PROMISES 

Art Between Perception and Algorithms

Promises - Art Between Perception and Algorithms brings together artworks that trace how technological, social and institutional promises shape what can be seen, felt and shared. Through echo chambers, detection systems and participatory setups, art appears here less as a solution and more as an indicator: a way to sense where expectations, control and imagination collide.


Machine Royale — Echo Chambers of Our Time, Kathrin Hunze
Video installation/object robot surrounded by a guinea pig fent with black shadowballs. 2025

Machine Royale — Echo Chambers of Our Time explores desire within emerging power structures across digital and physical spaces and their effects on society. Technologies like AI and digital currencies fuel a hunger for efficiency, inflating bubbles whose bursts reshape social and economic life. The work asks how we will navigate dataism while dulled by an incessant flood of communication and information.

                                                     

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How this media artist got discovered by the algorithm
Clemens Schöll & Ortrun Bargholz

Visibility and invisibility are always in tension with each other, both in digital and physical space. Recordings of a video-based performance were examined using the automated object recognition of the YOLO system. The desire for anonymity exists alongside the desire for attention and to be discovered as an artist.

                                                     

Single-channel video (3’5”, 1080×810) with sound, 2021/2024

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A Brighter Flash
Dani Ploeger, Digital Video, 2024

Standing on the street in front of V2_, I give a short lecture on the aesthetics of explosive devices. I am holding a pipe bomb in my hands. The camera slowly moves backwards while I speak. The bomb explodes. While the camera keeps moving away, the film set and the fire SFX mechanism are exposed.

Filmed at V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam, April 2024
Camera: Jochem Weststrate
Fire effects: Lieven Slabbinck / Divi-Divi
Dolly Grip: Jelle Zuidweg

Opening, 15.01.2026, 17:00 - 21.00
Part of Vorspiel 2026
Location: Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin

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Marlot Meyer, Nadja Verena Marcin, Kathrin Hunze representing Art Claims Impulse at
G Artience 2025, Daejeon South Korea.

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Kathrin Hunze



We are delighted to announce that, as of today, Kathrin Hunze joins our program! Please join us in welcoming our newest artist and celebrating the creative energy she brings to our gallery. We look forward to sharing her inspiring work and new perspectives with our community.

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Bioelectric Experience (working title)

Official launch of the “Bioelectric Experience” project collaboration between Fraunhofer IZM, Art Claims Impulse, and Marlot Meyer.

The connection between art and science is often shaped by different working methods, which means that a harmonious mutual understanding does not always arise automatically. This makes it all the more valuable when both fields come together as equal partners to explore new pathways.
Under the working title “Bioelectric Experience”, artist Marlot Meyer, the gallery Art Claims Impulse, and Fraunhofer IZM researchers Prof. Dr. Vasiliki (Vasso) Giagka and Dr. Max Marwede are shaping this collaboration from the very beginning on equal terms. Their innovative, collaborative approach has already received recognition through a successful funding approval and illustrates the added value that genuine partnership can bring to interdisciplinary projects.
The project is still in its early stages and aims to create an interactive installation. The final title will emerge during the shared artistic and scientific process—reflecting the idea that naming itself is part of the creative journey. The participants invite you to accompany this exciting exploration at the intersection of technological innovation and aesthetic experience.

Team:
Fraunhofer IZM: Technologies for Bioelectronics
Prof. Dr. Vasiliki (Vasso) Giagka, Konstantina Kolovou Kouri, Raphael Panskus.
Fraunhofer IZM: Circular Design Lab
Dr. rer. nat. Max Marwede, Kim Eschenbach.

Artist: Marlot Meyer
https://marlotmeyer.com
Gallery: Art Claims Impulse
Contact: Pierre Wolter

For more information and exchange, please contact Gallery Art Claims Impulse

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C²DH HISTOFEST. History on Full Blast

Mihai Grecu at the first C²DH History Festival: „Nicolae“ and the eponymous hologram.

On October 15, 2025, artist and filmmaker Mihai Grecu will present his critically acclaimed documentary “Nicolae” along with the eponymous hologram at the first C²DH History Festival in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
The film, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022, resurrects Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu as a hologram speaking to contemporary life. Grecu’s work critically examines history, propaganda, and the power of images, offering a powerful connection between past, technology, and art.
The festival runs from 4:30 PM to 10:00 PM at the Belval Plaza shopping centre and includes film screenings, a mini exhibition, and workshops to explore history in lively ways. The film program at Kinepolis Belval begins at 6:30 PM, the screening of “Nicolae,” 8:15 pm accompanied by an introduction and a Q&A with the director.
Histofest is part of the EU-funded EUROPAST project and welcomes visitors of all ages and backgrounds. More Info

                                                  

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