Navid NavabIR/QC
Navid Navab is a media alchemist, antidisciplinary composer, and tabletop cosmologist whose practice draws from contemporary music, biomedical sonification, and philosophical biology. Their recent performance-installation Organism earned the 2025 Golden Nica from Ars Electronica — the highest international honor in digital musics and sound arts — as well as the prestigious Lumen Prize.
Through an investigative ArtScience practice, Navab creates art-machines that infuse matter with a sense of liveness, probing its excitable dynamics and making the imperceptible palpable at the pre-metabolic border between breathing and not breathing. As a gestural-sound composer and machine-improviser, Navab centers the poly-temporal and material dimensions of the sonic event, performing alongside artists such as George Lewis, Lori Freedman, and Sandeep Bhagwati.
Their works consist of kinetic sound sculptures, theatrical interactive installations, and site-specific interventions that circulate internationally at venues including Ars Electronica, MaerzMusik Berlin, the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, and Japan Society NY. As a researcher active since 2008, Navab also directs the Topological Media Lab (TML) in Montréal, fusing phenomenological studies with artistic research-creation practices.
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