Pond Brain

Pond
Brain,
2023.
Instrument
and
fountain
cast
from
bronze.
Co-Commissioned
by
Copenhagen
Contemporay
and
Helsinki
Biennial.
(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.
(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

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
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.
Commissioned
by
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.
Commissioned
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.
Supported
by
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 vibié

nimiia
contact,
2020.
Bacterial-Martian
tag
and
sound
installation.
Commissioned
by
Terraforma
for
Il
Pianeta
come
Festival
at
MACRO
Museum,
Rome.
nimiia
vibié,
2019.
Sounds
of
machine
learning
and
interspecies
communication.
A
record
out
on
PAN
as
part
of
their
ENTOPIA
series.

Holons within

: Holons within holons within :

Holobiont

Holobiont,
2018.
Video
essay
considering
embodied
cognition
on
a
planetary
scale.
Holobiont,
2018,
features
a
zoom
from
outer
space
to
inside
the
gut.
Videography
together
with
Mikko
Gaestel.
Supported
by
Kone
Foundation.

Neither A Thing Nor An Organism

Neither
A
Thing
Nor
An
Organism,
2018.
Sculpture
in
the
form
of
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.
Commissioned
by
Rhizome.

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.
(Photo:
Paavo
Lehtonen)

eAR

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

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.
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.
In
collaboration
with
Vincent
de
Belleval
and
Johanna
Lundberg.
(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.
Commissioned
by
Museum
of
Contemporary
Art
Tokyo.
(Photo:
Mikko
Gaestel)