VIDEO POST relaunches Kerosine Chronicles. Fungus (2021) by Where Dogs Run, a project that starts from the Kerosine mushroom and its peculiarity of modifying the smell of the petrol where it lives to model a situation in which a chemical interaction between mushroom and machine creates a possibility of chemical communication between self-made robots.
Where Dogs Run, “Kerosine chronicles. Fungus”, 2021
Project «Kerosine chronicles. Fungus» implemented for the exhibition «HYDRA: New Media Art in the Context of Eco-Anxiety», Sevcable Port, Saint-Petersburg, 2021 Curators: Olga Vad and Lida Gumenyuk, Curatorial agency NADO Scientific consultant: Anastasia Krivushina, PhD in bioscience, senior researcher at Department of Mycology and Algology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Programming: Sergey Mashkov, Vladislav Tarasenko, Ruslan Orekhov, Arseny Yarmolinky. Technical support: Gleb Andreev Project is created in the «Biostation. Laboratory of Technological Art of St. Petersburg NGO “Techno-Art Center”» Video “Kerosene Chronicles. Fungus 2022” was created for the “CYFEST-14 / FERMENT Festival” in Yerevan. Curators: Elena Gubanova, Anna Frants, Sergey Komarov, Vika Ilyushkina. Animation in the film was generated by AI Stable Diffusion according to the description of the concept of the project “Kerosine chronicles. Fungus”