2020/07/22

Artist Jenna Sutela Recounts Ingesting Slime Mold, Inviting Interspecies ‘Re-Programming’

● 22/07/2020
“I ate a slime mold species called the Physarum polycephalum, thinking of it as a form of AI, allowing its hive-like behavior to ‘program’ me.”
– Finnish artist Jenna Sutela, describing her 2016 performance Many-Headed Reading to science historian and Synthetic: How Life Got Made (2017) author Sophia Roosth. “I wanted to highlight how we’re interwoven with microbes and machines alike,” Sutela explains. “Though we may have created machines, they’re also taking on a life of their own.”
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