“Hope arises from the sheer fact, that we are still existing.” Artist and researcher Antti Tenetz – on consequences of Earth gazing back

Oulu based journalist and community art producer Lölä Florina Vlasenko spoke to Antti Tenetz, artist and researcher, project manager of More-than-Planet and
curator of Adaptation project by Photo North and Oulu 2026.

"Quelle planète": A hybrid publication-exhibition

Along the years, Leonardo/OLATS has been developping what it calls "experimental publication-exhibition", experimenting different formats to reach audiences in different ways.

For More-than-Planet it created the hybrid publication "Quelle planète".

The Cultural Gravity of Space: Policy, Practice, and Imagination

The ECOSA study highlights the need for structural inclusion of art and culture in the space sector, advocating for long-term support, institutional integration, and recognition of art as a valid form of knowledge. It calls for systemic changes in policy and collaboration models to empower diverse, critical, and non-instrumental cultural practices in shaping our planetary and outer space futures.

Roscosmoe Lab: Umi No Oya, a feature documentary by Ewen Chardronnet and Maya Minder

In this 60'38" documentary film, artists and food transition researchers Maya Minder and Ewen Chardronnet follow the influence in Japan of Kathleen Drew-Baker, a scientist from Manchester University who, in 1949, succeeded in describing the complex life cycle of nori seaweed. Her persistent research efforts and her exchanges with the Japanese algal community contributed to the development of nori aquaculture.

Homo Photosyntheticus Lab at Antre-Peaux” in Bourges, Fr (June 2022-December 2024 – 30 months)

Co-funded by the Region Centre-Val-de-Loire the Homo Photosyntheticus Lab was hosted at the art center of Antre Peaux in Bourges, France for 30 months. The art center provided a biolab (Ursulab) and kitchen, a multidisciplinary & workshops space (Haidouc), a media art and sound studio and a film editing studio and online platform. It also offered curation, mediation, communication and dissemination support.

Exhibition: Green Open Food Evolution at SWISSNEX - Swiss Consulate in Osaka, Japan + MICUL MICUL workshop

In this installation, Maya Minder explores seaweed as a familiar part of the Japanese diet. Green Open Food Evolution envisions the kitchen of the future, integrating design, performance, biohacking, and cooking into a dynamic installation and film.

Showcase: Roscoffensis I/O by Miha Godec & Roscomoe Lab at OSMO/ZA, 27-30 Nov 2024

Roscoffensis I/O by Miha Godec and Roscosmoe Lab was showcased at OSMO/ZA during the Expedition to Public Outer Space in Slovenia, 27-30 Nov 2024. The project combines photosymbiosis and artificial intelligence to care for S. roscoffensis worms.

Homo Photosyntheticus Lab's Co-Lead Maya Minder's art work MICUL MICUL(Slippery Slippery)

With Micul Micul (meaning slipper slippery in Korean language), the artist created a web art project that invites users to submit new recipes for eating seaweed. Since seaweed consumption has long been an indigenous practice, much of the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) surrounding it is at risk of being lost—or has already disappeared. The homepage aims to invent new recipes that respond to a globalized food system, opening up critical possibilities for how we think about food consumption. The Micul Micul project serves as a platform for participatory workshops.

Developed using hypertext programming and inspired by early 1990s net art, Minder’s webart project encourages users to create and share fusion recipes centered on seaweed cuisine. The programming was developed following a workshop at Antre Peaux.

Roscosmoe Lab: Miha Godec in residency at M3 Lab, Roscoff Marine Station (FR) - July 2024

During his residency with the Roscosmoe Lab at Multicellular Marine Models Lab, Roscoff Marine Station, Miha Godec explored the natural habitat of the S. roscoffensis marine flat worms and life-support technologies in order to develop a new iteration of the Roscoffensis I/O installation.

The Laboratory Planet commission: Birth Chart of the Anthropocene - a map by Bureau d'études

This map was featured as the central poster of The Laboratory Planet #6 Planetary Peasants and exhibited at the More-Than-Planet exhibition at We Are Awareness in Art, Zurich, March 19 -July 10, 2024.

[video] The Solar Share by Disnovation: interview with Nicolas Maigret

Nicolas Maigret from Disnovation.org answers questions on their research project The Solar Share, which links solar energy, cyanobacterial production and global photosynthesis.

Lab visits at Agroscope (Bern, CH), Microalgae bioreactor at ZHAW (Wädenswi, CH), Algatech industry and research at EPFL (Lausanne, CH) 4-6 June 2024

The artists collective Disnovation (Maria Rozkovska & Nicolas Maigret), the Homo Photosyntheticus lab (Maya Minder, Ewen Chardronnet, Julie Verin, Armand Gypteau) visited three Swiss labs researching on algae from different viewpoints.

The Laboratory Planet issue no.6

We're delighted to announce the publication of The Laboratory Planet #6 Planetary Peasants. In this issue, we imagine a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by planetary peasants, organized in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic, and therefore more habitable than those of imperial cities.

[videos] LASER Paris, Another Planet

You could not attend the LASER Paris meeting of March 14th 2024 "Another Planet" with Luis Campos, Chloé Audas, Michèle Boulogne and Antti Tenetz? You came but you would like to listen to some parts again? You know students or friends that you would have liked that they could have attended that event? The videos recordings are now online.

Booklet of the exhibition More-Than-Planet: Visions for a life in a new geological epoch?

The exhibition the More-Than-Planet Lab will propose this spring a series of project presentations, workshops, conferences and performances at Awareness in Art & Löwenbräu, Bitwäscherei hackerspace and in other partner venues as well as in the public space. Download the booklet here.

Planetary Public Stack Research Residencies

On 8^th March 2023, Space Lab at Waag organised a transdisciplinary workshop with experts from different disciplines and artists to map out the following three questions: how do technologies impact the way imagine environmental and planetary interests, concerns, and injustices? What are their recommendations for those involved in the production of these environmental imaginaries? What are the first needed concrete actions so that planetary imaginaries can become more inclusive also for the creative and civil sectors?

Essay: Radical re-imagining: why we need planetary imagination (Bonnie van Vugt, 2023)

What do we mean when we talk about images of the planet, why are they so important and how does this relate to the climate and ecological crisis? Bonnie van Vugt explains in this essay on planetary imaginaries.

[video] More-Than-Planet @ ISEA 2023: Aquatic Devolutions. A bio-food dinner in contrapunctual speculations

A dinner performance created by Maya Minder and TETI Group (Gabriel Gee & Anne-Laure Franchette) Sound composition by Matthieu Philippe de l'Isle.

[Videos] More-Than-Planet symposium: the Ocean-Space-Ocean edition at ISEA 2023 - Symbiosis

Conferences and talks at More-Than-Planet symposium - the Ocean-Space-Ocean edition at ISEA 2023

Roscosmoe Lab - Space Mission: comparative studies in Japan

Lab visit, interviews and film shootings in Okayama and Ushimado, Japan, about comparative studies of "cousin" species P. Naikaiensis and S. Roscoffensis marine flat worms.

Deep Earth Lab: artist residency

North provided a Deep lab and residency at Pyhäsalmi Mine with access to the 1,444-meter depth. The residence partner is the international, multidisciplinary research and development center Callio Lab. The Mine and Callio Lab and the environment offer opportunities for research and art in extreme environmental conditions, geology, particle and space research, analog astronautics, industrial transformation, underground safety, security, testing, biotope art, renewable energy, and remote sensing. The site allows for studying the impact of the mine and its closure on the local population, nature, and the area's vitality. Residency hosted Felicia Honkasalo’s Spectral Lands (2024) project and artwork that explores complex questions about labor, community, survival, and adaptation to the changes around us. is set in the town of Pyhäjärvi, which owes its existence to the operation of the Pyhäsalmi Mine.

Unfolding the Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly (Klara Debeljak, September 2023)

From the 21st to the 25th of August, Projekt Atol in Ljubljana organised ARIA, a summer school designed as a role-playing game and a program of workshops and lectures, aiming to build and inhabit an alternative world in the context of a changing planetary ecology.

Podcasts Global Periphery / Ocean-Space-Ocean

Two series of podcasts were recorded and produced, one during the Global Periphery symposium organised by Leonardo/Olats in September 2022 and one during the Ocean-Space-Ocean symposium organised by Makery/Art2M in May 2023, both in Paris.

The Aerocene community gathers at Hangar Y and reclaims the air (Ewen Chardronnet, July 2023)

On Friday 14 July, the Hangar Y in Meudon near Paris opened its doors and its skies to the public in order to host Aerocene for a unique collaborative and artistic experience.

More-Than-Planet symposium at ISEA 2023: On the same planet (Rob La Frenais, June 2023)

Report of the "Ocean-Space-Ocean" edition of the "More-Than-Planet" symposium series, that took place at Délégation Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris) in the frame of ISEA 2023, on 16-17 May 2023.

Card games (Annick Bureaud, May 2023)

Two cards decks were produced by Leonardo/Olats, each with the same objectives: as the basis for the recording of a chorus series of podcasts; b) as a tool for animation of events and a basis for discussion and participation of audiences. The first deck is related to the Global Periphery event (questions Annick Bureaud, graphic design Perrine Serres, 2022). The second deck is related to the overall project More-than-Planet (questions Annick Bureaud, graphic design Daniaux-Pigot, 2023).

Aerocene: Bring The Sun Down (Rob La Frenais, April 2023)

The complex drama of a fossil-fuel free flight was acted out on Wednesday April 5 by the Aerocene community in the wide flatlands of central France, near Maintenon, Eure, with an attempt at a world record for a solar balloon flight, or floating sculpture as founder Tomás Saraceno puts it.

Spheres podcast (ep.1): What kind of dreams could we have for the future? (Photo North - Northern Photo Center, March 2023)

The first episode of the Spheres podcast hosted by Photo North – Northern Photo Center, talks about planetary images of climate change and considers possible futures. What kind of artistic and scientific approaches do we have to the past and the present? What dreams could we have about possible futures in times of climate change?

Synthetic Becoming: Life in the Molecular Commons (Vit Bohal, March 2023)

What does life re-assembled by hormonally active substances look and feel like? Who are we becoming with them? What are their effects on our bodies, how do they impact sexual development, and how can we live well with them despite their potential for harm?

Leonardo/Olats at the ITACCUS meeting during the IAC Spring Meeting

Each year in Spring, the members of the International Programme Committee of the International Astronautical Congress gather in Paris in the so-called "Spring Meeting". It is time for all the Technical Committees of the International Astronautical Federation to meet. Annick Bureaud from Leonardo/Olats took part in the ITACCUS (International Technical Committee for the Cultural Utilization of Space) meeting and presented the Portraits planétaires LASER event that some of the members of the Committee attended.

More-than-Planet: Finding New Planetary Imaginaries and Actions (Zoénie Deng, February 2023)

The exhibition More-than-Planet (July-December 2022) presented five international artists working on critical narratives to reduce the global environmental crisis.

Aerocene: Paleo-aero, an alternative low-carbon history of aerospace and aeronautics (Atelier 21, February 2023)

The participatory and citizen research project in the field of aeronautics and aerospace led by Atelier 21 builds a circular economy of knowledge about low-carbon flights by identifying and inventorying techniques and technologies that can be updated and adapted for today’s society.

Floating into space and other ways of getting there (Rob La Frenais, January 2023)

How to get into near-space, orbit, or outer space without burning up or polluting the atmosphere during the climate emergency on Earth? Rob La Frenais reviews the alternative ways.

More-than-Planet Expo Booklet (Miha Turšič, July 2022)

This booklet is part of the More-than-Planet Expo at Old Observatory. It includes a curatorial introduction, and a description of the artists and their works.

Green Open Food Evolution, a speculative exploration of algae and the food transition (Pauline Briand, October 2022)

Green Open Food Evolution, the culinary installation conceived by Maya Minder and her collaborators is at the intersection of art, traditional and digital craft, cooking and research.

We Are All On The Periphery (Rob La Frenais, October 2022)

On September 23-24, Global Periphery symposium was exploring the contemporary imaginaries of space through examples of artistic creations from the space sector with voices from multiple continents and locations.

International Astronautical Congress

The International Astronautical Congress, the largest event in the world related to space activities, took place in Paris from September 18th-22nd.

Space art and culture in Brazil: Three years of activities at the National Institute for Space Research (Fabiane M. Borges, September 2022)

Since 2019, Fabiane M. Borges curates a research platform on Art and Space Culture at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). On the occasion of the 73d International Astronautical Congress in Paris, she comes back on the last three years of the program.

More-than-Planet: Remote sensing and habitability (Annick Bureaud, August 2022)

Inaugurating an ambitious three-year program, the More-than-Planet exhibition is on view at the Old Observatory of Leiden (Netherlands).

Space Without Rockets (ed. E. Chardronnet, R. La Frenais, UV Editions, August 2022)

The book "Space Without Rockets" adresses the ways in which we could travel away to space, sustainably.