Alina Nazmeeva is an artist and educator currently based in Detroit. 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.

digital vanitas

Digital Vanitas is an ongoing series of digital still lives, both as images and as 3D environments reinterpreting the Dutch painting style in the context of 2021. The symbols and instruments of wealth and power, and the instruments that construct the reality and its images are depicted in a still life settings.