The artwork Fruiting Bodies is inspired by fungi and their mycelium, which connect plants to each other so that they may share resources in an ecosystem. Through a kaleidoscope of...
The artwork Fruiting Bodies is inspired by fungi and their mycelium, which connect plants to each other so that they may share resources in an ecosystem. Through a kaleidoscope of algorithms and digital tools, Fagerlund has sequenced the images and mutated them into new species. It forms a speculative digital ecosystem where the past and the future coexist in friction with the ongoing climate crisis. The artwork Fruiting Bodies is inspired by fungi and their mycelium, which connect plants to each other so that they may share resources in an ecosystem.
In her project Fruiting Bodies, Susanne Fagerlund has explored archives of images of endangered and extinct species. Inspired by Donna Haraway's theories of "Tentacular thinking," she has worked as a "mad gardener" and treated the archives as a compost heap of the past, present, and future. Through a kaleidoscope of algorithms and digital tools, Fagerlund has sequenced the images and mutated them into new species. It forms a speculative digital ecosystem where the past and the future coexist in friction with the ongoing climate crisis. The artwork Fruiting Bodies is inspired by fungi and their mycelium, which connect plants to each other so that they may share resources in an ecosystem.