full cv is here

education

  • 2019

  • 2017

  • 2015
  • 2015
  • MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF  TECHNOLOGY
    Master Of Science In Architecture Studies,Urbanism
  • MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE
    Bachelor Of Architecture
  • STRELKA INSTITUTE OF MEDIA, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
    Postgraduate program New Normal, Project Common Task
  • MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE
    Specialist Of Architecture, Thesis Moscow-Intervals

academic appointments

  • 2019-
  • 2019-
  • MIT future urban collectives lab
    Lead Researcher
  • MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab
    Research Analyst, (un)Real Estate

publications

  • 2021
  • 2021
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2019
  • Politics of the Virtual
    in Voices (Towards Other Institutions); ed. Ipollito Pestellini Laparelli and Erica Petrillo
  • The city as a Videogame
    Perspectives in Metropolitan Research; ed. by Raphael Shweigmann
  • RT3DDT: poetics of synchronization
    in CARTHA Magazine
  • The city in the Age of Remix
    Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus; ed. E Navas, x Burrow and O Gallagher
  • Professional Distortion
    PLAT Journal, 8.5 TL;DR; ed. Lauren
  • (un)Real Estate
    MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab Series on Medium

exhibitions

  • 2021
  • 2021
  • 2019
  • 2019
  • 2016
  • Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
    The politics of the Virtual, video-essay, commissioned by the curatorial team of Russian Pavilion
  • Open Collectives Station at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
    An installation by the MIT future urban collectives lab team, comissioned by the curatorial team of the Biennale
  • MIT SA+P Gallery 9 group exhibition
    Screening of the videoessay Virtual Social
  • MIT Media Lab Show,
    Screening of the videoessay Content
  • Moscow Architecture Biennale
    Personal exhibition; Moscow-Intervals

Alina Nazmeeva is an artist and educator currently based in Detroit. Alina creates simulations and worlds that analyze the intra-actions of physical and digital spaces and objects, and their cultural, economic and political ramifications. Using XR, gaming engines, CGI software, machinima, and physical installations, their creative and research practice examines the oscillations and murmurs between virtual and concrete, cities and videogames, life and animation, organic and the engineered.

Alina Nazmeeva is an artist and educator currently based in Detroit. Alina creates simulations and worlds that analyze the intra-actions of physical and digital spaces and objects, and their cultural, economic and political ramifications. Using XR, gaming engines, CGI software, machinima, and physical installations, their creative and research practice examines the oscillations and murmurs between virtual and concrete, cities and videogames, life and animation, organic and the engineered.