sym fiction/ing practice
central saint martins


01.    The Bio in Hybrid Bio-Digital Methods

Bio as in biological and auto/biographical

Primary Methods
—Growing mushrooms from personal objects
—Auto/biographical lab notes
—Archival fungal forays

Secondary Method
—Olfaction

Substraights
—Barbies
—Dolls
—Care bears
—Trolls
—Ballerina music mox
—Bunny toy


02.    The Digital in Hybrid Bio-Digital Methods

Primary Methods
—Digital photography, cut-outs and collaging
—Photogrammetry, 3D scanning and augmented reality (AR)

Secondary Methods
—Micrographs
—Timelapses
—Electrical signalling


03.    Co-creating & Co-enquiring

Anonymous Take Up Space community messages became stimulus for selecting personal objects with queering signifiance to continue the conversation and invite a fungi takeover of the gallery
‘In Bed with Pleurotus’

Feb to Mar 2024: Part of the evolving Take Up Space community exhibition at the Lethaby Window Gallery, led by Ulrike Steven


Mycelial Mediators
&
Heritage Eaters

Pleurotus
Pleurotus
Pleurotus
Schizophyllum

ostreatus var. florida
ostreatus
djamor
commune


phd student
living systems lab central saint martins
univeristy of the arts london