Clients and Collaborators
ART
DESIGN
TECHNOLOGY
The digital landscape is an incredible place, packed with endless opportunities to invent, innovate, and inspire. With our world becoming more and more dominated by digital screens, it’s my goal to create fresh, unique, thought-provoking and animated digital experiences. Drawing from a combination of expertise in the field of art, design and technology and experience from my work at progressive and dynamic digital media departments.
Fokoro
Computer Game (ongoing)
Fokoro or The Owl is an indie 2D action-adventure platformer inspired by Japanese culture, aesthetics, and folklore. The player character is a samurai who has the power to transform into a barn owl. The samurai uses his powers to fight enemeis including wild animals, yokais, warlords, spirits, and so on. Fokoro has been critically acclaimed for its in-game animations.
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Winter Dreams
Virtual Reality (2020)
Winter Dreams is an independent virtual reality experience created completely in and for VR. It was made using VR technologies such as Oculus QuillVR and Unity 3D. This immersive experience can be viewed on Quill Theater using any VR headsets such as Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest as well as HTC Vive and HTC Cosmos.
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Personal Website
Web Design and Development (2020)
Design and development of my personal website. I opted for a minimalistic black and white UI design that emphasizes the intersection of art, design and technology in my works. The website was designed using various applications and technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, and Lottie.
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Moby Dick
Virtual Reality (2019)
Moby Dick is a short virtual reality experience created and animated in virtual reality using QuillVR. It is a free adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel. This immersive experience can be viewed on Quill Theater using any VR headsets such as Oculus Rift S or Oculus Quest.
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Animated Typography
Web Design and Development (2019)
Animatedcalligraphy.com or animatedtypography.com is the website that accompanies the book A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art (Khajavi, 2019). Follow the link and learn about the design and development process. The website was designed using various applications and technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, and Lottie.
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The Third Script
Animation (2017)
The Third Script is a 2D hand-drawn animated short inspired by the fluidity and the sense of motion that is imbued in the art of Persian (Iranian) calligraphy. The animation, which is made entirely out of letters, words and pseudoscript, draws on the symbolic and metaphoric role of the alphabet in Persian mystically-inclined poetry.
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Passion of Love
Projection Mapping Installation (2016)
The Passion of Love is a new media installation based on a poem by the Classical Persian poet Rumi (1207-1273 CE). The installation is a video projection mapping on a calligraphic sculpture. This installation is based on my research on transformation of the function of letters and words in calligraphic art.
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Muqarnas
Immersive Experience (2018)
Muqarnas is an immersive Dome experience that was inspired by muqarnas (geometric vaultings that are typically applied to the undersides of domes in Islamic architecture.) This immersive film is designed to be experienced on full-domes.
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The Boarding House
Animation (2013)
The Boarding House is a short animated film about hope. The film impersonifies a plant that goes through a journey in a modern metropolitan landscape. Train, journey, urban landscape, clouds, and sky all play a significant role in this animated short. The role of landscape in the animation is generally reflected on sticking specific events or moments temporally in the memory by envisaging the sky and clouds.
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The Conference of the Birds
New Media Installation (2015)
A site-specific video art installation based on a long poem with the same name by the prominent Classical Persian poet and gnostic Farid ud-Din Attar (1110-1221 CE). The poem describes the mythological journey of a group of birds who want to know the Simurgh, a mythical bird in Persian literature similar to phoenix in popular imagination. In Persian the word si-murgh also means 30 birds. In the poem, upon arriving at their destination, the birds see not the Simurgh, but ...
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Cosmic Symphony
Audio-visual Experiment (2013)
Cosmic Symphony is an experimental video that is based on the data received by Radio Telescopes from outer space. The original sounds are from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that are digitally mixed and manipulated. The images are digitally enhanced real footage recorded on telescopes and amateur space photography.
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Reflection of Loneliness
Augmented Reality (2013)
The Reflection of Loneliness is a series of early experiments and prototypes of artworks created for augmented reality. These prototypes were created at the earlier stages of the development of the AR technology using Fusion, Unity and Adobe Flash.
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Symphony No. 40
Animation (2010)
Symphony No. 40 is a 2D hand-drawn visual music animated piece based on one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's masterpieces, Symphony No.40 in G minor. The story of the animated visual music piece is about a curious creature who wanders into the world of some other fantasy creatures. He finds himself in trouble as he tries to discover them.
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Awards, Festivals and Exhibitions
ANIMEX @ SAS Exhibition (Group exhibition), Basecamp, Teesside University, UK, 2022.
A Light Foot Print in the Cosmos (Group exhibition), Studio T Exhibition at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2022.
Being Human 2020: (Virtual Online Group exhibition responding creatively to COVID-19), College of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2020.
Echoes and Identity (Group Exhibition), Peter Crawly Building, Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
The Passion of Love (Solo exhibition), ADM Gallery I, School of Art, Design & Media, NTU, Singapore, 2016.
Bayu: An Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art (Group exhibition), ADM Gallery II Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2015.
Animation Art Exhibition (Group exhibition), University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Athens, Greece, 2011.