Portfolio: Creative Research / Academic Projects

Depicted above is the “Poseidon’s Pull (Revisited): Part 1 (2018) installation in Kefalonia where visitors are invited to wear an EEG headset and enter the boat to meditate which reveals GPS tracks collected by the artists printed on receipt paper.

Photo depiction is of outdoor installation of “Dabarithms: Palm Wish” ISEA 2014 on the American University campus in Dubai. In the photo one can see three of 9 trees with automated fairy drones that launch as wishes are collected on the Palm Jumierah island.

Image depicts Paggank Daywaygun (2017) installation in the Harvestworks Gallery on Governors Island, NYC.

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/176380179 “Beirithms” (“Bei”: Beijing “rithms”: Algorithms) is an interactive digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project, that uses algorithmic functions calculated in a custom GPS Tracking Android Phone App to direct the user’s or “passengers,” to move around the city of Beijing, China. Influenced by the French Situationists who experimented with numerous…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE IN CAIRO: https://vimeo.com/72616842 AND THE SECOND INSTALLATION HERE IN DC:https://vimeo.com/239352257I exhibited a computer-vision & Twitter based interactive installation called “Gestures of Change (2013)” with “Max is a Pushover” at the Di-Egy Fest in Cairo, Egypt ( di-egyfest.com/exhibition.html ) in April 2013. In “Gestures of Change (2013)”, when visitors enter a semi-lit empty…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/33815283 Max is a Pushover is an interactive computer vision piece (using a computer, projector, webcam, custom software, that welcomes viewer/users to wave their hand over a table, place and move objects on the table, that will push over the character “Max” in such a way that he seems to…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/239502162“Colombiritmos” (“Colombi”: Colombia “ritmos”: Algorithms) is an interactive, digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project that uses an algorithmic functions to direct the field-user to navigation of the city of Manizales, and to interact with its people and products, which is presently the main center for the production of Colombian coffee.Influenced by the…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/174589509 “Madritmos” (“Mad”: Madrid “ritmos”: Algorithms) is an interactive digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project, that uses algorithmic functions calculated in a custom GPS Tracking Android Phone App to direct the user’s or “passengers,” to move around the city of Madrid, Spain. Influenced by the French Situationists who experimented with numerous…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/34270754 A Seesaw and a Scoreboard is an interactive installation that invites viewers to sit on an adult-sized seesaw to play. Viewers will immediately notice that when they are in squatting position their points on a projected scoreboard will increase and voices of children on a playground can be heard…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/33815325 SEE PROJECT PHOTO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://maxkazemzadeh.com/spinflick.html Spin.Flick is an interactive installation that incorporates a custom built light sensitive surface made from 504 light sensors (photoresistors), a few coins from different countries, 10 custom programmed microcontrollers, and 64 lights to create an abstract timebased narrative from the flicking and spinning of…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/124257693 “Jabbertalkey!!! The Automated Celeb Gossip Generator”You are a celebrity and are the vehicle by which gossip is generated for the media.You merely have to be present to begin generating gossip.The more people you have present in the screen, the more gossip you generate and hence the more diverse the…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/124257934 LINK BELOW FOR THE WISHING WELL (2010) Interview/Radio Program by Austrian Radio during Ars Electronica:https://maxkazemzadeh.com/orf.html SEE EARLY PROJECT DESCRIPTION IN VIDEO HERE:https://vimeo.com/124258175 Wishing Well is an international repository of wishes represented as video, images and text thought-bubbles sent from cell phones, emails, and social networking sites to a web…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/240669903 Chaotic Isolation vs. Peaceful Reunion (2017) uses the random array of triggers and responses that are generated by the confluence of too many photoresistors (analog light sensors) assembled in a specific configuration where all attempt to read at the same time, thereby generating a kind of electrical randomness that…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/34270643 SEE PROJECT PHOTO DOCUMENTATION HERE:PROCESSING GESTURE (2006) Photo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Processing Gesture is a site-specific interactive installation comprising of nine microcontrollers, tripods, sensors, motors, video cameras, pencils, coat hangars, and sheets of drawing paper, as well as a computer and projector that…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/645802578 This documentation shows the interactive system developed by Max Kazemzadeh for his course ART 495 Skateboarding, Tracking & Data Visualization Course, being demonstrated by skateboarder Deeba Yavrom. The course was offered three times at Gallaudet as a cross-disciplinary course with the general studies GSR 240 course. This took place…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE (EXHIBITION WSU PULLMAN): https://vimeo.com/73144125 SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE (EXHIBITION LINDA JORDAN GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC): https://vimeo.com/73144125 FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW FOR THE POSEIDON’S PULL WEBSITE:http://www.poseidonspull.com SEE PROJECT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN PROGRESS HERE:https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/71829612 POSEIDON’S FINAL MESSAGE:https://vimeo.com/72278249 COLLABORATOR VIDEOS:MARK IN BOSTON:https://vimeo.com/71785245HAYTHAM IN NEW YORK CITY:https://vimeo.com/71766388 ADNAN IN TEXAS:https://vimeo.com/71765714 FOUNDLAND IN AMSTERDAM:https://vimeo.com/71735967 JOE…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/155243662 Computer vision project with face recognition developed for the from MCentral’s Millinial Trains Inaugural Weekend Exhibition & Ball. Installation titled “The Other Side of the Tracks (2013)” where one participant becomes the “Prince” (w/a crown & an animated chest of gold which opens and closes revealing the gold) and…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/155045869 Robotics & Interactivity Course_Student Works: (LIGER Project: Merge 3 animals/insects into one new animal/insect)

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/33815346 SEE PROJECT PHOTO DOCUMENTATION HERE:CONTROLLING THE Wild West (2006) Photos Controlling the Wild West is an interactive installation that captures and uses the viewer’s/user’s movements and positions in space to activate motors attached to dowel rods that have images cut out of a photo book of paintings by Western…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE: https://vimeo.com/33815394 SEE PROJECT PHOTO DOCUMENTATION HERE:SCOURING FOR PREY (2006) Photos Scouring for Prey is a piece that incorporates motors, a water pump, lights, sensors, a microcontroller, wire, plastic sheeting, and more to create an environment where an eagle, mounted on and projecting out of a styrafoam block seems to float…

Gallaudet CRATERs : Finding A Line (2015-Present) with Max Kazemzadeh, Ben Ashworth, Garth Ross, Dave Mutarelli, Dr. Dave Snyder

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/194270917 “Fishing for Butterflies & Bourgeoisie” (2016) by Max Kazemzadeh was an interactive installation with an artificial firefly created using Arduino, an Ultrasonic Rangefinder, an ultrabright multicolor LED, and an altered computer fan tethered to a steel suspended rod that would fly, light up with different colors, and bounce around using…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgspoiMQIQE Conscious Containers amplifies the sound of sharpening a pencil to the point at which it physically shakes your body while revealing, in the form of a series of tweets, the wandering subconscious reflections that run through our minds when we are engaged in a mundane task, like sharpening a pencil. With…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/205403706 Birdsong Diamond: Mimic (2015) was installed at Governors Island around the time of the Birdsong Diamond: Mimic Performance in Times Square (2015). The installation includes two static pods that are mounted to a tripod in separate rooms, which influences a generative diamond projected on the ground in the central room. A…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/205402103 The Birdsong Diamond: Mimic, Times Square Performance (2015) installation included a slight site-specific adaptation of the larger installation on Governors Island which was installed at the same time and exhibited as part of the NYEAF New York Electronic Arts Festival. While the installation includes two static pods that are mounted tripods,…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/193830812 This was the Birdsong Diamond: Mimic Remote Field Recording Trigger Transmitter System (June 2015) Kazemzadeh developed for the workshop at Harvestworks, NYC that became the East/West Coast Transmission Performance with Victoria Vesna, Charles Taylor, Joel Ong, Mick Larousso and Claudia Jacques Birdsong Diamond: Mimic (2015) was installed at Governors Island around…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/155249538 Lilipod is an interactive project by Kelly Andres (Canada) with collaborators: Saoirse Higgins, Max Kazemzadeh, Reza Safavi. Lilipods are tools for studying, implementing and monitoring DIY bioremediation efforts through community stewardship. The initial concept and prototypes developed during the Interactivos?’10 workshop illustrate the potential for the project to cultivate a series…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/18595758 Animorigami (2011) is a interactive wall-mounted relief that employs a range of custom open source hardware technologies along with motors, a sensor and raw, found, recycled materials to activate the movement of a paper origami crane, thereby simulating aspects of a real crane’s movements in the air. The object is still…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/33815325 Spin.Flick (2006) is an interactive installation that incorporates a custom built light sensitive surface made from 504 light sensors (photoresistors), a few coins from different countries, 10 custom programmed microcontrollers, and 64 lights to create an abstract timebased narrative from the flicking and spinning of a simple coin. In interactive experiences…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/33815473 VISIT THE SUN.DIAL WEBSITE HERE:https://wonderblimp.com/sundial/ Sun.dial (2005) is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/34270723 Feud (2004) is an interactive installation that abstracts and distorts elements from the popular game show Family Feud, and invites gallery-goers to enter into what looks like a game show film-set/production-studio to play the game by physically engaging with the central console that appears in the show. Feud welcomes the viewer to…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/851417565 WHITE-WALL SWITCH-HEEL @ FREEDOM (2023) is an interactive kinetic multimedia artwork that activates cut-outs from a watercolor painting on paper with a wood panel, a hot-glue dump pad and a microcontroller. This interactive installation piece engages the viewer to activate the spinning of a paper pop-up skateboard, painted with watercolor, as…

SEE PROJECT WEBSITE HERE:https://maxkazemzadeh.com/watodesk/ WaToDeSK-ZooM: Water Toxin Detection Starter Kit w/Zebrafish and Molusks  The WaToDeSK-ZooM is a handheld mobile water-quality testing lab and advocacy projector, that uses a micro-computer vision system and skin-salinity sensor system to transform zebrafish and mollusks into organic/bio-sensors who’s behavioral and physiological reaction to water containing free-radicals from plastics (monomers) and…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/240291975 SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION OF 2013 INSTALLATION AT MALMAISON IN GEORGETOWN HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77p0FVW8Qs&t=13s Jabbersquawkey is an interactive installation that was exhibited at the kings and istrategylabs party at Malmaison in Georgetown Saturday feb 22. “Jabbersquawkey!!! The Automated Political Gossip Perpetuator”You are a politician and are the vehicle by which gossip is generated for…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41KjCPRucsM SEE ASTRAL HAWK VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE OF EXCERPS FROM THE PROJECTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZPEZSWIK_U&t=0s Reliving the Myth of Melissani (2012) was an interactive networked project performance in the Cave Lake of Melissani in Kefalonia Greece. The project consisted of 9 collaborators including Max Kazemzadeh (Assoc. Professor Gallaudet University), Reza Safavi (Assoc. Professor WSU Pullman),…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/33814942 Open Source Eating (OSE) Android Application (2011) – Tian Li, Refarm: Hernani Dias, Max Kazemzadeh, Diego Paonessa, and Collaborators Re:Farm Open Source Eating (OSE) is an Android application developed in Phone Gap and Open Street Maps at Medialab Prado with Re:farm in June 2011, which allows hungry individuals find the location…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/33815138 isparkleblackmold (2008) is an interactive computer vision based installation that brings together the concept of the quick ID photo booth, that applies simple face recognition, with superstition. Users are invited to enter into the open booth and photograph themselves. Once the photo is taken, randomly one of two generative growths begin…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqydF-U-0Q&t=1s Antenkere or Ant Thinkers (2011) is a system using single threaded open source microcomputers to investigate how artificial directed “positive” and “negative” thoughts affect social behavior in ants. Following the Plantenkere project structure and formatting an investigation of thought’s influence of social behavior arising from the Wishing Well project. Microcontrollers are…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/155250422 PLANTENKERE or “PLANT THINKERS” (2011) is an ongoing project that investigates the impact of artificially active embeded thought on plant health over time. Microcontrollers are programmed with text strings and embedded into the bases of the plants. Three plants “think” “negative” thoughts, and the second set of three plants “thinks” “positive”…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/33815249 i.m.pshovr (2008) – by Max Kazemzadeh and Collaborators (Edgar Zu and Mauro Herrera) at Interactivos 2008 in Mexico City i.m.pshovr (developed at Interactivos 2008 Mexico City with collaborators Edgar Zu and Mauro Herrera) is an intimate and public experience that encapsulates each of our weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and failures in one humbling…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/33815304 Antisocialbots (2007) are group of little antisocial robots that turn away from people expressing different gestures of avoidance and speak different sounds of complaint, depending on how far someone is from them or they are from eachother. Entering into a space with many of them activates a string of avoidance gestures…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/716626108 SEE SECOND PERFORMANCE IN COLLABORATION W/ TOYBOX:https://vimeo.com/2217033 “express and local” (2004) was a hardware/software performance developed at the Medialab-Madrid in 2004 and was performed on location at the Conde Duque in Madrid, Spain as part of the AV Lab program, organized by . The Medialab_Madrid has moved to a different location…

WARNING: POSSIBLY SENSITIVE CONTENT SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION OF EXHIBITION AT BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL HERE:https://vimeo.com/34270736 Target Audience: Point & Shoot (2003) is a piece that integrates (forgive the pun) very loaded content into an intimate gallery space to make extremely clear how scary and dangerous guns are, and that media and gaming interfaces in fact dull…

SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/852019719 Videoshop (2005) is a Photoshop hack that allows for videos to display only in the workable area of the Photoshop document. Photoshop tools and panels become strange layers of framing for the scenes which only enhance the experience. Sound remains unaffected. Like a curator, Kazemzadeh uses this glitchy framing method as…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/34270833 “Passage” (2005) uses custom sensors to track the viewers movement in the space, and to use that movement to trigger one of five live video streams of the viewers inhabiting that space. As the viewer moves, he or she also calls from a collection of line drawn animations and sound,…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpb21QRnTY Gesture coordinates is an interactive multimedia installation that captures and translates the viewers gesture, movement and position in space into an encoded iconographic feedback system. As the viewer moves closers and further from the interactive system, a physical motorized arm draws patterns on a digital tablet. These physical movements are…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/34270709 L/R I/O (aka. LEFT/RIGHT IN/OUT) (2004) uses custom sensors to generate a silent cinematic experience that attempts to redirect the viewer’s gaze back to the other viewers within the gallery space. L/R I/O heightens communal interaction through the generation of short narratives of a figure moving in and out of…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/34270663 IS.US (INTERACTIVE SPATIAL ULTRASONIC SYMPHONY (2005) is an interactive sound/kinetic installation that welcomes gallery-goers to generate an organically changing interactive sonic symphony simply by standing in or moving around in the room. Tones incrementally move from high to low as gallery-goers move closer to these pseudo-robotic pods. Is.us was first…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/34270689 Is an interactive multimedia installation that uses two custom programmed microcontrollers(mini specialized computers, with distance sensors to track viewers positions in space. Viewer position information is used to control two motors that physically draw patterns on two digital tablets. The drawn movements in effect control the movements of both figure…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/155289025 Gatehouse/Lighthouse (2012) is a project that used an infrared sensor to track when cars would pass by on Florida Ave NE, immediately in front of the original Gallaudet University Gatehouse, and used that information to turn on and off a light on the second floor as if to reference a…

SEE PROJECT VIDEO DOCUMENTATION HERE:https://vimeo.com/155239116 SEE VIDEO DOCUMENTATION OF Hernani Dias EXPLAINING THE MANY REFARM.THE.CITY BOARDS IN TARRAGONA HERE:https://faircompanies.com/videos/refarm-the-city-open-source-tools-for-urban-farmers/ The REFARM.THE.CITY GARDEN BOARD ’12 w/Hernani Dias is one of the many ReFarm projects that its founder Hernani Dias led. Dias invited Kazemzadeh to visit Gijon at the LABoral Centro de Arte and Creation Industrial on…