Why is it here? To describe my installations, exhibitions and performances.
Contact info alipantar at gmail
ArtLab
What is this? An umbrella site for Ali Hossaini's projects. [bio] [blog]
Why is it here? To describe my installations, exhibitions and performances.
Contact info alipantar at gmail
Fabric of Life questions the structure of experience by probing its fundamental elements. Undulating forms representing thought, perception and feeling dissolve into hallucinatory passages of pure color, taking on abstract, musical qualities. Shot in Iceland, Greenland, Italy, France, Madagascar, Burma and other locales, the installation explores themes ranging from the death of the artist's mother to the evolution of the cosmos.
Live action is combined with 3D and generative animation. Included are excerpts from three video cycles, Epiphany, Ouroboros and Oceanic Verses with presentations of Unperception Now, Memory Begins and 4Monkeys. A special version of Executive Privilege, a 3D tribute to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, will be shown.
description
What my projects have in common is a desire to experiment and create new forms, particularly
in unlikely places. Why shouldn't channel surfers stumble onto a surprising work of video art sandwiched between reality shows?
My efforts balance aesthetic and ethical goals because I'm committed to social progress. I'd like to see television and other mass media become more playful, more poetic and more given to individual expression.
For more background, here is my bio, artistic statement and New York Times review. And here's some of my academic work on the origin of photography.
active projects
Autistic people see, hear, touch and smell the world differently, and these differences affect every facet of their lives. By immersing people in an environment based on first person accounts, my installation will give direct experience of the varieties of autistic perception, shedding light on the source of Austism Spectrum Disorder.
//My research wiki on autism
Oceanic Verses development film from VisionIntoArt Presents on Vimeo.
selected reviews
// The New York Times
I work at the intersection of philosophy, science and self-expression, projecting my intrigue with consciousness, mass communication and self-expression into media art projects. My recent commercial efforts include the Submarine Channel and 3D films with Robert Wilson and Lang Lang.
Neurodiversity
Hemispheric video
Neurodiversity: The Autism Project will help ordinary people understand what it's like to be autistic through immersive video domes. Autism affects millions of individuals, but the "neurotypical" struggle to comprehend it. Although autism is diagnosed through behavior, I am convinced much of the syndrome has a sensory basis.
//Find out more
//Progress reports
Oceanic Verses
Live opera with multichannel video, 2011 / in collaboration with Paola Prestini
Opens at the Kennedy Center, 2012 & the Barbican Theatre in 2013
An opera I am developing with modern classical composer Paola Prestini. It follows the story of
a queen, a mother, a singer and a sailor - across a passionate Mediterranean landscape. Prestini
received a commission from the Carnegie Foundation, and
it has been performed as a work-in-progress at the
New York City Opera and The Kitchen. It premieres at the Kennedy Center in 2012 before moving to
New York City and the Barbican Theater in London.
//Project brief
//Fimmene dance
//Location study 6 & //Location study 8
//Storyboard
//Video triptych
Ouroboros
Immersive 3D video, 2010
The history of the universe told through 3D animations that unfold in an immersive holographic space.
Created in collaboration with SWEATSHOPPE.
Curated by Koan Jeffrey Baysa.
/ see more
// artistic statement
// installation shots
// XXXX Magazine (video)
// Cool Hunting
KDVR Denver
// DINCA Experimental Film Journal
// flavorpill
// Reality Sandwich
// Tree Hugger
Epiphany
Immersive video, 2008
Opens at Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland in Sept, 2012
A journey through the afterlife presented as visual & musical poetry.
Shot in Greenland, Iceland, France and USA. Created in collaboration with composer Paola Prestini and librettist Niloufar Talebi.
/ see more
4Monkeys
Immersive video, 2008
Custom software generates a swirling panoply of letters that coat
walls with secret meaning.
/ see more
Philogenesis
Theater, 2008
Short surreal plays bring concepts of philosophy to life. Developed at the
Water Mill Center for the Arts.
/ see more
other projects
Memory Begins
Two-channel video, 2010
Videos are projected on opposite walls, one flush and the other skewed
as if falling forward. The conception is non-verbal: direct perceptions
of a lost summer tinctured with bittersweet impressions that precede the
coalescence of memory from experience.
/ installation photo
/ installation schematic
/ video sample
LAB HD
Broadcast television, 2004 - 2006
A TV channel and collaborative artwork broadcast across the USA. / play LAB
LAB produced the Robert Wilson Video Portraits, which are now a traveling exhibit. / see voom portraits
Baghdad Transcendental
Process printing & charcoal, 2009
Large-scale prints recreate a walk through the ancient city of
Baghdad between wars.
/ see more
Fast Company says, " What Yoko Ono, Ali Hossaini, Julian Montague,
and Ranier Ganahl all have in common is a keen intuition of their urban
environments."
ArtTV
Single-channel video, 2001 - 2003
Sketches for a fantasy video art TV channel that became LAB HD.
/ see more
Divine Machines
Single-channel video, 2008
The history of eyes, cameras and optics in less than 10 minutes.
/ play video
Unperception Now
Single-channel video, 2006
A kaleidoscopic video postcard from the highlands of Madagascar.
/ play video
Photography
Silver gelatin prints
I practice film & digital photography, including darkroom printing. Locations include New York City, Iceland, Madagascar, Burma,
Cambodia, Iraq, Indonesia and Egypt. Please contact me to review portfolios.
Above: Favohitra (Madagascar) & Mecca (Saudi Arabia).
see / Grimsey (Iceland)
The Aging Magician
Live performance with multichannel video, 2011 /
Directed in collaboration with Paola Prestini
Live musical theater created with modern classical composer Paola Prestini.
Adapted from a story in
A Convergence of Birds by Jonathan Safron Foer,
the play will be staged at several locations in 2011 and 2012. Features
performances by Melvin Van Peebles, John Buffalo Mailer,
Rinde Eckert and Gabriel Kahane.
exhibitions & performances
