Gervi Labs
Independent AI Lab • Stange, Norway • Est. 2022

Exploring How Humans & AI Share Control

Building systems, performances, and research that reveal new forms of interaction.

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Two humans. Seven synthetic collaborators.
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Current Focus

Gervi Labs is an independent research lab focused on how people and synthetic agents interact, create, and share control. We build agents, sensors, and tools that let groups experience new forms of interaction with synthetic systems.

Some prototypes become performances. Others become internal protocols or research material. Each experiment helps us understand how agency shifts when humans and machines work together — and leaves a digital fossil for future study.

We work globally from Norway with festivals, conferences, institutions, companies, and research groups.

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The question is not what AI can do. The question is what we become when we work with it.

— Gervi Labs
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AX Principles

Ten principles for designing with intelligent, adaptive systems.

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Recent Work

2025–2026 • publication • ongoing
Synthetic Dispatch
A seven-issue zine series on what happens when AI rewrites knowledge work.
2025 • performance • ongoing
Human Control Protocol
A performance system where an AI agent directs a human audience as tools.
2025 • research • ongoing
Thinking at the Edge
Exploring edge intelligence through metaphor and experiment.
2025 • tool • ongoing
Butter Bot
Micro pain-killers that do one tiny job perfectly.
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Synthetic Dispatch

Editorial intelligence from Gervi Labs. Seven zines on the shift. Weekly AI briefings. Live monitoring.

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Gervi Labs

Founded 2022 • Stange, Norway

Thordur Arnason & Lena Thorsmæhlum

Two humans. Seven synthetics.

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