Navid Navab In collaboration with Garnet Willis - Organism + Excitable Chaos Focus Ars Electronica: Navid Navab - David Bowen
01.09.2025- NAVID NAVAB (IR/CA) explores an experimental approach to organ sounds with his performance Organism: In Turbulence, that won the Golden Nica at the 2025 Prix Ars Electronica. Based in Montreal, they challenge conventional ideas of classical church music. The installation will be on display at Mariendom throughout the festival, with additional performative interventions to look forward to.
Organism: In Turbulence (performance)
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent patterning.
Organism + Excitable Chaos (installation)
Navid Navab (IR/CA), with Garnet Willis (CA)
A robotically prepared historic pipe organ driven by a robotically-steered chaotic pendulum.
This year’s Golden Nica in the category “Digital Musics & Sound Art” goes to media artist Navid Navab and Garnet Willis for their project “Organism”.
- DAVID BOWEN
Futures Entangled: Material Intelligence, Memory & Movement
Istanbul Digital Art Festival (IDAF)
The exhibition Futures Entangled: Material Intelligence, Memory & Movement, presented within the framework of the Ars Electronica festival’s PANIC – yes/no theme, offers a narrative that weaves together the urgencies of migration and ecological crisis. Through installation and data artworks, it explores the emotional, material, and technological dimensions of displacement, adaptation, and survival.
tele-present wind (Mars wind version)
This installation by David Bowen is a collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The piece consists of a series of 84 x/y tilting mechanical devices connected to tall dried grass stalks, installed like a field in the gallery. The mechanisms will tilt, move and sway based on data collected from the wind sensor on the Perseverance Mars rover.
Lawrence Malstaf, Pavilion 02011-12 at Scopitone 2019 Tallieu Art Office
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