Transductive Formations is dedicated to the development and circulation of the platforms and creations of the interdisciplinary artist Navid Navab.
The company’s overarching mission is to support the development of and public engagement with transductive technologies, platforms, and artworks. Transductive Formations orchestrates transductive operations through which previously incompatible realities come into resonance, enter reciprocal communication and re-organize matters of process from place to place.
The company harbours the emergence of new forms of co-expression based on collaborative engagement with computational dynamics of matter. Its interdisciplinary and transductive mission makes it a unique organization in the world. The company’s activities illuminate the intersection of investigative arts, technoscience, and philosophical biology, inviting publics from various sectors to engage in novel perspectives on the convergence of technology, nature, and human expression.
TEAM
Artistic Director : Navid Navab
Technical Director and Development Manager : Camille Desjardins
Agent : Tallieu Art Office / Ischa Tallieu
Develoment Advisor: Abigaëlle Parisé
CURRENT COLLABORATORS
Editorial : Ashley Obscura
Engineering/Design: Garnet Willis
Electronics R&D: Pipo Pierre-Louis
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Alicia Turgeon [Eastern Bloc general/artistic director, REPAIR board]
Treasurer: Pìa Baltazar [SAT research-creation directress, Perte de Signal president]
Secretary : Navid Navab
PARTNERS
Ateliers Belleville {{studio and infrastructure support}}
The Machinerie des Arts {{devepment support}}
SAT Montreal {{research-creation partner, instuitional}}
Topological Media Lab {{research-creation partner, academic}}
Computer Aided Medical Procedures Group, TUM {{scientific research partner, academic}}
Living Architectures Systems Group {{research-creation partner}}
Why Transduction…
In my investigative artscience practice, I synthesize agential hybrids and new forms of co-expression: events of mattering, in formation, imbuing machinic dynamics with a sense of liveliness. As a composer, I orchestrate forms of metastability and I inform transductive operations of taking-form.
By transduction I mean a physical operation via which an energetic activity propagates from one element to the next, reciprocally, within specific energetic domains which themselves are founded as a result of this structuring propagation. This analogical activity, of transduction, organizes matters of process from place to place, setting up energetic tensions between disparities which now become resolved contemporaneously with the emergence of new realities which belong to this new order of organization. This meandering crystalization is nature’s engine of intentionality and invention. It is natural sense in the making: transductive information in tensile formation.
Similarly, at Transductive Formations, the company, we bring previously incompatible material, computational, and cultural realities into transductive resonance with one another, and put them into reciprocal communication within higher organizational dimensions capable of resolving their incompatibilities and tensions.
At our studio, transduction is embraced as a methodology for thermodynamical propagation of cybernetic liveliness. It also serves as a liveliness-prserving ethos for collaboration with nature’s form-taking engines, from chaotic patterning to the movment of life.