Hiba Ali
Dr. Hiba Ali is a digital artist, scholar, and professor of Performance, Play and Design (University of California) whose visionary practice moves across immersive digital environments, sculpture-based installations, and performance.
Based between Santa Cruz and Berlin, Ali has emerged as a leading voice at the intersection of contemporary art, technology, and embodied knowledge.
Ali coined the term digital somatics to describe a pioneering artistic methodology that brings together the body, mind, and spirit through game design, worldbuilding, and narrative systems.
Working with virtual reality, 3D animation, augmented reality, and computational media, Ali creates transformative digital worlds that function as portals for healing, collective imagination, and liberatory futures.
Dr. Hiba Ali is Pogon's Solitude Exchange Network Zagreb resident from August to November 2026.
Photo credit: Lea Gubić
