I have spent 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.
2004–2015: Expression, pixels, performance
CRYPTO2015-2025: Founding, decoding, writing
Between 2004 and 2015, under my alter ego "kamikatse." I created a series of artworks, performances, and digital mutterings, and organized an underground music festival in the desert of Iran. Between 2015 and 2025, I went down the crypto rabbit hole. Ten years of cryptoeconomic obsession later, I stumble back into the beautiful chaos of art—though I have to say that 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. The artistic process is about creation, reinvention, and reframing—which is exactly what I did when launching BlockchainHub in Berlin and the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics in Vienna, writing three editions of Token Economy, or reclaiming an abandoned olive farm in Portugal. They are all gestures of the same alchemy. And now the circle is closing again with an Artisit in Residency Program program that I am launching on my farm.
