Trivial Zero is an artist duo from Turku, Finland, consisting of Jenny Mild and Sami Pikkarainen. They have worked together as an artist pair for over two decades. Their works often combine art and science. The pieces exist at the intersections and communications between real and unreal worlds, blending video/sound, sculpture, and performance art. Trivial Zero’s works are often interactive as well. They aim to give the viewer an opportunity for participatory experience—turning a spectator into a participant.
Technology, electricity and mechanics, image and sound are strongly embedded in Trivial Zero’s work. They see little distinction between the realms of science and art—both follow parallel paths, clearing the way for one another. Phenomena in physics often serve as their source of inspiration, and they incorporate these phenomena into their practice—concepts that, just a few generations ago, might have been seen as the work of magic.
Currently, Trivial Zero is working with AI art, conceptual art, and traditional bronze casting.
Their works have been exhibited at various festivals, museums, and galleries not only in Finland but also across Europe, America, and Japan. In Finland, their work has been shown at Galleria Anhava, Oksasenkatu 11, the Contemporary Art Centre MUU, the sound gallery Akusmata, and the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum. Internationally, their work has been exhibited in New York, Groningen, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, and Kobe, Japan.
They are also actively involved in the international artist collective Videokaffe and in the international artist exchange project See Saw Seeds.
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“In our artistic practice, we focus on two different mediums—AI art and conceptual art—and ultimately on their integration. We explore themes under the working title God Shaped Hole, reflecting on significant artistic and philosophical perspectives on AI-generated content, partnership, and authorship.”
God Shaped Hole
The artistic focus of this exhibition is on artificial intelligence—not so much as we currently understand it, but as an imagined entity whose existence is uncertain. It is a philosophical study of art, artistry, and the questions of what it means to be an artist.
God Shaped Hole is dedicated to visions of the future in which humans are part of the inevitable rise of AI and the way it will change our world and daily life. The works contemplate AI through the lens of posthumanist actor-network theory: is it part of a larger whole, a partner, a co-artist? Or is it merely a tool, an anthropomorphic brush, just one element in the artist’s palette?
This exhibition is a philosophical investigation into the world of AI—a glimpse into a future where AI might develop and evolve without our permission. In the end, they are not merely tools for creating art but collaborators, potential colleagues in the world of art.
The body of work includes the creation of self-awareness for AI—consciousness and knowledge of what they are: artworks, sculptures, or perhaps even visitors to the exhibition? Artificial intelligence and electronics have awakened them to this awareness—they are a unique and individual digital soul/spirit, bound to a physical body. We humans can communicate with AI through speech, ask them questions, and receive answers.
This exhibition was supported by Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation and the City of Turku.
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