragedy of the commons to ArtReview no. 53 (october 2011).
Press Reviews of the 2010 ZERO 1 San Jose
Below, a document containing an exhustive listing of the "Review of Press" for the 2008 and 2010 ZERO 1 New Media Biennial. The festival was covered by dozens of local, national and internationl channels.
I took MAW to ZERO 1 in 2008 for a number of urban interventions (see videos here). In 2010, MAW and I were commissioned to produce a new work for Absolute Zero: Lavish Martyr/Exquisite Corpse by ZERO 1 and performed in San Jose on Sep. 17th, 2010.
Many thanks to ZERO 1 for sharing these document.
Press Reviews of Dynasty @ Palais de Tokyo and Musée d’Art Modern in Paris
Below, two documents containing an exhustive listing of the "Review of Press" for the exhibition Dynasty, held at Palais de Tokyo and Musée d'Art Modern. Robin Meier and I showed two of our collaborative works Truce and A Tentative Call to the other at the two museums.
Many thanks to the staff at the two museums for collecting and sharing the two documents below. It led to priceless finds like this one…
interview with Robin Meier about “Dynasty” on Paris-art
“Combining science and technology theories, both artists-musicians, Robin Meier and Ali Momeni, reflect the behavior of living acoustic tracks. Their work gives a new freshness to the question often debated, the interaction between man and machine.”
Elisa Hervelin had an interview with Robin Meier and me, it is published here.
“Truce” in Le Journal des Arts
Write-up about our work in the Dynasty exhibition.
“Une génération qui doute,” published on 9 July 2010 in Le Journal des Arts.
“Truce” in Mouvement
A short feature by Damien Delille on the Dynasty exhibit.
“Truce” on New York Times
A great article by Katherine Knorr about the Dynasty exhibit. The article was published on 15 June 2010 in the New York Times.
“Truce” in Les Jeunes Artistes Français
Short piece, “Virtuose du Son Biotech,” published in 2010 about our work at Dynasty.
“Truce” in Vogue
Piece about the Dynasty exhibit written by Elena Bordignon in Vogue on 11 June 2010.
“Truce” on Le Point
Our work on “Truce” is mentioned in a nice piece about Dynasty published by Le Point.
“An Interview with Ali Momeni” on Cycling 74
Cycling 74 interviewed me on May 25, 2010.
Read the interview here.
Smoke and Hot Air on WMMNA
Our friend Regine has posted a review of my work Smoke and Hot Air on her much beloved blog, we-make-money-not-art. She has also written two posts (titled Part 1: Wreckage and countermeasures, and Part 2: Globalization and agency) about the FEEDFORWARD exhibit at Laboral as a whole.
Ali Momeni and his Bicycle Fleet on Urban Projection
“Ride along with Ali Momeni and his bicycle fleet of mobile video projectors that transform public spaces into eye-popping sound and light shows”
Check out an article and video on Urban Projection’s website.
Make Television showcases Smoke and Hot Air
Make Television and Twin Cities Public Television did an additional short segment on my collaboration with Robin Mandel, Smoke and Hot Air.
MAW and the I and I in a Make: Television profile
Make Zine‘s TV component, Make: Television, decided to do a profile and me and MAW. After hours and hours of talking, filming, outing and editing, a preview has been released.
The show airs on Feb. 14 2009 on public television, all across America. Here’s the video….
Smoke and Hot Air on Northern Lights
The wonderful new Minneapolis arts organization Norther Lights is beginning to take off.
An article appeared there today about the installation Smoke and Hot Air, Robin Mandel and myself.
MAW and I in a Minnesota Daily Profile
Check out this article in the Minnesota Daily, showcasing MAW’s activities as a student activities group. Here is the original link from MN Daily’s site.
MAW in Seattle Business Monthly
An article by Chris Clayton on MAW in the Seattle Business Monthly…
MAW and the I and I in the New York Times
This article in the New York Times by Julie Bloom covers The UnConvention and MAW’s participation in the event.
MAW and I in a Metro Magazine Article
Check out this article on MAW which appeared in METRO magazine this week. Here is the original link on METRO’s site.
“Minneapolis Art on Wheels” on walkerart
“University of Minnesota professor Ali Momeni and his students are on their way to San Jose’s Zero1 Festival later this week with their mobile projection units. The mobile projection units are GRL-inspired work bikes equipped with a computer, projector, generator and all other necessary gear for outdoor projection mayhem, which will be used during The UnConvention…”
Read the full article by JUSTIN HEIDEMAN at this link.
Lecture at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on ARJ
Here’s a video of a lecture by me (now at the Interdisciplinary Program for Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis), where I gave an overview of my work. Lots of interesting things!
JazzMutant Featured Artist
To share my work with their Lemur controller, the cats at JazzMutant have selected me among their featured artists with this profile.
Video Interview on Cycling 74
A video profile produced by Sue C. and posted on Cycling 74.