Nima Navab is an Iranian-Canadian media artist based in Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), working at the intersection of art, science, and engineering.

Across works involving responsive architecture, atmospheric fields, light modulated by water flow, vibrating membranes, and data-driven physical systems, a consistent inquiry unfolds:

how can we encounter the living processes that underlie what appears solid and fixed?

These installations immerse audiences in shifting fields where boundaries soften and patterns emerge from flux. At stake is a perceptual reorientation. By making fluidity materially present, these works invite an embodied recognition that reality is composed not of isolated objects but of ongoing relations and transformations. This instability can help shape how we inhabit and relate to the seemingly solid world of rigid edges and boundaries.

Mechanical precision meets unpredictable transformation. Systems establish calibration and constraint; material dynamics introduce emergence and instability.

The tension between control and unpredictability becomes the compositional field.