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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@laurabeloff.bsky.social presenting her keynote on „Chicken and Bones: From Fossils to Algorithms“ at #UNLOOP symposium in Porto last week! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Henrique Miguel, Lara Portelinha & Pedro Cardoso @ordeposodrac.bsky.social presenting their paper on deceptive and friction design in AI-driven character platforms at #UNLOOP symposium last week frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Rosemary Lee & Risk Hazekamp presenting "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care" at #UNLOOP symposium in Porto last week @machineagency.bsky.social frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

UNLOOP symposium explores the friction, inconvenience, and playfulness in the interaction with computational media. I’ll present the EZ QUALITY SORTER, an installation that turns visitors into unwitting data labelers. Also, I'm looking forward to visiting Porto! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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The Ambiguity of Sorting – How Do Technologies of Separation Bring Us Together? – Käte Hamburger Kolleg: cultures of research (c:o/re)

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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!

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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.

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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!

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm currently participating in the #WORK2025 conference on "Work in the Era of Unruly AI". Three interesting days ahead!

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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.

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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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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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!

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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: buff.ly/4h3pGa8 #DNL34

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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.

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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...

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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,...

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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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.

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