C:\Users\Nadeschda\portfolio.exe
NADESCHDA BARENJE
Glass, ceramic, metal, code. Silicon all the way.
Stockholm | auspekzer@gmail.com | vetroal.se | github.com/jinkieyz
C:\Education\
2023-26 BFA Ceramics and Glass, Konstfack
2020-23 Glass Studies, Riksglasskolan, Nybro
2024-26 Programming, Jensen Education
2020, 25 Elements of AI, Helsinki
C:\Exhibitions\
2026 Hard Copy, Konstfack
2025 Afternoon Tea | The Last Supper
2024 Konstsalong | What We Do Not See
2022-23 Debut | Lilla Galleriet | Stenhallen | Pukeberg
C:\Grants\
2023 Absolut Vodka commission
2026 Estrid Ericsons Stiftelse
2025 Stiftelsen Lars Fredricsson
2026 Konstfack foundations
C:\HARDCOPY> sand > glass > lens > GPU > AI > glass | sand > silicone > implant > body | ORDER IS A DEBT PAID IN HEAT_
C:\HardCopy\thesis.exe
Hard Copy: Silicon All the Way
Degree project. Glass, cast glaze, copper, PLA, AI. Konstfack 2026.
Sand became window, window became lens, lens became knowledge, knowledge became technology, technology became GPU, GPU became AI, AI became image, image became sculpture, sculpture became glass. Silicon all the way. In another chain: sand became silicone, silicone became implant, implant became body. I take silicon from one state and force it into another. Three projects: LAJFI (evolutionary algorithm), MIN_BILD_AI (GAN on 7843 photographs), EXTERN_AI (LoRA into 2.3 billion others'). Who creates when control is distributed?
C:\Practice\lajfi.exe
LAJFI (2025-2026)
Python, Blender, 3D print. github.com/jinkieyz/lajfi
Self-evolving ecosystem. Organisms compete, reproduce, mutate across 50 generations. 32 genetic parameters. The algorithm introduces variation, my selection filters. Of 400+ exported champions I chose 23 for materialization.
C:\Practice\gemesis.exe
GEMESIS: Cast Organisms (2025-2026)
Cast glass, cast glaze, aluminium, plaster-quartz molds.
LAJFI organisms in physical material. The forms are grown by a system I built: I design the rules and the conditions, then let it generate the shape. Each one is 3D-printed in PLA, invested in a plaster-quartz mold, burned out, and the void filled with glass, cast glaze, or aluminium. Same DNA, different materiality. Shown at Solna Konsthall, 2026, on plinths and on a steel grid. The viewer cannot determine which is the 'original' because there is none.
C:\Practice\cast_glaze.exe
Gjutglasyrer / Cast Glaze (2025-2026)
Own recipe: frit 90167, quartz, kaolin, bentonite, beach sand.
Material between glass and ceramic, my own recipe: frit, quartz, kaolin, bentonite, and beach sand, cast in plaster-quartz molds. Where it pools it crystallizes, where it thins it goes translucent; graphite in the batch makes it opaque. Organisms as test bodies. Beach sand as reinforcement: grains don't melt, they sit as structure. Some pieces electroformed in copper. 100% my material, or 0%, depending on how you look at it.
C:\Practice\lajfi_materials.exe
LAJFI in Different Expressions (2024-2026)
Copper electroforming, cast glass, PLA, rebar, mirror
Same organisms, different materials. The grid is the tensor, the array: the data structure carrying neural network weights. When an organism cracks during electroplating I don't know whose fault it is.
C:\Practice\min_bild_ai.exe
MIN_BILD_AI (2024-2026)
Progressive GAN, 47M params, 7843 images, GTX 1660 Super
Self-trained from scratch on my whole camera roll, photographs of my life rather than curated pictures of work. Two attractors: dark dense forms and bright flat compositions. The failure became a portrait. 858 Python files, 12 repos.
C:\Practice\extern_ai.exe
EXTERN_AI / AIFUSION (2026)
LoRA, Stable Diffusion, fabricated objects
12.7M LoRA parameters into 2.3 billion others'. GAN produces abstractions only meaningful to me. Diffusion interprets through its collective filter. The result existed in neither before they met.
SiO2 = glass (amorphous) | Si + CH3 = silicone (elastic) | lens: invisible VISIBLE | implant: added INVISIBLE
C:\HardCopy\silicon_dialectic.exe
Silicon Dialectic: Lens and Implant
Cast glass, silicone breast implants, conceptual installation. 2026.
Left: cast glass discs. Right: my sister's removed breast implants flanking a glass dome. Same silicon, different chemistry. A lens makes the invisible visible. An implant makes the added invisible. PLA from lactic acid. Lac, milk. The breast produces milk. The implant sits in the breast. PLA printed, burned out, void fills with glass. Milk, silicone, glass. All silicon, all body, all fake, all real.
C:\Practice\latent_walk.exe
Latent Space Walk (2026)
Hot blowmold, coloured glass, plaster-quartz forms
Cake and Tower of Babel are neighbours in latent space. An AI that never had coffee and never read the Bible sees them as almost the same. Walk around the table and watch form slide from patisserie to architecture without crossing a boundary.
C:\Practice\glasbarnet.exe
The Glass Child (2026)
EXTERN_AI generated, cast glass
Diffusion-marked. Proportions that almost work but not quite. The deviations are the form's own business.
C:\Practice\absolut.exe
Absolut Vodka (2023)
Commission. Handblown glass.
Nordic Spice campaign, China and India markets.
C:\Practice\perenna.exe
Perenna (2025)
Blown glass, plaster mould, four standard colours. About 30 pieces.
One blow gives two glasses. The cup is blown in a plaster mould that sets the volume, and above the mould the cap swells out freely. The glass is cracked at the middle: the lower part becomes a drinking glass, the cap already has the shape of a coupe and becomes a party glass. The cap is thin enough to go up to the temperature of the warming oven and is mounted warm, on a stem and a foot formed freehand. Two rules govern the foot, the area and the thickness of the strands. The rest is movement. Four standard colours, and since the pot is not emptied between them, the in-between shades count as their own. Perennial. The base form mutates between rounds.
C:\Practice\afternoon_tea.exe
Afternoon Tea (2025)
Glass, tin, spray paint, epoxy, ceramic
Cast tin brainstem as pedestal. Indian bell split as cup. Circus tent in ceramic. Cast glaze plates.
C:\Practice\hard_candy.exe
Innocence Lost (2024)
Cast glass, BB gun, mirror
Glass lollipop shot onto mirror. School shootings. What We Do Not See (Konstfack + Police). Made during pregnancy.
C:\Practice\synecdoche.exe
Synecdoche of Care (2024)
Glass, tin, PLA, projection
Home care route across Östermalm mapped onto tin-cast sculpture with glass mirror. City projected behind.
C:\Practice\scout.exe
Scout Art (2025)
Ceramic shell, blown glass
Hot glass blown into ceramic shell. Breath as opposing force. Red eye from black nest. Iterated with AI.
C:\Practice\kvinnans_form.exe
Kvinnans Form (2023)
Glass, ceramics, metal, gold leaf
Scold's bridle and corset in black ceramic and wire. Golden blown glass swells inside, pushing against restraint.
, , , sugga stuga stugga | MATERIALS: glass ceramic copper PLA aluminium
/\_/\ /\_/\ /\_/\ latent space | cast glaze tin silicone graphite iron moss
( o.o)( o.o)( o.o) between words | CODE: Python PHP C++ JS SQL R PyTorch LoRA
> ^ < > ^ < > ^ < cast in concrete| 6 years glassblowing Riksglasskolan Nybro
C:\Practice\shell.exe
Pink Shell with Pearl (2023)
Blown glass, incalmo, plaster-quartz
Shell with pearl. Pink and frosted glass joined with incalmo.
C:\Practice\guldrelief.exe
Gold-Painted PLA Relief (2024)
PLA, gold paint, blown glass base
PLA gold-painted on blown glass. If the viewer can't tell plastic from metal, why tell 'real' art?
C:\Practice\uranium.exe
Uranium Glass Bear (2024)
Uranium glass, UV-reactive, cast
Glows green under UV. Pattern depths for lighting effects.
C:\Practice\sandaler.exe
Glass Sandals (2025)
Welded iron, mesh, blown fuchsia glass
Metal resists, glass yields. Function frozen into sculpture.
C:\Practice\love_game.exe
Love for the Game (2021-2024)
Blown glass in welded copper, moss, fake incalmo. Utility glass.
Left: blown glass in welded copper frame, filled with moss, fake incalmo technique. Centre: collage of utility objects I made and like. Right: mixed media sculpture.
C:\Practice\wifi_csi.exe
WiFi CSI (2026)
ESP32-C6, gold leaf, PCB
Bodies detected through WiFi disturbance. Gold cherub: patron saint of invisible data.
C:\HARDCOPY> echo "I don't know who created the works. But I know who takes responsibility for them."
C:\Skills\
MATERIALS: Glassblowing (6 yrs), kiln casting, coldwork, cast glaze, ceramic casting, plaster-quartz, electroforming, lost-PLA, 3D print
CODE: Python (PyTorch, Blender), PHP, C++, JS, SQL, R. GAN, LoRA, Stable Diffusion
LANG: Swedish, English, Norwegian
C:\Links\
LAJFI: github.com/jinkieyz/lajfi
GEMESIS: github.com/jinkieyz/gemesis
GitHub: github.com/jinkieyz (858 files, 12 repos)
Web: vetroal.se | IG: @garbitch_nadja