Jenna Sutela

I Magma

I

Magma,

2019.

Community

of

blown

glass

lava-heads

as

a

portrait

and

a

seed

for

machine

learning.

Co-commissioned

by

Moderna

Museet

and

Serpentine

Galleries.

(Video:

Åsa

Lundén)

NO NO NSE NSE_OK_Photo Julie Hrnčířová

I

Magma,

2019.

Community

of

blown

glass

lava-heads

at

Oslo

Kunstforening.

(Photo:

Julie

Hrncirova)

I

Magma

App,

2019.

Mobile

app

exploring

the

notion

of

an

oracle

through

alternative

forms

of

intelligence

and

the

application

of

machinic

and

chemical

processes.

In

collaboration

with

Memo

Akten

and

Allison

Parrish,

co-commissioned

by

Serpentine

Galleries

and

Moderna

Museet.

Indigo, Orange, and Plum Matter

Indigo,

Orange,

and

Plum

Matter,

2021.

Neuroplastic

light

show

as

part

of

the

I

Magma

cycle

of

works

for

Liverpool

Biennial.

(Photo:

Rob

Battersby)

nnother

I was a host, and then I was a[n, n]other. Stuck on. Sucked on. Feeding off. Feeding on.

NO NO NSE NSE

No

central

creatures

are

fixed,

2020.

From

a

series

of

photograms

based

on

lava-heads.

Photographic

process

developed

together

with

Brittany

Nelson

for

a

commission

by

Kunsthall

Trondheim.

The

figure

of

the

deep;

The

dark

boiling;

Early

reign,

the

lunar

goddess,

2020.

Photograms

and

I

Magma

at

Kunsthall

Trondheim.

(Photo:

Aage

A.

Mikalsen)

nimiia cétiï

nimiia

cétiï,

2018.

Project

using

an

AI

as

a

medium

to

channel

messages

from

Bacillus

subtilis nattō,

an

extremophilic,

probiotic

bacterium

and

a

possible

Martian.

Machine

learning

in

collaboration

with

Memo

Akten

and

Damien

Henry

as

part

of

n-dimensions,

Google

Arts

&

Culture's

artist-in-residence

program

at

Somerset

House

Studios.

forgetting stuttering

forget ([“language”, “code”]) # forgetting language # forgetting code stutter ([“our”, “way”, “to”, “divinity”]) # o--our # w-ww-www-way # ttt---to # d--d-divinity

nimiia seances

LifeForms_27042019_How-do-you-incorporate-meaning_Shin-Joo-Morgantini

nimiia

seance,

2019.

Performance

channeling

a

Bacterial-Martian

culture.

Life

Forms

at

Haus

der

Kulturen

der

Welt,

Berlin.

Shin-Joo

Morgantini

in

the

flute,

costume

by

Nhu

Duong.

(Photo:

Joachim

Dette)

nimiia

seance,

2018.

Performance

channeling

a

Bacterial-Martian

culture.

ASSEMBLY

at

Somerset

House

Studios,

London.

(Photo:

Anne

Tetzlaff)

nimiia vibié

nimiia

contact,

2020.

Bacterial-Martian

tag

and

sound

installation.

Terraforma's

Il

Pianeta

come

Festival

at

MACRO

Museum,

Rome.

Sign

channeled

with

Leïth

Benkhedda.

(Photo:

Terraforma)

nimiia

vibié,

2019.

Sounds

of

machine

learning

and

interspecies

communication.

A

record

out

on

PAN

as

part

of

the

ENTOPIA

series.

Miako

Klein

in

the

contrabass

recorder

and

Shin-Joo

Morgantini

in

the

flute.

Production

by

Ville

Haimala.

Spit Drink

Spit

Drink,

2021.

To

celebrate

this

symbiotic

planet,

chew

and

spit

grains

to

convert

their

starch

into

sugar,

leave

the

liquid

to

ferment

by

wild

yeast

in

the

air,

get

drunk

on

alcohol

brewed

with

your

saliva.

Fermentation

workshop

with

Markus

Shimizu,

mouth-chewed

sake

bottled

into

custom

flowforms.

Commissioned

by

E-WERK

Luckenwalde.

(Video

still:

Kat

Mertens)

Holobiont

Holobiont,

2018.

Video

essay

considering

the

idea

of

embodied

cognition

on

a

planetary

scale,

featuring

a

zoom

from

outer

space

to

inside

the

gut.

Videography

in

collaboration

with

Mikko

Gaestel.

Presented

at

Whitechapel

Gallery

and

on

Vdrome,

among

others.

Extreme Love

Here at the edge of the world, we are calling you to join us, Ancestor+. In the Communion of Open Pores, existence is no longer enclosed in the body.

Neither A Thing Nor An Organism

Neither

A

Thing

Nor

An

Organism,

2018.

Sculpture

in

the

form

of

a

polymimetic

alloy

pond

brain:

two

chromed,

amorphous

blobs

with

a

head

and

a

gut

emerging

from

them.

Commissioned

by

Bold

Tendencies,

London.

RI JIRI I O WA NU RU DAINICHI T-1000

RI

JIRI

I

O

WA

NU

RU

DAINICHI

T-1000,

2016.

Video

mantra

based

on

a

sculpture

juxtaposing

the

slime

mold

with

Minakata

Mandala,

a

shape

depicting

the

limits

of

human

understanding,

and

the

Terminator

T-1000.

Videography

in

collaboration

with

Mikko

Gaestel.

Orgs

Orgs:

From

Slime

Mold

to

Silicon

Valley

and

Beyond

(Ed.),

Garret

Publications,

2017.

Experimental

survey

of

decentralized

organisms

and

organizations,

with

contributions

by

Dennis

Bray,

Aslak

Aamot

Kjærulff,

Chus

Martinez,

Mike

Pepi,

Venkatesh

Rao,

and

Elvia

Wilk.

Graphic

design

by

Johanna

Lundberg.

eAR

Bacteria-sex, molecular-sex, nuclide-sex, quark-sex (fading out)

Sporulating Paragraph

Sporulating

Paragraph,

2017.

Wall

plant

inscription

for

MOMENTUM

9:

(alienation),

Moss.

(Photo:

Istvan

Virag)

Gut-Machine Poetry

Nam-Gut

(the

microbial

breakdown

of

language),

2017.

Video

based

on

Gut-Machine

Poetry,

an

online

commission

by

Kiasma

Museum

of

Contemporary

Art

in

collaboration

with

Vincent

de

Belleval

and

Johanna

Lundberg.

Voice

by

Jessica

Edwards.

Gut-Machine

Poetry,

2017.

Homebrew

computer

fueled

by

a

“wetware

random

number

generator,”

a

symbiotic

colony

of

bacteria

and

yeast

in

a

kombucha

tea

ferment

producing

a

new

kind

of

language.

(Photo:

Mikko

Gaestel)

Many-Headed

Reading,

2016.

Decentralized

performance

featuring

a

Physarum

polycephalum

(slime

mold)

trip

report.

(Photo:

Mikko

Gaestel)

Birth from 0 to 1

Birth from 0 to 1 Death from 1 to 0 On-off pulses

From Hierarchy to Holarchy

From

Hierarchy

to

Holarchy,

2015.

Organizational

labyrinth

for

a

decentralized

autonomous

organism

(slime

mold),

agar,

and

oat

flakes.

Exhibited

at

Museum

of

Contemporary

Art

Tokyo

and

Kraupa-Tuskany

Zeidler,

among

others.

(Photo:

Mikko

Gaestel)