Rose Ansari (she/her) is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist. She attended Alzahra University of Tehran for her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently, she is a Master of Fine Arts student in Art & Technology / Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.

Rose's current research-based art exploration delves into Cyborg and post-human theories, distortion, and telecommunication through sensory experience in laboratory processes. Fueled by a fascination with unreal fantasy and immersive environments, she is inspired by sci-fi and futuristic concepts, biology, and machines. She integrates technology and cognitive sciences with poetry to unravel the complexities of the human unconscious and emotions. Her projects have been shown nationally and internationally.

Education

 BFA in Studio Art - Painting, University of Al-Zahra, Tehran, Iran

 MFA in Studio Art - Art & Technology Studies, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

CV available upon request. 

Artist Statement

Through my research-based practice, I utilize technology to explore its relationship with the human body within the global socio-political landscape. I explore prosthetics as a means for trauma processing (stemming from my personal experiences as an immigrant Iranian woman in America), navigating through gender discrimination, displacement, violence, and oppression. Inspired by Kruger’s work 'Your body is a battleground,' I address phenomenological issues related to human brain function, optics, experience, and perception.

I incorporate post-humanist themes such as exploring Transhumanism and Augmentation, questioning Anthropocentrism, engaging with Artificial Intelligence, speculating on Post-biological Futures, and Critiquing Dualistic Notions of Self and other into my work to invite audiences to contemplate the complex intersections of humanity, technology, and the natural world.

My art confronts trauma through immersive environments that employ ‘reenactments’ to manifest ideas and experiences. I construct systems both inside and around the body, exploring the relationship between humans and non-humans through a variety of strategies. I view human-computer interaction as a catalyst for human-human communication.

I use irony, humor, surrealism, or paradoxical imagery to convey the absurdity of the human condition and Existentialism. My artistic process begins with logic but harnesses intuition, resulting in laboratory experiments that explore sequences and consequences of sensory experiences. I use distortion, confusion, and sensory telecommunication as strategies for challenging, stimulating, and fostering deeper engagement with my work.

Inspired by fantasy and flux, I create light installations such as Total Art in dark rooms and utilize audio as a non-physical tool to delve into the audience's subconscious. Sculpting the frequency of sound, I evoke high and low-pitched auditory experiences, inviting viewers to explore the core meaning of life through minimal visual language inspired by scientific theories.

Fueled by a fascination with surrealism and immersive environments drawn from sci-fi and futuristic concepts, I integrated technology, cognitive sciences, and poetry to untangle the human unconscious. In essence, I position myself at the blurred intersection of art and science, object and space, and physical and nonphysical phenomena.