NODE+CODE #22.1 – The Three Body No Problem

An interactive keynote by Navid Navab.

We were especially excited for NODE+CODE #22.1 and #22.2 (see here!), as both meetups took place as part of the soft opening program of display, the new space for digital practice in the centre of Frankfurt.

For this special occasion, we had Navid Navab holding an interactice keynote named The Three Body No Problem.

 
Photos by Eda Temucin
 

After some opening words from Franziska Schüller as part of the Geschäftsstelle Kreativwirtschaft Hessen, we started our meetup this time by getting into conversation and having some delicious, hot and vegan chili sin carne, before enjoying the main course of our evening: The Three Body No Problem.

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 invited 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 asked: 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? After sharing their research, Navab shared their process in a practical and interactive way.

We are so happy so many of you made their way to display, discussed, ate soup and had a drink with us, inaugurating our new space for digital culture. Thank you for coming 🙂

Only two days after, we were happy to host another NODE+CODE meetup: #22.2 – How to build a bot from scratch. Read more about it here!

 
 

Contributors

 

Navid Navab

Montréal, Quebec/Canada

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.

  • soft opening!

  • 3 moderators

  • 1 contributor

  • 52 community members

  • meetup #22.1

  • vegan chili sin carne

Funding

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

 

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