2025 / Golden Nica
Organism
Prix Ars Electronica · Digital Musics & Sound Art. Created with Garnet Willis, Organism brings kinetic systems, material behavior and sound into dialogue.
Co-founder profile / Chief Innovation Officer / Co-Founder
ArtScience, Sound & Material Intelligence
An ArtScience practice that makes the behavior of matter, machines and complex systems audible.

01 / Signature work
Created with Garnet Willis, the work pairs a robotically prepared historic pipe organ with a robotically steered chaotic pendulum. The work makes nonlinear dynamics and material behavior audible through a responsive technological system.
02 / Biography
Navid Navab is a media artist, composer and ArtScience practitioner whose work draws on contemporary music, biomedical sonification and philosophical biology. Their installations and performances explore how sound emerges from physical behavior, resonance and responsive machines.
Their work spans kinetic sound sculpture, responsive environments and gestural composition, and has been presented internationally. As a researcher, Navab has led interdisciplinary experiments across art, science and technology since 2008 and directs the Topological Media Lab.
For SoniXense, this practice brings a distinctive way of thinking about sound: as a medium through which complex physical processes can be sensed and understood. Organism belongs to this artistic lineage; it is not a medical technology project.
03 / Selected awards & recognition
2025 / Golden Nica
Prix Ars Electronica · Digital Musics & Sound Art. Created with Garnet Willis, Organism brings kinetic systems, material behavior and sound into dialogue.

2025 / Lumen Prize — Identity & Culture Award
A performance that brings a historic pipe organ into a responsive encounter between physical turbulence, robotic control and sound.
Artwork image: Navid Navab / The Lumen Prize04 / Selected highlights
Sound, kinetic systems and material intelligence
Installations and performances presented internationally
Director of an interdisciplinary artistic research lab
05 / Work & contribution
Responsive organ and chaotic pendulum performance installation
Kinetic sculpture, responsive architecture and gestural composition