MycoMythologies: Rupture is a biotechnological audiovisual landscape entangling myco-centric network of large screens and myco-scopic central node. Myco-centric network of screens performs production and disruption of extraction economy mythologies looping on the screens. While myco-scopic node detects in the flow of nutrients within the mycelial networks new, unheard voices, which are triggering changes in the looping myths on the screens by uttering the following sentence in multiple languages: “We can’t return to normal because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.”.
Short excerpt of the mycomyth about World Networks Entanglement accompanying the installation.
MycoMythological machines were assembled to tap into the underground flow while the nutrients poured out of it, along with the numerous stories. No matter where the flow was sampled, there the stories were, flowing out of the mycelium network together with the much needed nutrients. There were many whispers, among which some stories seemed the same as they trickled out of the hyphae in chunks and pieces. They were almost like a repetitive mantra that loops and loops even though they were never completely the same. There were always glitches and differences as if they had been assembled again and again like some sort of a distant memory of the murmuring machine.
The microscopic node in the World Networks Entanglement freshly programmed with the Fungal Network Traits Protocol* experienced a peculiar overflow of sonic data. The sound in the laboratory filled the space with one single sentence computed by the Entanglement and repeatedly uttered by the machine. As more and more data poured into the machine, the more intense and distinct the voices became:
»We can’t return to normal because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.«
The feeling was that of an emergency; numerous languages and voices were finally detected circulating in the Flow. From the depths of the previously mute and unheard underground, the machine clearly conveyed messages that their world was broken. The rupture was clearly deep and entangled as it spanned several planes that had kept the voices invisible and quiet for too long.
The conclusion was that the machine got overloaded while computing the immensity of the breach across the feedback looping entanglements of the planetary networks. In order for the World Networks Entanglement to compute itself again with the included newly detected voices, it was necessary to implement The Word for World Is Flow Protocol, which allowed for the permeability of categories such as human, gender, nature, individual, history, culture, society. Serious work needs to be done.
*The Fungal Network Traits Protocol of unevenly distributed particles was developed in collaboration with fungal agents, which performed their decision-making processes. The dataset of decisions was then fed into the protocol, which became known as the Protocol of the Forgotten.
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MikoMitologije je serija ontogenetskih mitoloških zgodb, biotehnoloških instalacij, delavnic in video esejev. Serija raziskuje večplastno vprašanje, kako lahko glive pomagajo ljudem misliti možnosti prepletanja življenja v ruševinah kapitalizma. Kot spekulativna umetniška raziskava MikoMitologije ne razmišljajo le o tem, kako lahko podzemna omrežja gliv informirajo človeško vrsto, temveč tudi o tem, kako tehnologije pogosto uokvirjajo človeško produkcijo znanja.
MikoMitologije: Prelom, 2020
Saša Spačal
Programiranje, računalniški vid: Matic Potočnik
Zvok, zasnova programske opreme: Pim Boreel
Mikrobiologija, tehnična podpora: Mirjan Švagelj
Video posnetki: Tilen Sepič
Micelijski mikrografi, tehnična podpora: Toby Kiers Laboratory [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ]
Glasove so prijazno posodile_i: Polona Torkar, Verena Friedrich, Regine Rapp, Susana Gómez Larrañaga, Hiroaki Fujiwara, Jooyoung Oh, Pim Boreel, Saša Spačal, Hiroaki, Anneta Mona Chisa, Monica Clare Mills, Vivian Xu, Dmitry Morozov
Posebna zahvala: Toby Kiers, Loreto Oyarte Galvez, Malin Klein
Produkcija in podpora: KID Kibla, Projekt Atol, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Toby Kiers Laboratorij [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
Fotografije: Janez Klenovšek
Produkcija in podpora: ACE Kibla, Zavod Projekt Atol, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Laboratorij dr. Toby Kiers,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, PIF Camp
Podpora: Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Maribor
Nominacija
Ars Electronica Starts Prize Nomination 2021
Samostojne razstave
MycoMythologies, Cultural Center Tobačna 001, kuratorica Alenka Trebušak, Ljubljana, Slovenija [November – December, 2021]
MycoMythologies, Biotroja – Center for Composting Culture, GHMP – Galerie hlavního města Prahy v sodelovanju z Prague City University, Praga, Češka [Julij 2021]
MycoMythologies: Rupture, kurator Davor Mišković, Drugo More, Reka, Hrvaška [November – December 2020]
Mikomitologije: Prelom, kuratorica Živa Kleindienst, KiBela, Multimedijski center Kibla, Maribor, Slovenija [Oktober 2020]