Faisal Anwar, فیصل انور, is a hybrid artist, creative technologist, and design-led practitioner exploring the intersections of art, design, technology, and emerging media. His work challenges conventional perceptions of space, time, memory, and human interaction, using algorithms, data, and scientific research to create immersive, participatory experiences. His practice includes interactive installations, data-driven interventions, and public art. Anwar was the lead curator for the Karachi Biennial 2022 (Collective Imagination: Now and the Next) and founded CultureLab.art, focusing on climate change, sustainability, and social change. He co-founded ArtAddress, an artist-led collective, and established DesignDip, an Innovation design studio. His internationally exhibited works include A Place I Call Home (Ontario Culture Days, 2023), a participatory installation mapping personal narratives of belonging; CharBagh (Garden in the Machine, Surrey Art Gallery, 2019; Sensory Garden, Aga Khan Museum, 2016), an interactive digital garden inspired by Persian and Mughal design; and Tweet Garden(CONTACT Photography Festival, ROM, 2012), a real-time data visualization project exploring social media’s evolving language. His work Seeds of Hope creates a generative field of floating dandelion seeds, transforming audience wishes into a dynamic digital ecosystem. Anwar has received numerous residencies, commissions, and research grants, including the SSHRC Insight Development grant (2013). He graduated from the Canadian Film Centre’s Habitat-LAB (2004) and the National College of Arts, Lahore (1996)
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