CAIF Cultural Hub – AATB Studio Event
AATB, the artist duo Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet, bring industrial and humanoid robots into performance and installation art. In this session they will share insights into their ongoing work: how they approach movement, behaviour, and the slightly uncanny intimacy between human and machine.
The presentation is accompanied by a live demonstration with a humanoid robot, plus a look behind the scenes of the development process.
Language: English Session (Presented in English)
🕒 Event Schedule
15:00 – 16:00 — Presentation & Humanoid Robot Demo
An immersive look into robotic art followed by an interactive live demonstration with the humanoid robot. (Presented in English)
16:00 – 16:30 — Networking & Drinks
Mingle with the AATB artists, the CAIF team, and fellow attendees over complimentary refreshments.
🎨 About AATB
Andrea Anner (b. 1985 in Zürich) & Thibault Brevet (b. 1988 in Lyon). Live and work in Zürich, Switzerland and Marseille, France.
AATB treats robotics like a raw material - flexible, unpredictable, and surprisingly tender. By pushing industrial automation far beyond factory logic, the duo transforms rigid robotic arms into performers, collaborators, and conversational companions. Their practice beautifully merges engineering with choreography: software becomes gesture, precision machining becomes play, and human–machine interaction turns into a staged, slightly uncanny intimacy. By placing robots in everyday, non-industrial contexts, AATB reveals how deeply automation already choreographs our daily movements and desires.
Their work has been featured at world-leading international institutions, including ZKM Karlsruhe, V&A Dundee, Ars Electronica Linz, New Museum New York, Venice Biennale of Art, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Chengdu Biennale, Unfold X in Seoul, APS in Shanghai, and the Beijing Art and Technology Biennale. They have completed residencies at CERN and Atelier Luma in Arles, and were recipients of the Swiss Design Award in 2021.
🌐 About the Host: Creative AI Foundation (CAIF)
This event is proudly hosted by the Creative AI Foundation (CAIF). Acting as a crucial cultural compass for the AI era, CAIF is the first interdisciplinary cultural hub dedicated to making artificial intelligence experiential, trustworthy, and meaningful for society. As technology advances at an unprecedented pace, CAIF aims to restore the synchronicity between rapid technical progress and human meaning through the power of culture.