Mona Hedayati
Mona Hedayati is an Iranian-Canadian artist-researcher and a joint PhD researcher in interdisciplinary humanities at Concordia University, Canada and the digital arts doctorate program at Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, Belgium. Her interdisciplinary research-creation draws on sound design, computation arts, and sensory studies. She has a BA in translation studies, an MFA in digital media and Master of Research in social-political art and design. Given the hybrid nature of her work that hovers across media and disciplines, Hedayati's artistic presence has been at diverse venues such as Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, Darmstadt, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Body Electric Retrospective, Toronto, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Fylkingen New Music & Intermedia Center, Stockholm, and Ars Electronica Festival, Linz. As an educator, Hedayati teaches courses at master's and Master of Research level in digital culture and critical theory.
Sessions
The proposal discusses the intersection of datafication and human emotions rooted in artistic practice to challenge informatics approach to emotions under the framework of emotional AI. The study centers on an artistic exploration involving my logged emotional response as a migrant in exile processed using machine learning. This approach challenges the pragmatic utilitarianism of emotional AI by creating an immersive acoustic performance, transforming algorithmic logic into embodied interaction.