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ABOUT ME

I have spent over two decades living in different places and navigating different jungles—from art to cryptoeconomic algorithms to the literal, overgrown thickets of an abandoned olive farm. As an Austrian, with Iranian roots, I now live in Portugal where I work on the intersection of technology, agriculture, art & social science. My work has continuously been guided by the questions of how economic, ecological, technological, or cultural systems subtly shape the way we think, live, and relate to one another, and sometimes also, how they might be redesigned.

I try to reduce complexity by revealing the hidden structures connecting seemingly unrelated phenomena. My approach has been to explore systems from within rather than observing them from the outside. Each project, medium and context becomes a temporary laboratory.

Disciplines are tools. The questions always come first.

Between 2004 and 2015, under my alter ego "KAMIKATSE." I created a series of artworks, performances, and digital mutterings, started an art collective and organized an underground music festival in the desert of Iran.

Between 2015 and 2025, I went down the crypto rabbit hole. I founded the Think Tank BlockchainHub Berlin, went on to launch & direct the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, and wrote three editions of the best selling book Token Economy.

I later moved to Portugal, where I reclaimed an abandoned olive farm as home and living laboratory, opening it to other artists through an Artist Residency & Curator Residency program. Along the way, I found my own way back into the beautiful chaos of art—though the split between “art” and “crypto” is an external fiction. Inside my brain and my soul, it was all the same creative process: the perception, composition, decomposition and recomposition of thoughts, patterns and complex systems.

I am currently writing a nonfiction book titled MONEY PATTERNS which explores the hidden architecture of money, while developing two immersive, site-specific installations: Money Patterns, which translates those ideas into spatial form, and Iranian Graffiti, a completely independet installation that visualizes political propaganda on public walls.