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)
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

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

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)