Naziha Mestaoui
| Naziha Mestaoui | |
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| Native name | نزيهة مستاوي |
| Born | 1975 (age 41–42) Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | La Cambre, Graz University of Technology |
| Notable work | One heart, One tree |
| Awards | Prix COAL (2014) |
| Website | www |
 Naziha Mestaoui, au cœur du vivant (English subtitles), Lucia Wainberg |
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“Naziha Mestaoui“, TEDxULB |
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“Paris 2015 Interview with Naziha Mestaoui – 1Heart1Tree“, COP21 Hub Culture |
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“1heart1tree Transformer la tour Eiffel en forêt virtuelle“ (French), TV5MONDE |
Naziha Mestaoui (born 1975) is a Belgian artist trained in architecture, who lives and works in Paris. She has worked both collectively (LAb(au), Electronic Shadow) and individually, and has received awards in several countries. As an environmental artist and activist, she is best known for One Heart, One Tree at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP21) in December 2015. The participatory art installation supports reforestation on several continents. Her work attempts to bridge "the virtual and reality, technology and nature, as well as what is visible and invisible."
Mestaoui was born in 1975 in Brussels, Belgium. Her father comes from Tunisia.
Mestaoui trained as an architect. She did undergraduate work from 1993–1996 at La Cambre in Brussels. From 1996 to 1997 she studied at Graz University of Technology (T.U. Graz), working with Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects. She received a post-graduate diploma Architecte DPLG () from La Cambre in 1999.
Mestaoui was a co-founder of LAb(au), an artists group in Brussels, Belgium which explored the impact of advanced technologies on art, from 1997 to 2000.
Beginning in 2000, Naziha Mestaoui worked with Yacine Aït Kaci in the duo Electronic Shadow, pioneering and patenting techniques of videomapping in digital art. They worked on a wide variety of projects including wearable computers (interactive i-skin) and immersive and interactive environments. In works such as Warm and Cold, (2005) they used tactile sensors and chromic materials to develop haptic user interfaces in which people interact with images to control the surrounding space, transforming the boundaries between space and image.
Electronic Shadow has exhibited in galleries including the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. At the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence in 2011, their solo exhibit drew more than 35,000 visitors. It was the first time that a Beaux-Arts museum had mounted an exhibition of digital artists.
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