Farhad Bahram

I work with bodies, images, language, and responsive systems to examine how we understand one another. Across installation, performance, photography, and digital media, I explore how meaning takes shape between an action and its reception.

Artist
Chicago area
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A participant facing responsive projected text and a moving form in a gallery. — 01 In Media Res, 2025 ↗A participant encounters the responsive projection.

Selected work

01—04

In Media Res

Interactive installation with motion sensing and projection · 2025

Bodily movement changes a field of eyes, text, and projected forms.

Masks and projectors on stands face suspended screens in a dim gallery.

Dreamer's Dream

Interactive installation with 3D-printed masks and video

Five masks turn recurring dreams of childhood and home into an embodied encounter.

Three portrait screens hang above three gold-colored printed forms on white plinths.

Made in Iran

Interview-based installation with digital models and 3D-printed objects

Facial expressions move from interviews through software into physical form.

A visitor stands within a room covered in large Farsi words.

Looking Glass

Interview-based installation with video and text

Fifteen Iranian participants use language and personal accounts to consider self-representation.

Teaching and inquiry

My teaching extends the questions in my art practice through making, dialogue, and critique.

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