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2025 | New Forms Media Society

Hadis Fard (XEL)

Audiovisual Installation

Soft Possibilities | Temporal Becoming

Interactive sound and visual installation

Soft Possibilities | Temporal Becoming explores synchronicity across bodies, sound, and ecological rhythms, questioning the dominance of standardized Greenwich clock-time, and dogmatic colonial calendar. It frames listening and visual engagement as ways to perceive temporal flows in interaction and relation. Sound reveals correlations between living oscillations, circadian cycles, and group rhythms. Visuals form around human presence, shaping symbols that shift and dissolve with movement, making the internal dance of time visible. Participants experience time as relational and ecological, where co-synchronization emerges through attention, interaction, and dialogue. The work positions these practices as a form of temporal decolonization, exploring how alternative rhythms grounded in care, collective attunement, and life’s oscillations can shape human experience.

Step into a temporal machine created with sound synthesis, coded and hand-drawn symbols, DIY sensor circuits that transport you to collective presence. You are the processor.

Hadis Fard (XEL)


Hadis Fard aka XEL is an Iranian/Canadian expansive human being from Lur ancestral lineage. She is living and creating in ancestral land of Sḵw̱xwú7mesh and Shíshálh nations. She is a sound+vision composer and multi-disciplinary artist. Hadis uses sound, visual art, data, code, and poetry to bridge art x tech x eco and creates multi-sensory & immersive performances and installations. Hadis has had a non-linear path in her creative journey. She holds a master of computer science, bachelor of engineering, continuing studies in fine arts, and has studied sound composition independently with various mentors over the years.

Hadis’ muses and explorations are rooted in eco-feminine, mythology, decolonization, geo-psychology, interspecies dialogue, and collective consciousness. She has performed and exhibited in various festivals and venues locally and internationally. Her works have been exhibited in ArsElectronica (NYC garden), Times Square (NYC, US), TheaterLab (NYC, US), Vancouver New Music (Vancouver, BC), Vancouver International Jazz Festival, etc., published science articles in IEEE journal, and her works have been acknowledged by the Canada Council of Arts.

In over fifteen years experience of working with and developing various technological mediums, she has worked with large names in tech industry, and now selectively collaborates to re-purpose the tech. She has collaborated with artists with a wide range of creative palettes, and welcomes co-creation and collaboration in sound, visual arts, creative technology or envisioning social change.




SCHEDULE

A/V Gallery

October 22-25

OCT 22
OCT 23
OCT 25
6 PM - 9 PM

4 PM - 9 PM

12 PM - 4 PM
Gallery opening featuring artist talks presented by ephemeral objectsA/V Gallery Hours
free / by donation
Audiovisual Installations by:
Andrew Sun
arya