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Original Source (Italian) http://www.wikiartpedia.org/index.php?title=Kouladjie_Shirin

Shirin Kouladjie is an Iranian artist living in Seattle, WA, USA. In her art, Shirin explores the culture produced by the 20th century mass media, themes of death, memory and childhood. Influences of Shirin’s formal training as a painter and mathematics can been seen in her interactive web installations, photographs, film and sound loops.

Her site n3xt.com is only one aspect of a multifaceted production that includes paintings, collages and web projects. Her passion for the De-Contextualization and the combination of different images – fruit of her passion for books and notebooks - is visible in his many of hers work. Shirin describes her work as "a series of loops that emphasize the space plane around objects, movements and sound. Use of sampled/lopped/repetitive elements, the interplay of sound and silence – music and noise, sets the stage for a thought-hypothesis to be born in our mind – and to evolve, as it interacts with random, staged suggestions the audience can chose to interact with or pass by (N3xt.com  multimedia collage theory ).

In another project “days of my life” Shirin reconstruct memories using objects that have reached their end-of-life/original purpose, considered useless or disposable. For example she uses an old photograph, magazine, instruction manuals, or wrapping paper, parts of recycled newspapers found in local market or library’s recycle bin; to reconstructs a childhood memory, through the traces of our collective memory embedded in the found object.

It is very interesting to follow the story, themes, different modes of expression that the artist adopts along the timeline to read into the story of a lifetime. In “2004 collection”, Feb-5, Feb-6,, March and May 11 may - leafing through the montages the viewer find’s itself surprised again, just when boredom begins to make out, bringing freshness to the roundup. Browse these virtual pages is not only a pleasure for the eye, but is a real journey in the intimacy of the daily life of an artist.

List of Shirin’s online website/projects:

Photomonateg.com: Collection of web art experiments and installations (http://photomontage.com)

Days of my life: A “daily” visual diary starting July 2000 – ending on Jan 2005(Direct Link: http://photomontage.com/d/

N3xt.com: A collection of interactive loops (http://www.next.com)

E-cards: Free electronic art project (link to E-Cards)

ShirinMaali.com: A collection of web based projects (http://shirinmaali.com/)

Kouladjie.com:

Shirin.org:

8andhalfby11.com:

foundimages.com: