Hasan Elahi

Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, citizenship, migration, transport, borders and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage and at the Venice Biennale.

Elahi was recently invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, World Economic Forum and at TED Global.

His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, Art Matters Foundation and a Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship.

His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR and has appeared on Al Jazeera, Fox News and the Colbert Report.

He is currently Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland and was Director of Design Cultures + Creativity in the Honors College from 2011 to 2014.
 

Hasan Elahi’s talk is organized by the Visiting Artist and Scholars Program and made possible by the Marston Fund. For more information please contact faculty host Sean Miller swarp@ufl.edu

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