I am a storyteller. I tell stories through a diverse landscape of digital storytelling tools and platforms, to create a new type of experience. Humans have been and will always be storytellers. Digital technologies can be used to (re)tell our stories, like a mirror, to portray the condition of our individual and collective existence.

When it comes to digital Storytelling and communication, there is a shift towards interpersonal exchanges. This affects the way we define and share our stories and identities within our reformatting human societies.

My work revolves around looking at the human experience (through the quantum portal, deep into the proverbial rabbit hole) and enhancing it. My practice is driven by ongoing research on the intersection of art, science, philosophy, literature and technology. The concepts are expressed through a broad range of platforms such as video/animation direction, real-time Audiovisual performances and installation, and analogue/digital calligraphy.

With a focus on being the process and seeing in relationships, I use critical thinking and research in and through my art practice. Research is an integral part of both content and technical development. This process allows for articulation of the conceptual content of art which will then be translated into vision boards and storyboards.

When it comes to aesthetics, the production is focused primarily on generative and time-based or real-time content (text or image). I design, animate and/or program to achieve the desired audiovisual and philosophical aesthetics. In real-time scenarios such as performances, I use node-based visual programming languages to develop real-time multimedia content as well as media servers. When I also produce the sound, then it is also created digitally and with a generative design approach in mind.

In some of my recent works, I combine calligraphy with digital art. I have always been drawn towards words. And particularly words in which one can marinate in. Initially, it was simply visual pleasure that entranced me; years later, I am impressed by the potentiality of language and words. Using both the analogue and digital tools available to me, I create landscapes, sculpted in time and space, that inform the written subjects.

Combined in my art, are multiple technologies, which result in a kind of a live poetic cinema accompanied by music. I am committed to cinema as poetry and poetry as cinema. Our eyes are the windows to our souls, whichever way that you look at it. If we can expand our eyes, then we can expand our minds, and then hopefully we can expand in our human experience as well.

Sahar Homami - 2022