Year: 2024
Medium: Realtime/Interactive Installation, Sculpture, Video Art, Robotic Performance
Venue: RAD Lab | Kent State University
Year: 2024
Medium: Realtime/Interactive Installation, Sculpture, Video Art, Robotic Performance
Venue: RAD Lab | Kent State University
Deev Collection
Year: 2019-Current
Medium | Category: Sculpture, Furniture, Digital Art, 3D-printing, Digital Sculpting, Media Art, Web Design
Venue: A+D Museum (Im)permanent Collection / Private Collection
Brief Description:
The origin of Deev (Dīv) may come from the Vedic deities (devas) who were later demonized in the Persian religion (Zoroastrianism/Mazdayasna).
In Ferdowsi's tenth-century Shâhnâmeh—book of kings, the Persian/Iranian Epic book), they are already the evil entities endowed with roughly human shapes and supernatural powers familiar from later folklore, in which the deevs are described as ugly demons with supernatural strength and power.
Inspired by these ancient cultures, Deev Collection is a series of custom-made, digitally designed, and 3D-printed couture objects, sculptures, and furniture, including Barmâyeh, Sidetable for one, Deev Table, Deev Vase, and Smart Deevs—smart objects with IOT. Each of the Deevs, augmented with a superpower, magically performs a specific single task and captures an embryonic moment/frame of becoming. Whether holding up a table, embracing a single leaf or a flower, collecting NTF and media art and displaying them, or performing as a series of sculpture objects, each Deev is carefully designed and made to showcase its magic at its best.
Barmâyeh : .
“In Shâhnâmeh—the national Persian/Iranian epic book of kings (a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 ce), Barmâyeh is a mythical cow, that saves the king of kings, Fereydun, by feeding him—as a child, with her milk, and keeping him safe from the hands of the evil enemy, Zahhak. Later, Zahhak, as revenge, kills Barmâyeh.
Named after Shâhnâmeh's mythical cow, and living a hybrid ancient-contemporary life, Barmâyeh is a pet adopted from a mythological origin. Her immature multi-directional embryonic "body" like topology, on one hand, and multi-orientational/multi-scalar reading suggestions, on the other hand, along with her historical/mythical connections, create an ontological offset between different "realities" of Barmâyeh as a pet-object. Through these misfits/offsets, Barmâyeh can be explored as a canvas for dynamic projection of characteristics and readings/misreadings. She is underdeveloped—to open possibilities for misreading, yet defined enough to retain its being as a pet.”—Barmâyeh
Photo © A+D Museum
Barmâyeh is part of the (Im)permanent Collection at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles.
Photo © A+D Museum
Photo © A+D Museum
Deev Table : .
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Different from his ancestor—Deev-e Sepid, as respectfully framed in the background—who had the power to hold up legendary mythical heroes like “Rostam,” Table-Deev has just enough magical power to hold up a tabletop!
