Garnet Willis (CA) is an interdisciplinary artist, audio engineer, composer and instrument builder. He combines his disparate skills as, designer, wood and metal-worker, sound engineer and electronics geek to produce multivariate artworks that explore the interplay between physical form, musical interface, and sound. His artistic practice explores the crossroads between sensation, form over time, sentient matter, and material agency. He enjoys team collaborations - especially when he gets to design and build new types of lively and challenging objects. Recently in his own work he has revisited his background in music composition to develop stochastic shapeshifting sculptures that utilize complex material calculations driven by internal stresses resulting in unpredictable, real time changes in physical form.
He has garnered prestigious international awards for his artworks, compositions and recordings, including the ARS Electronica Golden Nica and the Bourges Prize, and has had his work exhibited and performed in the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Croatia, Austria and Colombia. He has written/built many commissioned works including his “'flux” series of self-playing electromagnetic sound sculptures.