about

About me

I am an interaction designer and new media artist who crafts mixed-reality experiences by blending physical and digital media. I grew up in (Lahore) Pakistan and moved to the United States in 2008.

My new media practice centers on queer, immigrant, and non-western narratives. This work manifests as installations, projections, videos, live visuals, and programmed electronics.

I am a member of Macro Waves, a collective-owned, creative studio formed by interdisciplinary artists of color.

Exhibits & Performances

• February 2023
  Video collaboration with Beast Nest, Sudden Beams 2: Extraction
  Platform Asia (Multiple locations, UK)

• November 2022
  Live visuals for Beast Nest, TAC 25th Anniversary
  Temescal Art Center (Oakland)

• May 2022
  Projection-mapped mural with Macro Waves & Twin Walls for exhibition, We are Bruce Lee
  Chinese Historical Society of America (San Francisco)

• February 2022
  Artist in residence at Arab AMP
  Temescal Art Center (virtual)

• March 2021
  Live visuals for Joel St. Julien as part of the Patch Pulse series
  Gray Area (virtual)

• January 2020
  Interactive installation for the exhibition, Where Do You Want Ghosts to Reside?
  Southern Exposure (San Francisco)

• November 2019
  Videos and live projections for Skywatcher’s show, Came Here to Live
  Counterpulse (San Francisco)

• October 2019
  Interactive new media installation with Jeffrey Yip for the exhibition, Continuous Thread
  SFAC Gallery (San Francisco)

• August 2019
  Live visuals for Discostan
  (Los Angeles)

• August 2019
  Installation with Robin Birdd for the exhibition, Rebooting the Future
  SOMArts in (San Francisco)

• June 2019
  Videos, set design, and live visuals for multimedia performance, Tomorrow We Inherit The Earth
  Counterpulse (San Francisco)

• June 2019
  Live visuals with Sharmi Basu for Other Futures
  Gray Area (San Francisco)

• May 2019
  LED sculpture for the exhibition, Jagah // Jadoo
  MCCLA (San Francisco)

• March 2019
  Live visuals & environment design with Macro Waves for Club Chai Anniversary Show
  (San Francisco)

• January 2019
  Video for the exhibition, Postcolonial Revenge
  MCCLA (San Francisco)

• November 2018
  Immersive installation for the exhibition, Reorienting the Imaginaries
  SOMArts (San Francisco)

• December 2017
  Immersive installation for the Gray Area Showcase
  Gray Area (San Francisco)

Speaking

• September 2021
  Interview for Zamin Project

• September 2021
  Panelist for Not Your Family Whatsapp - “Futurism and science fiction”

• December 2018
  Panelist for Reorienting the Imaginaries Panel

• January 2018
  Speaker at Tech Poetics in San Francisco

Creative Organizing & Teaching

• April 2021
  Teachers Assistant for Caroline Sinders’ 6-week course, Ethics in UX
  Gray Area (virtual)

• July 2020
  Organized community meetup, Radical Technologists, with Olivia Cueva
  Allied Media Conference (virtual)

• June 2018
  Facilitated a projection mapping workshop
  Allied Media Conference in Detroit.

• June 2015
  Co-facilitated a workshop about green screens with Nabil Vega
  Allied Media Conference in Detroit.