Artist Talk Tour: Digital Musics & Sound Art

Organism / Navid Navab, Garnet Willis - Photo: Miha_Godec

Guided Tour

Artist Talk Tour: Digital Musics & Sound Art

Prix Ars Electronica

Emiko Ogawa (JP/AT), Navid Navab (IR/CA), Garnet Willis (CA), Ioana Vreme Moser (RO), evala (JP), Superbe (BE), Zhao Zhou (NL), Jonathan Chaim Reus (NL)

Join us on this special tour led by Emiko Ogawa, Head of the Prix Ars Electronica. Together with awardees, she guides visitors through the exhibition and offers exclusive insights into their works.
Discover the award-winning works of the Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition alongside the artists themselves. In short artist talks and personal conversations, you will gain a deeper understanding of their ideas, backgrounds, and creative processes.
This tour features highlights from the Digital Musics & Sound Art category—with contributions by Navid Navab (IR/CA), Garnet Willis (CA), Ioana Vreme Moser (RO), evala (JP), Superbe (BE), Jonathan Chaim Reus (NL), and Zhao Zhou (NL).

Lentos Kunstmuseum

Wed 3. Sep 2025 14:00 15:30

Registration required!

Language //

EN

Ticket //

WE GUIDE YOU Ticket

Max. Participants //

15

  • Navid Navab

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

  • Garnet Willis

    Garnet Willis is an interdisciplinary artist, audio-engineer, designer, and instrument builder. Garnet’s research investigates the crossroads between sensation, form over time, sentient matter, and material agency. He combines his disparate skills to produce multivariate artworks that tend to revolve around sound. He develops shapeshifting sculptures that utilize complex material calculations driven by internal stresses resulting in unpredictable, real-time changes in physical form.

  • Superbe

    Founded in 2011, the duo was built from the outset around a central objective: creating concepts that place the user’s sensations at the heart of the interactive experience. While their first interactive installations were rooted in music, they quickly began experimenting in other fields, with interactive art becoming their favorite playground. Whether crafting collective or intimate experiences, they focus on creating sensitive works that blur the boundaries between art and live performance.

  • evala

    evala is a Japanese sound artist and musician. He explores new auditory experiences through his unique “Spatial Composition,” using a 3D sound system that does not rely on existing formats. His project See by Your Ears, guided by the concept of “seeing with one’s ear,” presents spatial and immersive auditory experiences and seeks to awaken the inherent, dormant potential of hearing. Launched in 2017, this project has been showcased internationally in a variety of spaces.

  • Ioana Vreme Moser

    Ioana Vreme Moser (b. 1994) is a sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation. She uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. From these collisions, synthesized sounds emerge to carry personal narrations on the history of electronics, their production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world.

  • Zhao Zhou

    Zhao Zhou is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates air-based sensory disruption and spatial experience. Trained in Interior Architecture at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, he creates installations employing arrays of air vortex generators to craft moments of suspension where tactile and auditory perception gently eclipse sight. His work advocates for techno-spatial autonomy by exposing and reconfiguring the hidden constraints of built environments.

  • Jonathan Reus

    Jonathan Reus is a musician exploring embodiment, tradition, and progress in the human-technology relationship. With a background in electronic music, mathematics, and science, he builds custom instruments, wearable sound art, and live coding performances. His recent work combines ancient and modern vocal technologies, using dataset-making as creative play and improvisation to navigate the speculative, often surreal landscape of 21st-century techno-culture.

Please note: The program for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 is still in progress.
We are currently preparing all the information for the website and plan to put the full program online in the coming days – stay tuned!