CURRENTS x RELAY: Orchestrated Systems

Exhibition Summary

Orchestrated Systems is a month-long exhibition featuring contemporary artists working with sound, mechanics, computation, and performance. The exhibition brings together installations that operate as performing structures - sonic, mechanical, algorithmic, multi-modal - unfolding through duration, repetition, and interaction. These works respond to audience presence, spatial conditions, and internal constraints, foregrounding process, execution, and the behavior of systems over time.

Visitors are encouraged to return throughout the run of the exhibition to experience how works shift, accumulate, and respond. In addition to open gallery hours, the exhibition will include artist-led performances, demonstrations, and informal talks that offer insight into the processes and systems at work.

What You’ll Experience

• Immersive spatial and multi-channel sound environments

• Kinetic and electro-mechanical instruments and sculptures

• Algorithmically driven and interactive systems

• Occasional live activations, performances, and artist talks

Participating Artists

Nathaniel Ober is a sound-based installation artist living and working in Yucca Valley, California. His practice spans installation, sculpture, sound, digital prototyping, and scientific research, drawing heavily from astrophysics and environmental systems. Often working in collaboration with the natural world, Ober’s installations give voice to landscape, climate, and place through spatial sound and responsive structures. His work has been presented internationally at institutions including the San Francisco Center for New Music, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Parque Explora in Medellín, Arteles Creative Center in Finland, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art, among others. Ober holds an MFA from the Digital Arts + New Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design.

Eric Heep is an artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work combines custom electronics, procedural sound, code, and unconventional materials - including bricks - to create immersive sensory environments. Recent projects focus on volumetric light, haze, and large-scale sound systems, exploring how physical space, intensity, and repetition shape perception and experience.

Maddy Weaver and Charles Tuttle are multidisciplinary artists based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The pair met while working at Meow Wolf and collaborate across sculpture, sound, and kinetic installation. Drawing on backgrounds in electrical and mechanical engineering, they transform everyday and discarded materials into instruments of sound and light. Their work emphasizes sustainability through the reuse of e-waste, revealing the expressive and sonic potential embedded in obsolete technologies.

Exhibition Schedule

Dates: March 2026

Duration: One month

Open Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12:00–6:00 PM

Public Events:

• March 7 - Opening Celebration (6:00–9:00 PM)

• March 11 - Intro to Algorithmic Programming with Max/MSP workshop led by Eric Heep (details coming soon)

• March 19 - Wave Field Synthesis Concert:  A performance featuring collaborating artists from Eric Heep’s Wave Field Synthesis Array (details coming soon)

• March 28 - Closing Event (6:00-9:00pm)