Adam Basanta

Adam Basanta is an artist, composer, and performer of experimental music born in Tel- Aviv,  raised in so-called Vancouver (located on the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam  Nations lands), and now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. He holds a BFA in Music Composition  from Simon Fraser University and an interdisciplinary Research- Creation MA in Fine Arts from  Concordia University. His work investigates technology as a meeting point of concurrent,  overlapping systems; a nexus of cultural, computational, biological, and economic forces. In  creating and augmenting systems, he tries to touch a sense of “liveness” or a nearly-living  quality—the dynamism resulting from the unpredictable performances of various actants  pulling independently in collective balance. Placing technologies in unconventional and absurd  relationships with one another, he aims to create a fissure in their conventional functions,  reflecting on their roles as contemporary prosthetics with which we co-exist in a hybrid  ecology. His work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions including the Musée des  beauxarts de Montréal, the National Art Centre in Tokyo, and the Fotomuseum of Winterthur,  amongst many others, and he has been awarded several international prizes, including the  Japan Media Arts Prize, the Aesthetica Art Prize, and the Prix Pierre-Ayot.