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Navid Navab, born and raised in Tehran (IR), is a Montreal-based media alchemist, tabletop cosmologist, and antidisciplinary composer, who investigates the forming-giving potential of material processes. Interested in the poetics of schizo-phonia, gesture, and materiality for over a decade, Navab has been composing multi-sensory experiences, entangling bodies, machines, and materialities both in-situ and in concert, in ways that enable critical attunement to excitable matters-of-process.
Navab’s artworks, which take on the form of gestural sound compositions, living architectures, participatory investigative environments, and kinetic sculptures, circulate internationally at festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT), NEMO Biennale (FR), Kapelica Gallery (SL), device_art triennial (HR), Sonica Biennale (BG), Japan Society (US), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (US), ISEA (SP, CA), milanOltre (IT), HKW (DE), Canadian Center for Architecture (CA), eArts (CH), and Mios Multi (CA).
As an artscience researcher and co-director of the Topological Media Lab, Navab leverages phenomenological studies to inform the creation of computationally-augmented performance environments. These platforms serve as investigations in the construction of fresh modes of cultural knowledge and the critical study of media arts and techno-science. Navab&#8217;s research fosters a new collaborative ethos that centers playful sense-making with excitable indeterminacies.

Navid Navab

In this talk, Navid shares their post-Schizophonic adventures of co-creating with computational dynamics of matter. In the process, Navid will media-archeologically move past the military-cybernetic complex to revisit some notions such as computation, information, and liveliness. From cutting-edge applications in non-invasive surgical interventions to living architectures and the movement arts, Navid will demonstrate how this open design ethos has expansively lent itself to surprising advancements in both the arts and sciences.

Adventures With Excitable Matter : From Music to Surgery

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Mélodie Mousset is a versatile and award-winning artist renowned for her work with virtual reality. As a trailblazer in the realm of art and technology, she co-founded Patch XR in 2020, an innovative software company dedicated to crafting interactive XR experiences driven by music.

Mélodie Mousset

Echoes of the Jellyfish : A synesthetic conversation between species

Carl Addy is multi-disciplinary Executive Creative Director and Director. He delivers groundbreaking visual work in design, digital media and immersive VR technology. His craft in storytelling is always layered with playful affection and conceptual eye-bending entertainment. He works in both live action and animation, combining his obsession with music with his knowledge of digital trends and film making.
Carl has won advertising, design and direction awards. He is frequently invited to speak at creative conferences around the world such as SXSW, Cannes Lions, Offf and FITC. His topics focus on Modern Narrative, The Future Of Content and VR and Creative Challenges.
Carl is an Executive Creative Director at Mayda, a creative collective formed from the worlds of advertising, technology, film and gaming.

Carl Addy

According to early cartographers, Mayda is a non-existent island in the North Atlantic that has been shown on several published maps at various points in history.
Aside from being a provocative name for a creative collective, Mayda is also a metaphor for working in an ever changing landscape.
Carl will use his own wayward multi-disciplined journey as a case study for how to &#8220;Navigate Future Stories&#8221;, or how to work with focus while embracing distraction as a creative catalyst.