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.

CONTENT

animated film produced in collaboration with  Helena Hang Rong, Kyle  Branchesi, Molly Mason and Quianhui Liang

In a post labor society, CONTENT speculates on future worlds within urban and rural China. Extrapolating trends of absurdity and exhibitionism in talk shows and apps like Kuaishou, this is a world in which entertainment is currency and attention is everything. In exchange for living in these automated cities, citizens adopt jobs of producing social media content, sometimes leading them on inane adventures and ultimately forcing them to construct their worlds in order to develop meaningful lives. The buildings themselves take on the need to share these stories, broadcasting the inhabitants to the streets below through embedded LED systems which ultimately change the atmosphere of the city itself. This is their city symphony.