Using elements of robotics and scientific processes, Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler create sculptures and installations that explore the aesthetic, social and ecological effects of technological developments. In their works, material qualities of a visual and haptic nature are just as important as programmed processes, physical laws and chemical reactions.
The artists Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl live and work in Offenbach am Main, Germany.
Joint biography:
2024 Foundation and chair of the board of the non-profit association Atelier Wäscherei e.V..
2022/23 Lecturers on artistic research with high technology for emerging media artists, FUNKEN Academy for artistic research, a cooperation project of Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), WRO Art Center (Wroclaw, PL), Klub Solitaer e.V. (Chemnitz) in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (Chemnitz).
Since 2020, ongoing artistic research on biodegradable plastics in cooperation with researchers from the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub, University of Manchester, UK.
Since 2019 Founding and direction of the interdisciplinary art space Atelier Wäscherei (www.waescherei.studio).
2017 Diploma with distinction in electronic art with Prof. Julika Rudelius and sociology/theory of media with Prof. Dr. Marc Ries, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (Liebl and Schmid-Pfähler).