Petja Ivanova
Petja Ivanova
Credit: Veronika Hubert Natter
Petja Ivanova is a transdisciplinary artist who combines archeology, biology, physics, computation and the poetic in order to promote the ‘poetic method’ as a counterweight to the socially dominating ‘scientific method’. She runs ‘Studio for Poetic Futures’ and ‘Speculative Ecologies’ out of a little caravan in Berlin. Very early in her artistic work with electronics and sensors she began to include mythological approaches, the magical and non-quantifiable, to analyse these connections in terms of deep time of media and technology. Frustrated by the simple causalities of quantification, she turned to overcoming the conceptual gap between nature and technology by working with crystals and electronic circuits; then with plants, microorganisms and now with insects and bacteria