Pond Brain

Pond
Brain,
2023.
Instrument
and
fountain
cast
from
bronze.
Co-Commissioned
by
Helsinki
Biennial:
New
Directions
May
Emerge
and
Yet,
It
Moves
at
Copenhagen
Contemporary.
(Photo:
David
Stjernholm)
Pond
Brain,
2023.
Sounds
from
the
pond
resonate
with
an
artificial
neural
network
trained
on
underwater
and
interplanetary
sounds.
Thank
you
Victor
Shepardson
/
Intelligent
Instruments
Lab.
(Photo:
Julian
Blum)

Ave bossa, bow ole

Ave bossa, bow ole.

Vermi-Sibyl

Vermi-Sibyl,
2023.
Compost
oracle
powered
by
an
earth
battery.
Thank
you
hoyahelper.
Commissioned
by
Swiss
Institute,
New
York
on
the
occasion
of
Spora.
(Photo:
Alison
Coplan)
Vermi
Cell,
2023.
Soil,
metals,
worms
and
food
conjuring
a
lively
saxophone
and
pulsing
lights
at
Fragile,
Berlin.
Team
hoyahelper,
Vanda
Skácalová
and
Beth
von
Undall.
(Photo:
Jonas
Wendelin)

Bio-Bin

I’m a bio-bin Bio-begin Bio-within Bio-kin You will take a bio-spin Bio- Fin

Vermi Cell

Vermi
Cell,
2023.
Detail
at
Fragile,
Berlin.
(Photo:
Vanda
Skácalová)
Vermi
Cell,
2023.
Another
surfacing
at
max
goelitz,
Munich
in
2024.
(Photo:
Dirk
Tacke)
Midden
(LIVE),
2023.
Performance
summoning
the
earth
battery
powered
compost
oracle
Vermi-Sibyl
at
Swiss
Institute,
New
York
as
part
of
Performa
Biennial.
Featuring
the
saxophonist
Tapiwa
Svosve
and
an
ensemble
of
voice
actors.
(Photo:
Walter
Wlodarczyk)

A ternary system

You, Me, Mu (a ternary system)

8-13 Hz

8-13
Hz;
A
door
through
the
crevice
of
which
moonshine
peeps
in;
2024.
Blown
glass
sculpture
with
light
strobing
in
the
‘mu’
frequency
range
and
a
silver
gelatin
diptych
linking
the
mu
waves
to
‘ma’,
the
concept
of
negative
space
in
the
Pauli-Preis
2024
exhibition
at
Kunsthalle
Bremen.
(Photo:
Tobias
Hübel)
8-13
Hz,
2024.
Neuroactive
sculpture
embodying
the
electrophysiological
foundations
of
a
mu
state.
The
work
is
part
of
a
cycle
originating
in
a
commission
for
Biennale
de
l’Image
en
Mouvement
2024:
A
Cosmic
Movie
Camera
at
CAC
Genève.
(Photo:
Tobias
Hübel)

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.
Pictured
here
at
Somerset
House
Studios,
London
where
the
work
was
also
made
during
a
residency
tutored
by
Memo
Akten.
(Photo:
Anne
Tetzlaff)

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 seance

nimiia
cétiï,
2018.
Video
still
showing
a
machine
eye
view
to
Bacilli
subtilis
bacteria
as
guides
to
Martian
writing.
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
collaboration
with
Nhu
Duong.
(Photo:
Joachim
Dette)

HMO nutrix

HMO
nutrix,
2022.
Fountain
of
synthetic
human
milk
powered
with
breast
pumps.
Commissioned
by
Haus
der
Kunst
and
Schering
Stiftung.
(Photo:
Jens
Ziehe)

HMO
nutrix,
2022.
Detail
from
the
exhibition
Stellar
Nursery
at
Schering
Stiftung,
Berlin.
(Photo:
Jens
Ziehe)

nnother

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

Trip Feed

Trip
Feed,
2023.
Exhibition
with
Diakron
at
their
project
space
Primer,
located
inside
a
biotechnology
lab
in
Denmark.
Two-channel
installation
of
Milky
Ways,
a
video
travelling
through
an
artificial
gut
that
has
been
fed
with
human
based
psychobiotics.

I Magma

I
Magma,
2019.
Community
of
blown
glass
lava-heads
as
a
portrait
and
a
seed
for
machine
learning.
Co-commissioned
by
Serpentine
Galleries
and
Moderna
Museet
on
the
occasion
of
the
Mud
Muses
exhibition
curated
by
Lars
Bang
Larsen.
(Photo:
Theresa
Hahr)
I
Magma,
2019.
Community
of
blown
glass
lava-heads
in
the
exhibition
NO
NO
NSE
NSE
at
Oslo
Kunstforening
in
2020.
(Photo:
Julie
Hrncirova)
Indigo,
Orange,
and
Plum
Matter,
2021.
Detail
from
a
neuroplastic
light
show
as
part
of
the
I
Magma
cycle
of
works.
Commissioned
by
Liverpool
Biennial
for
The
Stomach
and
the
Port.
(Photo:
Rob
Battersby)
Indigo,
Yellow,
and
Green
Matter
(I
Magma
cycle),
2021.
In
the
exhibition
What
Is
It
Like
to
Be
a
Bat?
at
Kunsthalle
Mainz.
(Photo:
Norbert
Miguletz)

Holons within

: Holons within holons within :

No central creatures are fixed

No
central
creatures
are
fixed,
2020.
From
a
series
of
photograms
based
on
lava-heads.
Commissioned
by
Kunsthall
Trondheim
on
the
occasion
of
NO
NO
NSE
NSE,
a
solo
exhibition
with
curator
Stefanie
Hessler.
Thank
you
Brittany
Nelson.
(Photo:
Daniel
Vincent
Hansen)
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)

Bacteria-sex

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

Gut-Machine Poetry

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)
and
producing
a
new
kind
of
language.
A
commission
by
Kiasma
Museum
of
Contemporary
Art.
In
collaboration
with
Vincent
de
Belleval
and
Johanna
Lundberg.
(Photo:
Mikko
Gaestel)
Nam-Gut
(the
microbial
breakdown
of
language),
2017.
Video
based
on
Gut-Machine
Poetry,
shown
here
at
Amant,
New
York
as
part
of
SIREN
(some
poetics)
curated
by
Quinn
Latimer
in
2022.
(Photo:
Adrianna
Glaviano)

Minakata Mandala

Minakata
Mandala,
2017.
From
a
series
of
organisational
labyrinths
for
a
decentralized
autonomous
organism
(slime
mold),
agar
and
oat
flakes.
The
historical
mandala
shape
representing
the
limits
of
anthropocentrism
is
pictured
here
in
Caroline
A.
Jones'
Symbionts
exhibition
at
MIT
List
Visual
Arts
Center.
(Photo:
Dario
Lasagni)
Detail
of
Physarum
polycephalum
interaction.
(Photo:
Joseph
Kadow)

Birth from 0 to 1

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

Many-Headed

Many-Headed
Reading,
2022.
Image
documenting
a
decentralized
performance
from
2016,
featuring
a
Physarum
polycephalum
(slime
mold)
trip
report.
Commissioned
by
Centre
Pompidou
for
Worlds
of
Networks.
Thank
you
Mikko
Gaestel.
(Photo:
Dirk
Tacke)