In her final 2025 Artlab Editorial Fellowship essay, writer Elvia Wilk explores Jenna Sutela’s “many-headedness”—channeling of bacteria, slime molds, and machine learning to confound notions of singular authorship. In a close reading of nimiia cétiï (2018), Wilk connects the Finnish artist’s practice to 19th-century spiritualist Hélène Smith, whose ‘Martian language’ structured the video’s uncanny vocalizations. Wilk concludes that Sutela is herself a medium—listening first, then attuning us to new frequencies.

“There’s a new interstellar comet in the neighbourhood!,” tweets NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Discovered by the Chilean ATLAS observatory with supporting observations dating back to June, 3I/ATLAS arrives from the direction of the Sagittarius constellation and poses no threat to Earth. Currently 420 million miles away and estimated at 5-20 km in diameter, it will make its closest solar approach on October 30th—just inside Mars’ orbit—before becoming observable again in December.