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New Podcast Edition with Artist and Professor Ionat Zurr!
Sonic Ecologies‘ season 2 comes to an end with a conversation between Ionat Zurr and Regine Rapp. They discuss the phonomenon of biological arts, the complexities of living matter through transdisciplinary research, education, and production, and critically reflect aspects of biopolitics. The conversation is based on Zurr’s artistic practice and artistic research, her role as director of SymbioticA and art professor. The dialog of 45 min. took place in Berlin on 16 October 2024. Listen to the podcast here!
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Meet the artist Helena Nikonoloe in her current winder studio residency at Art Laboratory Berlin on Sun, 2 February 2025 (2 – 6pm). In her talk (4 pm), she will explore how artistic practices can challenge centralized systems of controlIn her talk Helena Nikonole will explore how artistic practices can challenge centralized systems of control through two of her current projects, which she is continuing to develop during her winter studio residency at Art Laboratory Berlin. The first project uncovers hidden structures of power embedded in generative AI systems based on Large Language Models by probing their biases around political ideologies. This investigation reveals how these technologies reflect and amplify societal inequalities. The second project decentralizes communication networks to counteract internet shutdowns and surveillance in high-risk environments. More information here.
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Current
Guerilla Wearables | Politics of LLMs
- Winter Studio Residency 2025
- Helena Nikonole
Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce that Helena Nikonole has joined ALB’s residency program. Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, researcher, and educator whose work explores the intersection of art and technology. Her fields of interest include bio-semiotics, hacktivism, and Artificial Intelligence, a subject she has been exploring since 2016, developing critical and artistic approaches to this rapidly evolving field.
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Hacking Networks
- Open Studio and Talk
- Helena Nikonole | Winter Studio Residency
Meet the artist in her current winter studio residence at Art Laboratory Berlin. In her talk Helena Nikonole will explore how artistic practices can challenge centralized systems of control through two of her current projects, which she is continuing to develop during her winter residency. One project deals with generative AI systems and political biases; the other project explores decentralized communication networks.
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OUT OF BALANCE
- Bio-Art Workshop
- With Fara Peluso, Helena Nikonole, Karine Bonneval, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
Invited by Goethe-Institut Saudi-Arabien and Alliance française d’Arabie saoudite/ Embassade francaise ALB curated Riyadh’s first BioArt Laboratory in cooperation with Gharem studio: Three hands-on workshops tought techniques of artistic work with biological organisms and five theoretical seminars units discussed intensely the history, methodologies, and biopolitics of BioArt.
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- Current Collaborations Between Art, Biology, Music, and Anthropology
- Panel Discussion | With Isabel Bredenbröker, Adam Pultz, India Mansour, Sybille Neumeyer, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
MATTER OF FLUX
- Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care
- Book Publication | Art Laboratory Berlin
SONIC ECOLOGIES
- Podcast Series
Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to have produced the Podcast Channel SONIC ECOLOGIES in 2023 and 2024. The podcast series was conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel. Each curatorial team member – Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel – interviewed artists and scientists.
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Conferences | Symposia
- Interdisciplinary Research at Art Laboratory Berlin
For more than ten years Art Laboratory Berlin has enhanced research based projects with international conferences and interdisciplinary symposia, as a sustainable theoretical addition next to exhibition projects, seminars and workshops.
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