Thematic Working Groups 2026-2027

Measuring a nation wants to assemble a group to work upon exploring possibilities in the modalities and contents for the production of a documentary about natural and political borders, considering temporality, measurement methods, cartography and geopolitics at a center of a fragile environment, the one of the Alpine Arc, where different laws rules and nature is redrawing the map: melting glaciers, watersheds and landslides, disappearing physical markers and eco-systems, including ice-cores that tell us so much about the climatological past.

Organon is a NAVET TWG dedicated to investigating the boundaries of organology — the study and classification of musical instruments. By focusing on liminal instruments that resist classification, we want to challenge rigid, technoscientific frameworks to classify musical instruments. Our work will focus on instruments at different stages: from their design and fabrication to composition and their meeting with performers and audiences. By using these undefinable instruments as case studies, we move beyond the digital/acoustic binary toward alternative organologies with porous categories. Our goal is to develop situated, open-ended frameworks that reveal how instruments store and produce knowledge.