Hirbod Human is an Iranian-American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, and multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between studio practice, research, publishing, and public cultural production. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Design, Aesthetics, and the Arts at Florida Atlantic University, affiliated with the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, where he works under the mentorship of philosopher Richard Shusterman.

Human approaches art as a research practice shaped by lived conditions—everyday environments, discarded systems, and cultural debris. Sometimes physical, sometimes contextual, these materials become sites for examining how frameworks—material, institutional, or ideological—shape perception, belief formation, and embodied experience. His projects often unfold in series and through minimal, deliberate interventions, inviting viewers to notice how meaning is produced through attention, framing, and context.

In parallel with his studio practice, Human’s academic work focuses on embodied aesthetics, pragmatist theory of experience, and the cultural mechanisms through which information and context form belief. In 2025–26, he received the Emerging Scholar Award at the 20th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, and his doctoral work has been supported through competitive fellowships, including the Newell Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate Access Fellowship, and the Art and Letters Fellowship Award.

Alongside visual art, Human has developed a body of documentary work as writer and director, including short-form and feature-length projects that extend his cultural and political inquiries into public-facing media.

Human’s professional background includes two decades of entrepreneurship and cultural branding. In 2006, he founded TRIXMEDIA, a branding and consulting firm based in Beverly Hills, leading projects for international clients including Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and Hilton Hotels. In 2016, he was selected as one of 33 entrepreneurs from the western United States for the Goldman Sachs program and holds professional certifications in Business Consulting & Education and Entrepreneurship.

His cultural work also includes institutional and editorial collaborations. He founded Mayten’s Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and has contributed to The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and other arts organizations. He is a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and serves on the Board of Advisors and Founding Board of Authors AI and Binge Books, organizations developing AI tools for writing and reading experiences.

Human maintains an ongoing commitment to human rights education and public humanities. He is a certified human rights educator through the U.S. Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights and has produced Farsi-language radio programs focused on civic awareness and rights education. As an author, he published Last Moments: The Dark Shadows of Protest in Iran, and he continues to develop public-facing projects—podcasts and recorded conversation series—that translate research, aesthetics, and cultural critique into accessible dialogue for broader audiences.