How’s it going, Fun guy?
Aluminum, Acrylic, Electrical Devices, Fungi
8 x 8 x 12 in.
06:00 min, color, mono sound
This artwork is a combination of a portable installation and a video as the documentary to record me taking the fungi to experience various activities while collecting the electronic signals. Research shows the existence of a kind of “language” in fungi’s bio-electronic signals.
The artwork is about how I consider fungi as a friend and take them to experience things like human beings while recording their “comments” with a sense of humor as a new way of perceiving other species. The shape of the it is an octagonal metal shell with a hemispherical transparent top. On the front of the shell, there is an OLED screen displaying the waves of analyzed signals in real time. The installation is built to create a space for the fungi to live while recording and visualizing the data into waves.
I took it to experience activities humans usually do. All the data generated by the fungi while doing so was processed and presented in the video. I presented a method for humans to get to know fungi as a species with consciousness and implied the further effort humans would have to make in approaching. However, as the video’s ending suggests, it might be impossible for humans to think as non-humans, and fungi do not care about us. The failure of communication means a sense of destiny, as in the Tower of Babel tragedy.
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