about

Azad Namazie (Persian: آزاد نمازی) is a Los Angeles–based poet, performance artist, and digital archivist. Using net art, time-based media, and spoken word, their performances function as interactive archival experiences to explore myth- and memory-making under US militarism.

Azad is Digital Archivist at UCLA Library Special Collections, where they are responsible for processing, preserving, and making accessible born-digital archival materials, including legacy and obsolete formats.

portrait
education
master of library and information science
university of california, los angeles
2022 – 2024
experience
ucla library special collections
digital archivist
2025 – present
viet rainbow of orange county
digital justice seed grant archival consultant
2025
skid row history museum & archive
andrew w. mellon foundation/ucla community archives lab intern
2023 – 2024
ucla center for oral history research
digital archives assistant
2023 – 2024
ucla digital library program
digital library program assistant
2023
los angeles county museum of art
collection information and digital assets intern
2023
los angeles public library
cybernaut multimedia assistant
2022 – 2023
residencies
first kiss theatre company summer artist residency
new york city, ny
2025
performances
ham.mam
non plus ultra [los angeles, ca]
2026
the makers' space [new york city, ny]
2025
local prophets
joy who lived festival [los angeles, ca]
2025
another birth
celebration theatre [los angeles, ca]
2024
publications
the softest technology
foglifter press [online exclusive issue 1.1]
winter 2026
archival work == death work
infrastructures.us blog
december 2025
(i'm afraid) the masquerade is over
fruitslice magazine [queer ecology issue]
june 2025
now my dreams lay dead like a limp cigarette
fruitslice magazine [queer ecology issue]
june 2025
fellow reflection: azad namazie
digital library federation blog
december 2023
the political task of stewardship
ucla community archives lab blog
december 2023
post-colonial finding aid for my transancestor
mizna [myth & memory issue 24.1]
summer 2023
when the world cracks in half
rust & moth
spring 2021
1,001 middles
about place journal [issue 4.1]
may 2020
i am your martyr
q/a poetry [issue 11]
october 2019
student activism: a reckoning in the archives
project STAND + ucla library [los angeles, ca]
2026
dead media chat room
wilshire online expo [los angeles, ca]
2026
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