Denisa Půbalová is an artist and creative coder whose process-based research develops multisensory methods of attunement to socio-ecological incommensurability, including human-fungi-technology entanglements, diatom-climate archives, and gut-soil microbiomes.
Working at the intersection of post-human philosophy, speculative fiction, environmental humanities, and fieldwork with scientists and cultural practitioners, she develops installations, publications and participatory tools that invite bodily, material and more-than-human forms of knowing. Her book Planeta Kampus was published in 2025 by Arbor Vitae.
Denisa practices collaboratively, with Dr. Lea Luka Sikau as sikau/pubalova, creating multisensory immersive works through vibro-acoustic ethnography, with the collective Planeta Kampus speculating on (im)possible alterations of ecologies, and with scientists, ecologists, doctors, geologists, and communities, multiplying incommensurabilitity across disciplines. Their works have been commissioned by commissioned by Ars Electronica, LABoral, Science Gallery, Kunsthalle Praha, Mediamatic, and S+T+ARTS/European Commission.
“Incommensurabilities” are slippery, distorted translations between bodies, species and knowledge infrastructures, which cannot be resolved, causing friction, humour, agitation, possibly interpretive frustration, the detection of one’s incapacities and also fringes of curiosity.
Denisa seeks to inhabit these socially enfolded spaces of incommensurability in multisensory installations, participatory spaces, and research-based works.
In kitchens, fermentation labs, wetlands, soil core archives, and guts, Denisa investigates environmental grief, stigmatised body-minds, multispecies justice and microbial sensing. Together with her collaborators she exhibits these processes as organs (stuff change), carousels and coccoons (turning green), stories (climatic stories of diatoms), interventions (after swallowing), membranes (as we synch), smells dining (reality is initially volatile), dinners (what does your gut rehearse to tell you), participatory games (canary in the coal mine), or publications (planeta kampus).