Azad Namazie (Persian: آزاد نمازی) is a poet, performance artist, and digital archivist from Los Angeles, CA. They use internet art, video, and spoken word performance as tools to unearth myth and memory. Through these expressions, their work interfaces with technological fantasies of sovereignty and decay under conditions of US-led war.
As an archivist, they have processed, preserved, and made accessible audiovisual and born-digital collections at community archives, academic institutions, and arts organizations across southern California. In their current role, they lead the digital archives program at UCLA Library Special Collections, where they oversee the day-to-day operations of the Digital Preservation Lab and support the diverse technological needs of the born-digital content (spanning floppy disks to web pages) in our collections.
