Nima Bahrehmand’s نی‌مآ بَهْرِه‌مَنْد artistic research is a transformative journey that explores bodies, archives, and places that have been suppressed and desertified by political, economic, and technological progress. Through their digital voyage, Nima creates new worlds that breathe life into the desertified, relocating them from their initial setting to a new environment or platform. This approach allows for the creation of new stories, reimagining the narratives of the suppressed. Working with emergent media, Nima challenges the status quo of technology, creating discursive ties that redefine and rework data, and unravel how the databasing apparatuses serve the dominance of the Global North, extracting and manipulating the dignity of the Global South.

Their artworks have been included in exhibitions and venues, including Digital Native as part of the Tbilisi Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia; ISEA, International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Barcelona; Denver Digerati, Denver; Kandovan Gallery, Tehran, Iran; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin; Marres, Maastricht, Netherland; Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium; VAC, Austin and AG Gallery, Tehran; among others. Nima also published some of their writing in outlets such as MAST, the Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, xCoAx, the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X in Porto, the Institute of Network Culture in Amsterdam, and RAI, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Nima received their BFA from the University of Kerman, Iran; an MA from the School of Art (KASK), Ghent, Belgium; an MFA in Studio Art (Transmedia) from the University of Texas at Austin; and a Ph.D. in Emergent Technology and Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado Boulder. Furthermore, Nima has engaged in alternative educational experiences, such as Materia Abierta and Soma Summer, based in Mexico City, as well as The New Centre for Research & Practice. Nima is currently an assistant professor of art at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.