Friday, November 21. 2025
fabric | ch during Gens Public Program, at the Venice Biennial | #cybernetic #sustainabilities #panel #venicebiennale
Wednesday, August 27. 2025
Kunstlicht publication about the Paik Replayed SNF research | #digitalexhibitions #hybridexhibitions #taxonomy #assessment
Note: Paik Replayed: Non-Digital Art Transformed by Hybrid Exhibition Practicies has just been published in the academic and peer-reviewed journal Kunstlicht, a research publication for art, visual culture, and architecture, edited and published by the Arts and Culture department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Paik Replayed is a SNSF funded research, led by Patrick Keller, with fabric | ch and the Nam June Paik Art Center (prototype) as field partners, and hosted at ECAL / University of Art and Design, Lausanne (HES-SO).
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By paikreplayed.org (on Instagram)
Monday, August 18. 2025
fabric | ch at ISEA 2025 | #paik #digitization #digitalexhibition
Note: fabric | ch is participating in the Paik Replayed research project, a Swiss National Science Foundation funded research, which focuses on digital/hybrid exhibitions of non digital-native artworks.
Patrick Keller and Christian Babski, both members of fabric | ch, are particularly involved as researchers and field partners, along with fellow researchers. fabric | ch having undertaken numerous digital exhibitions in the past.
We recently took part to the ISEA conference in Seoul (South Korea), to present the early outcomes of the research and take part in a panel. These endeavours are now published in the proceedings of the conference.
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The two papers, discussing hybrid exhibitions and the influence of early works from the Korean artists Nam June Paik on such tasks, are now accessible on the website of the research,
They can be accessed here: https://www.paikreplayed.org/2025/08/15/isea-2025-proceedings-two-papers-by-paik-replayed/
Monday, June 02. 2025
Research Project at ISEA 2025 in Seoul | #research #Paik #digital #exhibitions
Wednesday, March 12. 2025
Summoning the Ghosts of Modernity at MAMM (Medellin) | #exhibition #digital #algorithmic #matter #nonmatter
Note: fabric | ch is part of the exhibition Summoning the Ghosts of Modernity at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin (MAMM), in Colombia.
The show constitutes a continuation of Beyond Matter that took place at the ZKM in 2022/23, and is curated by Lívia Nolasco-Rószás and Esteban Guttiérez Jiménez.
The exhibition will be open between the 13th of March and 15th of June 2025.
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By fabric | ch
Atomized (re-)Staging (2022), by fabric | ch. Exhibited during Summing the Ghosts of Modernity at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin (MAMM). March 13 to June 15 2025.
More pictures of the exhibtion on Pixelfed.
Wednesday, September 11. 2024
All 242 fabric | rblg updated tags | #fabric|ch #wandering #reading
Thursday, August 03. 2023
Moviment exhibition at the Centre Pompidou – fabric | ch during Chapter "Par-delà la matière" | #matter #non-matter #automated #exhibition #fabricch
Note: Early last July, fabric | ch took part in the Moviment exhibition-festival at Centre Pompidou, in Paris.
Organized in 10 chapters (Red thread; The bedroom, the house, the city; In the spotlight; Aloud, Here and elsewhere, Other-worldly; Of gesture and time; To the max; Beyond matter; The grand finale!), this was the occasion – following the words of the curators – to "reactivate the essence of the Centre Pompidou ideals: to assemble all the different ways of encountering creativity, understanding it, participating in it; to be a monument in motion, a "moviment."
It was truly a success, with outstanding guests and a very interesting hybrid museum format, somewhere in-between exhibition and performance, talks and workshops.
In this context and during "Chapitre 9: Par-delà la matière" curated by Marcella Lista & Philippe Bettinelli, fabric | ch presented recent works about digital exhibitions.
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By fabric | ch
A few pictures from Moviment / Chapter 9:
(with fabric | ch, M. Lista & Les Immatériaux, M. Klonaris & K. Thomadaki, H.U. Obrist – "Résistances" project with LUMA Foundation and P. Parreno, J.-L. Boissier - Electra / Pictures by C. Babski & H. Veronese)
Via Centre Pompidou
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Beyond Matter / Par-delà la matière
Moviment, chapter 9
Sat 8 – Sun 9 July 2023
Combining technology and memory, the penultimate chapter of Moviment looks back at two major cultural events in the world of art and music, and the ways in which they can be perpetuated, revived or experienced beyond their materiality and topicality.
In partnership with LUMA Foundation
Affiche de l’exposition "Les Immatériaux", 1985 – © Centre Pompidou. Conception graphique : Grafibus.
Retour sur « Les Immatériaux »
Arts plastiques, Nouveaux médias Exposition, rencontres
Organisé par les commissaires Jean-François Lyotard et Thierry Chaput en 1985, « Les Immatériaux » était un essai aux fondements philosophiques adoptant l’exposition comme média ou interface. En faisant dialoguer œuvres d’art, technologies et documents scientifiques, les commissaires interrogeaient la condition humaine à l’ère des nouvelles technologies, dans différents domaines de la vie physique et psychique. La scénographie, particulièrement novatrice, privilégiait la désorientation, la stimulation de tous les sens et l’interactivité. Les visiteurs, dont le parcours n’était pas contraint mais « induit » par des écrans suspendus à l’opacité variable, étaient munis d’un casque diffusant une bande sonore variant au gré de leur déambulation dans la soixantaine de sites et les vingt-six zones audio de l’exposition.
Cette exposition historique a récemment fait l’objet d’une reconstitution virtuelle dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Beyond Matter ».
Exposition en continu, samedi 8 juillet 2023
« Beyond Matter »
Financé par la Commission européenne, le projet de recherche « Beyond Matter: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality » vise à développer des outils technologiques et théoriques pour la reconstitution virtuelle d’expositions historiques et la documentation d’expositions en cours. Les recherches menées dans le cadre de ce projet ont notamment porté sur deux expositions pionnières : « Iconoclash » (4 mai–1er septembre 2002, ZKM) et « Les Immatériaux » (28 mars–15 juillet 1985, Centre Pompidou).
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás et Marianne Schädler du Zentrum für Kunst und Medien de Karlsruhe (ZKM) présenteront la publication conclusive du projet européen.
Les artistes Jeremy Bailey, Damjanski, fabric | ch (Patrick Keller, Christian Babski, Christophe Guignard), Geraldine Juárez (en visioconférence), Carolyn Kirschner et Anne Le Troter présenteront ensuite les œuvres qu’ils et elles ont pu concevoir dans le cadre de l’exposition « Matter, Non-Matter, Anti-Matter » (3 décembre 2022–23 avril 2023, ZKM), restituant une partie des résultats du projet « Beyond Matter ».
Samedi 8 juillet 2023, 13h30–16h
« Les Immatériaux » : Artistes et historiens en conversation
Le chercheur Andreas Broeckmann, ainsi que les artistes Katerina Thomadaki, Jean-Louis Boissier et Jean-Claude Fall reviennent sur « Les Immatériaux », exposition pionnière à laquelle ils ont participé.
Séance modérée par Marcella Lista, Philippe Bettinelli et Marie Vicet.
Samedi 8 juillet 2023, 16h-18h
Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki, "Orlando-Hermaphrodite II", 1985, photographies noir et blanc sur panneau.
Courtesy Katerina Thomadaki.
Après « Les Immatériaux »
Projet porté par le curateur Hans Ulrich Obrist et l’artiste Philippe Parreno avec le soutien de LUMA Foundation, « Résistances » fait écho à l’exposition « Les Immatériaux » imaginée par Jean-François Lyotard. Resté inachevé, ce projet se trouve tout à la fois continué et réimaginé à travers des rencontres et la production de « films de pensée ».
Samedi 8 juillet 2023, 18h–19h30
La conversation se déroulera en français et en anglais, suivie d’une projection des « films de pensée ».
Films de pensée :
Produits et commandés par LUMA Foundation
Courtesy Maja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation Collection
- Être Résistances d’Albert Serra (2016, 198 min.)
« Être Résistances est un film qui résiste à en être un, c'est-à-dire qu'il résiste à la conscience et au langage cinématographique. C'est un film qui traite de théorie, de corps, de bruits, de discours, d'images, de jeu et d'ironie. C'est un film inspiré par son propre sujet invisible : l'exposition inexistante de Lyotard qui devrait résister à la communication. Le film est finalement cette exposition devenue réalité, mais comme un mirage et comme une illusion. » Albert Serra.
Séances, samedi 8 juillet 2023, à 13h30 et 17h30
Introduction par Albert Serra à 17h30
Cinéma 2, niveau –1
- The Rare Event de Ben Rivers et Ben Russell (2017, 48 min.) sous-titrage en français
Tourné dans un studio d'enregistrement parisien au plancher de bois grinçant, lors d'un « forum des idées » inaugural de trois jours consacré aux multiples possibilités de la Résistance – titre de l'exposition de Jean-François Lyotard qui devait faire suite à son exposition « Les Immatériaux » de 1985 –, les collaborateurs occasionnels Ben Rivers et Ben Russell (avec la contribution de l'artiste américain Peter Burr) ont produit ce qui apparaît d'abord comme un document structuraliste d'une discussion philosophique performée qui se transforme lentement en The Rare Event, un portail qui réunit toutes les dimensions en une seule.
- Resistances de Rachel Rose (2017-2019, 20 min.) VO en anglais
Ce court-métrage documente la deuxième rencontre sur les « Résistances » qui a eu lieu en février 2017 à New York, offrant ainsi un aperçu des conversations et des réflexions qui se sont déployées au cours de ce « forum des idées » organisé par Maja Hoffmann. Parmi les intervenants figurent Tyrone Hayes, Isabelle Thomas Fogiel, Reza Negarestani, Ariana Reines, Fred Moten, et de nombreux autres invités.
Projection, samedi 8 juillet 2023, à 19h30
Plan fixe du film "THE RARE EVENT" de Ben Rivers et Ben Russell.
Courtesy Maja Hoffmann / Luma Foundation Collection.
En lien avec la présentation temporaire au Musée, niveau 4, Espace de consultation des collections vidéos, films, sons et œuvres numériques :
« Les Immatériaux » (1985). Aperçus d'une manifestation postmoderne au Centre Pompidou. Du 5 juillet au 30 octobre 2023
Couverture de l'album Daft Punk, "Random Access Memories" © Zaina
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
Session d’écoute avec Sonorium
Musique Session d'écoute, rencontre
5 Grammy Awards et un triomphe instantané, un tube planétaire ("Get Lucky"), une production incroyable de précision et des collaborations prestigieuses (Pharrell Williams, Julian Casablancas, Panda Bear, Giorgio Moroder…), Random Access Memories, le dernier album de Daft Punk, a marqué les esprits et installé le duo comme une figure majeure de la pop contemporaine.
À l'occasion de l'édition 10e anniversaire de l'album culte le 12 mai dernier, le Centre Pompidou et Sonorium vous invitent à une session d'écoute de l'album en intégralité, dans des conditions exceptionnelles grâce à une installation sonore immersive réalisée par l’Ircam et une nouvelle technologie immersive développée par sa filiale Ircam Amplify.
Dimanche 9 juillet 2023 – gratuit sur réservation
Sessions précédées d'une introduction par Éric Jean-Jean et suivies d'une discussion avec le public
Day-by-day program
Saturday, 8 July 2023
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Continuous 11am-1pm |
Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
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Exhibition Reconstitution virtuelle de l'exposition « Les Immatériaux » |
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Meeting « Beyond Matter » Présentation de la publication conclusive du projet européen « Beyond Matter: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality » |
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Screening Après « Les Immatériaux » : Films de pensée Être Résistances d’Albert Serra (2016, 198 min.) |
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Meeting « Beyond Matter » Présentation d'œuvres conçues dans le cadre de l'exposition « Matter, Non-matter, Anti-Matter » Avec les artistes Jeremy Bailey, Damjanski, fabric | ch (Patrick Keller, Christian Babski, Christophe Guignard), Geraldine Juárez (en visioconférence), Carolyn Kirschner et Anne Le Troter |
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Meeting « Les Immatériaux » : Artistes et historiens en conversation Avec Andreas Broeckmann, Katerina Thomadaki, Jean-Louis Boissier et Jean-Claude Fall Modérée par Marcella Lista, Philippe Bettinelli et Marie Vicet (Centre Pompidou) |
| 5:30pm-9pm |
Screening Après « Les Immatériaux » : Films de pensée Être Résistances d’Albert Serra (2016, 198 min.) En présence du cinéaste |
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Meeting Après « Les Immatériaux » : Rencontre en partenariat avec LUMA Foundation Avec Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Daniel Birnbaum, Anna Longo, Maja Hoffmann (en visioconférence) et Albert Serra |
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>Screening Après « Les Immatériaux » : Films de pensée
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Sunday, 9 July 2023
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Reconstitution virtuelle de l'exposition « Les Immatériaux »
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Closing of the gallery 3 at the beginning of the day |
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Continuous 3pm-9pm |
Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
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4pm-6pm 6:30pm-8:30pm |
Listening session, meeting Daft Punk, Random Access memories Introduction par Éric Jean-Jean Session d'écoute Discussion avec le public |
Guests
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Hans Ulrich ObristVisual arts
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Philippe ParrenoVisual arts
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Jean-Louis BoissierNew media
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Katerina ThomadakiNew media
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Also in the presence of:
Jeremy Bailey, Daniel Birnbaum, Andreas Broeckmann, Damjanski, fabric | ch (Patrick Keller, Christian Babski, Christophe Guignard), Jean-Claude Fall, Maja Hoffmann, Éric Jean-Jean, Geraldine Juárez, Carolyn Kirschner, Anna Longo, Marianne Schädler, Albert Serra, Anne Le Troter.
Tuesday, July 18. 2023
fabric | ch at Centre Pompidou for Moviment (Ch. 9, "Par-delà la matière") | #hybrid #exhibition #centrepompidou #matter #non-matter #LesImmatériaux
Monday, May 08. 2023
Creation and Curation with Artificial Intelligence, Swissnex China Blog (Shanghai, 2022) | #talk #fabricch #automated
Note: this was a talk fabric | ch gave online, along with Aiiiii Art Center later last year, in the context of Swissnex Shanghai Art & Science talks.
The online session was moderated by Cissy Sun, Head of Art-Science at Swissnex and the topic was the "hot topic" of the time: "AI" and curation. fabric | ch has recently worked on several experimental or research projects related to this topic, as well as developed in-house tools along the way, and this was an opportunity to explain how we approach this question. In particular by rooting it in architectural thinking and our previous works.
Via Swissnex China
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By Cissy Sun
On 6th September, we had an inspiring discussion on curation and artificial intelligence with Mr. Patrick Keller, Architect & Co-founder of fabric | ch - studio for architecture, interaction & research, and Ms. Xi Li, Curator & Director of Aiiiii Art Center.
Mr. Patrick Keller introduced the architecture studio, fabric | ch, where architects and computer scientists work together on a variety of experimental projects that combine architecture, networks, data, and algorithms.
Delving into these projects, Patrick first introduced the work - Platform of Future-Past, which was shown at HOW Art Museum in Shanghai in 2022. “Platform of Future-Past” is an architectural device and monitoring installation, it is equipped in three zones with environmental monitoring devices. The sensors record as much data as possible over time, generated by the continuously changing conditions, presences, and uses in the exhibition space. The data is then stored on Platform Future-Past’s servers and replayed in a loop on its computers. It is a “recorded moment”, “frozen” on the data servers, that could potentially replay itself forever or is waiting for someone to reactivate it. A “data center” on the deck, with its set of interfaces and visualizations screens, lets the visitors-observers follow the ongoing recording process. However, as the exhibition was interrupted by the pandemic, the museum was closed for a few months, and the data from the real exhibition space was very limited. Thus the artists fed the platform the prepared data to generate the moving images. With the touch on artificial data, Patrick reminded us to think about massive ways to treat datasets while talking about artificial intelligence.
Platform of Future-Past, fabric | ch, 2022
The practice of using networks, data, and algorithms led the artists to develop a systematic approach to combining digital information with physical elements according to certain rules. Furthermore, such practices brought the artists to the exhibitions and curation projects. In the context of Entangled Realities, Living with Artificial Intelligence at the House of Electronic Arts (Basel), 2019, fabric | ch developed the work of Atomized (curatorial) Functioning (A(*)F), which was later also exhibited during Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the National Museum of China (Beijing), 2019.
A(*)F is an architectural project based on automated algorithmic principles, to which a machine learning layer can be added as required. It is a software piece that endlessly creates and saves new spatial configurations for a given situation, converges towards a “solution”, in real-time 3d and according to dynamic data and constraints. During the exhibition at HeK, the sensors collected data both from the artworks and the physical environment, including the walls and the lighting. The information collected by the sensors mapped out the space and helped the curators to organize the exhibition flows.
Atomized (curatorial) Functioning, fabric | ch, 2019
As an ending note, Patrick shared with us the ongoing research project between fabric | ch, the Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin, South Korea), and ECAL / University of Art and Design, Lausanne (HES-SO), on "viewing rooms" and "digital exhibitions". The research is to give access to the collection of the art center in new ways and forms, out of the physical museum and through digital means. In addition to the research project, fabric | ch is also working on a new project about the digital presentation of the past exhibitions at ZKM (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe), the exhibition is planned to open at ZKM at the end of the year.
Ongoing project by fabric | ch
The International Conference on AI Art was co-organized by the Aiiiii Art Center and the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab of Tongji University. With the theme of “AI and Authorship” (2021) and “Artificial Imagination” (2022), the conference combines the most radical of research from a diverse international curation of fields ranging from art, design, computational science, cultural critique as well as political philosophy. This network is established to pioneer and push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and creative production.
Exhibition space of Aiiiii Art Center
While looking at the exhibition space, two questions came to Xi’s mind: how to physicalize the digital artwork into the space and how to visualize AI art. The two questions lead Xi and her team to the curation concept of the Book of Sand. She chose literature to narrate the exhibition to catch the public attention and tell a good story of AI art. The exhibition starts by employing literary imagination to juxtapose seemingly infinite, random generative art and Borges’ “Book of Sand”, a book that possesses neither a beginning nor an end, just like sand. A book in which “I”, the subject, can turn the pages but cannot predict the outcome, just as we cannot fully comprehend the operational logic of the “black box” embedded by and into a neural network. Against the joy of possessing the book grows the fear that the book is not really infinite, just as we fear that the infinite productivity of AI will make us its captives, as well as the fear that its “infinite creativity” is simply the outcome of intelligent permutations of existing human ideas.
Artificial Remnants, Entangled Others Studio (left) & The Mind Scrap, Certain Measures (right)
“The Book of Sand” is an exhibition done by the joint efforts of machines and humans — the output of the machines interferes with human curatorial and artistic practices. By showcasing the works of Jake Elwes and Dabeiyuzhou, Xi explained further how they worked with the artists to turn web-based artwork into spatial installations.
The ZIZI Show, Jake Elwes (left) & Text Gene Project, Dabeiyuzhou (right)
It is inevitable to talk about what AI art is and who the author is when curating the programs and research projects at Aiiiii Art Center. However, such questions are not at the core of their curatorial practice but to discover the potential of AI itself and deliver the message appropriately to the target audience. With the involvement of machines in the creation and curation process, the question of the role of the machine became a challenging topic. Moreover, it also leads us to think – is there have to be a curator/creator’s name in the exhibition?
Responding to Xi’s question, Patrick pointed out that there are different cases dealing with the question. Taking their own practices, for example, the algorithm is at the core of their work. With the help of AI, the artists could dig deeper into their works, but the concept and the way of working are developed by the collective over years of research and practice. It is important to have their names in the exhibition as they are the creators of the work. Nevertheless, it might be challenging to define the creator for other works using open-source software and text-image software. However, in Patrick’s view, any machine learning program is fed with a huge dataset, without this, the algorithms could not do anything. The things the machines are trained to do and how they are trained to make it essential to define the creator.
Wednesday, March 22. 2023
Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter @ZKM – Webinar on the digital museum | #fabricch
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