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Join Inge Herrmann (ETHZ) and Liat Grayver (EACVA) for a conversation about their collaborative work “Labor.”

WANTH. WE ALL NEED TO HEAL

We kickstarted the Artists in Residence program with a two-day workshop. The first day was hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London. Our core team introduced our research in various domains: human cognition by Rebecca Chamberlain, sociology by Tomoko Tamari, and computer science by Michael Strow and Daniel Berio. The second day was hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum and featured artistic presentations by core team artists Daniel Berio and Liat Grayver. This was followed by presentations of new projects by our Artists in Residence: Gretta Louw, Patrick Tresset, Anna Mirkin, and Licia He.

Philosophy of AI – Speaker series with Roman Lipsky and Liat Grayver.

link for online participation: https://uzh.zoom.us/j/62103774684?pwd=MHJZZGJFT0NJOEhGLzFhS1hqaWh0dz09

Engage in insightful discussions, share your perspectives, and collaborate towards a more inclusive AI future and contribute to the programme:

1. EDI, AI and Creative Health.
2. Creative AI
3. Brokering: Presentation of project pitches by internal and external researchers 
4. Showcasing: EDI&AI@Westminster: interactive sessions, Demonstrations, Posters, Videos, etc.
5. Panel: EDI and creative AI

Invited Talk (EDI & Creative AI: Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmith, University of London) and Panel “EDI and creative AI” as part of the Alan Turing Institute’s Fringe event

Liat Grayver, Daniel Berio and Nora Al-Badri

The work is presented as a room installation consisting of a series of drawings made with the support of the e-David robotic painting lab at the University of Konstanz. Using software developed by Berio, a range of instances, each based on a mathematical model of Arabic patterns established by computer scientist Craig Kaplan, were derived using the system; a singular pattern was selected by the three artists as the source material to generate the entire body of drawings.

Group show with Liat Grayver, Katharina Haucke, Marcus Maeder, Martin Lucas Schulze

A production of knowledge independent of hegemonically recognized knowledge is an intention that all the artists common to all the artists in the Kunst forscht exhibition and whose title is a reference to “Jugend forscht”, the well-known competition for pupils and young people in the natural sciences. The Israelian artist Liat Grayver, for example, makes use of intensive correspondence in the production of her paintings and drawings.

intensive correspondence with robots in the production of her paintings and drawings. The Berlin artist experiments with the transformation possibilities of the human voice.
Berlin artist and musician Katharina Hauke experiments with the transformation possibilities of the human voice. To this end, she is developing an apparatus that she calls the MikroKontrolleur. The Chemnitz-based artist deals with physical phenomena of Chemnitz artist Martin Lucas Schulze deals with physical phenomena of various kinds. The result, as he puts it, is an alternative knowledge production in which he wants to make the functional structures of decay processes visible.

From the systematic observation of climatic changes, the Swiss artist Swiss artist Marcus Maeder derives his artistic works captured in multimedia installations.

Liat Grayver and e-David team

The show instigates a complex dialogue between an evolving deterministic process, computational vision analysis, and organic painterly action. Data extracted from a simulated world is transformed into real-world materials before being translated back into data in a continuous loop of action and reaction, of observation and depiction.

The 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) 2019

Liat Grayver (Artist in Residenz Excellence Cluster Fellowship“Cultural Foundations of Social Integration”,) the e-David team Marvin Gülzow, Casa Paganini InfoMus, and Dr.Antonín Šulc

The space brings together several collaborative works that varyingly employ robotic technologies, motion tracking, video, and painting. As a whole, this body of works investigates the relation between organic practices and machine-based systems, both of which are used to create structures from physical actions (operation) and from the mind (perception).

The e-David robot is positioned in the centre of the exhibition and continuously generates calligraphic- paintings. The data for the robot’s brushstrokes is generated from analysis of the visitors’ movements in the space, captured using a camera and custom motion-tracking software. As they enter the exhibition space, individual visitors’ movements are captured by the video camera, and their location and movement are translated into a digital trajectory that is projected on a large, transparent black screen. The individual trajectories are translated into brushstrokes painted by the robot on a long rice paper roll, which is advanced by a paper feed. At the end of each day, the roll is fully painted with different calligraphic lines describing the movement of visitors throughout the space. These are hung in the gallery space on custom-made frames functioning as evidence and testimony of each of the days the exhibit runs.

Liat Grayver was at the Centre Pompidou, on March 28, 2019, during the STARTS Residencies Days. Discover her residency with the WeDRAW Project in this video.