Nora Al-Badri

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi  background. Her works are research-based as well as paradisciplinary and as much postcolonial as post-digital. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated with a degree in Political Sciences from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and is now the director for AI+Art at the ETH AI Center in Zürich. Her practice focuses on the politics and the emancipatory potential of new technologies, such as machine intelligence or data sculpting, non-human agency, and transcendence. Al-Badri’s artistic material is speculative archaeology, from fossils to artifacts or performative interventions in museums and other public spaces that respond to the inherent power structures.

Nora Al-Badri, Babylonian Vision, 2019, Series consisting of over 150 GAN videos and over 200 images. With texts written by: Prof. Wendy M. K. Shaw, Dr. Fazil Moradi, Dr. Saud Al-Zaid, Daphne Dragona, Dr. Anita Hosseini