Liat Grayer &
Daniel Berio
Liat Grayver is a Berlin-based painter and media artist. Since 2016, she has been developing approaches that integrate robotics and computational languages into painting and creative image-making.
Daniel Berio is a London-based researcher, programmer, and artist. His work explores computational and robotically-assisted approaches in drawing and writing.
Making Meaning Through Digital Craft
The Zurich-based collective Machine Arts Group explores how digital craft creates meaning through hands-on collaboration between humans, machines, and materials. Working with embodied AI, robotics, and physical materials, they show how making can become a dialogue – and why that matters in an age of endless AI output. Making today isn’t just about output. It’s about care, experimentation, and finding meaning through practice.
Will AI take my job — or be my job?
The panel discussion brings together Dr. Nina Roehrs (Founder gallery Roehrs & Boetsch), Anthony Masure (Associate Professor & Dean of Research at HEAD), and moderator Pascale Speck for a fast-paced conversation on the future of creative labor.
In parallel, MAG co-organizer Armin Aschenbrenner presented a live artistic performance, offering an inside look at his practice at the intersection of technology, craft, and embodied AI. Don’t miss this unique chance to experience his latest work in action.
Brushograph Workshop
Day 1: Build & Code
Assemble and run your own DIY robotic painting kit, learn the basics of image processing and machine control language.
Day 2: Play & Paint
Learn about different machine painting techniques, experiment and make your own paintings.
Patrick Tresset
Fascinated by aspects of human life that remain unchanged since prehistoric times, he uses technology as a means of distance, control, and spontaneity. His work has been shown internationally, including at the Pompidou Center, Tate Modern, V&A, Prada Foundation, MMCA, and Mori Museum.
StageOne, Zurich (CH)
Expressive Machines
AI has transformed digital creativity, but its role in physical arts is less visible. “Expressive Machines” explores this through robots that not only generate images but perform them — turning perception into gesture and code into brushstroke. Can machines, by developing aesthetics and spatial awareness, become creative themselves?
This exhibition, curated by the Machine Arts Group, presents three installations at the crossroads of computer science, robotics, and art: Patrick Tresset’s autonomous drawing agents, Sofie Mart’s image interpretation techniques, and e-David, a painting robot developed by Michael Stroh from the University of Konstanz. Each live system runs on custom AI, revealing emerging forms of non-human authorship.
Bagus Pandega
“Working primarily through the medium of installation, Bagus Pandega often challenges pre-conditioned relationships between objects and its viewer. In his works, Pandega assembles various electronic systems as ‘modules’ and explores objects such as voice recorders, cassette and record players, lamps and electronic circuit boards — among others — to construct his works. Many of his artworks become activated through the interaction of movement, sound and light” (ROH Projects)
A Night of Machine Arts
The evening brought together artists, makers, technologists, and curious minds for connection, conversation, and celebration — with a talk by a guest artist, live drawing machines in action, and a first glimpse at the MAG’s upcoming program.