Here's a nice wrap-up of the show I participated in at the end of last year! Thanks to Ana María Guzman, Jana Hambitzer, and fellow artists Ren Loren Britton and Sasha Bergstrom-Katz!
Photos: Christian van’t Hoen
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Happy to share that I’ve been awarded a Research and Work Scholarship for Visual Arts by the City of Cologne.
In times of increasing uncertainty around arts funding and beyond, this kind of support creates crucial space for reflection, research, and experimentation. New project starting in March!
Looking back at "The Ambiguity of Sorting: How do technologies of separation bring us together?" which took place in Aachen in December... Thanks to Ana Maria Guzmán for organizing and moderating the event! khk.rwth-aachen.de/hapoc-2025-a...
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Last week I contributed to a panel on the topic of "ghost labour" at the Nordic Labour Film Festival – invited by @annekaun.bsky.social. I presented my installation EZ Quality Sorter V2, which was previously shown in Sweden in the context of Anne's research project on the automation of welfare.
Looking forward to present my artwork and research in the context of the #WORK2025 conference today – as part of the stream "Exploring the human in AI worldbuilding" chaired by Minna Ruckenstein, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, and Santeri Räisänen!
I'm currently participating in the #WORK2025 conference on "Work in the Era of Unruly AI". Three interesting days ahead!
... scientists and hands-on work in laboratories. In 2016, Friedrich created The Long Now, a persistent soap bubble, achieved by sealing the bubble in an atmospheric chamber where it can remain indefinitely. Her 2019 work Office Plants compares the disparate time scales of plant versus human life."
„There are a cluster of art–science projects around the subject of time. Verena Friedrich is a former resident of SymbioticA and the Max Planck Institute who creates time-based installations with organic, electronic, and sculptural media. Her artistic practice involves direct interventions with ...
Just realized that my work is being mentioned in the remarkable "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" edited by Hannah Rogers, @mhalpern.bsky.social, Dehlia Hannah, and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone – surrounded by fellow artists Erich Berger, Mari Keto, and Thomas Feuerstein.
Erbsenzähler is a german derogative for bureaucratic minded people heavily fixated on quantifyable detail. The digital turned us all into them, the erbsenzählerei infiltrating every aspect of our life, down to the tokens of our language.
Great piece!
Thanks for your comment René!
The piece is part of the ERBSENZÄHLER project, which explores the quantification and datafication of life. In the EZ Weight Sorter, the material world is mapped onto digital data, which then reshapes physical order. But where to draw the lines—and what happens at the threshold and in the gaps? (5/5)
Detail: Here the sorted peas start to accumulate. Over time one can see the beginnings of a bell curve forming in the tubes. (4/5)
Detail: The seed travels towards the right on the linear slider and is guided by actuators into its designated glass tube—each tube represents one weight class. (3/5)
Detail: a single pea seed has been dispensed and placed on the fine scale, where its weight is registered. Seeds that fall outside of the predefined weight range are rejected, the rest are transported along the metal axis for final sorting (2/5)
Meet the EZ Weight Sorter MINI – a new machine in the ERBSENZÄHLER series that sorts individual pea seeds into predefined weight classes. As seeds accumulate in the glass tubes, their distribution traces a bell curve, turning the sorter into a live statistical display. (1/5) #projectpeacounter
The conference "Investigating the #KillCloud", held last November in Berlin, looked at IT companies and their contributions to military programs to shed light on the ethical problems associated with the use of #AI.
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This week at IFK Vienna and online: "Behold the Containers" – a conference on the topic of "container technologies", referring to Le Guin's carrier bag theory of fiction, co-hosted by the fabulous Karin Harrasser!
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I'm excited to share that my project "ERBSENZÄHLER Quality Sorter V2" is featured in ANTENNAE! 🌱🤖
The work explores the hidden biases in automated systems and invites visitors to directly engage in the sorting process—highlighting the complexities and subjectivity behind data classification.
