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  • Michel Blazy

    Michel Blazy is a French artist who was born in Monaco and now lives in Paris. He works with living things to explore the very basic physical aspects of our existence. He creates installations and...

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  • Michel Blazy 1 Jan 2007

    Mur de Double Concentré de Tomate

    Installation

    Facilitating the observation of nature through the slow processes of decay and moulding, Michel Blazy's installation brings fungus to a whole new level.

  • Yann Seznec, Patrick Hickey 1 Jan 2010

    The Secret Sounds of Spores

    Installation

    Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind. Shining a laser underneath a protected mushroom makes these spores...

  • Pholiatha nameko

    Nameko mushroom / Bundelzwam

    Nameko mushrooms never grow alone - hence their unofficial name: cluster mushroom.

  • Care Calendar

    Taking care of the mushrooms

    Mediamatic's Urban Mushroom Farm houses six varieties of edible mushrooms, and they all need to be taken care of in their own special way. This is the calendar that we use inside the space to keep...

  • Hollandsche Rading

    Hollandsche Rading is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 5 km south of Hilversum. Hollandsche Rading has a railway station on the...

  • Mycelium products

    Mycelium, mushrooms, and more...

    Mycelium based materials can someday replace plastic. Artists, designers, mycologists, and organizations are working with mycelium based materials, growing their own mushrooms, and exploring this new...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#2 1 Jan 1987

    La Femme Absente

    Interview

    Can we imagine a slow fragmentation of faces and gestures, something like the movements of swimmers in heavy water? How should you look someone in the eye, seduce him if you don't know for certain...

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

    In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.

  • Trametes versicolor

    Turkey tail / Elfenbankje

    Dry and leathery to the touch, the turkey tail is too tough to eat (although slugs and squirrels happily feast on the colorful mushroom). It enjoys the company of dead or dying trees, which it helps...

  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 2#2 Lidewijde de Smet 1 Jan 1987

    AVé 87

    The AVé Festival will take place in Arnhem for the third time from 19 to 25 November. The visitor to this event can count on a very high number of art works in film, video, installation, computer

  • Pleurotus eryngii

    King oyster mushroom / Konings oesterzwam

    The king oyster mushroom is bigger and better tasting than most other oyster mushrooms - hence its royal title. The dwarfed caps sit like little crowns on top of the long, thick, fatty white stems.

  • Hericium erinaceus

    Bearded tooth mushroom / Pom Pom Blanc

    The lion's mane might be one of the most exciting mushrooms out there. Not only because it looks incredibly cool (instead of the regular cap it has a big set of teeth, not unlike It from The Addams...

  • Book: Eva Wrange, Bo Nylén 1 Jan 2005

    Gott med svamp

    Plocka säkert - Laga läckert

    Little Swedish cook book. Gives recipes and tips about how to use certain mushrooms. Includes delicious looking risottos, pastas, pizza's and curries. Gott med svamp translates as 'good with...

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  • Bodies of Change Installation Process

    Building the installation

    This is the first in a series of articles tracking the construction process and growth of the Bodies of Change installation.

  • Bodies of Change Growth

    Week 1 of growth

    In the second installment of this series, we watch the strange growth that has shown up on the mycelium shroud and it's not exactly what we were expecting!

  • Lentinus edodes

    Shiitake

    Traditionally belonging to the Japanese cuisine, the Shiitake, in all its musky roughness, has spread across the world, and is the second most cultivated mushroom out there.

  • Screening: 1 Jan 2011

    Fungal Videos

    A collection of found footage and own material

    Besides books and artworks, numerous films and other recordings have been made concerning fungi. We made a nice selection of videos, shot some material ourselves, and are showing them in the...

  • Sclerotia tampanensis

    Philosopher's stones

    This very rare truffle is formed beneath the psilocybe tampanensis mushroom. These small lumps contain very high concentrations of psilocybin, a psychedelic with strong visual effects.

  • Kasper Jacobs 1 Jan 2011

    Deer fly is deer friends

    One-channel video projection (color/sound) 07:32 min. Loop DVD

    A montage of online found footage of a Finnish man in a local forest. During his walks he tells anecdotes about the mushrooms he encounters and combines this with specific textual details and...

  • Hsien Yu Cheng 1 Jan 2011

    <Collector---Afterlife>

    Game installation

    “Collector” deals with an artificial afterlife by means of attracting insects with a lamp and then killing them with a high voltage circuitry in order to transfer that essence into a virtual...

  • Bodies of Change Mushroom Growth

    The mushrooms overtaking the body

    In the third installment of this series, we catch up with the mushroom growth that has been spreading over the mycelium shroud in the last six weeks.

  • Maurizio Montalti 5 Dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.

  • Stage bij HMK {Hotel MariaKapel}

    Stagiair Productie, PR en organisatie gezocht

    HMK zoekt een stagiair met interesse in hedendaagse beeldende kunst, en met sterke communicatieve en organisatorische vaardigheden, die ons 3 á 4 dagen in de week ondersteunt bij taken op het gebied...

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