In her work, Sutela is exploring the relationship we have with organic synthetic entities around us – from gut bacteria to slime mold – and the ways in which machines create (or translate) our surroundings. Inspired by experiments in interspecies communication, nimiia cétiï aspires to connect with a world beyond our consciousness by using machine learning (non-human perception and cognition) to generate a new written and spoken language. Building upon a Martian language – originally channelled by the Swiss medium Hélène Smith in the 19th century and now voiced by Sutela – the computer simultaneously engages with the movements of an extremophilic bacterium called Bacillus subtilis natto, which, according to recent experiments, could survive on Mars. What we see is a computer watching footage of the bacteria under a microscope and generating a script based on an analysis of what it sees. Also on view is an illustration of bacterial movements created by the machine using a future prediction algorithm as a source for optical flow. Portrayed here as an alien of our creation, the machine is a medium which channels messages from entities that cannot speak. By exploring alternative forms of intelligence, nimiia cétiï draws a line between mysticism, biology and technology, but bridging these systems of knowledge with our attempts to understand the future.