
Martin Messier at Transart Festival - MA/IN Festival - Sonica Istanbul
09.09.2025Martin Messier with Innervision & Elusive Matter at Transart Festival, Bolzano (IT) - Field at MA/IN Festival, Lecce (IT) and 1 Drop 1000 Years at Sonica Istanbul (TR)

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.

News Summer 2025
26.06.2025Navid Navab with Organism + Excitable Chaos at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, Brussels - Lawrence Malstaf premiering ANTENNAE 02025 in Tromsø - Martin Messier with 1 drop 1000 years at Festival CURTOCIRCUITO, Santiago de Compostela - Laura Colmenares Guerra with Topography of a Second at CACLB, Montauban, Étalle - David Bowen with tele-present wind at esc medien labor, Graz - David Bowen with 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m at Light Art Museum, Budapest - Focus Alex Verhaest - Newsletter Annelies Van Parys
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Winner of Golden Nica Digital Musics & Sound Art 2025:
Organism by Navid Navab in collaboration with Garnet Willis
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Martin Messier: new project Astronomical Water at MUTEK - Innervision & Elusive Matter at Transart Festival
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News May 2025
01.05.2025Laura Colmenares Guerra with Ríos Trilogy at Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Bogotá & Manizales - Alex Verhaest with new work: Wolf - Martin Messier with Sewing Machine Orchestra at Centre Bang - Lawrence Malstaf with Shrink 01995 at 16. Internationalen Tanztage, Oldenburgischen Staatstheater - Navid Navab with Organism: In Turbulence at Kontejner Zagreb & Fiber Festival Amsterdam - Studio Radiaal with The Desert of the Real at Concertgebouw Brugge - Aernoudt Jacobs with Humming the Ubique at Hear Here, Leuven - Martin Messier with Oceanic Oscillation at PHOS, Matane - Navid Navab with Microcosm N°3 plenumophileia at PHOS, Matane - David Bowen with tele-present wind at esc medien labor, Graz - Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff with Manufacture poétique d’icebergs artificiels & Les Unités Icebergs at la Biennale En Commun(s), Évry-Courcouronnes (F) - Martin Messier with 1 drop 1000 years at Gibanja Zagreb & ISEA2025 Seoul - Laura Colmenares Guerra with R€¥€R$€ at the Belgian Pavilion at Osaka World Expo 2025 - Navid Navab with Aquaphoneia at 798 Cube, Beijing - David Bowen with 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m at Light Museum Budapest

News April 2025
02.04.2025Navid Navab with Organism + Excitable Chaos in Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy at REWIRE 2025, The Hague (NL) - Kris Verdonck with DARK at Festival TROUBLE #13, Studio Thor, Brussels (B) - Navid Navab with Organism + Excitable Chaos at Kontejner, Zagreb (HR) - Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff with Manufacture poétique d’icebergs artificiels & Les Unités Icebergs at la Biennale En Commun(s), Évry-Courcouronnes (F) - Laura Colmenares Guerra with Aaron in Lo in Edge of The Horizon on Common.Garden - Lawrence Malstaf in The Installation Art Podcast - David Bowen with 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m at Light Art Museum, Budapest (HU)

News March 2025
11.03.2025Barthélemy Antoine Loeff in Biennale en Commun(s) / HABITER, arts numériques et hybrides, Université Évry Paris-Saclay (F) - Lawrence Malstaf at BLIK x BLIK, Pilzen (CZ) - Alex Verhaest in Fin et Début/ Einde en Begin at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, Brussels (B) - Aernoudt Jacobs in Symbiosis: Art in the Age of AI at SWPK Gallery, New York (USA) - Annelies Van Parys, Fantasie (world première) at Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent (B), La Seine Musicale Parijs (F), Concertgebouw Brugge (B) - Navid Navab in 798, Science Technology Biennale 2025 Symptomatica | Horizon, Beijing (ROC) - David Bowen in Phantom Vision at Light Art Museum, Budapest - Navid Navab at REWIRE 2025 in Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy - Kris Verdonck with DARK (world première) at TROUBLE #13, Brussel (B)

News February 2025
06.02.2025Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff at Biennale EXPERIMENTA, Grenoble (F) - Lawrence Malstaf at Frankfurter Kunstverein (D) - Alex Verhaest at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, Brussels (B) - Aernoudt Jacobs at SWPK Gallery, New York (USA) - Navid Navab at 798 CUBE, Beijing (ROC) - David Bowen at Light Art Museum, Budapest (HU)
WORK IN PROGRESS: David Bowen, the two - Lawrence Malstaf, Tromsø Observatorium 02023-02025
SAVE THE DATE: Annelies Van Parys, Fantasie (new composition) at multiple locations - Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company, DARK at Festival Trouble #13, Brussels (B)

News January 2025
08.01.2025Navid Navab with Aquaphoneia at 798 Art, Science Technology Biennale 2025: SYMPTOMATICA | HORIZON, Beijing (ROC) - Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff & Vanessa Bell, Lecture par Nature at Médiathèque Berre-L'Étang (F) - Teun Vonk with The Physical Mind at Chroniques Biennale, Marseille (F) - Alex Verhaest with Ad Hominem at iMAL, Brussels (B) - Aernoudt Jacobs with Luminous Ether (prototype) at The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York (USA) - Lawrence Malstaf with SHRINK 01995 at Frankfurter Kunstverein (D) - David Bowen with 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m in Phantom Vision at Light Art Museum, Budapest (HU)

News November 2024
05.11.2024Alex Verhaest with Ad Hominem at iMAL, Brussels (B) - Teun Vonk with The Physical Mind at Chroniques Biennale, Marseille (F) - Martin Messier with 1 Drop 1000 Years at Chroniques Biennale, Marseille (F) & Unidram Theaterfestival, Potsdam (D) - Martin Messier with Cycles at Arts Korea Lab Festival, Seoul (KR) - Annelies Van Parys with Threnody at November Music, ’s-Hertgenbosch (NL) - Navid Navab with Organism + Excitable Chaos, Performance Organism: In Turbulence’, Werktank, Leuven (B) - Annelies Van Parys, Etude, pour les flattements by Tomma Wessel at Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Gent (B) - Lawrence Malstaf with SHRINK 01995 in The Presence of Absence at Frankfurter Kunstverein (D) - Lawrence Malstaf, POLYGON 2 & Kittiwake Hotel 5 & 6, work in progress, Tromsø (NO) - David Bowen with tele-present wind (Mars version) 2024 in Blended worlds: experiments in interplanetary imagination at Brand Library & Art Center Glendale, California (USA) - David Bowen with 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m in Phantom Vision at Light Art Museum, Budapest (HU)

News October 2024
01.10.2024Lawrence Malstaf with Nemo Observatorium 02002 at Prisma Festival, Aveiro (PT) & with SHRINK 01995 in The Presence of Absence at Frankfurter Kunstverein (D) - Martin Messier with 1 drop 1000 years on tour in Latin America: MUTEK AR, MUTEK CL, Festival No Convencional & MUTEK MX - Annelies Van Parys with Threnody by I Solisti & Spectra at Festival 20.21 at STUK, Leuven (B) - David Bowen with wilderness & the journey in HYPER NATURE at PREXTXE Ice Culture Cargo, Pohang (South-Korea) - David Bowen with tele-present win (Mars version) 2024 in Blended worlds: experiments in interplanetary imagination at Brand Library & Art Center Glendale, California (USA) - David Bowen with 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m in Phantom Vision at Light Art Museum, Budapest (HU)