Hiba Ali

Dr. Hiba Ali is a digital artist, scholar, and educator working across performance, immersive environments, installation, moving image, and sound.

At the intersection of technology, embodiment, and care, their practice explores how digital space can become a site of rest, healing, and collective transformation. Rooted in worldbuilding and digital somatics, Ali creates XR-based environments that center refuge, agency, and embodied connection, particularly for bodies shaped by migration, diaspora, and colonial histories.

They are the recipient of the 2024 Performing and Creative Arts Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a 2024–2025 member of NEW INC’s Art & Code track, and a Fellow in Digital at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart from 2024 to 2026.