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ArtScience, Sound & Material Intelligence

An ArtScience practice that makes the behavior of matter, machines and complex systems audible.

Portrait of Navid Navab

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

Organism

Prix Ars Electronica · Digital Musics & Sound Art. Created with Garnet Willis, Organism brings kinetic systems, material behavior and sound into dialogue.

04 / Selected highlights

ArtScience

Sound, kinetic systems and material intelligence

International practice

Installations and performances presented internationally

Topological Media Lab

Director of an interdisciplinary artistic research lab

05 / Work & contribution

Organism

Responsive organ and chaotic pendulum performance installation

Material sound practice

Kinetic sculpture, responsive architecture and gestural composition