Babak Ahteshamipour

Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and musician based in Athens, Greece with a background in mining and materials science engineering. His practice is based on the collision of the virtual vs the actual, aimed at correlating topics from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity, exploring them via gaming and online subcultures with a focus on themes of coexistence and simultaneity.

His work has been presented at festivals, venues, galleries and spaces, museums and institutes such as Centre Pompidou, New Art City, The Wrong TV, Neo Shibuya TV, University of North Texas, McMaster University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biquini Wax ESP, Experimental Sound Studio, Milan Machinima Festival and Rijksmuseum Twenthe.

He has released music on the independent cassette label Industrial Coast and on the cassette label Jollies. His music has been played on radio stations such as LYL Radio, Radio Raheem and Internet Public Radio. He has performed and shared the stage with artists such as HELM, Zoviet France, MSHR, and Iku Sakan. He has created video clips for artists such as Fire-Toolz, Digifae and B.Michaael.

His work has been featured on magazines and platforms such as CTM Festival's magazine, Bandcamp daily, KIBLIND, VRAL and [ANTI]MATERIA.