I am a Paris-based artist and researcher. My work tackles themes of landscape, sensing, and embodiment. In my practice, sensory knowledge and the very act of listening and seeing are creative techniques for constructing the world ; the act of sensing is therefore simultaneously a political and aesthetic process. I work in collaboration with scientists and experts using data sets that tell stories about war, conflict and environmental change. My methods involve filmmaking, cartography, immersive sound design, animation, mixed reality formats and digital cinema.
I am trained in architecture and anthropology. I teach in Paris and Chicago in fields of visual and media ethnography, environmental and sociocultural anthropology, media studies and artistic creation and production.
I am fond of doing collaborative projects.
Contact me at saadiamirza@post.harvard.edu if interested in chatting about possibilities.