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I’m a Visual Artist exploring the field of Synthetic Media based on curiosity, serendipity and playfulness.




Exhibitions & recognitions

-> Installation “The Choir”, House of Change Festival, Zurich 2026 (Group)
-> Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (CH), 2025 (Group), till February, 1st, 2026
-> Ultramateria Festival, Hohenems (AT), 2025 (Group), with Support from “Schweizer Botschaft Wien”
-> The AI Art Magazine Vernissage & Showcase, Art-Verse Gallery Paris (F), 2025 (Group)
-> IPFO International Photo Festival Olten (CH), 2025 (Group)
-> Designforum Wien (AT), “AND, OR, or NOT” Exhibition, 2025 (Group)
-> CVPR AI Art Gallery, Nashville (USA), 2025 (Group)
-> Cluster London (UK), Photography + Print Fair, Spring 25, 2025
-> “New Realities. Fashion Fakes, KI Fabriken”, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt (D), 2025 (Group)
-> 03-04/25 The Consulate General of Switzerland & the Heidiseum Foundation, Exhibition Pier 17 in San Francisco (US) (Group)
-> Photo Schweiz 25, Zurich 2025 (Group)
-> Singularity is here / Experiment 5 “AI at work”, Zurich 2025
-> Filmtech Exhibition, European Film Awards Lucerne 2024
-> Digital Arts Zurich Conference 2023, 2024
-> Pop-Up Film Screenings, “Beyond Human?” Symposium, University  of Southern California, Los Angeles 2024
-> CVPR AI Art Gallery, The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, 2024
-> AI Art, GoSee Awards, Berlin, 2023 & 2024
-> Photo Schweiz 24, Zurich 2024
-> Welcoming Sentient AI (Group), Exhibition and public discourse, Zurich 2023
-> ZHdK Diploma Exhibition (Group), Zurich 2022

“In Flux” as part of “The Choir”_2026_InstallationThe festival theme "Re-Repetition Rebellion Revolution" translated into a collaborative installation: The Choir. As a tribute to nonviolent resistance, The Choir draws on the image of a choir as a symbol of collective defiance. 

Individual voices — here in the form of flags — join together into a powerful "we", questioning and shifting existing power structures. The Choir is a collective expression and an invitation to reflect: when the old order ends, what rises in its place?

A shared experiment with works by Gigi Burn | Grit Wolany | FERUS Collective | Hanya Leo | Jenny & Simon Burgunder | Juliette Chrétien | Kim Pham | LAIN | Marie-Christine Gerber | Marisa Burn | Pascale Wiedemann | Raphaela Pichler | Simone Züger | Sue Ariza | W—E studio: Piera Wolf & Claudine Eriksson, with Janina Katumbwe | Yael Anders


My motif “In Flux” is a work from early 2023. Based on the observation of the latent space this initial state of blur, which lasts only a few seconds during the image generation process, reflects a deeper philosophical concept: the idea that nothing in this world is truly concrete or fixed. Everything is subject to change and transformation._House of Change Festival, Zurich (CH)


Color Walk Flags – The Return of Presence_2025_Installation_How do we ground the digital in the physical world? “Color Walk Flags” takes William Burroughs’ practice of “walking on colors” and applies it to contemporary image production.

What started as generative, abstract experiments evolved into monumental textile formats. By moving these images from a screen into the vast industrial space of Collini Hohenems, the context shifts entirely.

The installation acts as a counterweight to the endless stream of AI content. It transforms a fleeting digital moment into a bounded, physical experience. Each flag is an invitation to slow down, shifting from the habit of scrolling and swiping to deliberate looking and sensing.

Walking between these color fields creates a space where technology creates resonance rather than noise. It is an attempt to distill digital abundance into visual poetry.

_Ultramateria Art Festival at Collini, Hohenems (AT)
with Support from “Schweizer Botschaft Wien”






Remixing The Archives_2024/25_Installation_”Remixing the Archives” is part of the group exhibition “Museum of the Future – 17 Digital Experiments”. Can artificial intelligence really advance design, or is it merely a source of inspiration? This installation explores the tension between historical design classics and AI-generated reinterpretations. Icons from the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich collection – from Le Corbusier's Chaise Longue to the REX vegetable peeler – are analysed and reassembled by algorithms. The results range from functional variants to surreal visions and explore the possibilities and limitations of generative video and image generation.

The work consists of three parts.

1. Image Matrix: 
Two original images of the classics were systematically visually remixed in varying proportions. This methodical approach explores how AI systems capture and recombine formal elements of design classics. The matrix-style presentation visualises the transitions and transformations between the iconic original works.

2. Image Flood Wall: 
LLMs served as conceptual sparring partners in the analysis of design classics. Under the guidance of human creative direction they developed and optimised prompts for new designs and concepts. With the help of various image AI models, this resulted in a multitude of new visual interpretations that demonstrate the creative potential, but also the limitations, of AI technology.

3. Video: 
Unexpected errors and misunderstandings by the AI when combining the Rex peeler with Sophie Taeuber-Arp's marionette "King Stag" were the starting point for another aesthetic experiment. Through the use of video AI, these apparent flaws were transformed into moving images of Dadaist poetry.
_Museum für Gestaltung Zurich
(till February 2026)



Hypersimulacrum_2025_Installation_«HYPERSIMULACRUM – The Original Was Never Here»  is an AI-based installation that merges image, sound and concept into a dense reflection on hyperreality. The series of perfectly rendered, synthetic images – portraits, places, iconic gestures – references familiar visual codes without drawing on real-world originals. At the same time, an algorithmically generated audio installation whispers poetic fragments – voices from that in-between space where analog feeling, digital surface and generative language dissolve into one another. 

HYPERSIMULACRUM poses questions about perception, the meaning of authenticity – and the role of design in the age of simulation. The work is not a critique from the outside, but a questioning from within: What remains of the image when the feeling is more real than reality itself?_IPFO International Photo Festival Olten (CH), 2025 (Group)

Images Exhibition: Lennart Fritze (@el.licht)



fragments from the non-existent_2025_Sound Installation, Book, Poster_«fragments from the non existent» is an audio installation exploring truisms around the topic of hyperreality, social media and generative content production._IPFO International Photo Festival Olten (CH), 2025 (Group)
_Zurich City Posters


Collage Foulard_2025_Mixed Media on Silk_Analog designed patterns, scanned and combined with an AI generated image, printed on finest silk by a traditional textile factory in Como (IT). This was the result of a hands on crafts workshop, led by Ikou Tschüss founder Guya Marini and art director Andrea Huber.

I’m more and more interested in bringing generative results back into the real world. _Free Work




Behind the look_2025_Mixed Media_The series «Behind the Look» explores the stark contradiction between our awareness of the fashion industry’s devastating environmental impact and our ongoing patterns of consumption.

Each image stages high-fashion models in trendy designs, set against the harsh realities of the industry: atop mountains of textile waste in Chile’s Atacama Desert, amid the polluted waters near Bangladeshi textile factories, inside Vietnamese sweatshops, or among pesticide-laden cotton fields in Uzbekistan.

Intentional glitch elements weave through the images—not merely as an aesthetic choice, but as a symbol of the mental «distorsion» that allows us to ignore the contradictions in our consumer behavior. This visual disruption becomes a metaphor for the fractured relationship between fashion-driven desire and ecological responsibility. The stark contrast between the polished aesthetic of the models and the environmental devastation beneath them lays bare an uncomfortable truth: the social and ecological costs of fashion.
_«AND, OR, OR NOT» Exhibition, Designforum Vienna (AT), 2025 (Group)



Between Codes_2025_Mixed Media_«Between Codes» explores the intersection of fashion and generative AI for the “AND, OR, OR NOT exibition in Vienna. 

Instead of producing deceptively realistic images, I develop an independent visual language that exists in the in-between space of established media. 

The intentional deconstruction and recombination of visual elements addresses the central question of the exhibition: How can creative uses of AI redefine collaboration between human and machine? In my pieces, this becomes visible through fragmented silhouettes, abstracted textures, and transformed proportions, all of which leave space for individual interpretation.
_«AND, OR, OR NOT» Exhibition, Designforum Vienna (AT), 2025 (Group)



Synthetic Paintings_2025_Synthetic Mixed Media_This series explores new forms of abstraction by combining synthetic media with painterly thinking. At the core is a visual co-creation with artificial intelligence — not as a tool, but as a counterpart in dialogue. The images evolve through a series of transformations until a distinct visual language emerges that feels intuitive, open, and tactile.

Rather than showcasing technology, the focus lies on the tension between digital structure and painterly expression. The result is a body of work that resists generic AI aesthetics and instead moves toward something slower, more deliberate — closer to painting than to media art.

This project is a homage to my first generated images from 2021 and 2022, which had a painterly feel.

Contact me if you are interested in a print. _Limited Edition Series



Mindwandering_2025_Collage Mixed Media_AI in combination with creative coding and hand made collage work._Free Work


Visual Poems I–III_2025_Synthetic Mixed Media_"Visual Poems" presents different explorations that investigate the emotional resonance possible within AI-generated imagery. The work exists as a response to criticisms that generative AI lacks depth and soul, instead revealing how these technologies can be vehicles for profound expression when guided by artistic intent.

Connected by a gradient aesthetic and separated by a moment of darkness, these three poems operate in the liminal space between human creativity and algorithmic structures. The work embraces serendipity—those unexpected moments where computational processes reveal something unforeseen and beautiful.

This work represents my ongoing investigation into how algorithms reshape our understanding of aesthetics and meaning, and how technology can be harnessed not to replace human creativity but to expand its vocabulary._Cluster London, Photography & Print Fair, 2025



Serendipity Sweaters_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media_From AI-based exploration of minimalist figures to graphic sweater designs – unexpected ‘models’ and their color combinations inspire new design perspectives._Selected for„New Realities. Fashion Fakes – KI Fabriken“, Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt (D)
03/2025–01/2026



Symbiotic Connections_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media_“Symbiotic Connections” explores the interplay between the organic and the artificial. Inspired by the symbiosis of lichens - a habitat in which different organisms coexist and thrive - the work reflects the evolving connection between natural ecosystems, humans and technology._Free Work

_Selection Photo Schweiz 2025



Lesconil_2024_Mixed Media_”Lesconil” combines traditional photography with new generative techniques and translates the results into their final form using traditional design principles._Free Work


Kelly _2024_Synthetic Mixed Media
(Ongoing Series) _"Kelly" explores new forms of collage work, incorporating the characteristics of generative image making - iterations and variants - as DNA into the final piece. 

The process is a true human-machine collaboration; a dialogue between analog media, digital imaging and visual remixing with Gen AI._Free Work

_Presented at Digital Arts Zurich Conference



Insecta ex machina
_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media
_ "Insecta ex machina" uses generative AI to create novel fusions between the diverse world of world of insects and the rich DNA of Swiss design. This unexpected connection allows existing boundaries to be crossed and new perspectives to be explored thanks to AI.
 _Free Work

_Selection, Pop-Up Film Screenings during the “Beyond the Human?” Symposium on AI and the Arts at the USC University of Southern California, September, 16 2024, Curated by Holly Willis, USC Professor of Cinematic Arts 

_Videoinstallation, Filmtech Exhibition, European Film Awards Lucerne 2024

_Singularity is here, Experiment 5 “AI at work”, Kraftwerk Zurich 2025

_Part of the official AI art gallery selection of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference CVPR 2025 in Nashville (USA)




Anonymity
_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media
_ The theme of anonymity recurs in my artistic work. The pressure to be present, visible, judged and therefore vulnerable. Does anonymity exist at all in our selfie society? What does this invisibility mean for trust and communication with others?
 _Free Work

_Selection, Pop-Up Film Screenings during the “Beyond the Human?” Symposium on AI and the Arts at the USC University of Southern California, September, 16 2024, Curated by Holly Willis, USC Professor of Cinematic Arts 



_new_materialism
_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media
_ Modulør's briefing was open with some guidelines: explore AI visuals, abstract, with some reference to architecture. A good starting point for working with artificial intelligence, as generative AI often produces unexpected, surprising results and not what was originally planned. 


Many creative professionals see this as a major drawback, as it often means that AI tools cannot really be integrated into everyday work in an efficient and predictable way. But it is precisely this lack of predictability that offers opportunities. Serendipity, "finding something you weren't originally looking for", requires openness, awareness and a certain delight in chance. It can open up new possibilities, give us new ideas or take us out of our daily routine for a moment.

This is the aim of _new_ materialism. The series aims not only to show new (fictional) materialities with the help of AI, but also to break down fears of technology and encourage people to go on a visual voyage of discovery with artificial intelligence themselves.
 _Modulør Magazin 





Glitch Painting
_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media
_ I’m interested in using ordinary AI tools to create extraordinary, unconventional images. What new aesthetics are possible? What interesting visual language is coming out of the dialog with the machine? I experiment a lot. With these Glitch Painting Series I was really surpised by the very classical painterly feel of these algorithmic generations. It feels familiar and fresh the same time, respecting the past but elevate it to the now.
 _Free Work

_Part of the official AI art gallery selection of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference CVPR 2024 in Seattle



Artificial Flowers 3
_2024_Synthetic Mixed Media
(Ongoing Series) _ "Artificial Flowers 3" combines detailed floral macro visions with intangible shapes and gradients. The process of image development is based on an aesthetic curiosity and the joy of discovering new visual worlds in co-creation with machines. _Free Work



Haus zum Falken
“Perspektiven”
_2023_Synthetic Media Media_At the beginning of December 2023, the foundation stone was laid for the new “Haus zum Falken” in Zurich, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. 

I was invited to contribute a series of 60 synthetic media artworks to the time capsule. These combine the essential characteristics of Santiago Calatrava’s design with the diverse perspectives of the city and its inhabitants. 

The generative process of creation results in ever-changing patterns that combine complexity and fluidity. Each image is more than a snapshot; it is a window to countless possible future realities of the “Haus zum Falken” and thus to the entire development of the city of Zurich. _w/ Farner Branding, Fabian Bertschinger (CD), Manuel Griestock (Book Design)




Synthetic Tenderness
(Axelsson, C. HG. (i.E.) Tender Digitality. Karlsruhe: Slanted) _2023_Design Research & Writing_The book “Tender Digitality” offers a collection of texts and other artefacts which articulate an aesthetically oriented concept that both intricately interweaves binary systems and sets them into motion. 

In 2023 I explored various playforms of “Tender Digitality” with the help of Generative AI. The results of the visual design research and my reflection on this newly emerged “Synthetic Tenderness” can be found in this publication by the amazing Charlotte Axelsson and slanted._w/ Charlotte Axelsson,
slanted Publishers



“The tenderness of digitality often doesn’t manifest in the end result, at least not primarily. Instead, it is the collaborative process of creation with algorithmic systems, the dialogue with machines, that offers the real space for emotional resonance.”








Artificial Flowers 1
_2023_Synthetic Mixed Media 
(Ongoing Series) _The Beauty of Data: the ongoing "Artificial Flowers" series explores the new visual spaces created by generative artificial intelligence. The dialog between human and machine not only produces new botanical forms, but also creates a new aesthetic narrative that unites technology and nature. _Selection Photo 24 (Switzerland)




In Flux
_2023_Synthetic Mixed Media _Based on the observation of the latent space this series presents a unique perspective on the impermanence of our existance. This initial state of blur, which lasts only a few seconds during the image generation process, serves as a powerful visual representation of the transience of living. However, the blurred images that result from this process also possess a certain timelessness and universality. 

It also reflects a deeper philosophical concept: the idea that nothing in this world is truly concrete or fixed. Everything is subject to change and transformation. In this sense, this work is a reflection on the impermanence and fluidity of life itself. 
 _Welcoming Sentient AI (Group)




/vs
_2023_Synthetic Mixed Media _ With "/vs" I explore natures contrasts of hard and soft, filigree and brute. One piece one piece made it onto the poster of the yearly “Und dann?” alumni event from the Trends & Identity departement of the Zurich University of the arts. _Free Work

_Poster w/ ZHdK Design, Trends & Identity, Dagna Salwa, David Jäggi




Birth
_2022/23_Synthetic Mixed Media _ The imagemaking process of generative AI starts with diffusion models which slowly build up and define the artworks based on the input parameters. I interrupted this diffusion process right in the beginning, and discovered the beauty of newborn AI imagery.Is it already a plagiat, copy or images theft? And who exactly was robbed? Could this be a proof that algorithm-based image generation is even more than clumsy imitation?

Two images of the series were choses by the Alumni Organisation of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Netzhdk, for their yearly graduation card and art poster design. _2023 Graduation Card and Art Poster of the Alumni Organisation of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Netzhdk




New Words
_2022/23_Synthetic Mixed Media _ New words for seriously ill people in fragile phases of life. As part of the exhibition "Sterben gestalten" (Shaping Dying) I had the privilege of designing a series of greeting cards for seriously ill people to help them respond to speechlessness or the wrong words. The exhibition at the Generationenhaus in Bern ran from 30.3. to 29.4.2023. My intention was the visualisation of the moment between this world and the next.
 _w/ Finally.design, concept & words: Ruth Schweikert & Bitten Stetter




Post-Post-Painterly Color Field_2022_Synthetic Mixed Media_This series explores the possibilities of using artificial intelligence as a tool to challenge conventional art forms and create unique, abstract compositions. The use of AI algorithms results in a series of pieces that are both unpredictable and spontaneous, yet maintain a harmonious balance of color and form._Free Work





Ocean_2021_Synthetic Mixed Media"Ocean 10/09/21" is a bold and minimalistic artwork created in September 2021 as part of the Art & AI module at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). 

This piece marks the beginning of my AI journey and the start of my personal AI minimalisms, which explores the abstract art movement in the age of AI._Free Work