Amélie Brindamour

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How do you connect to nature?

Get amongst the hidden world beneath the forest floor by lying down beneath our mushroom network. Inspired by the complex biochemical signals transmitted through mycorrhiza, this electronic installation invites you to be part of the network. Press the interactive sensors to activate light and sound circuits fusing nature with technology. Humans may think they have modern communication covered, but these intricate natural networks are transmitting and receiving data all the time. Hear the sounds, triggered by the light, of the electricity moving through the circuit, and amplified with speakers, in this slow-tech electronic project created using only non-programmable components.

What can we learn from natural systems?

Amélie Brindamour explains how you can enter an interspecies relationship with the mushroom network in her NOT NATURAL exhibit, IN OSCILLATION.

Amélie Brindamour (Canada) explores different issues related to the natural environment. Her research includes electronic arts, biomaterials and installation, in order to reflect on alternative forms of communication, interspecies relationships and intelligent systems in nature.

The artist would like to acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for its financial support.

Thanks also to Fablab Fabbulle for help designing the interactive buttons, and more particularly Pierre-Étienne Petit and Jérôme Bouchard.

This project was created during residencies at the Caetani Cultural Centre, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, the Vermont Studio Center, Avatar, OBORO and Ada X.

Photography: Matthew Stanton