Raqi Syed is a writer, artist, and researcher. She is co-director of the award-winning film experience MINIMUM MASS. Her practice and teaching focus on the materiality of light, hybrid forms of non-fiction and genre storytelling, and an anti-racist critical aesthetics of visual effects. Raqi has worked as a visual effects artist on a number of feature films for Disney Animation Studios and Wētā FX.
Her VR work has been exhibited at the Tribeca, Cannes, Annecy, and Venice International Film Festivals. She is a Sundance and Turner Fellow, a Ucross Fellow, and an Annecy Festival Artist in Residence. The Los Angeles Times pegged Raqi for a list of 100 people who can help solve Hollywood’s diversity problem. She holds an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and an MA from the VUW Institute of Modern Letters. Raqi is a Senior Lecturer at Te Herenga Waka in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Los Angeles Times pegged Raqi for a list of 100 people who can help solve Hollywood’s diversity problem. She holds an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and an MA from the VUW Institute of Modern Letters. Raqi is a Senior Lecturer at Te Herenga Waka in Wellington, New Zealand.
