Ayshia Müezzin a.k.a [ a y s h ] Midlothian, United Kingdom

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Ayshia Müezzin a.k.a [ a y s h ] Intermedia artist merging high and lo-tech methods to create physical and digital pieces. She is obsessed with futurism, MENA-region archaeology, Alashiyan mythology/history/culture and deconstructing ancient things with the use of contemporary technology to create the artefacts of the future.

Ayshia Müezzin a.k.a [ a y s h ] b.1986 is a ethnically diverse British-Cypriot Intermedia artist graduated in 2014-2018 with a BA(Hons) in Intermedia Art and continued her studies in 2018-2020 to complete her MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of art. Ayshia was awarded the 2017: SCOTRAIL ART & CULTURE FUND – ScotRail/Foundation Scotland, 2018: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH/EUSA IMPACT AWARD, 2018: TRAVEL TO ITALY AWARD from The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust – Awarded to show performance art in Italy during the Venice Architecture Biennale as well as the 2020: CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE AWARD. She is also a member of the Society for Scottish Artists, ArtFacts.net and the Artist Collecting Society.

Ayshia encompasses the concept of Meta-Archaeology based on her diverse background. She focuses on the forgotten and strange Cypriot bird-faced goddesses which are found in Cyprus, Egypt and the Levant areas and resemble humanoid robots. Her practice spans a multitude of techniques like building performative sculptures, expressive abstract and figurative mixed-media pieces using paint, pastels and pen, digital art, moving image, VR world-building, printmaking, installation, web-based and Livestream/VR/Crypto-performance art and Blockchain NFT culture. Within her pieces Ayshia uses techniques like ‘aesthetic corruption’, glitch, 2D, 3D modelling software, AI and data-bending which interplay with both sides of technology through mixing digital with analogue to create the artefacts of the future through archaeological extension.

During the summer of 2019, Ayshia developed [SHIFT:ibpcpa]; an independent performance art biennale which, in association with The Wall Space Gallery, showcases the work of international artists using web-based Crypto, VR and Livestream technologies.

As well as curate shows, Ayshia has been involved in and collects NFT/Crypto artworks since 2020 from a variety of Blockchain platforms and cryptocurrencies. Her interest in NFT and Crypto Art stems from the decentralised nature and accessibility the space offers and her love of experimenting with web-based technologies.

Ayshia’s works have been shown in Zhongjie Museum of Art, Zhongjie, China; Highbrow Institute, Wien, Austria; SUPH Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand; Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; ADAF17, Athens; Edinburgh Festival; Venice [Surfaces Festival]; The Festival of Contemporary Art in Athens; Ely Centre for Contemporary Art, USA; Screen-print Biennial, USA; Transcultural Exchange in Boston; Dfbrll8r Gallery at Zhou B Art Centre in Chicago; Taos Centre for the Arts, New Mexico; Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh; Glasgow International Art Festival; Performance Køkkenet, Copenhagen; Zembla Gallery, Scotland; Noemata/#biennale.no; Bangkok Biennial, Thailand; Galerie XY, Olomouc, Czech Republic; MoWNA Biennial, New York and many virtual exhibitions.

[ a y s h ] currently lives and works in the virtual paradise realm.