Description

Rupert Ren & Goda will develop an artistic-academic research project that takes slime molds as teachers that we as students can learn from about worldly processes, including algorithmic practices. Appreciating the shapeshifting qualities of both slime molds and algorithms in the planthroposcene, they will not draw boundaries to try and capture what slime molds “are” or how they can be “used” for some purposes, but rather attend to what these ancient beings can and want to share with us. Through this practice of careful attention and relationship building to these more-than-human beings, Ren and Goda will invite slime molds into a series of actions that will inform what we can come to know of them, if they wish to be known. From here questions about algorithmic processes and knowing algorithms in the planthroposcene will be unfolded. Throughout their residency time Algorithms & Slimes maintain an active studio notes journal and will experiment towards various sculptural works.

This residency is a collaborative artistic and academic research residency at RUPERT - independent, publicly funded centre for art, residencies and education in Vilnius, Lithuania.