Projects – TAAVI SUISALU

Negotiating Balance

taavi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Space with a sloped floor, self-balancing marking rods, extended rails The installation Negotiating Balance focuses on maximum effort for minimal result – to remain balanced while falling forever for a moment. Gravity costs nothing. Barely perceptible surfaces, elongated and askew. Within a year we stood up, the trees dispersed, it was time to go.. The installation was part of…

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Arctic Embassy

taavi — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Photogrammetry of icebergs refrozen in glacial meltwater, kinetic playback of tracked horizon from an approach to Arctic ice pack synchronized to video in VR headset overlayed with a dialogue between large language model ChatGPT and writer Jan Kaus, multiple photographs, video installation with 30 synchronized screens, sound installation activated by visitor’s phone call that triggers motorized…

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Dialogue

taavi — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:29:00 +0000

Kinetic installation, 30 mins. Kinetic playback of tracked horizon from an approach to Arctic ice pack, VR headset, dialogue with large language model ChatGPT + writer Jan Kaus The installation is part of the Arctic Embassy, a series of works that stem from fieldwork conducted around Svalbard and on Icelandic glaciers, engaging playfully with the methods of art and science…

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Temporary Sculptures

taavi — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:29:00 +0000

Photogrammetry of icebergs, glacial meltwater The installation is part of the Arctic Embassy, a series of works that stem from fieldwork conducted around Svalbard and on Icelandic glaciers, engaging playfully with the methods of art and science, touching upon the challenges of climate change communication, and questioning the role of the sublime in the present day. The Arctic has long…

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Still Life

taavi — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000

Photo of a weather balloon burst, 135x180cm; conductor batons on microphone stands, silently vibrating speaker intermittedly interrupted by a composition based on recordings of the event Still Life lays out an aftermath and an echo of an event carried out at the exhibition space, but it also lures in anticipation of its re-occurence to trigger auditory imagery and to consider sounds as events…

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Attention Figures

taavi — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:27:00 +0000

32-channel sound system, variable light, algorithmic sound composition that uses a common notification sound and attempts to construct spatial arrangements of visitors’ attention In 1971 Herbert A. Simon coined the term attention economics stating that “In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information…

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Green Screen

taavi — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 08:09:50 +0000

Photo of a deer gazing at the visitor, 60x90cm; 2 month timelapse of natural growth, 7 min, 16:10 with soundtrack In screen-based media green screen is used to mark parts of the image meant for replacement with something else, e.g. another background or image. In this series, green screen acts as a surface that helps to visualize natural phenomena, but also as a placeholder, as a space for…

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Mirror Image

taavi — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:44:00 +0000

Interactive mirror object housing a camera system, evolving portraits on multiple screens based on StyleGAN machine learning algorithms, wall-mounted workstation. Audience can allow their image to be taken by closing eyes their eyes in front of the mirror object for at least five seconds. Mirror Image forms at the intersection of algorithmic imagination, attention economy and self…

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Datafanta

taavi — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:58:34 +0000

Levitating grain, rotating 3D model laid out on multiple screens, seismometer, sound composition based on seismograms from Vesuvius Observatory and seismometer on display, light boxes and postcards with documentation of field work Artist in Collections is a format curated by Maarin Ektermann and Mary Talvistu in which an artist is paired with a museum to produce a work based or inspired by…

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Touch of the network

taavi — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:00:12 +0000

9:16 light box on top of surveyors tripod, electronics, mobile broadband SIM with public static IP. Looping 4K video. The searchlight mounted on top of surveyors tripod turns and bursts light towards the physical location where it is being targeted from over the networks. Touch of the network can be seen as a lighthouse and also as an island in the network between things – the Internet.

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