Jukka Hautamäki
Somnifer
Somnifer is a live image-editing tool that transforms source images in a clone-stamp spirit. It is built from autonomous editing agents and algorithmic brushes that move through a noise-driven flow field, sampling and redepositing textures, shapes, and colors through shaped stamps. The process is painterly: a mix of vision, improvisation, and chance.
Somnifer works at the threshold between noise and pattern. Source images dissolve and re-emerge through layered algorithmic processes and human improvisation. The result accumulates over time as anywhere from a few to several hundred agents trace their paths, each with its own behavioral traits. The same system produces very different visual registers depending on the brush type, parameters, masking, and source material the artist chooses.
The artist works as an instrumentalist rather than a spectator: selecting, adjusting, interrupting, and steering the process in real time. Somnifer is a performative tool where algorithmic behavior and artistic intention meet on a shared canvas.
More about the artist: https://jukkahautamaki.com
Jukka Hautamäki is a Finnish media artist (MFA) based in Helsinki. His practice engages with lens-based media, artificial intelligence, sound, and electronics. His works are presented as installations and generative media art pieces.
Recent solo exhibitions include IPMA Festival in Kaunas (2023), Joensuu Art Museum (2021), Galleria MUU (2020), and Galleria Forum Box (2018). Selected group exhibitions include Traces / Jäljet – Ars Pori (2025), Ikipuhe – Sastamala (2024), and Boisterous Light – Hyvinkää Art Museum (2023).
His works and collaborative projects in sound and media art have been presented at SuperCollider Gallery in Los Angeles, NeurIPS in Montreal, HIAP, Mustarinda, the Bioart Society’s Field_Notes residency, AAVE Festival, RIXC Festival in Riga, Pikseliähky Festival, Mansedanse Festival, Animatricks Festival, Helsinki Festival, HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts in Berlin, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Avatar Center in Quebec, Fridman Gallery in New York, and the SIM Residency in Reykjavík.