NODE+CODE Meetup #22.1 – Interactive Keynote with Navid Navab

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.

📅 12.11.2025, 19:00, Doors open: 18:30
📍 display, Berliner Straße 60,
60311 Frankfurt am Main
🎟️ entry free!
🍲 soup included!

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.

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. In collaboration with Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt Economic Development, University of Applied Sciences Mainz and MESO Digital Interiors.