Vali-e Asr Street

Real-time Generative Single-Channel Video Art

Materials: TouchDesigner, Python Audio Processing.

Vali-e Asr, the longest street in the Middle East, began as the link between Tehran and Shemiran and primarily served as an urban pathway. However, a combination of structural, natural, historical, and functional characteristics caused it to continue to grow as more than just another urban pathway. Therefore, it can be said that Vali-e Asr is a linear urban space.

Generally, citizens' affection for an urban space originates from their memories. In fact, the city acts like a vessel in which such memoirs take shape.

Moreover, Vali-e Asr is the place for forgetting sorrows, a place for worshipping, purchasing and window shopping, studying, a place for seclusion and solitude or vice versa, socialization and enjoying the company of other people and to remember that you are in your own hometown.

It is technically a video art piece produced by visual programming and recorded from live pieces generated in real time.

Winter 2022