Nimrod Astarhan
Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and educator. Their practice is based on a post-conceptual approach toward sculpture, installation, and media art, utilizing collaborations, digital technology, and electronic mechanisms. Their research-creation is re-earthing computational media and speculative history. It involves activating non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum contextualized through material, diasporical, historical, and philosophical lenses. Recent showings include the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, ISEA, The Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Die Digitale Düsseldorf, and xCoAx in Graz, Austria. They received grants and awards from the Municipal Arts League of Chicago, the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago, and the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines, and were a finalist for the Lumen Prize. They taught digital art, code, hardware, and critical theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, China Academy of Art, and Shenkar College of Engineering, Art, and Design.