Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, and video; Tofighi’s work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and formation of information/history to renegotiate narratives of history/power in the present. Tofighi utilizes the infiltration of legal parameters, social structures, myth, (dis)information, and extensive research of these cells as they shift from fringe culture to central in their infiltration/engineering of dominant culture.
They have shown work and/or performed at REDCAT, Blum & Poe, The Box, Human Resources, The Roxy, The Horse Dublin, LACE, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, MOTOR, and many other sites/spaces throughout the world and internet.
As a performer/composer Tofighi’s music utilizes formal methodologies and histories to create works not beholden to either. Just intonation, otoacoustics, and performance, are deployed but conceptual grounding is central. Tofighi has performed with FaUSt, Juliettes with Dylan Lusetisch, Trio Ampliphonic, Scott Benzel’s V.I.T.R.I.O.L., CE/Safeteam with Isaac Aronson and Fernando Orellana, and various free Improv units since 2007.
Tofighi has also maintained AST Electronics since 2014 providing customized, circuitry and rapid development for artists & musicians and the AST Accursed Shared system, a cybernetic analogue computer designed to generate music systems via 16 non-standard forms of indeterminacy.
Tofighi received a BFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (BFA 16) an MFA in Art and Technology with a minor in Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 18).