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  • Grow Your Own Billboard

    Mycologist Patrick Hickey's living billboard for the film Contagion.

    Viral marketing has taken on a whole new meaning with this living billboard made from fungus and bacteria.
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  • Margarita and the Mycelium Factory

    My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters

    Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked...

  • The Mold Fight Begins!

    Our first mold battle

    Our newest installation at the Paddestoelen Paradijs exhibition is a tiny agar-filled stadium where we will host mold fights. The first fight will be between our visitor Marco's bacteria and the...

  • Mold That Eats Plastic

    This mushroom loves having plastic for dinner

    A little mushroom is making big headlines after it has been found to break down plastic faster and more effectively then its fungal and bacterial predecessors.

  • Mushrooms Ate My Furniture

    A design object that eats itself

    In the ultimate cyclical process, this garden furniture is embedded with mushrooms which decompose and eat away at it over time.

  • 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!

  • 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.
  • 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...
  • Project: 1 Jan 2012

    Coffee Grinds Mushroom Growing Infographic

    Growing oyster mushrooms on used coffee grinds

    Rather then sending our used coffee grinds to the landfill, we're taking them on a much shorter journey down to the Urban Mushroom Farm in the Mediamatic Bank.
  • Project: Antal Ruhl

    Mold Fight

    A battle to the death of mold vs. mold

    Can you beat the slime mold?

  • Slime Mold Computing

    Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms

    Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are intelligent enough to find their way towards food through complex...

  • Garden furniture or a garden in your furniture?

    8 Extraordinary Greens and FurniBloom

    An artist and an architect are combining gardening and furniture design in very unexpected ways.

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Fermented Fashion

    “Microbes à la mode”

    The Micro‘be’ project investigates the practical and cultural biosynthesis of microbiology – to explore forms of futuristic dress-making and textile technologies.

  • Mushroom Dinner

    An experimental evening to taste the flavors of delicious dutch mushrooms....

    Here some pictures and a video documenting a lovely dinner where mushrooms took different forms and taste. Our biggest pride is certainly the home-made mushroom pasta. Not only the pasta slice ended...
  • Book: Jay Dayva 1 Jan 2003

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    The mystical mushroom enlightenment poems

    This artistic, illustrated volume is filled with information and insights, in a highly-enjoyable format. From the informative introduction, to the collection of 16 poems, this very unique book is one...

  • Moulds growing on fashion

    In 1997 Belgium fashion designer Martin Margiela produced his first solo exhibition, 9/4/1615 at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam. In collaboration with a microbiologist, Margiela...

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

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

  • Paddestoelen Road-Trip

    Our adventures gathering knowledge about growing our own mushrooms

    In order to prepare for the upcoming exhibition at Mediamatic, Paddestoelen Paradijs, we ventured south to the towns of Hedel and Rossum to find out everything we could about growing our own...

  • The magic of nature

    Growing mushrooms in fast motion

    Two time-lapse videos of mushroom growth in nature.
  • Project: 5 Dec 2011

    Mycological Material Research

    Artists and designers experiment and play with a new form of myco-material

    We were the first in the Netherlands to get our hands on this new batch of myco-material from Ecovative . Together with some local artists and designers we are conducting material research of our own.

  • Grow your clothing

    Bio-Couture : bacterial-cellulose textile is the fashion of the future

    What could be a more sustainable way of dressing up than growing your own cloths made from a totally organic material? This is the aim of an interesting experimental project called Bio-Couture...

  • Laboratory

    Microscopic and macroscopic organisms

    (Art)ScienceBLR's work is at intersection of art-science and pedagogy, creating spaces of dialogue and interaction between artists, designers and scientists.

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