Martin Messier - Sewing Machine Orchestra - Photo: Alexis Bellavance

News June 2026

02.06.2026

New Release: Tuning Time - Orchestral works by Annelies Van Parys - David Bowen with tele-present wind (Mars wind version) in EMERGENCE[Y] at  Science Gallery Melbourne (AU) - Navid Navab with Organism: In Turbulence at Blaues Rauschen, Bochum (D) - Martin Messier with Sewing Machine Orchestra at Baltoscandal, Rakvere (EE)

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Martin Messier - 1 drop 1000 years

News May 2026

05.05.2026

Martin Messier with 1 drop 1000 years at Mapping Festival, Genève (CH) - Navid Navab with Organism: In Turbulence at Münchener Biennale – Festival for New Music Theatre, München (D) - David Bowen with tele-present wind at Monopole, Schiedam (NL) - Laura Colmenares Guerra, residency KIKK x CCN, Namur (B)

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Aernoudt Jacobs - Humming the Ubique

News April & May 2026

02.04.2026

Aernoudt Jacobs with Humming the Ubique at Rewire 2026 - Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum, The Hague (NL) - David Bowen with wilderness at Shiga Future Thinking Week, Hikone Data & Science (DAS) Center (JP) - Aernoudt Jacobs with The Endless Speaker at Oscillation Festival 2026, iMAL, Brussels (B) - Martin Messier with 1 drop 1000 years at Mapping Festival Genève (CH) - Navid Navab with Organism: In Turbulence at Münchner Biennale für Neues Musiktheater, Ampere / Muffatwerk, München (D)

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David Bowen - tele-present wind

News February & March 2026

12.02.2026

Navid Navab with installation Organism + Excitable Chaos and concert Organism: In Turbulence at Berliner Festspiele (D) - Annelies Van Parys' newsletter upcoming worldpremières & concerts- Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff with Tipping Point at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (F) - David Bowen with tele-present wind at Monopole Schiedam (NL)

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Martin Messier - Elusive Matter

News January 2026

14.01.2026

Martin Messier with Elusive Matter at Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh (SA) - Laura Colmenares Guerra with Topography of a Second & Ooloi Flora at La Fabrique, Alliance Française Bruxelles-Europe (B) - Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff with Tipping Point at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (F) - David Bowen with tele-present wind at Monopole Schiedam (NL)

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Martin Messier - 1 drop 1000 years

News November - December 2025

13.11.2025

Navid Navab wins Lumen Prize 2025 Identity & Culture Award for Organism: In Turbulence - Martin Messier with 1 drop 1000 years at MUTEK JAPAN (JP), IN-SONORA Madrid (ES) and Festival  ]interstice[Caen (F) - Laura Colmenares Guerra with Topography of a Second & Ooloi Flora in Réelvirtuel at La Fabrique – Alliance Française Bruxelles-Europe (B) - David Bowen with plant machete in Other Intelligences at MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven (NL) - Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff with Tipping Point in Migrations et Climat at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (F) - David Bowen with tele-present wind in Silence & The Presence of Everything at Monopole Schiedam (NL) - David Bowen with the two in machinekind at PRAx, Oregon (US) - Hermann Nitsch with Reliktinstallation 6-Tage-Spiel 1998 in Faith No More. Rituals for Uncertain Times at Abby, Kortrijk (B)

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Laura Colmenares Guerra - Ríos Trilogy

News October 2025

01.10.2025

Martin Messier at Sonica Istanbul - Laura Colmenares Guerra at Festival Fotosíntesis, Medellín - Navid Navab at Prisma Festival, Aveiro - David Bowen at MU Hybrid Art House,  Eindhoven -  Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris - Annelies Van Parys at Transit Festival, Leuven - Hermann Nitsch at Abby Kortrijk - David Bowen at Quartair The Hague, Monopole Schiedam - Lawrence Malstaf in Tromsø - David Bowen at PRAx Oregon

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David Bowen - plant machete

David Bowen at Monopole Schiedam - PRAx Oregon - MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven - Quartair The Hague

19.09.2025

David Bowen with tele-present wind at Monopole Schiedam - the two at PRAx Oregon - plant machete at MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven - fly revolver at Quartair The Hague

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Martin Messier - Innervision (photo: Trung Dung Nguyen)

Martin Messier at Transart Festival - MA/IN Festival - Sonica Istanbul

09.09.2025

Martin 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)

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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.

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