Events
In her solo exhibition at Yvonne Hohner Contemporary, multidisciplinary artist Gretta Louw presents works from three new series exploring technologically mediated painting and drawing.
The title High Tech High Touch references futurist John Naisbitt’s book on how emerging technologies interact with human experience. Louw investigates the paradox of advanced automation increasingly depending on human creativity and input, and explores the artistic potential of working with robotic systems.
In the main gallery space, two visually distinct series are united by their roots in digital drawing. Luminous acrylic sculptures translate hand-drawn lines into light using advanced manufacturing techniques, while soft, tactile textile works begin as digital drawings that are machine-embroidered, then hand-painted by the artist.
A second room features new oil paintings and a video documenting Louw’s collaboration with the e-David painting robot and the Visual Computing team at the University of Konstanz. This collaboration highlights not only the limits of current technologies, but also the complexities of embodiment—both human and machine.
https://www.yvonne-hohner-galerie.com/blog/high-tech-high-touch
EACVA presentation on the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Machine Creativity. interdisciplinary insights on therelationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Center for Humans & Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin
Today’s A.I. discourse is misleading—and robotic painting reveals just how much gets lost between flashy demos and the messy reality of making art.
Full Article by Gretta Louw at Artnet.com
Michael Stroh (e-David, University of Konstanz) ran a workshop on creating art with code and robotic painting at the fourth Living Room Session of the IPAI Foundation in Heilbronn.
https://ip.ai/event/living-room-session-4-creating-with-code-vom-pinselstrich-zum-pixel/
AHRC and DFG celebrated more than 100 funded projects in the DFG/AHRC bilateral funding initiative in a two-day workshop held in Cambridge, UK, May 2025, with 60 invited guests, among them PIs from funded projects, panel chairs, representatives from DAAD, British Council, AHRC and DFG. EACVA was represented by Prof. F. F. Leymarie.
The DFG and the AHRC also announced they were renewing their partnership.
Posters of selected projects, including EACVA, can be found here:
https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-opportunities/funding/ahrc/selected-projects
Abstracts and videos of talks held during the symposium at the CLB in Berlin follow:
Details and video recordings of talks and panels: Berlin 2025
Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art
The symposium will feature ongoing works and discussions, bringing together researchers and practitioners from visual arts, computing, robotics, cognitive science, psychology, and sociology to explore cutting-edge developments in robotics and art and present an art exhibition featuring works by EACVA artists in residence program.
Vernissage: 24.01.2025, 18:00
Exhibition Dates: 25.01.2025 – 02.03.2025
Artist Talk: 31.01.2025, 18:00
A robotic art installation by Liat Grayver and Dr. Daniel Berio in collaboration with the Nanoparticle Systems Engineering Laboratory headed by Prof. Dr. Inge Herrmann
Video: “Labor, a human-robot painting installation in the making”:
AAA Experiments in AI, Art and Architecture
Join Inge Herrmann (ETHZ) and Liat Grayver (EACVA) for a conversation about their collaborative work “Labor.”
‘Einen Riesigen Schwarm’ video work by Gretta Louw played on the largest digital screen in Germany on the Königsallee in Düsseldorf as part of DC Open.