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Artist Talk by AATB – I could not reach my own brain just now – 5th November, 17.45, ETHZ NO C44

AATB (Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet, @aatb_ch) is an artist duo working extensively with robotics, incorporating programming, electronics and engineering to investigate human-machine interactions. The duo creates fantastical encounters with machines: be it a device to listen to cosmic rays at CERN, a humanoid sleeping or a large robotic arm holding and moving a hoop to create soap bubbles.
Their playful way of engaging with these often hard materials challenges how robotics is perceived and what emotional landscapes machines can evoke.

The talk is accompanied by a short research insight by Dr. Moritz Bächer, Lab Director of Robotics at Disney Research, and followed by an aperitif.

The Art & Computer Science Talks are generously supported by ETH Zürich, D-INFK, Arab Bank Switzerland (@abs.digitalart) and Hasler Stiftung.

[1] void avoid (return nothing), 2025
[2] Training Grounds, 2025
[3] Soap Opera, 2019

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I’m so grateful to have been invited to contribute to the ABS award monograph celebrating the collaboration between @sofiacrespo and @annaridler

A huge thank you to the brilliant editor @lucyscribbles and to @ninaroehrs from @abs.digitalart , and of course to the awardees themselves, two wonderful artists whose fascinating practices inspired me to write about the connections between nature, collaboration, time, cognition, and coding💐

I hope you get a chance to explore the monograph and read through all the wonderful essays! I’m especially looking forward to nerding out with you about the unexpected similarities between machine learning and positive breakups. 🤖🌱

Now out from @hatjecantzverlag 📚

📚 https://hatjecantz.com/products/9783775763981

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Anna and I now have a book! 🌼

“Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration” brings together the five projects we made together between 2023 and 2025, alongside four critical essays and an interview. It traces how we bring machine learning into conversation with photography, botanical study and tactile processes.

It was commissioned by @abs.digitalart as part of the 2025 Artist of the Year award and published by @hatjecantz.

We launched it at HALLEN 07 during Berlin Art Week with a conversation with editor Charlotte Kent @lucyscribbles about authorship, process, and what it means to collaborate with each other and with machine systems.
Thank you to @annaridler, Charlotte, the ABS team, Hatje Cantz, and everyone who came.

📷 @silke_briel

#absartistoftheyear #hallen_kunstfestival #berlinartweek #hatjecantz

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This was Hallen 07 @hallen_kunstfestival @berlinartweek
Thanks to everyone who contributed and to everyone who came by, enjoyed the art, had a good chat at one of the dinner events or food and coffee corners, loved the concerts and performances or enjoyed the Yoga and dance classes as part of the additional program. We were delighted to have you and can’t wait to do it all over again in 2027. See you there!

Videos shot by @mayajolina @nella.beljan @friendsoffriends @_itsnottheendoftheworld and the Kiki Ball snippets are by @radiomik We will share more content of our visitors in the upcoming days

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Where machine learning meets the natural world:

London-based Anna Ridler builds custom machine learning systems from hand-labelled datasets, Argentine artist Sofia Crespo explores the intersections of biology, image-making, and artificial life. Together, they build a very successful artist duo which investigates the links between artificiality and nature.

Our new publication “Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration.” collects the five joint projects (2023–2025) that won the duo the 2025 Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year Award.
Inside, an exclusive interview and critical essays explore how the artists bridge cutting-edge AI with botanical study and tactile traditions, treating technology as a living, evolving ecology.

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1: © Detail of Snapshots: Orchids, 2023, Image courtesy of Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler
2: © Detail of unique polaroid print, Long Short Term Memories (sketches from a garden in Argentina), 2025, Image courtesy of Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler
3: © Detail of unique polaroid print, Long Short Term Memories (sketches from a garden in Argentina), 2025, Image courtesy of Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler
4: © Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler, Long Short Term Memories (sketches from a garden in Argentina), 2025, 24 unique polaroid prints, 8.8 x 10.7cm each, configurable installation, Image courtesy of Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler

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📚 Sofia Crespo × Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration

Edited by: Arab Bank Switzerland
Designed by: Studio Pyda
Artist: SOFIA CRESPO × ANNA RIDLER
Texts by: Tega Brain, Charlotte Kent, Doreen Ríos, Nina Roehrs, Masako Shiba, Catherine Troiano

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6398-1

#SofiaCrespo #AnnaRidler #hatjecantz #hatjecantzart

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There’s many ways to 🏆🤸‍♀️

🙏 🙏 🙏

@abs.digitalart
@ninaroehrs
@ranijabban
@chateauroyalberlin
#berlinartweek

📷 @silke_briel

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This is your final weekend to catch @hallen_kunstfestival ❤

Here’s some impressions from yesterday’s CUNTemporary’s Kiki Ball Part II, part of the festival’s additional program. @devidgualandris @jadedoralive

A few spots remain for (tonight’s) Saturday evening’s Palindromic Banquet, conceived by Daniel Spoerri together with @levygalerie and @ferrocanteen — an Eat-Art Dinner Experience including a private view of the HALLEN 07 exhibition. Ticket link in bio.

Photos & videos by @friendsoffriends for @hallen_kunstfestival
Slides 1–5: @am3l.ie
Slides 6–7, 10–11: @nella.beljan
Slides 8–9, 12: @mayajolina

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ONLINE NOW: John Tresch, “Technologies of Consciousness,” Part 3/5

Watch the third part of the course taught by John Tresch, Professor of History of Art and Science at @the_warburg_institute in London, exploring cosmograms as objects, images, and media that do not simply represent the universe, but shape how worlds are imagined, organized, and acted upon.

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Conceived by Andrea Bellini and Federico Campagna (@fedcampagna), “Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy” is a free, semester-long program of English-language lectures, seminars, and one-to-one mentoring for a group of eight practicing artists and philosophers.

The recordings of the contributions from the faculty are now accessible to everyone on @centredartcontemporaingeneve’s digital platform, the 5th floor, with new releases scheduled monthly.

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Now available at agora.centre.ch:
• Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Politics & Aesthetics After Geontopower,” Part 5/5
• Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The Likely Termination of Human Civilization Within the Current Century,” Part 1/5
• John Tresch, “Technologies of Consciousness,” Part 3/5

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We are open daily from 11—8pm. Please check also our programme for additional workshop and performances. @hallen_kunstfestival 🖤
Photos @nella.beljan @mayajolina @friendsoffriends

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About last night @hallen_kunstfestival
All Photos by @nella.beljan for @hallen_kunstfestival x @friendsoffriends
Except Slide 4 by @annavandenhoevel and
Slide 8 by @jordannwood Slide 9 by @timmiseifert

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BERLIN, RIGHT NOW.

Inside the raw industrial architecture of Wilhelm Hallen, HALLEN 07 brings together contemporary art, galleries, artists and collections for one of the city’s most intriguing encounters during Berlin Art Week.

Think monumental spaces, ambitious works, unexpected juxtapositions — and that unmistakable Berlin feeling of discovering something before everyone else does.

HALLEN 07
5–13 September 2026
11:00–20:00
Wilhelm Hallen · Kopenhagener Str. 60–72, Berlin
Closed 7–8 September

Featuring galleries and institutions including Esther Schipper, ChertLüdde, Nagel Draxler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Mehdi Chouakri, SEXAUER, Schipper & more, alongside major collections and cultural institutions.

Are you planning to go?

#HALLEN07 #HallenKunstfestival #WilhelmHallen #BerlinArtWeek BerlinArtWeek2026

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