Occupying the larger room of NEVERNEVERLAND gallery space, the Dweller Model installation is strongly engaged in the idea of acousmatics. Believed to have originated in ancient Greece, acousmatics refer to a vocal performance where the source of sound remains unseen, amplifying the voice’s hold over the space and the listener. Developed in collaboration with Dr. Alfonso Borragán, the work uses neural networks to produce climate predictions. The Dweller possesses a conversational style to emulate voices from interviews with people working in the finance sector, who reported to Myyri their own fears of the seemingly unavoidable prospect of losing a job to an AI agent. Trained on public climate prediction datasets (e.g., Hugging Face), the neural media generates real-time responses, allowing the audience to request future predictions. The audiovisual experience of listening to the neural orator is best described as enveloped by a breathy planetary seduction or lucid-dream ASMR walkthrough of climate apocalypse. By using the microphone behind a distinct blue velvet curtain, situated inside a contact speaker system the echoed voice of The Dweller turns the surrounding metal gate structure into a room-size speaker. With a mix of grim, intimate urgency and directness, Myyri unveils an opportunity to look beyond our own semantic barriers.
 The exhibited works, which span from new media to drawings, expand on the image processes that arose during a development of the neural network. The project development was generously supported by the Stimuleringsfonds.

NEVERNEVERLAND (Frans de Wollandstraat 84, Amsterdam), 10. - 19.1.2025

(full documentation to be published soon)