Machine Membranes – Part Two

2025

7-channel sound installation, textile (570x480cm), typewriter, and performance (30 min)

Documentation photos: Runa Halleraker (performance), Nayara Leite (installation)

Machine Membranes is the collaborative project of artist Marie Nerland,  musician/composer Mari Kvien Brunvoll and myself. It explores how, as humans experience the world, we are tracked by sensors and algorithms, and increasingly surrounded by machines, which gradually become part of us. The work originates in a shared interest in science fiction and in the dystopian, yet alluring, aspects of technological development. This artistic collaboration began three years ago and its first phase culminated in a performance shown in 2023 at Lydgalleriet, Bergen.

In Part Two of this project we investigate loneliness in the context of the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence. What happens when AI reproduces human voices and sounds to resemble human beings?

Machine Membranes – Part Two was shown at Lydgalleriet, from December 2025 – January 2026. As part of this project, we did a live performance on the first two days of the exhibition.

Light designer: Randiane Aalberg Sandboe
Technician: Tine Adler

Machine Membranes – Part Two is supported by Bergen City Council, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV) and Norsk Komponistforening. Parts of the material were developed at the Live Studio at Bergen Kunsthall in 2024.