Home Tweet Home by Nima Dehghani :: Supported by FRFAF (#2015-14)

Nima Dehghani‘s Home tweet Home is a project incorporating the technology of augmented reality to see familiar images in an unfamiliar, unconscious, and defensive context. Mixing different media and the use of technology, the project recreates Dehghani’s personal experience. In the exhibition, the audience enjoy the mixture of reality and imagination by wearing VR headset to watch a 3D film documented in the US and Iran.

Dehghani’s Home tweet Home explores the relation between society, politics and audience interactions in public spaces by investigating immigration, migration, urban life, separation and memory. Cultural relativism, is a concept emphasizing the need to study values of other people within the framework of their culture, not one’s own. The project attempts to alleviate the difficulties of understanding values in cross-cultural communication. The audience, being involved in the heart of the work, not only see things through Dehghani’s eyes, but also think through Dehghani’s mind to understand the dynamics of Middle Eastern culture.

Home tweet Home was created with support from a microgrant from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier (FRFAF) — an endowment founded to encourage the creation of innovative artworks by the faculty, students and staff of Carnegie Mellon University. With this fund, the STUDIO seeks to develop a cache of groundbreaking projects created at CMU — works that can be described as “thinking at the edges” of the intersection of disciplines.

Nima Dehghani is an MFA student in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. More information on the Home tweet Home project can be found at the artist’s website.


This project is an attempt to share a personal phenomenon. Seeing familiar images in an unfamiliar, unconscious, and defensive context. Technology of augmented reality is the only plausible media for representation of this experience. A two way relation between feelings and technology.

My current project Home tweet Home is a continuation of my investigations about immigration, migration,urban life, separation and memory. However, memory and longing for one’s homeland play a significant role in my project. Furthermore, my concerns spark an association with the realm of the liminal and liminality. Liminality refers to the character of the threshold – whether understood as realized in the event of approach or withdrawal or in the transitory places in which that occurs. Yet whereas the idea of the threshold refers us immediately to something that is both spatial and embodied – the threshold is that across which we step, over which we move, in order to enter or depart – the idea of the liminal refers us to something more general and abstract, but also more associated with the temporal.

It is important to understand values in cross-cultural communication because they serve as multifaceted standards that guide human conduct in a variety of ways. Values are central to comparative understanding of peoples and cross-cultural communication. Both the Middle East and the United States try to communicate with each other and explain their policies and actions in terms in terms of important values. Yet, one of the greatest difficulties of communication across cultures and studying values and religion is ethnocentrism. Americans historically have been ethnocentric in judging Middle Easterners and consequently has failed to understand the dynamics of Middle Eastern culture. The remedy perhaps lies in what might be called cultural relativism, a concept that emphasizes the need to study values of other people within the framework of their culture, not one’s own.

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