Society for Mycelial Studies

Art Historian & Theorist, Art Critic, Curator
COLOGNE / UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES MAINZ, GERMANY

Agential assemblages, distributed agency, mycoaesthetics, methods of attachment, ecology

Mycelium Material Research, Sustainable Architecture, Artist
JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ, AUSTRIA

Mycelium cultivation, material research, technical consulting in mycelium related projects, ecological construction materials & techniques, architectural planning

Art Theorist, Philosopher & Curator
VIENNA / UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN LINZ, AUSTRIA

Aesthetics of transformation, artistic research, topologies, relational knowledge, vibrant matter

Permaculture designer
MyPilz GmbH
VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Biotechnology, agriculture, consulting, fungi, mycelium, art, science

Architect, Material Researcher, Artist, Educator
UNIVERSITY OF ARTS LINZ, AUSTRIA

Regenerative building materials and circular economies, material research, sustainable architecture and planning, earthen art and design, biomateriality

Multidisciplinary designer & PhD in Fashion
FLORENCE / UNIVERSITÀ IUAV DI VENEZIA, VENICE, ITALY

Sustainable fashion, innovative materials, fungal fashion, natural dyes, interspecies design, posthumanism, new materialism

Artist & Filmmaker
BASEL / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Research, fungi, images, poetry, aesthetics, remediation, symbiosis, film

Independent Researcher & Photographer
BIEL, SWITZERLAND / AUSTRALIA

Fungi, ecology, mycology, fungus photography, fungal conservation, fungus education

PhD Candidate & Teaching Assistant
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, USA / UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG-ESSEN, GERMANY

German literature, environmental humanities, postcolonialism, new materialism

Artist, Researcher, Lecturer
VIENNA / NEW DESIGN UNIVERSITY ST. PÖLTEN, AUSTRIA

Art and science practices, community biology

Artist, Researcher, Scenographer
LINZ, AUSTRIA / ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Critical Posthumanism, New Materialism, Agential realism, Interspecies performativity, More than Human Computer Interaction, Bio computing, Data storytelling

Artist & Educator
UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN LINZ, AUSTRIA

Sharing knowledge, aesthetic research, artistic research

Artist, Researcher & Educator
PITZ BOTZ BLITZ, SWITZERLAND

Artistic research in the fields of fungi, experimental analog photography and education

Molecular biologist & Neuroscientist
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA, ITALY
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

Psychedelics, creativity, EEG, self-referential information processing

Artist & Lecturer
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Material-interactions, process-based art, mycelial sculpture

Artist, Lecturer for Sculpture & PhD Candidate
ALANUS UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, ALFTER / BORNHEIM, GERMANY

Art, artistic research, structuralism, phenomenology, material-interactions, process-based art, materiality and mediality

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business
UNIVERSITY OF BORAS, SWEDEN

Fungal materials, fungal leather, bio-polymers, bio-based materials, textile engineering

BASED IN GREEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, USA

Ecovative Design LLC is a materials company that provides sustainable alternatives to plastics and polystyrene foams for packaging, building materials and other applications by using mushroom technology.

PSYCHODELIC ASSOCIATION OF SWITZERLAND

Eleusis is a non-profit organization which supports the evolvement of the psychedelic movement. Its work focuses on creating an international networking platform for individuals and research groups interested in sharing information around psychedelics.

ONLINE PROJECT

Curated by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, Feral Atlas explores the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructures via reports from scientists, humanists, and artists.

ONLINE PROJECT

First organized in 2020, the Fungi Film Fest is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, weirdness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi.

BASED IN BROOKLYN, US

The Fungi Foundation is a global organization that explores Fungi to increase knowledge of their diversity, promote innovative solutions to contingent problems, educate about their existence and applications, as well as fighting for their conservation.

COLOGNE, GERMANY

An art project by Laura Popplow with Tine Tillmann and Kyra Porada, Fungutopia shows the different possibilities that fungi offer to help to make the world a better place: Fungi are open source medicine, food, fertilizer and soil-recovery-method.

BASED IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA

The urban agriculture project helps to shape economic, sustainable and social change, using existing resources and thus raising awareness of regional food and cycles.

ONLINE PROJECT

As a design project by Pentagram and Counterpoint, Hypha grows letters (and other things) by simulating mycelium growth found in fungi. Originally shown at the Mushrooms: the Art, Design and Future of Fungi exhibition at Somerset House in London in 2020.

MYCELIUM TEACHINGS AND THE ARTS

A project by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, founder and director of the Green Art Lab Alliance. The mission of the alliance is to foster relationships that contribute to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium.

BASED IN BERLIN, GERMANY

The MIND Foundation envisions a healthier, more connected world through evidence-based, safe, and legal applications of the psychedelic experience. They support high-quality psychedelic research and translate science into everyday language.

BASED IN BERLIN, GERMANY

Initiated by Art Laboratory Berlin in cooperation with the Institute of Biotechnology TU Berlin, the Art & Science project Mind the Fungi is dedicated to the research of local mushrooms and current fungal biotechnology.

BASED IN TROUT LAKE, WASHINGTON

Founded by Julie Beeler, MCA is a resource for everyone curious about the beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms. But it is also a point of departure, introducing you to the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom and our connection to it.

BASED IN INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA

A unique institution in Central Europe, the MRCA carries out basic research and an extensive cultivation of edible and medicinal mushrooms in response to the growing interest in mushrooms as a valuable foodstuff, remedy and pharmaceutical raw material.

BASED IN LINZ, AUSTRIA

Founded by STWS Linz, Mycelium Network Society is an open, living, organic network. Observing the concept of nature’s distributed network in self-expanding mode, it seeks your participation as a node that cultivates locally and connects globally.

BERLIN, GERMANY

Mycocolors is a project by Birke Weber and Friederike Hoberg, a textile and fashion designer and a biological chemist sharing the same passion for fungi and the vast possibilities that fungi-based products offer for a more sustainable world.

BASED IN PORTLAND, OREGON, US

Mycology School, educational Fungi Farm, and Research Hub launching early 2024, founded by Peter McCoy.

BASED IN LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND

Founded in 2021 by Patrik Mürner as a competence center for applied mycology, Mycosuisse develops various applications based on different fungal mycelia. Their products are environmentally friendly, fast-growing and resource-saving.

BASED IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA

As an enterprise aiming to aise awareness of the role of fungi in nature, MyPilz is committed to preserving and protecting ecosystems for future research and understanding.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA

In a beautiful old cellar in the heart of Vienna, the mushroom brothers grow various organic edible mushrooms. Go for their great Shiitake, herb mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms, rose mushrooms, Friseé, and Pompom.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA

In September, when the mushroom season is approaching its peak, the Fungi Festival turns Vienna into the capital of fungi science. Enjoy breathtaking and fascinating documentaries, exhibitions, lectures by renowned scientists and delicious meals.

BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Founded by Juice & Rispetta in 2020, Pilz Welle Lust is dedicated to bringing together and questioning artistic and non-artistic disciplines and challenging the human understanding of nature. It serves as an artistic tool for fruitful collaborations.

BASED IN PORTLAND, OREGON, US

Founded in 2006 by Peter McCoy, Radical Mycology is a grassroots organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the many ways to work with fungi for personal, societal, and ecological health.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF UNDERGROUND NETWORKS

Fungi support much of life on earth. SPUN is a scientific research organization founded to map mycorrhizal fungal communities and advocate for their protection.

BASED IN SWITZERLAND

A film project by Marion Neuman exploring the healing qualities of fungi and their ability to regenerate. A personal journey taking us on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts, and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration.

BASED IN INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA

Since 1997, Tyroler Glückspilze has been investigating and collecting knowledge on fungi, with result of having a comprehensive collection of mycelium cultures today. They have established the Mushroom Research Center Austria as a respected institution.