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Biography & CV
Ghazal Majidi is an interdisciplinary new media artist and filmmaker from Tehran, Iran, currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Her practice investigates the intersections of digital media, human perception, and nonlinear storytelling, focusing on the tension between the physical and the virtual, the mundane and the uncanny. Drawing from her academic background in architecture, Majidi’s work is deeply entangled with the poetics of space and the aesthetics of noise. Exploring the emotional and cognitive impacts of constructed environments, she examines the spatial dynamics of memory, liminality, and uncanniness.
Her works span 3D animation, extended reality, interaction design, and generative systems, examining concepts such as nostalgia, fragmentation, and disintegration within contemporary technoculture, bending cultural stereotypes. By critically engaging with digital tools and immersive technologies, Majidi crafts alternative narratives and affective experiences that invite audiences to reflect on the evolving relationships between humans, spaces, and machines.
Her works include cinematic experiences, interactive pieces, audiovisual installations, and interactive XR, often eliciting moments of introspection and uncanny familiarity. Majidi’s works have been presented internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Vienna Shorts, Mutek AE, Brussels Independent Film Festival, MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival. Majidi holds a Bachelor of Architecture and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University.
CV
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2022-2024/ MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2018/ Bachelor of Architecture, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2012/ Mathematics Diploma, Kherad Educational Highschool, Tehran, Iran
2024/ CutOut Fest- Internaitonal Animation and Digital Art Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Querétaro, Mexico
2024/ Group Exhibition, "Noclip Player" and "A Recollection of the Disappeared", Audain Galley, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Group Exhibition, "Noclip Player" and "A Recollection of the Disappeared", Audain Galley, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Girona International Film Festival, Sarbaz Premiere, Finalist in the Experimental Video section, Girona, Spain
2024/ ANIMATOR FESTIVAL, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Kino Muza, Poznan, Pland
2024/ Mutek UAE, Parallax interactive AR installation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2024/ Reaktor Wien, Sarbaz World Premiere, Reaktor Wien Foyer, Vienna, Austria
2024/ Waking Life Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Crato, Portugal
2024/ Monstra Animation Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR Festival 2023, Cinema Sao Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
2024/ Waking Life Festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Crato, Portugal
2024/ WFAF festival, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Varna, Bulgaria
2023/ ZumZeig Arthouse Cinemal, Pneumomania as part of Best of PYR 2023, Barcelona, Spain
2023/ Oak Cliff Film Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Dallas, US
2023/ The Wrong Biennale, Adam Meets Eve Pavilion, Pneumomania, Virtual Exhibition
2023/ Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Denver, US
2023/ Punto Y Raya Festival, Pneumomania Screening, Lisbon, Portugal
2023/ Antimatter, Moss Grew Screening, Deluge Contemporary Gallery, Victoria, CANADA
2023/ Girona International Film Festival, Moss Grew Screening, Girona, Spain
2023/ Mosaic World Film Festival, Moss Grew Premiere, Georgia, US
2023/ Austrian Filmfestival, Moss Grew Premiere, Vienna, Austria
2023/ Alexander Studios, Group Exhibition, Backflash Installation, Vancouver, Canada
2021/ Bethanien- Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Video Exhibition of Pneumomania, Berlin, Germany
2021/ Vienna Shorts International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Vienna, Austria
2021/ Casa de Cultura, part of Girona Film Festival, Video Exhibition of Seer & Seen, Girona, Spain
2021/ Mosaic World Film Festival, Seer & Seer Screening, Georgia, US
2021/ Fest Anca International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Slovakia
2021/ Brussels International Film Festival, Seer & Seen Screening, Brussels, Belgium
2021/ NEO Shibuya 30 Seconds Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020/ Group Exhibition, Soo Contemporary, Tehran, Iran
2024/ XR BIPOC Fellowship, Single Thread Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2024/ Talk on making Sarbaz, Reaktor Wien, Vienna, Austria
2019/ Author, Horoscope Poetry Series Giesela von Horoskopf, Null Set Theory Online Publication
2018/ Organizer and Producer, Body and Movement Workshop Series, Instructor Ideh Aboutalebi, Tehran, Iran
2017/ Co-researcher and Co-author, A Comprehensive Architectural Analysis Of Telegraphchi Mansion, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2011/ Goethe Institute Residency, klossterschule, B2 Candidate, Rossleben, Germany