Part of THROUGH OOZE and SLIME
Solo Exhibition at Galerija Na Katu, Zagreb, HR
Installation with:
Reactive Fungi Bodysuit & Mycelium Motherboard, 2023
<< REACTIVE FUNGI BODYSUIT >>
for parallel sensing with fungi
Reactive Fungi Bodysuit
connected to Pleurotus Eryngii
King Trumpet mushroom
Slip on and plug in. The Reactive Fungi Bodysuit is a human-fungus-machine interface, a bodysuit with a sensory membrane colonized with mycelium of filamentous fungi and equipped with embedded intelligent electronic patches for signal processing.
The Reactive Fungi Wearable is a user-responsive symbiotic system, able to sense and process information from a hosting body linked with the wearable ecological unit, connecting neural and fungal networks. Changing patterns of electrical activity and properties allow to interface mycelium with conventional electronics.
Full research paper below
MYCELIUM MOTHERBOARD
plug in
sense the fungi while they sense you
at the opening, 10 days after starting the culture
humus, soil, white button mushroom & mycelium culture, oyster mushrooms
wood, plastic, cables and tubes, LED light
Mycelium Motherboard
Mushrooms were growing during the exhibition from Jan. 18th - 31st
photo taken on Jan. 29th
Fungal hyphae knitting through
a fresh layer of humus
Fungi can send electrical impulses underground through
long, thread-like structures called hyphae, which
expand to form a network of mycelium
Mycelium Motherboard
detail with Pleurotus ostreatus (blue oyster mushroom)
cables, tubes, Agaricus bisporus culture (white button mushroom), soil, humus
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A MUSHROOM?
REACTIVE FUNGI WEARABLE & MYCELIUM MOTHERBOARD
Below: Artist Maaijke Middelbeek wearing and testing the prototype of the Reactive Fungi Bodysuit.
Left: for the research paper see PDF
King trumpet mushrooms were growing during the exhibition
from January 18th - 31st
Photo taken Jan. 30th when they were already air drying
because I wanted to preserve them for Künstlerhaus
Transformation
during the exhibition
Almost two weeks earlier.. on the day of the exhibition opening on Jan. 18th
plugging in with:
Pleurotus eryngii, cables, breadboard, bricks