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Aaron Israel

Aaron Israel is a software and data architect and a visual artist, based in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He has worked in professional software development since 2007, with a focus on distributed systems, temporal data modelling and machine learning. He holds a Diplom in Fine Arts from the HBK Braunschweig — studying with Björn Dahlem and Thomas Rentmeister. His work moves between software, data, and artistic research, exploring how technical systems shape perception, memory, and shared knowledge.

Exhibitions

INTERIORA PATENT
Group-Show, Rittergut Lucklum, 2018
Re-Formation/ART-Figura
Perla Castrum, Schwarzenberg, 2017
Tight Intersection
Group-Show, GaDeWe, Bremen, 2017
Israel & Kanclerski “1. OG”
Solo-Show, Kunstraum 53, Hildesheim, 2015
Inversion
Group-Show, Museums Abtei Liesborn, 2015
Home Street Home
Road-Show, mit Alice Musiol, Braunschweig, 2015
ALLIANZEN & AFFAIREN
Group-Show, KuK Monschau, 2014

Projects

ArtPilot
Autonomous robot sculpture for art mediation, built on a fine-tuned open-source LLM (GPT-J) that generates situational commentary live in the exhibition. Collective technical work for the 89th autumn exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover; funded by Stiftung Niedersachsen and Volkswagen AG. 2020 – 2021
Memories of the Occupation in Greece
Software developer at the Center für Digitale Systeme, FU Berlin: data modelling and a Ruby on Rails application for the metadata management of a trilingual video oral-history archive — time-based annotation of witness interviews with segment-accurate timecodes. 2016 – 2017
Brave New Work
Artistic and technical collaboration on a theatre project of interactive audio walks. Developed the browser-based framework connecting geolocation, sound, and performative urban space. Berlin, 2014
Love for Sale
Recordstore, Braunschweig – Berlin, 2014 – 2017

Research & AI

lean-artist
Lean 4 architecture for formalising established standards into artist archives, portfolio and website generation, institutional data exchange, and provable ledger documentation of analogue and digital artistic practice. 2025
iceberg — bare-metal AI cluster
Private, self-hosted AI infrastructure with a custom-built networked power-supply system that can switch GPUs off on demand, supporting experiments in model training, interpretation, and creative practice. Potsdam-Babelsberg, since 2025
Schmelztigel
Main live-fusion framework for play with me, combining multisensor inputs with multi-input inference on custom AI models. Project in progress through 2029.

Grants

Link Master, Stiftung Niedersachsen
Planning Grant, Projekt: Artpilot, 2021
play with me
Open-source live-coding performance and installation with Lennart Melzer: BrainFlow streams EEG data through an AI pipeline into TidalCycles via OSC, connecting a performer wearing EEG and other sensors with responsive mirror actuators. Funded by NEUSTART KULTUR, a programme of the BBK with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). Braunschweig & Hannover, May 2022

Support for Artists

Heiner Franzen, Großes Gesichtsfeld
Assistance, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 2018
Kevin Schmidt, Lichtparcours
Production Manager, Braunschweig, 2016

Contact

✉ ai@al0.de
play with me — EEG live-coding performance play with me ↗
iceberg — self-hosted AI compute cluster
Cyclethesun
Materialströme
Der Zauberlehrling, Lucklum, 2018
Donald Trump, Bremen, 2017
Spiegel Riff, Braunschweig, 2015
Brotkästen mit Sven Kanclersky im KuK Monschau, 2015
Rotating Self
Donnermaschine
Rundgang 2013
Tanzender Spiegel, Braunschweig, 2013
Experiment 01