19/10/2026
Tuomas A. Laitinen takes part in “Ecotechnics”, currently on view at the Beall Center for Art + Technology in Irvine, California, USA.
“Ecotechnics” gathers contemporary artists who treat ecology not as a given but as a process of imaging. The exhibition asks how we, through technology and as technical beings, sense and represent the living world.
Tuomas A. Laitinen’s work "The Earth is the Ear of the Bear (Aural Version)" refers to an ancient belief among circumpolar hunting cultures that bears can hear everything. In the work, a tentacular base casts three ultrasonic speakers as heads that produce a sound installation. Observers’ movements within the gallery influence the perception of the work, entangling the works’ technology and the architecture with the embodied experience of time.
Tuomas A. Laitinen works with moving image, sound, and glass. He composes situations and installations that inquire into the interconnectedness of language and body within morphing environments.
“Ecotechnics” remains on view at the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts until February 6, 2027.
Learn more: https://helsinkicontemporary.com/news/tuomas-a-laitinen-in-ecotechnics-at-the-beall-center-for-art-technology
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Tuomas A. Laitinen: The Earth is the Ear of the Bear (Aural Version) (2023/2026), ultrasonic speakers, metal. Installation view from "Ecotechnics" at the Beall Center for Art + Technology. Photo: Yubo D**g, ofstudio.
