Liat Grayver and Marcus Nebe

Liat Grayver is a painter and media artist. She investigates methods to redefine one of the primitive forms of art – painting – within the current technology-based era. Since 2016, Grayver has been collaborating with the University of Konstanz on developing the e-David painting robot, exploring various approaches to integrating robotic and computer languages in painting and creative image-making. In 2022 she co-founded the group EACVA – Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art, a multi-disciplinary collaboration between artists, philosophers, psychologists, and computer/robotics engineers dedicated to exploring the use of robots as an interactive painterly tool and how it influences the attribution of creativity, authorship, and agency to artificial systems.

Marcus Nebe employs video to explore movement – the use of gesture in the making of images, the unconscious forms of staging protests – and to parallel that human movement with the biological phenomenon of tropism, the movement of a biological organism, of plants. Marcus Nebe creates video installations that stand out through their ability to envelop viewers in audiovisual landscapes and to immerse themselves in scenarios of protest or nature. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide.

Liat Grayver and Marcus Nebe, Blue Transmutations, 2023