... scientists and hands-on work in laboratories. In 2016, Friedrich created The Long Now, a persistent soap bubble, achieved by sealing the bubble in an atmospheric chamber where it can remain indefinitely. Her 2019 work Office Plants compares the disparate time scales of plant versus human life."

„There are a cluster of art–science projects around the subject of time. Verena Friedrich is a former resident of SymbioticA and the Max Planck Institute who creates time-based installations with organic, electronic, and sculptural media. Her artistic practice involves direct interventions with ...

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The piece is part of the ERBSENZÄHLER project, which explores the quantification and datafication of life. In the EZ Weight Sorter, the material world is mapped onto digital data, which then reshapes physical order. But where to draw the lines—and what happens at the threshold and in the gaps? (5/5)

Detail: Here the sorted peas start to accumulate. Over time one can see the beginnings of a bell curve forming in the tubes. (4/5)

Detail: The seed travels towards the right on the linear slider and is guided by actuators into its designated glass tube—each tube represents one weight class. (3/5)

Detail: a single pea seed has been dispensed and placed on the fine scale, where its weight is registered. Seeds that fall outside of the predefined weight range are rejected, the rest are transported along the metal axis for final sorting (2/5)