Fixing the Future

Joseph Audeh is an artist whose work combines science, culture and technology to explore the physical and political landscape of the Middle East. In 2013, Audeh developed Machine for Raising Water, an adaptation of a thousand-year-old irrigation device, with farmers in the Nile River Valley and water mechanics in Cairo at Townhouse Gallery. Audeh’s projects have appeared at New York University, Whitebox Art Center (New York), Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (Doha), the Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research and Innovation Gateway (Cairo), and Makan Art Space (Amman). He currently works for Trevor Paglen and is a member of the New Museum’s art + technology incubator, NEW INC.