Visual Research
8.5 in x 5 in
“Mycroporn” is a book archiving my visual research on the online mycology community, inspired by Paul Stamets’ work on how the internet is an “inevitable consequence of a previously proven, biologically successful [mycelium] model.”
I explored various online identification databases and forums, such as mushroomexpert.com and mushroomobserver.org, and found that the online mycology community's structure is nodal, like the mycelium: individuals continually consult one another and form a cloud-based, neural network. I sought to establish a link between a community’s structure and how they come to resemble their subject of interest, drawing parallels in between heuristic community distribution graphs, the online mycology community, and mycelium nodes. I weaved long lists of technical information drawn from taxonomy databases throughout the visuals to contrast the unorganized, rhizomatic configuration of the visuals.
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8.5 in x 5 in
“Mycroporn” is a book archiving my visual research on the online mycology community, inspired by Paul Stamets’ work on how the internet is an “inevitable consequence of a previously proven, biologically successful [mycelium] model.”
I explored various online identification databases and forums, such as mushroomexpert.com and mushroomobserver.org, and found that the online mycology community's structure is nodal, like the mycelium: individuals continually consult one another and form a cloud-based, neural network. I sought to establish a link between a community’s structure and how they come to resemble their subject of interest, drawing parallels in between heuristic community distribution graphs, the online mycology community, and mycelium nodes. I weaved long lists of technical information drawn from taxonomy databases throughout the visuals to contrast the unorganized, rhizomatic configuration of the visuals.
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