Ali Akbar Mehta

Ali Akbar Mehta is a transmedia artist, curator, researcher, and writer. He creates immersive and interactive archives as open-source, antifascist, decolonial 'knowledge systems' that mirror and challenge contemporary realities. By experimenting with new archival logics that depart from institutional and coloniality-driven legacy archiving, his work investigates narratives from conflict zones and power structures, offering countermeasures to everyday experiences of violence, conflict, and trauma, and foregrounding overlooked bodies, data, networks, and ecologies. His ongoing doctoral research at Aalto University investigates (infra)structural and performative relations between online archives and their users.