Assem Hendawi ~ Keywords: artist - writer - filmmaker, worldmaking and speculation, speculative statecraft, infrastructure as narrative, projective aesthetics, mythopoetic systems, future archaeology, hyperstition, geopolitics of AI, postcapitalist imaginaries, eternal nomad
ASSEM HENDAWI (1989, Egypt) is an artist and researcher working across moving image, digital media, and speculative methodologies. His practice examines how technology, infrastructure, and power shape perception and futurity, exploring the entanglement of images, governance, and myth in constructing realities. He works with time-based media, simulations, and algorithmic aesthetics, engaging with the tension between documentation and distortion, control and speculation.
His work has been exhibited at Berlinale Forum Expanded, Singapore Biennale, Beirut Art Center, and Townhouse Gallery, among others. He has participated in residencies and fellowships including Salzburger Kunstverein, Manifesta Summer School, and the Human-Machine Fellowship (E-Werk Luckenwalde & Akademie der Künste, 2024). He is the co-founder of SIMIYYA, a platform for artistic research and speculative aesthetics.
He lives and works in Egypt.
*Learn more about Assem Hendawi's 20 minute presentation Fly Protocol (work in progress) for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2020 - DAI's 3 day lectures marathon at Radio Kootwijk, August 2020.
*Learn more about Assem Hendawi's written MA thesis: EDGE CONDITIONS - Speculation as Method, and Contemporary Art as an Epistemic Apparatus
*During his journey with DAI, Assem Hendawi made significant contributions to: COOP SUMMIT 2019: Banquet X Climate Change and Speculative Gastronomy as well as COOP SUMMIT 2020: Reality Settings: Art, Biology & Computation
* To support his study with DAI, Assem was awarded with the 2018-2020 ArtEZ Scholarship.
*Follow Assem's "Life after DAI" via Instagram and via his website