Slack Storage — a self-cooling installation built with bare AISLER boards

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Jaakko Myyri, an Amsterdam-based artist, used a set of bare Beautiful Boards in his new-media installation ‘Slack Storage’, in the White Nights exhibition at AaltoSiilo as part of the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture programme. The show opened on 03/06/2026 and ran until 14/06/2026. Jaakko showed photos of his work on Instagram. Additionally, he sent us some photos and allowed us to show them to you:

Slack Storage, circuit boards on a server room cooling fan tray - Front view of the full installation on a black stand.
Slack Storage, circuit boards on a server room cooling fan tray - Front view of the full installation on a black stand.1800×1200 574 KB

Slack Storage, circuit boards on a server room cooling fan tray - Front view of the full installation on a black stand. Two symmetrical green board figures with glowing white rings and stacked lit modules flank a circular board and a rib-cage form, with an arched board across the top. A rack unit on the table shows a red '19' display. A faded circular painting marks the concrete wall behind.
Slack Storage, circuit boards on a server room cooling fan tray - Front view of the full installation on a black stand. Two symmetrical green board figures with glowing white rings and stacked lit modules flank a circular board and a rib-cage form, with an arched board across the top. A rack unit on the table shows a red '19' display. A faded circular painting marks the concrete wall behind.1200×1800 822 KB

Slack Storage, right cabinet. Close-up of a green circuit board cut into an arched, leaf-like shape and covered in fine white line-work, with four metal mounting holes and a few small components. A black cooling fan is visible through the cut-outs behind it.
Slack Storage, right cabinet. Close-up of a green circuit board cut into an arched, leaf-like shape and covered in fine white line-work, with four metal mounting holes and a few small components. A black cooling fan is visible through the cut-outs behind it.1200×1800 420 KB

Slack Storage, ribboned coil. A circular green circuit board covered in symmetrical white line-work, with two black DIP chips near the top, electrolytic capacitors and white cabling. It is mounted on a black aluminium-profile frame against a concrete wall.
Slack Storage, ribboned coil. A circular green circuit board covered in symmetrical white line-work, with two black DIP chips near the top, electrolytic capacitors and white cabling. It is mounted on a black aluminium-profile frame against a concrete wall.1200×1800 608 KB

Slack Storage, rib cage. A green circuit-board sculpture resembling a rib cage and spine: curved horizontal ribs stacked around a central figure in white line-work. Small yellow and blue LEDs light the ribs. It stands on a perforated metal surface with more board structures behind.
Slack Storage, rib cage. A green circuit-board sculpture resembling a rib cage and spine: curved horizontal ribs stacked around a central figure in white line-work. Small yellow and blue LEDs light the ribs. It stands on a perforated metal surface with more board structures behind.1200×1800 680 KB

In the artist’s own words:

Slack Storage is a composition of custom-designed circuit boards, server hardware, and electronic components through which I explore themes of residual obsolescence, technological autonomy, and unregulated agency. The installation monitors its own internal temperature and uses thermal feedback to autonomously coordinate a wireless communication protocol that drives lighting and motor actuation throughout the sculpture. While temperature determines how individual functions are activated, I also treat thermal variation conceptually as an indexing space in which timings, velocities, and communication between subsystems are distributed, allowing each part of the sculpture to behave like a body part within a larger thermally reactive organism.

By borrowing the language of embodiment from the human body and relocating it into technical infrastructure, the work examines how contemporary communication networks increasingly operate as autonomous environments. As cable coils begin to acquire forms that resemble body parts within large fragmented organisms, hidden skeletal structures emerge. Accumulations of coiled cable appear as figures resembling rib cages, spines, and anatomically formed cabinets.

Full material list: custom-designed PCBs, a server-room cooling fan tray, a thermistor, various electronics, power supplies and aluminium profiles.

Our part is small and worth stating plainly. The custom-designed boards are bare Beautiful Boards Jaakko ordered from us and we fabricated in Europe. Everything the work does and means is his.

Artist: jmyyri.com (Instagram @myyri.rr)
Exhibition: White Nights Exhibition at AaltoSiilo - Oulu2026

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