Baby Magma
Jenna Sutela
Baby Magma, 2022
Glass Lava Head
Variable dimensions
Edition of 20 + 4 APs
With a hand signed and numbered certificate from the artist
£840
We are delighted to release Jenna Sutela’s limited edition titled Baby Magma. These hand-blown lava lamps are formed in the likeness of the artist and modelled after the collection of heads that were created as part of Sutela’s 2019 work, I Magma, a co-commission between Serpentine and Moderna Museet. The edition presents a small scale version of Sutela’s lava heads made in collaboration with the classic lava lamp producer Mathmos. Its title is inspired by how Mathmos names their smaller lava lamps, such as Astro Baby.
Drawing from histories of mysticism, psychedelia and technology, I Magma placed an emphasis on altered states of consciousness and the creation of artificially intelligent ‘deep-dreaming’ computational systems that mimic the brain. The magma, or goo inside the original lava heads was used as a seed for mystical AI-powered predictions in a mobile application. Lava lamps have a history as random number generators but instead, Sutela looked for patterns, signs and meaning in the blobs of liquid color in motion.
The neuroplastic edition comes in two different coloured liquids: Baby Magma (Blue) and Baby Magma (Yellow).
About Mathmos
Mathmos was founded in 1963 by the inventor of the lava lamp Edward Craven Walker, beginning with the invention of the Astro lava lamp, a twentieth-century design classic. Mathmos factory is still based in Poole, Dorset where their lamps have been in continuous production since their invention in 1963 and are still recognised as the best quality lava lamps available. They take pride in their long British manufacturing history, their high quality and their heritage of invention and design.
www.mathmos.com
© Photo: readsreads.info
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Jenna Sutela
Baby Magma, 2022
Glass Lava Head
Variable dimensions
Edition of 20 + 4 APs
With a hand signed and numbered certificate from the artist
£840
We are delighted to release Jenna Sutela’s limited edition titled Baby Magma. These hand-blown lava lamps are formed in the likeness of the artist and modelled after the collection of heads that were created as part of Sutela’s 2019 work, I Magma, a co-commission between Serpentine and Moderna Museet. The edition presents a small scale version of Sutela’s lava heads made in collaboration with the classic lava lamp producer Mathmos. Its title is inspired by how Mathmos names their smaller lava lamps, such as Astro Baby.
Drawing from histories of mysticism, psychedelia and technology, I Magma placed an emphasis on altered states of consciousness and the creation of artificially intelligent ‘deep-dreaming’ computational systems that mimic the brain. The magma, or goo inside the original lava heads was used as a seed for mystical AI-powered predictions in a mobile application. Lava lamps have a history as random number generators but instead, Sutela looked for patterns, signs and meaning in the blobs of liquid color in motion.
The neuroplastic edition comes in two different coloured liquids: Baby Magma (Blue) and Baby Magma (Yellow).
About Mathmos
Mathmos was founded in 1963 by the inventor of the lava lamp Edward Craven Walker, beginning with the invention of the Astro lava lamp, a twentieth-century design classic. Mathmos factory is still based in Poole, Dorset where their lamps have been in continuous production since their invention in 1963 and are still recognised as the best quality lava lamps available. They take pride in their long British manufacturing history, their high quality and their heritage of invention and design.
www.mathmos.com
© Photo: readsreads.info
Artist
Jenna Sutela
Jenna Sutela (b. 1983) is a Finnish artist based in Berlin. She and her studio work with biological and computational systems, including the human microbiome and artificial neural networks to create sculptures, images and music. Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living media, such as Bacillus subtilis nattō bacteria and the “many-headed” slime mold Physarum polycephalum. Her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Sutela's work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024); Swiss Institute, New York (2023); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2022); Castello di Rivoli (2022); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2022); Shanghai Biennale (2021); Liverpool Biennial (2021); Kunsthall Trondheim (2020); Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019). She was a Visiting Artist at The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-21.
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