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SFB-TRR 161 @sfbtrr161.bsky.social · May 23

Recommended reading 📖 ✨ Artist Gretta Louw writes about her experiences working with the e-David robot in the lab of #sfbtrr161 project leader Oliver Deussen. Starting in 2009, e-David is a pioneer project in the field of robotic painting and was one of the first to use a visual feedback system.

Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · May 22

On the myth of AI painting and robot dominance: my first article for Artnet news. news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

What a Year Painting With a Robot Taught Me About A.I. | Artnet News

Robot painting reveals technology’s limits, but true artistry lies in human-machine collaboration, not AI hype.

news.artnet.com

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · May 22

On the myth of AI painting and robot dominance: my first article for Artnet news. news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

What a Year Painting With a Robot Taught Me About A.I. | Artnet News

Robot painting reveals technology’s limits, but true artistry lies in human-machine collaboration, not AI hype.

news.artnet.com

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Apr 23

Wow, love. So weird, ethereal, beautiful, my favourite combination.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Mar 26

New portrait in the studio, by Verena Haegler. Leaning into this energy.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Mar 10

The cost of having an interesting life is spending Sunday in a panic trying to explain it in paperwork to the bureaucracies of multiple countries I’ve lived in.

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Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social · Nov 26

Research and Curation across Art, Technology, & Eco-Social Change. Dr Marc Garrett's essay revisits Furtherfield’s work with researchers & universities, an autoethnographic account of collaborative research with others. A publication by ©NCACE 2024. www.academia.edu/121742239/Re...

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Mar 7

And for art, I like ‘A brush with…’

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Mar 7

I listen to one called Culture Shifts, they have some interesting interviews.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 27

Recording of my presentation about robotic painting, the potential and pitfalls, at the EACVA conference in Berlin earlier this month.

tiago @tiagocharters.nexp.pt · Feb 26

Wonderful presentation by @grettalouw.bsky.social and beautiful machine paintings of orchids. :)

youtu.be/kXU5De4EZDk?...

EACVA in Berlin: Gretta Louw on her art practice

YouTube video by AutoGraff

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thank you!

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 23

Es ist nicht zu spät #gehwählen

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 12

Drawing an unflattering picture of a kid who was bullying me. The principal pulled me out of class to discuss it. The power of art or something…

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 6

Photos by Ivonne Thien Studio. 🙏🙏

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 6

From my presentation at the EACVA robotic painting conference at CLB Galerie in Berlin over the weekend. The exhibition is ongoing until the end of Feb, with a large installation by Liat Grayver and Daniel Berio and artworks by @annamirkin.bsky.social, Patrick Tresset, Licia He, and me.

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Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social · Feb 6

Artists, Activists, & Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future.

Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.

Free copy/ree PDF 🙂

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 6

The pain when you love something you wrote but you have to delete it anyway bc you changed your mind about what you wanted to say.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 4

I don’t know why but it’s impossible for my brain to accept that it’s 2025. I know it was 2024 last year but I still keep thinking we’re in 2026. 🫠

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 3

I wish people who want to be defeatists would start by defeating their own urge to spread their spirit of surrender. It's not helpful and it's not an accurate assessment of the present or the possibilities. Yes, we're in a hideous crisis. Yes, there's lots to do and lots of people trying to do it.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Feb 4

👏👏👏 Sad to miss this!

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Jan 30

*hear 😅

Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Jan 30

Details: Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Arts (EACVA) symposium at @clbberlin 31.01 & 2.1. Artists in residence @anna_mirkin @patricktresset @blahblahpaperblah and I. Gallery reception for works in progress on Friday at 7pm. Robotic painting installation by Liat Grayver and Daniel Berio.

Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Jan 30

Come here me talk about what hand painting orchids has to do with robotics and AI. Beyond the hype, what are the strengths and limitations of the technological creative tools?
CLB Galerie, Berlin, this Saturday 1.2 from 1pm, part of the EACVA conference.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Jan 29

Tonight, in Berlin-Mitte, 6-9pm, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Galerie, 34 artists, it’s gonna be a good time!

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Jan 27

If you need me, find me here.

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Gretta Louw @grettalouw.bsky.social · Jan 26

This looks wonderful, wish the image was higher res so I could zoom in and ogle the details of your French knots!