Event Workshop

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Ideologies in the Machine: Political Bias in Large Language Models
  2. Workshop with Helena Nikonole
Event Panel Discussion

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Panel Discussion | With Helena Nikonole, Álvaro Rodríguez, Julius Holtz, Ludmila Litvin, Margherita Pevere, Germán Joosten, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
Research

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
  2. With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere
Exhibition

CAPSIZE CHRONICLES

  1. Art, Science, and the Oceanic World
  2. Rachel Mayeri

The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication, and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science, and technology.

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Between April 2025 and December 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin: Artist-in-lab residencies for four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists – Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, and Margherita Pevere. The four chosen artists are all well known for their outstanding artistic research at the interface of art, science, and technology. Each is highly experienced in integrating art with new technologies and collaborating with scientists in fields such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, climate science, soil ecology, and biodiversity. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, art science communication, and some new artworks critically highlighting 21st-century innovations. More information HERE.

Join us on Friday, 12 December 2025 for the first of several workshops that will take place at Art Laboratory Berlin until summer 2026 as part of the current research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS: The workshop ‘Ideologies in the Machine: Political Bias in Large Language Models’ with artist and researcher Helena Nikonole examines how contemporary AI systems encode and reproduce ideological narratives. The event will take place at the Einstein Center Digital Future (Berlin Mitte), in collaboration with the Berlin Open Lab and other partners. More information HERE

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Event Workshop

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Ideologies in the Machine: Political Bias in Large Language Models
  2. Workshop with Helena Nikonole
Fri, 12 December 2025

Focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as derivative systems like text-to-image generators, participants will investigate how AI reproduces political bias and ideological framing through language and visual representation. Through experiments with politically charged prompts, participants will analyze how these models interpret ideology, shape discourse, and amplify systemic bias.

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Event Panel Discussion

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Panel Discussion | With Helena Nikonole, Álvaro Rodríguez, Julius Holtz, Ludmila Litvin, Margherita Pevere, Germán Joosten, Regine Rapp, and Christian de Lutz
@ BWS Holzmarkt 25, 8 November 2025, 13-14:30

Join the presentation of our current research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS at the Berlin Science Week 2025. We will give an insight into Berlin-based artists researching in Berlin science labs – with topics on neuroscience, artificial intelligence, biodiversity, and ecology! Building on Berlin’s unique status as a global centre for arts and sciences, we aim to create new synergies based on topics of current research.

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Exhibition

CAPSIZE CHRONICLES

  1. Art, Science, and the Oceanic World
  2. Rachel Mayeri
27 September – 19 October 2025

Rachel Mayeri’s newest project is an experimental video work about the R/P FLIP, which stands for Research Platform FLoating Instrument Platform (1962-2023), the world-famous nautical rarity that flips 90 degrees to become a live-in buoy for studying the ocean. The FLIP was designed for stability to study acoustics in a turbulent ocean, yet ironically the interior is fluid, built for living both in horizontal and vertical orientations.

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Publication | Academic Paper
  1. How Artists Hack Laboratories and Alter the Futures of Science
  2. Paper | Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz
Published in October 2024
In their paper the authors reflect about the manifold and meaningful contributions of bio art in current scientific research: Bio Art challenges a number of western pre-conceptions about what art is and what art is supposed to do. By its nature ephemeral, and in a constant state of flux, the use of living materials runs contrary to centuries of art preservation and the ideal of art as eternal. But an art that goes hand in hand with science now ends two centuries in which the arts and science were seen as separate (and increasingly distant) disciplines. Moreover, Bio Art does not aim to ‘illustrate’ science (something which often confuses novice scientific collaborators) but to place the life sciences, and the organisms, cells and complex molecules studied, in a new focus. Read more
Research

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

  1. Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology
  2. With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Sybille Neumeyer, Margherita Pevere
April 2025 – December 2026

ALB is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for four internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists, supported by Lottostiftung Berlin. The new project is an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories at all three universities of Berlin, the University of the Arts Berlin, and the Charité. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, and critically highlighting 21st-century innovations.

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close up of a sculpture, circles with metal mesh, yellowish cat to the photograph Trees photographed from below with a green-yellow cast to the photograph
Research

IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

  1. Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
  2. Interdisciplinary Open Work Meetings
Feb 2022 – ongoing

The colloquium is an integral part of the ongoing discursive programme at Art Laboratory Berlin and was conceived and initiated by Regine Rapp in early 2022. The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress.

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