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       Momennejad (2024) Grief makes us time travelers, NYTimes [ link ].

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       Momennejad (2023) The logic of memory, Philosophical Salon, LA Review of Books [ link ].

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art + science

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My creative practice spans philosophy, personal essays, performance, and installation. My artwork and art-science collaborations have appeared in HKW-Berlin, Radial System V in Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Peggy Guggenheim museum in Venice, Olafur Eliasson’s Institut fur Raumexperimente in Berlin, Lauba in Zagreb, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, Parson's the new school for design in NYC, ArteEast NYC, and The Goethe Institute, among others. My essays have appeared in NYTimes Modern Love and LARB: Philosophical Salon. I've been a jury at TADAEX (Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition) and New Inc, the incubator for creative science, the New Museum, where I also served as a mentor since 2023.

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Voluntary Mutation (2026), ArteEast, Brooklyn Arthaus

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The Intelligence of Life (2025), with Iz Nettere, HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Seeing with eyes closed (2011), with Ivana Franke [ + book ]

 

 

 

 

 

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A collective memory (2009), with Azin Feyzabadi

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Sound, Space, Body, a Process (2011), with Louise Wagner [ + book ]

 

 

 

 

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Performance research experiment 2.2 (2014), with Jess Curtis

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Book chapters 

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• Momennejad I, Allahyari M (2017) Refiguring: in Conversation. Futureproof, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, pp 16-31.
   

• Momennejad I (2011) Thinking in movements, rehearsing freedom. In: Wagner L and Gomes-Carrillo de Castro Eds., Sounds, Space, Body, a process. Ernst Schering Foundation and Association of Neuroesthetics: Berlin, pp:115-125.
   

• Momennejad I (2011) Seeing with eyes closed: the neuro-epistemology of perceptual reality. In: Agudio E and Franke I Eds., Seeing with eyes closed. Association of Neuroesthetics: Berlin, pp:15-21.
   

• Momennejad I and Franke I (2011) Two practices of seeing with eyes closed: contemporary art and science in dialogue. In: Agudio E and Franke I Eds., Seeing with eyes closed. Association of Neuroesthetics: Berlin, pp:9-13.

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Talks and performances (selected videos)

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• "Voluntary Mutaiton" (2026) Solo performance (play, creative code, music). ArteEast, Brooklyn Arthaus, Brooklyn, NY.
   

• "The Intelligence of Life" (2025) HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin, Talk, panel, and installtions.
   

• "Re-figuring". Presented our work on memory, planning, and social networks at Refiguring, Eyebeam (technology by artists), Spring 2017, Brooklyn, NY. Here is a video of the wonderful panel discussion with artists.
   

• A video of talk "Critical epistemic practice" at UNLEARNING THE GIVEN, exhibition and workshop in Berlin, 2016.
   

• A video of workshop on "Music and emotions" (2012) The Institut fuer Raumexperimente, Berlin.
   

• "Art-Science Manifesto" (2012) Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Talk and Panel.
   

• A video of workshop "Seeing with eyes closed: Experiments with light"  at the Institut fuer Raumexperimente, Berlin, 2010.

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