Alina Nazmeeva is an artist and educator currently based in Detroit. She is the A. Alfred Taubman Fellow at University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.  Alina creates simulations and worlds that analyze the intra-actions of physical and digital spaces and objects, and their cultural, economic and political ramifications. Using XR, gaming engines, CGI software, machinima, and physical installations, their creative and research practice examines the oscillations and murmurs between virtual and concrete, cities and videogames, life and animation, organic and the engineered.