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Arab Bank Switzerland is pleased to partner with Tokyo Jazz Club for its inaugural edition.
Emerging from the legacy of Basel Social Club, the event takes over all eight floors of a former capsule hotel in Kanda-Nishikicho, near Jimbōchō, Tokyo’s historic book district, from 1–8 November, coinciding with Art Week Tokyo (@ArtWeekTokyo).
Inspired by Japan’s jazz kissas and listening bars, Tokyo Jazz Club treats jazz less as a subject than as a principle, bringing art, performance, music, and social encounters together across its stages, listening stalls, and intimate art capsules.
More soon.
Since 1996, Rhizome (@rhizome) has played a crucial role in the digital art field, establishing and expanding its cultural presence while pioneering best practices in the preservation of artworks threatened by technological obsolescence.
We were proud to support that mission at Rhizome’s 30th anniversary benefit dinner. Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating this milestone, and to Rhizome for three decades of championing digital art.
“What looks immaterial on a screen actually depends on a vast infrastructure of material systems and human labor.”
When people think about AI-generated art, they usually think about the resulting output: the image generated by a technical process deemed mysterious or unimportant. But what if the most revealing part of the work happens long before the finished picture appears?
Charlotte Kent, editor of the new monograph “Sofia Crespo × Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration,” reflects on how the duo’s attention to process upends tech’s fever dream of effortless automation.
@Lucy2Scribbles @annaridler @soficrespo91
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Earlier this month we launched “Sofia Crespo x Anna Ridler: A Field of Collaboration” at HALLEN07. Published by @HatjeCantz, the publication is the first monograph on Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) and Anna Ridler (@annaridler), commissioned and developed as part of their 2025 Artist of the Year.
Sofia and Anna joined editor Charlotte Kent (@Lucy2Scribbles) for a conversation on authorship, process and what it means to collaborate – both with each other and with machine systems.
Our thanks to all who attended.
Photo: Silke Briel
Celebrating our 2026 Artist if the Year.
Last week we closed our first Berlin Art Week with the ceremony honouring Eva & Franco Mattes – a duo whose work examines how media shapes human connection, and lays bare the consequences of technological change rather than celebrating it.
The award also reflects a wider purpose: to champion digital art within the larger contemporary art landscape.
The year ahead brings a newly commissioned work for the Arab Bank Switzerland Art Collection, developed with the artists over exhibitions and public programming to come.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to Eva & Franco for a memorable evening.
Trophy design by Sven Adolph
Photo: Silke Briel
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“AI isn’t necessarily proving that machines are creative; it might just be showing us that human creativity was never quite as mysterious or original as we imagined.”
Eva & Franco Mattes, Arab Bank Switzerland’s 2026 Artist of the Year, talk authorship, automation, and their three-decade career spent finding new ways to misuse the internet.
While they are rightly heralded as Net Art pioneers, the Italian-American duo’s willingness to work at the bleeding edge of online culture has made them consistently early to grasp how new technologies would reprogram their human users.
The result is a body of work that reads as a counter-history of the internet itself.
Read in full on the ABS Substack: absdigitalart.substack.com/p…
Cover images from the artists' “Eva & Franco & Computers” project, an archive of hundreds of photos of the duo in front of computers taken from 1999 to today.
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Read in full on the ABS Substack: absdigitalart.substack.com/p…
Cover images from the artists' “Eva & Franco & Computers” project, an archive of hundreds of photos of the duo in front of computers taken from 1999 to today.
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The vanishing flora of the Swiss Alps, regrown by a machine.
Curator Nina Roehrs (@NinaRoehrs)
on 83 Seeds from a Vanishing Mountain (2023) by Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) & Anna Ridler (@annaridler) – a work that turns to AI not to record eighty-three endangered Alpine species, but to imagine what they might yet become, holding extinction and invention in the same image. The work also examines fragmentation as a condition of digital existence.
On view at HALLEN 07, 5–13 September, Berlin.
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Join us for the launch of A Field of Collaboration, the new monograph on Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) and Anna Ridler (@annaridler).
Published by @HatjeCantz and edited by Charlotte Kent (@Lucy2Scribbles), the book gathers the artists' five joint projects from 2023–2025 for the first time, alongside essays by Tega Brain, Doreen Ríos, Masako Shiba and Catherine Troiano, an interview by Nina Roehrs, and extensive documentation of their process. Together they trace how Crespo and Ridler bridge machine learning with photographic practice, botanical study and other tactile traditions — moving beyond the digital sublime toward a profound attentiveness to the contemporary moment.
See the book: hatjecantz.de/en/products/97…
Friday 11 Sept, 5pm · HALLEN 07, Berlin — panel + signing.
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The cheerful motifs of the early web, dancing across the hard-faced front pages of the news.
In Online Newspapers: Postfactual Edition (2017–18), net-art pioneer Olia Lialina (@GIFmodel) overlays Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung front pages of Trump, Putin and Kim with the amateurish glitter and modified cursors of the early web — setting the pageantry of political authority against the throwaway aesthetics of the early internet.
The triptych shows at HALLEN 07, running 5–13 September.
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An evolving choreography of characters, making and unmaking a grid of windows without pause.
Andreas Gysin's (@andreasgysin) Lattice (2025) builds evolving geometric patterns from the characters of the extended ASCII set. Each screen shows only a fragment of a much larger computational surface that runs on beyond the frame — at HALLEN 07, spanning six vertical LED panels, each 2 × 3.5 metres.
HALLEN07 runs from 5 – 13 September.
Experience Lattice at lattice.ertdfgcvb.xyz
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A generative program, animated GIFs on political front pages, and AI-conjured Alpine flora — three practices, one presentation.
Arab Bank Switzerland makes its @BerlinArtWeek debut at HALLEN 07, bringing together three works that each think through technology, image and data in a different way:
▪️ Andreas Gysin (@andreasgysin) — Lattice (2025)
▪️ Olia Lialina — Online Newspapers: Postfactual Edition – Trump, Putin, Kim (2017–2018)
▪️ Anna Ridler (@annaridler) & Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) — 83 Seeds from a Vanishing Mountain (2023)
Curated by Nina Roehrs.
The presentation also marks the launch of a new monograph on Ridler & Crespo — ABS's 2025 Artist of the Year recipients. The book will be launched on 11 September at 5pm at HALLEN, in front of the artists' work, with a panel discussion moderated by Charlotte Kent, followed by a book signing with the artists.
HALLEN 07 | Sept. 05–13
📍 Wilhelm Hallen
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