SEL ALIZADEH
A media designer and artistic researcher, working across film, sound, installation and interactive mediums. With a BA in Theater from the Tehran University of Arts and an MFA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the University of Arts Berlin (UdK), their work focuses on immersive audiovisual experiences, composing atmospheric environments through images and sonic experimentations. Story-driven to its core, even in its most abstract forms, their work conceptually explores identity, politics, privacy, techno-feudalism, human-machine interaction in our everydayness, and the fragile state of human existence in a progressively unstable world. Through science-fiction and imaginative storytelling+sound, they investigate the tensions between technology and humankind, control and autonomy, and oppression and resistance.
Born in Tehran, Iran and currently based in Berlin, they have showcased their work in exhibitions across Berlin, Budapest, and Tehran. They have performed sonic narratives such as Animals Jump (2023) at the House of Music in Budapest, have experience designing media specifically for planetariums and sound domes such as the Portale exhibition (2023) at Zeiss Major Planetarium in Berlin, where they developed a video piece along with soundscapes for dome projections and spatial storytelling. Additionally, they have conceptualized intermedia spaces to realize immersive narrative experiences, such as the exhibition at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin in 2024.