The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication, and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science, and technology.
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Between April 2025 and December 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin: Artist-in-lab residencies for four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists – Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, and Margherita Pevere. The four chosen artists are all well known for their outstanding artistic research at the interface of art, science, and technology. Each is highly experienced in integrating art with new technologies and collaborating with scientists in fields such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, climate science, soil ecology, and biodiversity. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, art science communication, and some new artworks critically highlighting 21st-century innovations. More information HERE.
On Friday, 12 December 2025 we will host the first of several workshops, that will take place at Art Laboratory Berlin until summer 2026 as part of the current research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS: The workshop ‘Ideologies in the Machine: Political Bias in Large Language Models’ with artist and researcher Helena Nikonole examines how contemporary AI systems encode and reproduce ideological narratives. The event will take place at the Einstein Center Digital Future (Berlin Mitte), in collaboration with the Berlin Open Lab and other partners. Update: The Workshop is fully booked out, no registration possible anymore. More information HERE
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- Ideology embeddings of LLMs
- Helena Nikonole
Helena Nikonole will show new works based on her current artistic research: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in the extraction, production, and circulation of knowledge, language is not merely a medium of communication but an instrument of power. p0wer vect0rs positions AI as a contested terrain, where misuse operates as method and art becomes a mode of research into the automation of language and reasoning.
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CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Panel Discussion | With Helena Nikonole, Álvaro Rodríguez, Julius Holtz, Ludmila Litvin, Margherita Pevere, Germán Joosten, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
Join the presentation of our current research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS at the Berlin Science Week 2025. We will give an insight into Berlin-based artists researching in Berlin science labs – with topics on neuroscience, artificial intelligence, biodiversity, and ecology! Building on Berlin’s unique status as a global centre for arts and sciences, we aim to create new synergies based on topics of current research.
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CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Ideologies in the Machine: Political Bias in Large Language Models
- Workshop with Helena Nikonole
Focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as derivative systems like text-to-image generators, participants will investigate how AI reproduces political bias and ideological framing through language and visual representation. Through experiments with politically charged prompts, participants will analyze how these models interpret ideology, shape discourse, and amplify systemic bias.
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Duelling Epistemologies
- How Artists Hack Laboratories and Alter the Futures of Science
- Paper | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
- Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
- With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere
ALB is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin. The new project is an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories at all three universities of Berlin, the University of the Arts Berlin, and the Charité. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, and critically highlighting 21st-century innovations.
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IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
- Interdisciplinary Open Work Meetings
The colloquium is an integral part of the ongoing discursive programme at Art Laboratory Berlin and was conceived and initiated by Regine Rapp in early 2022. The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress.
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