Ardalan SadeghiKivi (b. 1995, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian artist, writer, and computer programmer based in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tehran, a Master of Architecture from MIT, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. SadeghiKivi treats computation as a mode of organization through which concepts, images, and decisions become operable under conditions of constraint. He develops idiosyncratic software interfaces as sites of substitution, where researched phenomena are algorithmically distilled and compressed into models that interrogate and reconfigure the sociopolitical semiotics sedimented within arcane histories and techniques. SadeghiKivi has exhibited and presented his work at museums and institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Argo Factory of the Pejman Foundation in Tehran, Olomouc Museum of Art, Cukrarna Center for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Harvard University, and the MIT List Center. He is currently a Lecturer in the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT and is developing STUDIO.nano, a program dedicated to connecting the arts with advanced scientific tools and research facilities at MIT.nano.