Weaving Algebraic Patterns, Flowers and Leaves

2024 to 2025 · Aldea, Bergen · also Platform Stockholm / Färgkontoret · with Ørjan Amundsen and Isan Maher

Three person exhibition at Aldea (13 December 2024 to 26 January 2025), also shown at Platform Stockholm / Färgkontoret (1 November to 1 December 2024). The title quotes Ada Lovelace on the Analytical Engine and Jacquard weaving; the show brings together works that link storytelling and technology.

Grundvåg’s contribution, Unconventional Embodiments, Stories from the petri dish, is a digital simulation of individual E. coli bacteria with differing genetic traits. The simulation itself stays largely out of view; what accumulates in the room is a continuous stream of receipt paper from a dot matrix printer, short first person lines that mark each bacterium’s life until another takes over the narration.

Read what the bacteria are saying now

Photography at Aldea: Thor Brødreskift.

Unconventional Embodiments, printout stream at Aldea, 2024 to 25. Photo: Thor Brødreskift

Accumulated printouts, Unconventional Embodiments at Aldea. Photo: Thor Brødreskift

Detail of printed bacterial narration. Photo: Thor Brødreskift

Aldea entrance during Weaving Algebraic Patterns, Flowers and Leaves. Photo: Thor Brødreskift