Nine artists share responses to prompts that aim to interrogate and help situate digital arts practice.
Shirin Fahimi
Shirin Fahimi is a digital media artist based in Ontario, born in Iran. She investigates the colonial dichotomies of rationalism and superstition, as well as the ways in which women negotiate visibility in the political arena in Islamic societies through digital world-making.
Her research is influenced by Islamic mysticism literature and magic in Iranian society and diasporic communities.
Since 2016, she has developed her practice into a body of works, multi-media installations, performances, and extended reality series’ based on the Islamic binary code, a method of divination called Ilm-al-Raml, known as geomancy.
In her ongoing project, “Umm al Raml’s Sand Narratives,” she juxtaposes the spiritual journey of Iranian women practicing mysticism in Toronto with a digital landscape generated through divination that imagines the future of female prophecy.
She has presented her work at critically recognized art venues including Savvy Contemporary, Counter Pulse, and The Rubin Museum of Art. [www.shirinfahimi.com]
Shirin Fahimi responds to questions posed through the Working Title Digital Art Curriculum with a series of digital drawings.