Ebrahim Poustinchi
Post-Assembly-Line Dreams, 2026
digital installation
ABOUT THE exhibition
A digital video installation—with two sets of three screens each—staged in three acts, Post-Assembly-Line Dreams follows a local Akron robotic arm as it journeys from a factory assembly-line with an ambition to become an artist/performer on this wonderland-like stage, inhabiting these diverse art worlds.
ABOUT THE artist
Ebrahim Poustinchi, an award-winning designer, artist, curator, and inventor, is a tenured Associate Professor of Architecture and founder/director of the Robotically Augmented Design (RAD) Lab at Kent State University and the principal of the STUDIO EP. Poustinchi’s research focuses on the intersection of design, worldbuilding, space, media, and robotics, with an alternative reading of human/non-human relationships through AI, UI/UX design, and human-machine interaction (HMI).
Poustinchi is the inventor of two international patents in the creative robotics field. He has widely lectured and taught workshops, and his work has been disseminated worldwide in various books, journals, conference proceedings, galleries, and museums nationally and internationally. Poustinchi’s recent book, A Purple Architecture (2024) by Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press, explores architecture/design in the hyper-mediated era of AI.
