Amin Nadi is an Iranian integrated media artist, writer, and researcher based in London, Ontario, and Yazd, Iran. He holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from the University of Windsor. He currently teaches at Algoma University in Canada and Yazd University in Iran, where he combines practical experience with academic research.
Nadi’s multidisciplinary artistic work explores memory, reminiscence, time, and environmental transformation through new media, audio/video installations, and documentary methods. He focuses on the tension between urban development and cultural loss, often using abandoned spaces as powerful sites of memory and identity. Employing light, found objects, reflective materials, and archival sources, Nadi creates poetic visual narratives that evoke introspection and challenge dominant cultural and capitalist narratives.
Drawing on critical theory, continental philosophy, and postcolonial thought, Nadi’s research centers on “Non-art” practices — social, improvisational, and heterogeneous art forms that resist authoritarian control and cultural commodification, especially in marginalized and postcolonial contexts. His work interrogates the aesthetics of resistance and trans-geographical identity, while questioning dominant cultural narratives and reclaiming forgotten or suppressed histories. Through both his visual and written works, Nadi offers radical critiques of contemporary social and political issues from a transdisciplinary perspective.