Siavash Tohidi

Siavash Tohidi is an artist and designer working in the intersection of Art, Technology and Healthcare. Along with expertise in fabrication processes with various materials, he has extensive experience in practicing and teaching 3D digital design and emerging fabrication technologies including 3D asset creation, algorithmic-aided-design, and additive/subtractive manufacturing technologies. As an artist, he relishes the ideas of place-making and our understanding how we negotiate spaces in our daily life especially as an outsider to a new culture and space. He is also interested in exploring how digital world is shaping, altering, and even replacing our physical existence. Siavash holds an MFA in Sculpture and Expanded Practice from Ohio University as well as a BFA in Crafts from University of Art in Tehran.