Alinah Azadeh is a British-Iranian artist based in the UK whose background in painting, new media and video converged during her MA in Media Arts Practice at Westminster University in 2001. Her final piece - the site-specific installation Space Within The Real, involved making her private home into a public, poetic space.

Since then she has worked with installation, video and textiles to develop hybrid artworks that use both high-end technology and hands-on engagement with materials. She often uses processes such as cooking, weaving, and talking to poetically subvert the way we view the function of the everyday and present it as an opportunity for self-reflection and intimate interaction with total strangers.

Collaboration and ‘live’ participation is central to her work, either with experts of other disciplines or the audience itself. An example of this is www.loomproject.com , a 2005 Networked Bodies and ACE funded pilot project with ASF-Weave and computer scientist Jon Bird. Research is currently being done to tour and develop this project, which involved a live installation and the computer-mediated weaving of a 20 metre textile, involving 300 people from across the globe.

1+1=3, her 2003 short poetic film on the British -Iranian female experience is now being profiled online, together with an interview with the artist following its screening at the LA Freewaves Festival.

Both the Loom Project and Mother to Mother (her most recent commission for Independent Photography) were inspired by her own mother who died in the Asian Tsunami just after her first child was born. These projects are an attempt to articulate her mother’s emotional legacy and have opened up an avenue of inquiry into the nature of our relationship to death and beyond which is just beginning.