Romina Rahnamoun is a visual artist and researcher working at the intersection of visual art practice, design, and computation. Her interdisciplinary practice explores computational creativity through deep learning–based approaches and natural language processing, designing human-in-the-loop systems where machines act as creative collaborators rather than passive tools. She works with virtual and augmented reality and develops creative machines to interrogate authorship, agency, and perception in hybrid human–machine spaces.
Many of Romina’s projects focus on minority and low-resource languages and cultures, particularly those facing systemic neglect. By combining heritage preservation, storytelling, and contemporary technology, she reimagines how marginalized narratives can be archived, visualized, and experienced, blending art-historical approaches with computational experimentation.
She is the co-founder of Artemaan, a startup connecting Iranian universities with the professional art world. Artemaan bridges emerging artists with leading experts while enhancing accessibility to the Iranian art scene through digital archiving. She also co-founded L-Atur, a web application for generative design that leverages L-systems to provide HCI-driven creative tools for non-professional coders.
Romina’s research on human–machine interaction, creative machines, and machine aesthetics has been published in Leonardo Journal (MIT Press) and the International Journal of Web Research (IJWR) and presented at IEEE and Tehran University of Arts Research Week. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally at the CVPR AI Art Gallery (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Nashville, US), the Iranian Art Museum (Tehran, Iran), Azadi Tower Art Gallery (Tehran, Iran), Plaxall Gallery (New York, US), Shirin Art Gallery (Tehran, Iran), and by the Association of Iranian Sculptors.