Lauri Lähteenmäki writes about how he spent his Ars Bioarctica winter residency reflecting on the nature of observation and photography and asking "Are nature imageries distancing us from ecological realities?"

In 2025, Santtu Laine was selected for a month-long art & science research residency in Tokyo by Bioart Society, BioClub Toyko and the Finnish Cultural Institute in Japan.  The following text reflects his research and thoughts during the residency period in Japan in November-December 2025. 
 

In their residency blog The Observatory Project  (Ziggy Lever &  Eamon Edmundson-Wells) reflect how the idea of the charged moment became something they actively sought out: It manifested through a sustained attention to process, such as watching for fish scales appearing on a microfiche machine in Fiche Finder, or spending 15 hours carefully cataloguing retired plot markers used in microclimatic vegetation surveys for Stick Survey. We assigned each other roles and developed processes that involved the act of making a measurement. Much of the kit we had assembled and brought with us from Aotearoa New Zealand seemed less useful than what we could borrow from the Station. We found humour in absurd processes of not-measuring, and the shared delirium of processual labour. Having to think on our feet opened up a methodology of lightness that allowed us to be responsive and open to what was going on around us.

This text by Adam Zaretsky archives a moment in bioart conservation history, where dual taxonomies are bridged by two national museums in Finland 

Recording of Aleksija Neimanis and Astrida Neimanis' public talk during Field_Notes: Living Methodolgies, September 2025

Reading Matters: Bacteria to AI responses by Kirsty Hendry & Helen Kaplinsky 

Announcing Learning Materials artists in residence 

Laura Heiss and Laura Benech, as part of Antimatter Studio, spent a few weeks at the Ars Bioarctica residency conducting artistic research for their forthcoming installation “Salt of the Times”, a hybrid project that investigates memory, displacement, and materiality. Investigating salt, ice, and water as both material and metaphor, the project delves into how these elements interact, transform, and hold traces.  

In this blog, we share five tapes prepared by Anastasia (A) Alevtin that served as companions for the Field_Notes – Living Methodologies participants.

Kelley O'Brien spent two weeks in Ars Bioarctica residency listening to the elders, the voices of our 2.8-billion-year-old ancestors – ancient rocks.

Hele Okkonen had their Ars Bioarctica residency in July 2025. What began as a study of regionally endangered lichens shifted into a broader perspective, as the vastness of the landscape made a deep impression on them. Gilbbesjávri gave them a gift, a reminder to return to the body, the ground of their artistic practice.

Claudio Filho had his Ars Bioarctica residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in June 2025 where he wrote with places, things, and beings.