Adam Basanta is an artist, composer, and experimental music performer whose practice investigates technology as a continuous spectrum, from mud-brick to machine learning. Working across installation, kinetic sculpture, sound, and computational image-making, he examines how cultural, computational, biological, and economic systems overlap and become entangled.

Basanta often uses commercial technological readymades as a core vocabulary, placing them in unconventional or absurd relationships to disrupt their expected functions. His works are visual, but also choreographic and performative, revealing a sense of liveness through the unpredictable actions of machines, materials, systems, and human perception.

Born in Tel Aviv, raised in Vancouver, and based in Montreal, Basanta has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Serralves Museum, National Art Center Tokyo, and the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe. His work has received numerous awards, including the Japan Media Arts Prize, the Aesthetica Art Prize, and the Prix Pierre Ayot, and is held in major Canadian institutional collections.