Parin Heidari is an ambidextrous artist who draws with both hands at once, creating intricate compositions through intuitive choreography. This practice shaped her collaboration with the Hi-DARS Lab at Texas Tech University, where she explored how robotics and code could capture the expressive gestures of the human hand. With the lab, she developed a system in which two robotic arms mirrored her movements. Beyond replication, the machines became extensions of her body, translating gestures into choreographed performances in space.
The project also reflects Heidari’s synesthesia, where sound transforms into shape, color, and line. Rooted in music, her visual language guided the robots through instructions from her drawings, bridging human intuition with machine logic. The result, Ambidextrous Robotic Light Painting, began as twelve intertwined portraits that evolved into frameworks for robotic motion.
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Parin Heidari is a multidisciplinary, ambidextrous Iranian artist based in the United States, known for her expressive one-line drawings and synesthesia-driven practice.
Heidari studied Fine Art in Iran and earned a BA in Industrial Design and Visual Communication from Politecnico di Torino in Italy. Her work is deeply informed by her multicultural background and professional journey across Iran, Italy, and The Netherlands. Before becoming a full-time artist, she spent 15 years as a Creative Director and Graphic Designer, working with major global brands.
Since entering the Web3 space in 2021, her art has received critical acclaim, including being the only artist featured in every NFT collection of TIME Magazine’s TimePieces series. Her live ambidextrous performances and collaborations with musicians such as Timbaland and Christian Burns have further established her presence in the contemporary art world.
Each collector of Heidari’s "Art vs. Code" editioned release will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase a museum-quality print on Hahnemühle paper.
・Print size: 12 x 20 in. / 30.4 x 50.8 cm ・Print Price: $150 USD
The Hi-DARS lab (Hybrid Intelligence Design and Architectural Robotic Systems), located at Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture, is a design research hub dedicated to advancing the integration of Hybrid Intelligence, Architectural Robotics, and innovative Design Systems within architecture, the construction industry, and built environment technologies.
By developing integrated approaches that merge human and machine intelligence, the Hi-DARS lab systematically incorporates hybrid intelligence into design and building processes while also exploring the broader socio-cultural impacts of automation, machine intelligence, and robotics. The lab emphasizes the crucial role of design-build processes as influencers in social and environmental spheres, linking practical material applications with the broader, interconnected dimensions of ecological and societal frameworks
