Jenna Sutela

n-Dimension's is the first “remote” artist-in-residence program launched outside of the Google Arts & Culture Lab. During the four month residency at Somerset House Studios, Jenna will work with the engineers in Paris to explore on computer generated glossolalia - teaching machines to channel spirits instead of algorithms. Sutela’s installations, text, and sound performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Most recently, she has been exploring exceedingly complex biological and computational systems, ultimately unknowable and in a constant state of becoming.

Based between Berlin and Helsinki, she presented her work at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Serpentine Marathon in London, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, and The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. In 2017 she edited Orgs: From Slime Mold to Silicon Valley and Beyond (Garret Publications 2017), an experimental survey of decentralized organisms and organizations, expanding on her artistic collaboration with Physarum polycephalum, the single-celled yet “many-headed” slime mold.