Alina Nazmeeva is a media artist and an Assistant Professor of Computation in Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She holds a Masters degree from MIT School of Architecture and Planning, was a Taubman fellow at the University of Michigan (2022-24), researcher-in-residence at Canadian Centre of Architecture (2022) and at Strelka Institute of Media, Design and Technology (2017). Her work was exhibited in Venice Biennale of Architecture, FutureArts Seattle, Boston Cyberarts, Liberty Annex Gallery, Chicago Gamespace, A+D Museum in Los Angeles, and Plexus Projects NYC. Her writing has appeared in Plat, Voices (Towards Other Institutions), and Media-N.