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Alicia Kamien Kazhdan is a researcher, artist, and independant curator interested in cognitive science, cultural anthropology, and contemporary art. Her work examines how symbolic environments, religious imaginaries, and technological systems shape perception and belief, drawing on methods from neuroscience, psychological anthropology, and media studies. Alicia studied cognitive neuroscience and the humanities at New York University, with additional training at IRCAM in Paris (2024) and the Musrara School of Art & Society in Jerusalem (2019–2020). She has taught and developed curriculum for MEET, an MIT-affiliated initiative for cross-cultural collaboration through technology and design (2021–2024). As a curator, she organized the two-part exhibition Angels of Sabotage (Parterre Projects, 2024; Uri Lifshitz Building, 2025), drawing on theological, psychoanalytic, and cultural frameworks to examine rupture as revelation and sabotage as method. Her research has been supported by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Research Fellow, June 2025), the Outset Contemporary Art Fund (2025), the Gilman International Scholarship (2024), and the Boustan Foundation Scholarship (2021–2025). She has presented her work at Clown Show Books in New York (2025), and will facilitate a seminar at The New Centre for Research & Practice (2025).

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