photo by Kameradinnen

Liat Grayver

Liat Grayver (b. 1986, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) is a Berlin-based painter who taught a robot to hold her brush: since 2016 she has worked with the University of Konstanz's e-David painting robot, co-authoring research on self-improving robotic brushstrokes while insisting the question stays painterly, not technical. She is artistic director of the European Art & Computer Vision Academy hosted by Goldsmiths and Konstanz, was an early-career fellow at ETH's Collegium Helveticum (2022–23) researching painting and robotics, and won the 2018 DAGESH Art Prize, shown at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Her Just Before It Snaps series treats composition as fields of energy — vectors just barely holding. Her work with robotic arms is delightful — and it truly is a collaboration: she paints by hand alongside the machine, manual and robotic strokes sharing the same canvas. The German press put it plainly: "Berliner Künstlerin malt zusammen mit Roboter" — Berlin artist paints together with robot — and her 2023 research paper calls its system "collaborative" right in the title.

Artist's website (liatgrayver.com) ↗

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