Navid Navab (IR/CA), winner of the 2025 Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica and the Lumen Prize, is an art-scientist and composer whose practice dissolves the boundary between scientific inquiry and sensory attunement. Navab’s art-machines draw a sense of liveliness from matter suspended in metastable states, where thermodynamic reservoirs of indeterminacy generate cybernetic intentionality.