Posts Tagged ‘art’
Jackson Pollock dripped paint on canvas. Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and the other cubists broke the world into little rectangular planes. Andy Warhol set up a few soup cans. Niall Hamilton has his own style of art. A Petri dish of agar is his canvas, spores are his paint, and a sterile loop is his brush.
I [...]
Tags: art, fungal art, microbial art, Nial Hamilton
In what looks like a potential rival to EcoCradle, Mycotectural Alpha is a construction material made of dense mycelium. Time magazine mentions it in the article Industrial-Strength Fungus by Adam Fischer:
Mycelium doesn’t taste very good, but once it’s dried, it has some remarkable properties. It’s nontoxic, fireproof and mold- and water-resistant, and it traps [...]
Tags: art, Ecocradle, Far West Fungi, Mycotectural Alpha, Philip Ross, structures
When a dance company is named after a dung fungus, you know they are good. Pilobolus has been on stage for a long time now; since 1971 in fact. They must really be comfortable with each other to get in those poses.
The outfit will be performing two shows on February 12 and 13 at the [...]
Tags: art, dance, Pilobolus, University of Minnesota
Thanks to tip from @fungalgenomes, we find out about FungiFest at the Machine Project in L.A. Or better to say the L.A. times has an article on it, FungiFest breaks the festival mold. Of course not even the best newspaper writers in the world can resist using fungal puns in their headlines (sigh). There is [...]
Tags: art, film, Fungifest, L.A. Machine Project
Although there exist some decent instructions on the web for how to make a spore print as an aid to mushroom identification, some people just enjoy making them and consider them sort of an art form in and of itself. Anyone who has ever made one has surely recognized their intrinsic beauty. In fact, every [...]
Tags: art, crafts, mushrooms, spore prints
