Farsi Flows

Farsi Flows is an interdisciplinary art and research project that explores the fluidity of language, diasporic identity, and collective authorship. At its core, the project examines how Farsi, as both a written and spoken language, transforms across geographies, generations, and technological landscapes. Through participatory installations, digital interventions, and asemic writing experiments, Farsi Flows invites communities to engage with language beyond its conventional boundaries.

This evolving project stems from my personal journey as an Iranian immigrant and my engagement with Farsi as both a native language and a shifting, fluid entity in diaspora. Farsi Flows embraces the in-between spaces of legibility and abstraction, where language is both a form of connection and a site of alienation. By incorporating AI-generated scripts, collective mark-making, and geo-material writing—such as inscribing language into landscapes with stones, dirt, and found objects—the project redefines linguistic expression as a communal and ephemeral act.

Expanding into digital realms, Farsi Flows is also developing a digital collective book, an ever-evolving archive of text, imagery, and contributions from participants worldwide. This AI-driven book transforms written inputs into new, asemic-yet-intuitive scripts, fostering a continuous dialogue between human authorship and algorithmic reinterpretation. The book functions as both a record of diasporic narratives and an open-ended experiment in language generation.

The project is rooted in community engagement, inviting individuals—whether Farsi speakers, non-speakers, or those navigating multilingual identities—to contribute their voices. Public activations, workshops, and exhibitions transform language into a shared space, where writing becomes a form of presence, resistance, and reinvention.

As Farsi Flows expands, it envisions language as an evolving force—one that resists rigid definitions and instead thrives in movement, interaction, and collective reimagining.