SELECTION OF RECENT PROJECTS
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+ Atomized/Retrofitted Functioning [2025]
Algorithmic architectural and programmatic software, live prospective worlbuiding based on dynamic and planetary environmental data. Exhibition during Biennale di Architettura 2025.
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Atomized/Retrofitted Functioning takes form as an abstract, speculative habitable volume where environmental data from key locations in the history of human settlement create shifting conditions—day and night, hot and cold, urban and desert—within a single space. This approach enables simulations of emerging reassemblies of initially "pre-atomized" functions, and of future climates, while using real-time data from 2025 during the Venice Biennale.
The project is part of the Atomized (*) series of works.-
Exhibition during Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective at the Venice Biennale, 2025. Curator: Carlo Ratti.
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+ Elemental Sky [2023]
Elemental Sky is an installation intended to emulate episodes of thunderstorms and tempests in low resolution, and elaborated to be experienced immersively as a sensitive space.
It is part of the series of Environmental Devices developed in continuity by fabric | ch since the 2010s.-
The work has been commissioned by curators Juri Steiner and Anne-Outram Mott and acquired by the Établissement cantonal d'assurance contre les risques naturels (ECA), in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
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On permanent exhibition at ECA's headquarters (Lausanne), since 2023.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Atomized (re-)Staging [2022‑2023]
Automated, ever-evolving digital exhibition, dynamically built out of over 200 digitized artworks from two past landmark exhibitions: Iconoclash (2002) at ZKM, and Les immatériaux (1985) at Centre Pompidou. The project is an attempt to re-exhibit past exhibitions and restage/recombine them in a new form, digitally. It has been created in the context of the European research Beyond Matter.
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Atomized (re-)Staging has been commissioned by ZKM (Karlsruhe), and Centre Pompidou (Paris).
With the support of Pro Helvetia, Canton de Vaud, and Ville de Lausanne.
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Exhibition during Matter, Non-Matter, Anti-Matter at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien | ZKM, 2022/23. Curator: Livía Nolasco-Rózsás and Felix Koberstein. During Moviment (Chapter 9) exhibition-festival at Centre Pompidou, 2023. Curators: Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli. And during Invocando los fantasmas de la modernidad / Summoning the Ghosts of Modernity at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin (MAMM), 2025. Curators: Esteban Gutiérrez Jiménez and Livía Nolasco-Rózsás.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Platform of Future-Past [2022]
Architectural device and monitoring installation created for the HOW Art Museum in Shanghai (CN).
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"The traces left by the comings and goings, those of the molecules of the exhibition and of the present moment had indeed been recorded, stored, and kept indefinitely on data servers, somewhere, in view of a utopian future, or past reconstitution. (...)"
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Commissioned by HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), with the support of Pro Helvetia.
Exhibition during Beneath the Skin, Between the Machine at HOW Art Museum, 2022. Curator: Fu Liaoliao.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Satellite Daylight, 47°33'N [2021]
Light installation acquired by the Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HEK) for its Media and Net Art Collection.
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Satellite Daylight, 47°33'N is an addition to an ongoing series of distinct and unique artworks. It consists in a sample of daylight: one hour of terrestrial illumination, transmitted 'live' from the latitude of 47 degrees and 33 minutes North (47°33'N). Moving at the speed of a virtual satellite (7541m/s), it plays the whole spectrum of light variations in an abstract manner.
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Exhibition during Shaping the Invisible World at the Haus der elektronische Künste (Basel), 2021. Curator: Boris Magrini.
Part of the Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HEK) collection, permanent exhibition at HEK (Basel), since 2021.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Atomized (curatorial) Functioning [2019]
Software piece for automated spatial and functional exploration of given environmental conditions.
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Part of a serie of works under the name A(*)F (standing for Atomized (adj.) Functioning), that involve machine learning and rule-based autonomous design procedures.
Automated curating and exhibition scenography, based on rules of association and display established by the artworks to be exhibited themselves.
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fabric | ch collection. With the support of Haus der elektronischen Künste, State of Vaud (Switzerland).
Exhibition in the context of Entangled Realities, Living with Artificial Intelligence at the House of Electronic Arts (Basel), 2019 and during Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the National Museum of China (Beijing), 2019.
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documentation [pdf]
SELECTION OF RECENT COLLABORATIONS
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+ Paik Replayed [2024‑2028]
A research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation that examines digital and hybrid exhibitions, using the work of Nam June Paik as both a case study and a corpus for analysis within the context of digital transposition.
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fabric | ch participates as a field partner specializing in digital exhibition in the Paik Replayed research project, led by Prof. P. Keller at ECAL/HES-SO. The study spans four years and will culminate in 2027 with a symposium at Plateforme 10 in Lausanne.
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+ (Re-)Viewing Paik [2021‑2022]
Early results of the joint research based on the project A(*)F (standing for Atomized (adj.) Functioning), between fabric | ch, the Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin, South Korea) and ECAL / University of Art and Design, Lausanne (HES-SO), on "viewing rooms" and "digital exhibitions".
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The research investigates the means of digitally transposing N. J. Paik's works from the museum's collection in order to exhibit them remotely in an automated and immersive manner.
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Lecture by Sang Ae Park (Head of curatorial Dpt., NJPAC), C. Babski (fabric | ch) and P. Keller (ECAL), during the Swiss-Korea Science Club organized by Swissnex Seoul.
With the support of HES-SO and RCDAV.
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documentation [pdf]
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+ Cloud of Cards [2017‑2018]
Cloud of Cards (Kit) is the main outcome of the design research Inhabiting & Interfacing the Cloud(s) (2017) led at ECAL. Two books and a website present the results and artifacts (2018).
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Cloud of Cards consists in four artifacts (ABCD):
A) 19" Living Rack is a domestic 19" cabinet, with various combinations of heterogenous functions. B) Processing (CoC) Library is the combination of several librariries dedicated to file storage and manipulation. It was ported in the Processing langugage. C) 5 Folders Cloud is an alternative version of the cloud that demonstrates the use of the Processing (CoC) Library. D) 5 Connected Objects is another exemplary implementation of the library in the form of an Internet of Things (IoT) set of objects.
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Fund: University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), ECAL (Lausanne).
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Exhibition at the Haus der elektronischen Künste (Basel), 2015 and Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris), 2017.
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documentation [pdf]