Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, video, emergent and low tech; 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.
Tofighi has shown work and/or performed at REDCAT, Blum & Poe, The Box, LACE, The Roxy, The Horse Dublin, The Torrance Art Museum, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, the wulf., Dem Passwords, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, KCHUNG, KXLU, The Troubadour, COAXIAL, MOTOR, Pehrspace, The Hotel Congress, 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. Synthesis, just intonation, otoacoustics, preparations, performance, and extended techniques are deployed but conceptual grounding is central. Tofighi has performed with FaUSt, Trio Ampliphonic, the Feedback Waveriders, Liquid Plastic with Adam Otto Lutz, 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 also co-founded the Nouroboros Industrial Concern imprint with Nouroboros from 2007-2017, managed the NASA Space Universe from 2011-2017, and as of 2017 began operating the Flat Ledge Imprint. Regarding public services Tofighi is the director of the interdisciplinary research center HAACEP, the rapid prototyping and consultation group CACERD, curator for artist symposium Practical Transparency, a founding member of MOTOR, and circuit designer for the open source artists electronic manufacturer AST
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).