Miah Artola creates interactive installations and multi-platform projects that combine fine arts and poetry with new media. She creates short-form documentaries, projections, animations, paintings, and installations that enlist motion activation (using MaxMSP) and audio activation (using Audio Peak Etcher, a software she co-created).

Poetry and land rights are common through lines in her work. Miah, who is of Nicaraguan descent, created a multi-platform project on Nicaraguan poetry and politics which featured Sergio Ramirez. Then, from 2018-2023, Miah developed “…and also with you”, a multi-platform work based on the narrations of individual asylum seekers. Filming took place in Nicaragua, Mexico City,  Texas, New York, and throughout the Yucatán

Miah’s work has been shown in numerous venues, such as Harvestworks, PS1/MoMA, Pioneer Works, EV Gallery, Union Docs, Anthology Film Archives, The Wild Project, and Experimental Intermedia. Residencies include Governor’s Island “Public Works Foundation”; grants include Arts Corps and New York Foundation for the Arts

As a producer, Miah and Wolfgang Von Stuermer staged  the monthly AV event “ab uno pluribus” from 2014 to 2019. Currently, Miah is producing Mixed Poetics, a trans-media showcase that uses text as its launching point, typically non-fiction text or poetry. Participants use film, dance, projection, music, performance art, sound, digital tools or sculptural installation with the incorporation of text, thereby stretching their own dedicated practice.

Miah is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and founder of Artola Digital, a post-production company.