Ali Momeni, founder of Minneapolis Art on Wheels, will give a free public lecture Monday at UND and will select two Grand Forks area sites for large-scale outdoor projections, a news release from the UND Department of Art and Design said.
Momeni, born in Iran, came to the U.S. at age 12 and earned a doctorate in musical composition from University of California, Berkeley, according to a Sept. 30 article at MinnPost.com. He had spent three years in Paris researching his dissertation, "Composing instruments: Inventing and performing with generative computer based instruments."
An assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Art, he also is the music director of Spark, a music festival devoted to new electronic technologies.
One of the first things that impressed Momeni about Minneapolis and St. Paul was its culture of bikers who rode year-round. He soon combined biking with his interest in new-media arts, forming Minneapolis Art on Wheels, which involves the projecting of live video images onto public spaces by bikers as a way of engaging the community in an artistic dialogue.
At UND, Momeni will speak at 5 p.m. Oct. 18 at Paul E. Barr Memorial Lecture Room 227 in the Hughes Fine Arts Center. He will select sites for large-scale projects around Grand Forks, and the public is encouraged to participate in the live and temporary work Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the UND news release said. The locations of the large-scale projections will be announced at his lecture Monday.
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