Verena Friedrich
@verenafriedrich.bsky.social
Artist and Researcher based in Cologne - working in the field of Media Art, Installation, Art & Science - interested in Automation and the Quantification & Datafication of Life
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
@rwth.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social @sositap.bsky.social
Photos: Christian van’t Hoen
@rwth.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social @sositap.bsky.social
The Ambiguity of Sorting – How Do Technologies of Separation Bring Us Together? – Käte Hamburger Kolleg: cultures of research (c:o/re)
khk.rwth-aachen.de
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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
@rwth.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social @sositap.bsky.social
Photos: Christian van’t Hoen
@rwth.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social @sositap.bsky.social
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!
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!
January 23, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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!
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...
@sositap.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social
@sositap.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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...
@sositap.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social
@sositap.bsky.social @core-rwth.bsky.social
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.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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!
August 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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!
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.
Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies | Hannah Ro
Art and science work is experiencing a dramatic rise coincident with burgeoning Science and Technology Studies (STS) interest in this area. Science has played
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June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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.
Reposted by Verena Friedrich
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!
Great piece!
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
May 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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!
Great piece!
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
April 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
Reposted by Verena Friedrich
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.
Read the full article on @ndaktuell.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/4h3pGa8
#DNL34
Read the full article on @ndaktuell.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/4h3pGa8
#DNL34
Krieg mit KI: Die Cloud wird tödlicher
Die Cloud ist nicht so unsichtbar, wie es scheint. Auch ihre Rolle in der modernen Kriegsführung wird greifbarer. Neben bekannten Konzernen drängen Startups auf den militärischen Markt.
buff.ly
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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.
Read the full article on @ndaktuell.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/4h3pGa8
#DNL34
Read the full article on @ndaktuell.bsky.social:
https://buff.ly/4h3pGa8
#DNL34
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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ifk.ac.at/kalender-det...
Behold the Containers! - IFK
Was wäre Kultur ohne Behältnisse? Zunächst einmal: schlicht nicht vorstellbar. Denn ohne materielle und symbolische Techniken des Bewahrens und Transportierens wüssten wir weder etwas über diejenigen,...
ifk.ac.at
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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!
ifk.ac.at/kalender-det...
ifk.ac.at/kalender-det...
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.
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.
ANTENNAE ISSUE #65 'Dataism' is now available online!
Antennae’s ‘Dataism’ focuses on the impact AI and other forms of data analysis and rendering are having on art making, curatorial practices, and writings that center on ecocritical themes.
Download free at www.antennae.org.uk
Antennae’s ‘Dataism’ focuses on the impact AI and other forms of data analysis and rendering are having on art making, curatorial practices, and writings that center on ecocritical themes.
Download free at www.antennae.org.uk
December 4, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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.
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.