Fungal Datascapes: A Sporous Commons of Mushrooms and Climate

What does weather feel like underground? How would you experience it if you were

fungi? What are the connections between our world and theirs? We don’t often think

about the connection that fungi have with our climate. Fungal systems of life, compost and decay, however, are interwoven with the emergence of weather and climate change. The novelty of this art work lies, not its use of virtual reality, but in its artistic and mental perspective. Fungal Datascapes: A Sporous Commons of Mushrooms and Climate invites us to leave our anthropocentric viewpoint and enter a world normally beyond our scope of understanding. It does so by immersing the participant in a 360 degree video experience of multi-species speculation, easily moving in scale from the microscopic to the

global through the lifecycle of fungal spores.