NODE+CODE Meetup #20 – You ok, Robot?

For NODE+CODE #20, we explore artistic practices that engage with robotics not merely as mechanical tools, but as living entities situated within a broader ecological and material context. This evening invites you to consider how programmed behavior, natural processes, and human perception intersect.

We’ll have two presentations from three contributors this time around:

Offenbach based artists Caroline Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler create sculptures and installations that explore the aesthetic, social and ecological effects of technological developments, using elements of robotics and scientific processes. In their works, material qualities of a visual and haptic nature are just as important as programmed processes, physical laws and chemical reactions.

From Linz, Austria, we’re expecting Amir Bastan whose work explores human consciousness, artificial intelligence, and robotics within media arts and interactivity frameworks. Currently a doctoral researcher at Creative Robotics and lecturer at Kunstuni Linz, Amir’s research focuses on “The Human Robot Transference,” which examines connections between psychoanalysis theories and human-robot interaction. Amir will run a workshop the following day, too. See details about his workshop here.

We’ll open the doors at 18:30, allowing us all to get comfortable and start at 19:00 with the presentations from our speakers.
Join us at the Crespo Haus for a drink, a soup and a chat with some humans and maybe some machines.

📅 17.07.2025, 19:00
📍 Crespo Haus
Weißfrauenstraße 1–3
60311 Frankfurt am Main
🎟️ entry free!
🍲 soup included!

NODE+CODE is a program in cooperation with the Cultural and Creative Industries Hesse office at HA Hessen Agentur GmbH, Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences, Crespo Foundation, MESO Digital Interiors GmbH and Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt GmbH.