[6] During 2012 NORTD labs held residencies at Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

The first open-source Multi-touch system using Diffused Illumination with software written in OpenFrameworks was developed under NORTD labs as their first open source project.

In 2015 as part of a residency at the New Museum in New York City, she performed drone painting live for the first time publicly in over 500 people.

[8] The Lasersaur is an open source laser cutter designed by NORTD labs to fill the need of makers, artists, and scientists who wanted a safe, cheap, and highly capable machine.

The collaborative is made up primarily of women working within privacy, surveillance, code, big data research, art and critical culture.

[14] In 2018 the collaborative was commissioned and in residence for the York Biennial where they developed the site-specific 10.5-hour large-scale video work "Can You Die If You Don’t Exist?

[17] In the original Anthropometries, Klein directs nude female models who he referred to as “living paintbrushes,” to press their pigment-covered bodies onto large canvases in front of an audience.

In Wagenknecht's series, the body is always absent, utilizing Yves Klein's namesake blue and painted using a robotic device as a brush.

The paintings use reconfigured Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, to disperse a mixture of cosmetic pigments, pharmaceuticals, perfumes, and skincare products across canvas using algorithms.

[20] The artist aims to reclaim visibility by utilizing devices typically employed for sanitation and surveillance, offering a reinterpretation of beauty and a contemporary portrait of the modern woman.

[22] By stripping these materials into a medium for application onto canvas, Wagenknecht aims to achieve them as raw color and texture, challenging their perception of use.

Through the subsequent Beauty works, Wagenknecht continues this non-illustrative dialogue by reclaiming tools used for conformity or control, offering a 'study of contemporary portraiture'.

[18] The path of the Roomba, occasionally indicated by a circular form or geometric angle generates a homogenized painter's palette that exudes a frenzied and eerily human effect, reducing the Abstract Expressionist movement's celebrated action painting to an algorithm executed by an electronic device.