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Exhibition:
Kunstformen der Natur in MoCA Busan
4mei 202122sep 2021The Kunstformen der Natur exhibition is back. This time in Korea, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, as part of the Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment exhibition. In this era of growing...
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Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks
I/O
dec '20 – Duiventoren 07
I/O staat voor Inside/Out. Deze toren keert de binnen- en buitenkant om. De muren van duiventorens zijn normaal gesproken aan de buitenkant glad met enkele gaatjes zodat de duiven erin kunnen. Aan de...
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Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks
Gentle
okt '20 – Duiventoren 04
De blokken mycelium van paddenstoelenkweker John Verbruggen, die we gebruiken voor de bouw, zijn breed en zwaar en geven ons meer zekerheid bij het stapelen dan bij de vorige torens. Om een ronde...
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Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks
Cartier
sept '20 –Duiventoren 03
De derde toren werd gebouwd in het Clean Lab . Twee eerdere pogingen om een stevige, levende toren te bouwen waren mislukt. Tijd om een stapje terug te doen. We wisten niet of onze uitgangspunten...
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Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks, Nehis Osagie, Andy Cartier
Jute
jun '20 – Duiventoren 02
De overblijfselen van de ingestorte toren van het eerste experiment hebben we in een lange jute buis gestopt. Jute is biologisch afbreekbaar textiel, en biedt structuur en voeding aan het mycelium.
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Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Nehis Osagie, Arne Hendriks
Babel
jun '20 – Duiventoren 01
De eerste toren van myceliaal afval. Levend materiaal. We wilden vooral beginnen. Met veel enthousiasme maar weinig precisie of overleg. De ongelijke blokken werden intuïtief gestapeld. We vulden de...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Looking back at "Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots"…
with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots workshop was a culmination of the research and collaboration between interns from Mediamatic Clean Lab and Aquaponics Greenhouse. We're not hosting this workshop anymore
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Reward of Patience
Myco-beauty
An important element with the Mycelium Pigeon Towers is patience. We waited about two weeks before we took off the tarp and we could see steam coming off. There was this white tower in front of us.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Nature Network
Mycorrhizal fungi and their function
As I wrote, fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The third big group is mycorrhizal fungi. Which to me is the most inspiring group. It is the fungi that is connected to plants.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Guards and Guides
Parasitic fungi and their function
Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. The second big group is parasitic fungi. Of course, there are parasitic species for every organism, but they are mainly related to insects.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Nature's janitors and Remediation
Saprophytic fungi and their function
Fungi can more or less be divided into three main clusters. There are also some in-between types of fungi, but let's, for now, talk about these three. The first group is saprophytic fungi. They are...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Five kingdoms and Three terms
The fungi, the mycelium and the mushroom
First, let's tackle the fungi. Fungi are one of the species of the five kingdoms and it is the closest one to Animalia, ergo animals, including humans. Animals even evolved out of the fungi. That's...
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Duiventoren Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks
Yellow
feb '21 – Duiventoren 06
De bouw van deze toren is vooral gericht op snelheid en efficiëntie. Het is een eenvoudig vierkant ontwerp, zodat we de blokken niet hoefden bij te snijden. Om ze aan te drukken organiseerden we een...
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Projecten
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Clean Lab
The Clean Lab at Mediamatic is a workspace to facilitate the growing requirements of designers and artists who want to expand their work into biological fabrication.
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Apparatuur
In het Clean Lab hebben we meerdere bijzondere apparaten die gebruikt worden binnen verschillende niches. We hebben een Braumeister en Grainfather om bier te brouwen. Een grote snelkookpan voor...
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Clean Lab
Credits
Bedankt!
We willen de volgende mensen, organisaties, sponsors en deelnemers bedanken.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Messages from the Myco-Assemblage
- Arne Hendriks & Dominik Einfalt talk about their attempts to construct pigeon guano towers with living mycelium waste.11dec 2020Friday afternoon, Arne and Dominik will discuss their attempt to build structures with living mycelium waste. What have they learned? What are the challenges? And what stories have emerged so far?
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Is it an urban mushroom farm? Is it a pigeon…
What are those structures outside the barn at Mediamatic?
Because these structures are made from living mycelium WHAT you call it probably depends on WHEN you encounter it. At first they are horizontal mushroom farms, and many of our neighbours have...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Defining the Shape
Square and Round
Building living architecture pairs with failure and errors, but we get more experienced with each tower. Over time we learned to better understand how the mycelium behaves and how to respond to that.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
The Power of Eight
From Octaves to Da Vinci
After the square and round tower try-out, we tried to build in an Octagonal shape. Finally we had succes! Apart from it being the right shape to keep the bricks together, the number 8 also became an...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Molding Mycelium: Plant Pots
- with Dominik Einfalt and Doudouce Knol2dec 2020It's obvious that we should re-think our destructive consumption behaviours, and mycelium could be the answer. The living organism can be shaped into various shapes to create products that are 100%...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
How do I handle living material?
Supply, Cut, Build
Building a living architectural structure is challenging and needs a lot of research. To start with: What kind of material do we want to use exactly, where do we get it, and how do we handle it the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt
Building-Blocks
Different ways to build an octagon
What is the most efficient way to come close to a circle, but still not use too many mycelium blocks? After some testing we found out an octagonal shape for the tower would fit our purpose best.