BIO
Badie Khaleghian is a composer, multimedia artist, and researcher whose work explores collaboration as both an artistic method and a performative medium. Working across music, movement, visual art, neuroscience, and technology, he creates environments where artistic meaning emerges through shared authorship, collective attention, and the interaction between performers, audiences, scientists, and computational systems.
At the center of Khaleghian’s practice is a commitment to collective art-making. His projects treat collaboration not simply as a process behind the work, but as part of the work itself. By bringing together artists, researchers, dancers, musicians, students, and technologists, he develops forms of performance that could not emerge from a single discipline or individual voice.
Although his work engages artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, immersive media, and interactive systems, Khaleghian’s projects remain deeply human-focused. He uses technology to amplify presence, embodiment, and connection, rather than to replace human expression. In his work, technology becomes a way to make invisible relationships more perceptible while keeping the human body, mind, and imagination at the center.
Khaleghian’s artistic research is also shaped by a sustained interest in creativity itself. His projects examine how creative ideas emerge, how they move between individuals, and how improvisation, cognition, and imagination can be explored through artistic practice. He approaches creativity not only as a personal act, but as something relational, shared, and shaped by environment, interaction, and attention.
His interdisciplinary practice brings together composition, neuroscience, engineering, dance, visual art, and design to develop new artistic languages. Rather than treating disciplines as separate territories, Khaleghian uses collaboration as a way to discover forms of knowledge that can only arise between fields.
At Bowdoin College, Khaleghian directs the Center for Experimental Multimedia Art (CEMA) and leads the Bowdoin Electroacoustic Ensemble. He teaches courses in electronic music, immersive media, composition, and interactive art, encouraging students to approach artistic practice as a form of experimentation, collaboration, and research. His work has been showcased internationally, including at the United Nations AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, performances and presentations across Europe, Asia, and Americas. For the 2026–27 season, Khaleghian has also been appointed Guest Creative Director of Third Angle New Music, where he will curate Extended, a performance project exploring expanded forms of music, movement, technology, and human presence.
