// Biography
Hesam Ohadi (b. 1987 in Tehran) is an Iranian Canadian interdisciplinary artist and creator currently residing in Calgary, Canada.
Aside from their sonic explorations in experimental electronic music under the moniker “Idlefon”, Ohadi creates New Media artworks under their alias “Kino” which span across various mediums such as performance, kinetic sculpture, interactive installation and net art.
They are interested in making abstract art forms and algorithm-driven pieces. To achieve this, they use their computer in combination with custom-made software and utilize creative coding, generative design, and nature-influenced processes.
// Work
BIT ROTS
- 2026
BIT ROTS is an interactive archive of Iranian cultural memory in which attention becomes a destructive computational force. Visitors encounter digitized photographs, printed matter, handwriting, and other archival fragments. Touching the screen locally pixel-sorts the image around the point of contact, and repeated touches deepen the damage. The regions that attract the most collective attention become the least legible. The work reflects on a paradox of digital preservation: making culture visible and machine-readable can preserve it while also exposing it to extraction, abstraction, and reuse as data.
