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NODE+CODE #22.1 – The Three Body No Problem

Interactive keynote by Navid Navab

12 Nov 2025, 19:00

display

Berliner Straße 60
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Open Doors: 18:30

free entry, free soup! RSVP appreciated

How to work with wild, unpredictable processes, in which lively beings have a central role? In this participatory keynote, art-scientist and this year’s Golden Nica: Prix Ars Electronica winner Navid Navab invites us into a world of alchemical investigations – a world in which the practice of scientific measurement is opened to the senses for attunement towards the unquantifiable movement of life. Drawing from insights from biological philosophy and tabletop astrophysics, Navab asks: How does matter develop inner time and a sense of intentionality? How may we attune to this generative movement and embrace it as a collaborating designer or performer?

In the second part of the talk, Navab will share his making process in a practical and interactive way.

[DE] Wie kann man mit wilden, unvorhersehbaren Prozessen arbeiten, in denen lebendige Wesen eine zentrale Rolle spielen? In der partizipativen Keynote lädt uns der Artist-Scientist und diesjährige Gewinner des Golden Nica: Prix Ars Electronica, Navid Navab, in eine Welt alchemistischer Untersuchungen ein: Wie entwickelt Materie innere Zeit und einen Sinn für Intentionalität? Wie können wir generative Bewegung als kooperierende Designer*innen oder Performer*innen in unsere Arbeit einbeziehen?

Im zweiten Teil der Keynote wird Navab seinen Arbeitsprozess auf praktische und interaktive Weise vorstellen. Bringt eure Ideen, Erfahrungen und Gedanken mit!

 
 

NODE+CODE #22.1 is taking place as part of the soft opening week of display and the nationwide ‘Netzpolitik & Demokratie’ campaign days. display is the new space for digital practice in the centre of Frankfurt and a cooperation project between us, NODE Forum for Digital Arts, and ‘Stabstelle Digitalisierung’, the Digitalisation Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main.

[DE] NODE+CODE #22.1 findet im Rahmen der Soft-Opening-Woche von display und der bundesweiten Aktionstage „Netzpolitik & Demokratie” statt. display ist der neue Raum für digitale Praxis im Zentrum von Frankfurt und ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen uns und der Stabstelle Digitalisierung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main.

 

 

Program

The event is taking place in English language, we are happy to whisper -translate for anyone who needs it. As always, we’ll open the doors at 18:30, allowing us all to get comfortable and start at 19:00 with the presentations from our speaker. You may enjoy some delicious soup with us and have a chat with the rest of our wonderful community.

[DE] Das Event findet in englischer Sprache statt, wir flüster-übersetzen gerne. Wie immer öffnen wir die Türen um 18:30 Uhr, damit wir es uns alle gemütlich machen können, und beginnen um 19:00 Uhr mit der Keynote. Außerdem gibt es eine leckere Suppe und Austausch in der Community.

 
 

Join us at display for the whole week of our Soft Opening (see here for more info)—on Friday we will have the next meetup right away as a Co-Coding Session with Aurelie Herbelot!

Everybody is welcome 🙂

 
 
 
 
 

Contributor

 

Navid Navab

https://www.navidnavab.com/

Navid Navab is an antidisciplinary composer and a media alchemist with a background in contemporary music, biomedical sonification and philosophical biology.

Through an investigative ArtScience practice, Navab’s recent creations meticulously stage uncanny forms of order by imbuing machines with a sense of liveliness through fusion with the excitable dynamics of matter. Navab’s art-machines sculpturally engage with transductive structures of liveliness, probing the excitable tendencies of matter—suspended in metastable states where thermodynamic reservoirs of indeterminacy generate cybernetic intentionality. Making the imperceptible palpable, these investigative works orchestrate sensory attunement to forms of life, at the pre-metabolic border between breathing and not breathing, while cybernetically enfolding their excitable dynamics.

And what else will happen?

With this meetup season we will dive into the community – and, of course, we will again serve drinks and a yummy soup for free!

Just come by or RSVP (for better planning) here!

 

 

What is NODE+CODE?

Since 2014, the meetup invites creatives, designers, artists, coders and anyone else interested to a series of events with changing locations and thematic focuses – all related to working with code in design and the arts. We want to build a community of people interested in the creative and critical application of technology in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main.

 

 
 
 

Funding

The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs.

 

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