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The huge amount of spiders around the art colony inspired me to work on this three spiderweb structures. Because the spiders immediately populate the artificial web, the structure of the network changes continuosly and introduces a different point of view to those omnipresent creatures and engages a coexistence between insects and art. on site at nida [...]

During the 1 month residency I took around 400 different photos. Out of this pool emerges an hand drawn emotional and subjective map of the three different locations in Norway, Sweden and Lithuania. at nida art colony , Curonian Spit, Lithuania Here we were encouraged to show our works in progress during the open studio event on the [...]

Atmers are kinetic inflatable objects which try to reflect on the surrounding environment and its health state through repetitive movements which resemble breathing. at kultivator, art and agriculture, Öland, Sweden As we were at a farm, the first step was to create a working space. What would be a better place for some artistic-scientific research than a kitchen [...]

Flørli, Lysefjord, Norway together with Tapio Mäkelä Already before we arrived to Flörli, there where rumors about the so called “Stairway to heaven”, 4444 wooden stairs, which belong to the old Powerplant. We had the idea to create some device, which has a camera mounted on it to ride those tracks, next to the wooden stairs, down. [...]

We’re in the midst of completing work on a first version of an Android smart phone app (built in Processing) that will detect GPS and allow users to record and playback sounds from their environment. We’re almost done work on the programming and are currently using it to create a sound walk for the art/farm  kultivator, on [...]

Oland has a rich landscape full of wild fruit. Hazelnut, Sloeberry and its cousin the wild Plum are spread all over the surroundings of Kultivator on the East Coast of the island. During the M.A.R.I.N. workshop a database of these wild apples and pears is made. The data collected includes: location (GPS coordinates mapped on Boskoi), [...]

Last week, a few of us took some hours to wander around the land near Kultivator and look for good things to eat.  We were mostly hunting for mushrooms, and while at the end of the day we were lead to some very sizeable specimens, we also came back with an armload of late asparagus, [...]