A mixed reality experience bio-electrically guided by living mycelium. 

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The Lab at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC
March 25 through October 29, 2023
Opening reception live, quadraphonic performance, March 25

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Locally sourced fungal mycelium connects to the Symbiont experience. The living mycelium creates a speculative forest soundscape and interacts with projected, generative visual data by sending its bio-electrical energy through analogue and digital synthesizers. 

Humans connect with the living fungi through touch-pad-enabled sculptural objects and through visiting a microbial, virtual forest. The more Humans connect with the microbial forest, their vision alters, and they see their true nature as Symbiont, their entanglements and connection with the fungal mycelium and forest biome. Forest communication, forest sentience = MyceliOhms. 

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During the live performance, guests experience Nanotopia, and the space around them transform as the living mycelium brings the gallery deeper into the Wood Wide Web. 

AR elements within the installation and live performance activate through Suminagashi* markers made with mushroom inks and Geo-locative markers. 

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*Suminagashi 墨 流 し or "floating ink" is the process of marbling plain paper with water and ink to transform it into something vibrant and colourful. It originated in Japan as early as the 12th century. Suminagashi resembles tree rings and tree bark.

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Nanotopia's work with bringing fungi biodata and fungi frequencies into mixed reality installations, VR is to speak of our shared environment, humankind's Beyond-human entanglements.

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