Before AI There Was the Octopus
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Helsinki-based artist Tuomas Laitinen's exhibition, Siphon, begins with copper. A decade ago, the artist set out to trace the material’s mythologies and geopolitics, and the trail led, improbably, to the octopus, whose copper-based blood carries oxygen through the deep. That conductive thread runs through the installation at Pioneer Works, where in the cavernous Main Hall, wall-scale projections of abstracted octopus skin flood the room in thermal magentas and molten ambers.The image
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