MYCELIAL NETWORK

The Mycelium Network spans the globe.

As a group of artists, technologists, and scientists, our works coalesce in forming expanded reality installations and theatrical performances, both live and VR/AR theatre.

Our network is a rich tapestry of talent, encompassing sound artists, actors, creative technologists, scientists, musicians, puppet makers, and educators. This diversity of skills and perspectives fuels our innovative approach to art and science.

Tosca is the node that connects us. Her research and work as a GEM member (Genome, Environment and Microbiome Community of Excellence) SUNY at Buffalo, in Bio and Myco-remediation measures, our project-based work focuses on the intelligence of the interstitial that forms the living webs around us.

Our mission is to make the invisible visible, to heal our connections within the shared environment, and to inspire a shift in consciousness that moves us beyond thinking of ourselves as isolated individuals. This transformative power of our work gives hope for a more connected and sustainable future.

VR/XRography

Mycelia 2021: Opening act for AMAZE. /Berlin, Invited special event for Venice Immersive ‘21 alongside Jean Michel Jarre, nominated and won the Raindance Film Festival “Spirit of the Festival” award 2021.

Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis: Sentience 2024 invited XR installation world premiere Venice Film Festival Immersive ‘24 -36 performances over the festival.

Tosca Terán aka Nanotopia - Nano

Interdisciplinary artist, musician,

Fungi wrangler

Tosca is working with artists, scientists, programmers and various fungi towards bringing the Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis: Sentience project to reality. A Bioart related residency with the Coalesce Centre for Biological Art Tosca worked with SEM, Confocal and AFM microscopy captures to better inform the Holobiont and Symbiotic 3D final VR/AR production. Sculpting 3D assets, collecting biodata, cultivating mycelium, composing world soundscape with various fungi, developing AR didactic information, installation layout, sensor circuitry, holobiont aesthetics. Follow Tosca on Threads @mothantler or Instagram and watch the Symbiogenesis production unfold. Tosca's Mycelium bio-sonification collaborations can be found here, https://soundcloud.com/nanotopia Sonic work as Nanotopia can be found here, https://nanotopia.bandcamp.com/

Brendan Lehman aka Neurochems

Neuroscientist/Biodata coder

The literal ROCK, OG

Brendan has been collaborating and working with Tosca since 2020.

Biodata streams into Unity.

Andrei Gravelle aka Nanotopia
(also Apook on Resonite!)

Audio engineer, digital technician, musician with Nanotopia!

Consulting for installation spatial audio layout & set-up

Resonite + festival Myco-crew

Rixx aka Sven Steffens

Creative technologist, Engineer.

Working with Nano and Neurochems within Resonite. Building systems, creating and working with Tosca on level design and physical installation tech set-up.

Selen Lun aka Lunitica

Actor, Stage Manager

Creative technologist with XR Eventist

Christopher Turk aka Sup3rFlyN1nja

Actor, VR performer

Working with the MNC on remote shows.

Mandy Canales aka Mycana

Actor, VR performer

Mandy teaches physical comedy, improv, and jazz dance at the Virtual Reality Dance Academy and performs with various improv groups in VRChat.

She is an Assistant Professor in the department of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University.

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Marinda Botha is an actress, voice over artist and puppeteer based in South Africa. She performs in VR and traditional media, bringing decades worth of experience and tactless jokes to the project.

https://marindabotha.co.uk

Rowan Wood aka Styx

Actor, VR performer

Working with the MNC on remote shows.

Creator of LiminaL

Christopher Coles AKA S0lace is a VR Performer First and foremost. Christopher is a storyteller, and he shows it in many ways. He is a novelist, filmmaker, scriptwriter, director, voice actor, improviser, game master, artist, and just about anything else you can do while telling a story.

Ontario crew, NY and California