Jenna Sutela operates with sounds, words, and living creatures to create works that aim to investigate social, material and biological phenomena, engaged in a relationship with the codes and mechanisms of technology. The symbiotic, ecosystemic relationship that the human universe has with the rest of the world—organic or synthetic—is the basis of a reflection carried out using many languages, ranging from the production of publications to that of sound-based, poetic, performative and sculptural works, often generated by an expanded, non-linear and non-centralized collaborative process. Sutela’s approach, open to chance and contamination, shuns anthropocentrism and geocentrism, to instead go looking for alien and unexplored dimensions. The vehicles used in this exploration can be bacteria, artificial intelligence, neural networks, as well as the endless transformational possibilities of language, seen as a living and thriving element. The audiovisual manifestation of the nimiia cétiï project (2018), on exhibition in Belgrade, is an example of this investigational approach. The artist’s reiteration of the vocalizations of the 19th-century French medium Hélène Smith, who claimed to be able to communicate with Martians, together with microscope footage showing the movements of the Bacillus subtilis bacteria, considered a life form potentially capable of surviving on the “Red planet,” become the learning elements of a neural network that creates a new language. The communication between different species, the interaction through distant dimensions, the collaboration of biological and artificial entities define an alternative world. In addition to nimiia cétiï, a piece from the sculptural series I Magma (2019) is exhibited in Belgrade, featuring a cast of the artist’s head in the form of a lava lamp. In this work, neural networks, psychedelia, pareidolia—i.e. the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer—take part in the creation of an “other” universe of meaning.