Short Biography

Anoush Moazzeni is a transdisciplinary artist, concert pianist, composer-improvisor, scholar in philosophy and arts, educator, interim general director of 'perte de signal' artist-run centre (digital arts), and Ph.D candidate in individualized studies under Erin Manning's supervision at Concordia University. Moazzeni identifies as a worker in intensities, chaos, frequencies, rhythm, plane of composition, plane of immanence and unit of concrescence. As a performer-maker-thinker, she engages with bodies and materials that are suffused with ethical, vital and political power. Moazzeni is interested in feeling,thinking and making through intersensory and multidimensional encounters with material and immaterial flows to create concepts, blocs of sensations -affects & percepts- and becomings that allow for provoking meaning/visuality and producing knowledge. Hence her semiotic expression takes different shapes depending on the thresholds of her engagement with other assemblages, and her expressions circulate somewhere beyond the media and in-between senses, grouneded in the process thought of Whitehead and (post)Deleuze & Guattari.

The development of Anoush Moazzeni’s art incorporates artistic practice, aesthetics, philosophy, and community work. In her particular areas of interest, she conducts her works to investigate on non-canonic, experiential and artistic forms of knowledge production, political, epistemic and aesthetic dimensions of the human-machine relationship, issues of representation and subjectivation, critical policy analysis, aesthetics(as Politics), decolonial projects and aestheSis, new strategies for hybrid and interdisciplinary performance design, soundscape ecology, mixed music composition, extended techniques and unconventional instrumental performance practice, interactive musical technologies, interface design, robotics and the artificial intelligence. Where her works are engaged with new technologies, Moazzeni explores the ways in which the human-machine relations in arts entail new modes of knowing, becoming and experiencing the world and she tries to shed light on the ethical, epistemological and ontological issues that arise from and are implicit to techno-scientifically driven arts.

Anoush Moazzeni enjoys a performing career that has, frequently, taken her around the world. She has performed at various festivals, venues, museums and conferences in Americas, Europe, and West & East Asia. She has been commissioned as artist, composer and lecturer-performer by arts and human rights institutions and organizations such as the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto(AKM), the Fine Arts Museum in Quebec City(MNBAQ), Museum of Civilisation in Quebec City, the 2nd International Art and Human Rights Symposium in Ottawa and the Canadian Music Center(CMC) among. others in recent years. Moazzeni has been constantly engaged in the organization of cultural mediation & educational programs and community works, aiming at facilitating the access and brining back to the table minority perspectives on sociality, spirituality and the arts, in collaboration with marginalized and/or at-risk communities with the support of institutions such as Vidéographe, Feminist Media Studio, LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE and others. Anoush Moazzeni has premiered more than 80 pieces for piano solo and collaborative piano from contemporary composers around the world under call for scores and commissions and she has been awarded as the winner of multiple competitions and scholarships for her compositions in Canada, France and Iran. She was apponted as executive and artistic director of Vaste et Vague artist-run centre in Carleton-sur-mer, Qc and is currently directing Perte de signal digital arts artist-run centre in Montreal-

Bioographie / FR

Anoush Moazzeni est une artiste transdisciplinaire, chercheuse en philosophie et arts, pianiste concertiste, compositrice-improvisatrice, pédagogue, directrice générale par intérim du centre d'artistes 'perte de signal' et doctorante dans le programme interdisciplinaire sous la supervision d'Erin Manning à l’université Concordia.

Moazzeni a coordonné de multiples projets collaboratifs et initié des collaborations culturelles, artistiques et académiques entre artistes, institutions, laboratoires, centres d’artistes et centres communautaires ainsi que différents travailleurs et travailleuses culturel.les. Elle a dirigé le centre d'artistes Vaste et Vague -art actuel- en 2023, et présentement dirige le centre d'artistes en arts numérique Perte de signal à Montréal

Elle est impliquée dans divers projets de recherche et de publications collectives académiques, trans-académiques et expérimentales au Canada, en Europe et en Iran. Elle a été active sur la scène internationale dans le cadre de performance interdisciplinaire pendant plus de dix ans. En tant que performeuse-créatrice-intellectuelle (performer-maker-thinker), elle se lance dans l’analyse des corps et des matériaux qui sont imprégnés d’un pouvoir éthique, vital et politique. Moazzeni s’intéresse aux sensations, aux ressentis, aux actions et aux façons de pensée par le biais de rencontres intersensorielles et multidimensionnelles avec des flux matériels et immatériels afin de créer des concepts et des devenirs qui permettent de créer du sens, le rendre visible et, par le fait même, produire des connaissances. Ainsi, son expression sémiotique prend différentes formes en fonction de son degré d’implication avec d’autres assemblages des modes d’expressions qui se développent dans un espace liminaire, c’est-à-dire, qui s’inscrit dans le processus de réflexion mené par le philosophe anglais Alfred North Whitehead et les philosophes français Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari.

Le développement de l’art d’Anoush Moazzeni intègre la pratique artistique, l’esthétique, la philosophie et le travail communautaire. Dans ses domaines d’intérêt particuliers, elle mène ses travaux pour enquêter sur les formes non canoniques, expérientielles et artistiques de production de connaissances, les dimensions politiques, épistémiques et esthétiques de la relation humaine-machine, les questions de représentation et de subjectivation, l’analyse critique des politiques, l’esthétique (comme politique), projets décoloniaux et AestheSis, nouvelles stratégies de conception de performances hybrides et interdisciplinaires, la poétique visuelle, l’écologie du paysage sonore, la composition musicale mixte, les techniques étendues, la pratique de performance instrumentale non conventionnelle, les technologies interactives en arts numériques, la conception d’interfaces, la robotique et l’intelligence artificielle.

À ce jour, Moazzeni a travaillé avec plusieurs organisations et centres d’artistes autogérés au coeur du milieu culturel Canadien à titre de directirce générale et artistique, conceptrice et coordinatrice de projet, coordonnatrice de la programmation, responsable des communications, adjointe à la direction générale, pédagogue, auxiliaire d’enseignement, chercheure, auxiliaire de recherche, responsable d’équipe de recherche, facilitatrice des projets de co-création, artiste et conférencière.

Elle a été mandatée comme artiste et chercheuse par divers institutions et organismes dont le mandat est axé sur l’art ou les sciences humaines tels que le Musée Aga Khan de Toronto (AKM), le Musée des beaux-arts de Québec (MNBAQ), le Musée des civilisations de Québec, le 2e Symposium international sur l’art et les droits de la personne à Ottawa et le Centre de musique canadienne (CMC) au cours des dernières années. Précisément, Moazzeni s’engage dans l’organisation de programmes de médiation culturelle, d’éducation et d’œuvres communautaires, dont l’objectif est de faciliter l’accès à la socialisation, la spiritualité et l’art; elle met en place des dispositifs afin de faire valoir les perspectives des minorités grâce au soutien d’institutions telles que Vidéographe, Feminist Media Studio, Maison d’Haïti, entre autres.

Anoush Moazzeni a travaillé comme juge, paire évaluatrice et conférencière plénière au sein de plusieurs organismes artistiques et culturels prestigieux comme le Conseil des arts du Canada (CAC), Conférence internationale des études de Dalcroze (ICDS), le prix Marcelle Deschênes pour la musique électronique, le deuxième Symposium sur les arts et les droits de la personne, la conférence sur les arts et les sciences humaines et la conférence internationale sur l’affichage auditif. Lauréate de plusieurs concours nationaux et internationaux pour sa pratique artistique, elle a également reçu de multiples bourses et prix pour ses recherches en philosophie expérimentale par le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), le Conseil des arts du Canada (CAC), la mesure Première Ovation, l’Ampli Québec, le Fonds de recherche du Québec, Société et culture (FRQSC), Centre des arts et de la créativité de Banff ainsi que des commandes d’oeuvres de la part du Musée d’Aga Khan à Toronto (AKM), du Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec (MNBAQ), du Musée de la civilisation de Québec (MCQ), du symposium sur les arts et les droits de la personne à Ottawa et du Centre de musique Canadienne (CMC)

Long Biography / EN

Anoush Moazzeni is a transdisciplinary artist, concert pianist, composer-improvisor, scholar in humanities and arts, community-oriented arts administrator, educator, and Ph.D candidate in individualized studies in Philosophy, arts and aesthetics at Concordia University. Moazzeni is currently the administtrative director of 'perte de signal' digital arts artist-run centre in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke. For over than fifteen years, she has enjoyed a performing care that has, frequently, taken her around the world. Highlights of recent seasons have included visits to Americas, Europe, Southern Asia & Middle East. She has performed at several venues in New York City, Maine, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Paris, Lyon, Köln, Amsterdam, Rethymnon, Tehran, Esfahan, Manizales and Kuala Lumpur.

After finishing her undergraduate studies in both piano performance and musicology, Ms. Moazzeni specialized her master’s degree in contemporary piano performance and she finializes her individualized doctoral studies in Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montréal(Tiohtiá:ke). Moazzeni is self-thaught in Philosophy, Composition, Creative Coding and Robotics, Poetry, and Digital and Visual Arts and has attended muultuple courses, workshops and masterclasses in all her areas of interest at different institutions such as Université Paris VIII, Université Lumière Lyon II, Ircam, McGill University and others

Anoush Moazzeni has studied piano with Rapahael Minaskanian, Dilbar Hakimova, Svetlena Heganian, Arthuro Nieto-Dorantes, Maurice Laforest, Mitra Dabirian, Elena Bashekian and Farangis Mousavi in Iran, France and Canada. She has also attended various piano master classes and "Cycle de Perfectionnement" in piano performance at Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Lyon, École Nationale de Musique de Mantes en Yvelines (Paris), École Normale de Musique de Paris (Alfred Cortôt), Tehran University, University of Montreal and Laval University with Florence Boffard, Anton Kuerti, Jacques Drouin, Gottlieb Wallisch and Khachik Babyian. Alongside her performance sudies, Ms. Moazzeni studied composition and electroacoustic music with Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum(CA), Mark Lingk(GR) and Nader Mashayekhi(IR-FR) and followed different internships in Creative and Live Coding, Electroacoustic Music, Sound Engineering and Algorithmic audiovisual composition, Robotics for Artists Virtual and Augmented Reality, Procedural Audio and Sound Spatialization at Société des Arts Technologique in Montréal, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou in Paris, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in McGill University, La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City, FabLab in Brussel and Deutsch-Französisches Forum Junger Kunst in Germany. She has attended multiple musician in residence programs at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, La Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, IMRC in UMaine, LANTISS in ULaval and OBORO.

Moazzeni has premiered more than 80 pieces for piano solo and collaborative piano from contemporary composers around the world under call for scores and commissions. She has been constantly collaborating as jury member with various arts organizations and institutions such as CAC (Canada Council for the Arts), Fifteen Minutes of Fame and Vox Novus in New York City and Labsessions in Montreal. She has performed at New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Festival de la imagen in Colombia, International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, TCML in Toronto, The Feminist Art Festival in Tunisia, FestivalOFF in Quebec City, Improve Sound Festival in Maine and RETHinkArt digital Festival in Greece. Moazzeni has been also commissioned in 2020 by The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto as Composer to repond to Faig Ahmed work in a virtual exhibitioon, in 2022 as artist-researcher by the 2nd International Arts and Human Rights in Ottawa, and in 2014 as lecturer-performer of the Persian Music by IPAC (Artistic Heritage of Humanity), OIRCM (Interdisciplinary Observatory of Research-Creation of music) and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec City.

Anoush Moazzeni has recorded as a solo pianist and accompanist in Canada and she has been awarded as the winner of the Concours de Disque de L'Ulaval in 2013, the finalist of the Gerard Boivin Piano Competition in 2012 and the winner of multiple awards offered by CALQ (Quebec Council for the Arts), CAC (Canada Council for the Arts), Première Ovation, L’Ampli Québec, FRQSC (Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture), Concordia University and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Moazzeni is currently an active member of Feminist Media studio, La Chambre Blanche, CQAM (Conseil Québecois des arts médiatiques), CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology), Hexagram (International Network Dedicated to Reseach-Creation in Media Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture), Milieux/LePARC (Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology/ Performing Arts Cluster), SSHRA (Social Science and Humanities Research Association), MusCan(Canadian Music University Society), CNMN(Canadian New Music Network, and IFCA (Iranian Female Composers Association). With more than 15 years of teaching experience, she has been continuously giving piano lessons and master classes (Electroacoustic Music, Coding & Piano Performance) around the world and teaches as teaching assistant at the Concordia University. Moazzeni has been collaborating with Vaste et Vague Artist-run Centre as Executive and Artistic Director, Vidéographe (Montreal based Artist-Run Centre) as Executive Assistant, Project Manager and Communications and Programming coordinator in last few years.