Ardalan SadeghiKivi is an artist, writer, and programmer, currently pursuing a Master of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their work engages different praxis, from Post-structuralism to Cosmism and Information Aesthetics, situated at the juncture of computational media and infrastructure, occultism, philosophy of science, mythologies, and semiotics. Ardalan is a researcher at The Trope Tank, where they develop new poetic practices and new understandings of digital media by focusing on the material, formal, and historical aspects of computation and language. Ardalan currently acts as the co-editor of Before|After, the 50th volume of MIT Architecture’s peer-reviewed journal Thresholds.