How does cross-spore germination between two parallel wide-area networks work? How is communication etablished between radio-based technologies and the single organism network of the mycelium?
Martin Howse and his project Radio Mycelium: Interspecies Communication has the answer.
Fungal transceivers sprouting mycelial antennas form an imaginary underground network. Diversity of human networks is mapped across fungal diversity in the urban environment.
The mycelium, a fungal network of thread-like cells, represents a truly underground communications network, spreading out over vast areas of earth substrate, acting with ecosystem intelligence as an interface across across symbiotic networks such as plant and tree roots. Why?
Radio Mycelium proposes the construction of a series of experimental situations examining a new networked imaginary, the single organism of the fungal mycelium, in relation to pathogenic, electromagnetic communications.
The influence of electromagnetic carrier waves on the mycelial network is central. The well-documented transformative potential of mycelium (for example, decomposing pollutants) is invoked to remediate an increasingly pathogenic electromagnetic networked culture.