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Symbiosis
An expanded reality participatory experience.
Please click play while watching video to hear the fungi
Living mycelium responds to the installation's Human presence while creating the forest’s generative soundscape.
Human biometric data coincide with Schumann Resonant frequencies to influence each Visitor’s experience within the environment.
SymbioGenesis creates a procedural fungal growth
Visitors enter the mycelium network run by a mycelial Ai
travelling through Hypha deeper into the network.
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An Other-than-Human & human performance space.
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Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis depicts a hyper-archive of the future, one where visitors can explore and interact with impossible and invisible worlds of the macro-sphere within Canadian Boreal forest regions & Coastal Rainforests
Mycelial Network
Artists • Technologists • Scientists >
evolution
Rough outline of the branching entanglements of Sym/Dys project & artists, technologists collaborating.
Further details can be found here.
Early to late Fall 2021
Human biodata, Photogrammetry & NAISA
Brendan is working with OpenBCI's Ganglion board and the Emotibit bringing the human biodata into Unity (successfully!) Tosca has completed pressure sensors that are triggered by people walking within the physical installation. Allison has scanned and output point clouds and geometries of Douglas Fir, Birch, and Arbutus. Penelope joined Tosca during her residency at NAISA to collect field recordings in Algonquin Park.
Into Spring 2022
Coalesce Centre for Biological Art
Tosca is awarded GEM status and an interdisciplinary residency at Buffalo University. Through remote connections and onsite presence Tosca works with Atomic Force microscopy, SEM and Confocal microscopy collecting data sets, imagery for the Holobionts & diving into the mycelium (literally) for Sym/Dys project.
February - May 2021
Bio-Data & Point Clouds
OpenBCI, EmotiBit, bHaptics, ARTIVIVE
Sponsorship is obtained from bHaptics. OpenBCI's Ganglion and the EmotiBit join forces within the project. Artist Jason Stapleton joins the project. ARTIVIVE join project as partner towards AR SciComm.
Peter Henderson and Penelope Walcott join project.
December 2020 - January 2021
R&D New Nature grant
Research & Dev Goethe support
Sym/Dys receives R&D funding support from the Goethe Institute Montreal. Funding enables Tosca to reach out to artist, Allison Moore (also a NN participant). Allison Moore joins Sym/Dys.
The project look evolves slowly.
Toronto Arts Council awards Sym/Dys with Project grant.
August - October 2020
Remote Realities
DMG/TSV
Tosca is awarded a 3-month residency towards building and testing a 1st iteration of Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis.
Neuroscientist/coder, Brendan Lehman joins the Sym/Dys project
2019-2020
Tosca starts conceptualizing Symbiosis/Dysbiosis coming from her work with mycelium bio-sonification. In 2019 and 2020 she began looking into methods towards integrating real-time biodata with Unity. Tosca participates in a Biodata into Unity workshop held at Interaccess.org, instructor: Brendan Lehman
May - December 2020
Goethe-Institute Montreal holds climate science exchange introducing presenting artists, technologists, scientists & partners
During the NN exchange Tosca shares her project concept with participants.
CONNECT
The Mycelial Network crew is always open to connect!
Please feel free to reach out.
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