Mathematics & nature
Geometry, symmetry, physics, natural growth, and complexity form an ongoing field of study. These interests inform his attention to repeating structures and the emergence of intricate forms.
THE ARTIST / THE INQUIRY
Ali Seiffouri
An artistic practice shaped by a life across disciplines.
A connected way of seeing
Ali Seiffouri is a Persian multidisciplinary artist and technical artist based in Los Angeles. Across more than 25 years in computer graphics, film, games, and procedural design, his work has returned to the relationship between a rule and the form it makes possible.
His polymathic approach brings different kinds of inquiry into the same creative process. Mathematics offers relationships; programming makes them explorable; traditional art develops the eye; physical fabrication gives an idea material presence.
Fields of inquiry
Code & material
Procedural modeling, programming, simulation, and 3D fabrication connect his technical practice to sculptural work. The process moves between a digital system and decisions about texture, scale, assembly, and light.
Art, language & culture
Painting, illustration, calligraphy, Persian illumination, writing systems, poetry, and cultural symbolism offer different ways to consider rhythm, meaning, and ornament.
Music, perception & philosophy
Music and composition, cross-cultural musical traditions, perception, and philosophical questions extend that inquiry. They are areas of curiosity and study that feed his practice and its search for connections.
Studies & formation
- Visual Effects · 2010–2012
- Master of Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA.
- Film & Animation · 2005–2009
- Bachelor of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.
- Applied Physics · 1999–2002
- 60 credit hours of study at Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
From inquiry to form
Research and intuition meet in the making. A question becomes an algorithm; variations reveal possibilities; selection and fabrication turn one of those possibilities into an object. The finished work offers its own encounter with form, color, and detail.