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The magazine for more-than-human art, design, technology and writing.

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Mushrooms are entangling agents. Mycorrhizal fungi intertwine themselves with plant roots, creating symbiotic relationships. The artist and researcher Eryk Salvaggio entered into symbiosis with Oyster mushrooms by extending their entanglement with cables, translating the mushrooms’ communication patterns into the circuitry of an analog synthesiser.

An interview with the clinical psychologist and Director of the Sleep and Heath Research Program at the University of Arizona.