In Form and Formation 2022
Hiscox Kunstpreis, Hamburg Germany 2021
Ceramic, Imitation Gold and Silver Leaf, glass, plexi-glass, Beech, Hazel, Pine, Watercolour, QR, Barcode and Pen
When I make mushrooms out of wood, clay and QR code, I am expressing ideas of message sending mushrooms ‘fungi exhibit oscillations of extra cellular electrical potential recorded via different electrodes inserted into a substrate colonised by mycelium or directly into sporocarps.’ Prof. Andrew Adamatzky, Computing Laboratory, Bristol. Open Science.
These signals are typically ‘considered to be key attributes of neurons and neuronal spiking activity is interpreted as a language of a nervous system.’ They have a connection to the language of binary strings, bar code like forms.
