Laleh Mehran

I created new work for this solo exhibition at the DAM. In addition, there were 7 performances in conjunction with the solo exhibition.

During the 10-month exhibition, there were approximately 458,000 visitors to the DAM, although not all viewed my exhibition, many did.

More information at:
http://lalehmehran.com/Men-of-God-Men-of-Nature

• Denver, CO, USA

I was invited to submit work for an exhibition at Carnegie Mellon University.
"Entropic System" was a new work created for this exhibition. It's a complex interactive mechanism.

"Dominant Policy" is a work of video art also included in this exhibiton.

• Pittsburgh, PA

The W3FI is a social movement, a philosophy, a path to responsible connectivity between our online/offline lives and to each other.

Every day we find more and more of our lives integrated in the digital world, no longer able to lead separate lives, one virtual and one real. This means that we have to take control of and responsibility for how others see and relate to us in the digital world. We are proposing a new philosophy, a new strategy for our online interactions. The W3FI project is much more than an awareness campaign, it is a movement in social activism to ask a new set of questions for each of us every time we click, text, or share a photo.

At the end of the W3FI interactive installation experience people are asked to become part of the W3FI, the collective of people who lift up each other by interacting positively, with encouragement, help, sharing, and understanding. In this way the project addresses issues ranging from cyber-bullying to open-source knowledge.

• Taichung, Taiwan

I was invited to propose work for the 404 Festival and my work was accepted.

• Rosario, Argentina

Ever-shifting structures in politics, religions and urban migrations create new socio-political landscapes, metaphorically represented in Entropic Order. The landscapes are symbolic of power structures continuously reshaped and in flux, in reference specifically to the current political climates in the Middle East.

This interactive installation is comprised of a 2-axis machine and 3,000 pounds of Black Beauty sand. The sand while representing the terrain is in fact coal slag. The hovering machine is symbolic of the politicization of ideologies; it navigates and commands a suspended brass pendulum, responding to participant’s movements and presence around its borders. The pendulum receives commands, which it obeys and executes without hesitation. In its solitude, the pendulum’s piercing tip engraves precise geometric latticework; the presence of participants calls it to action, shifting its focus to frantic carvings of the landscape and causing the perfection of the patterns to fragment and collapse.

The terrain holds the visible remains of impressions that endure even once the machine has moved on to other parts of the landscape - reflecting and preserving a real-time history. The continuously reconstructed landscapes will, over time, create numerous possibilities of terrain, simultaneously beautiful while reflecting the complex realities in our lives.

• Arvada, Colorado, USA