Xristina Sarli

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  • The Light Bearer – Fungal Bioluminescence, Optics & Ecological Futures

    The Light Bearer – Fungal Bioluminescence, Optics & Ecological Futures

    February 25, 2025
    Bioart & Biodesign, Digital & Hybrid Media, DIY & Open-Source Knowledge, Hybrid Research & Speculative Futures, Multispecies Collaboration, Performance & Experimental Storytelling, Sustainability & Circular Economy, XR & Immersive Technologies

    Bioluminescence in the Depths For centuries, humans have relied on nature’s hidden glow to navigate darkness. Before artificial lighting, miners and submariners used bioluminescent fungi—an organic guide illuminating unseen pathways. During the early 19th century, sailors in deep-sea submarines harnessed Panellus stipticus and Armillaria mellea to light up maps without flames that could consume oxygen.…

  • Metempsychosis: Mycelium Futures Exhibition

    Metempsychosis: Mycelium Futures Exhibition

    November 2, 2024
    Bioart & Biodesign, Curatorial Projects & Exhibitions, Multispecies Collaboration, Performance & Experimental Storytelling, Sustainability & Circular Economy, XR & Immersive Technologies

    Worms. Ants. Maggots. Beetles. Mushrooms. Death was almost the moment when life overflowed its cup. Death wasn’t the end of life. It was the end of the singular. The deer decayed out of its shape into explosive, generative plurality. One narrative diverged into four hundred narratives. If I feel myself, like the compost heap, beginning…

  • TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE

    TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE

    October 1, 2024
    Bioart & Biodesign, Curatorial Projects & Exhibitions, Digital & Hybrid Media, DIY & Open-Source Knowledge, Hybrid Research & Speculative Futures, XR & Immersive Technologies

    Terrabytes Glitch Lab Unveils TTTLab Official VR World in Collaboration with TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp Fall 2024 The Terrabytes Glitch Lab, a phygital collective founded by Augusto Calçada and Xristina Sarli, announces the launch of the TTTLab Official VR World. Developed during their online interaction with participants of the TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp Fall 2024 on the island of Crete from…

  • More Than A Pipe: A Multispecies Metempsychosis

    More Than A Pipe: A Multispecies Metempsychosis

    September 11, 2024
    Bioart & Biodesign, DIY & Open-Source Knowledge, Hybrid Research & Speculative Futures, Multispecies Collaboration, Performance & Experimental Storytelling, Sustainability & Circular Economy

    September 11, 2024 PRIMORDIA 2, Berlin Art Week 2024 Fomes Fomentarius & Ganoderma Lucidum on a found smoking pipe

  • Open Studios Tempelhof 2024

    July 6, 2024
    Bioart & Biodesign, Cognitive Updates, Curatorial Projects & Exhibitions, Digital & Hybrid Media, DIY & Open-Source Knowledge, Hybrid Research & Speculative Futures, Multispecies Collaboration, Performance & Experimental Storytelling, XR & Immersive Technologies

    Open Studios Tempelhof – A Nexus of Digital Revolution At Open Studio Tempelhof, an initiative in Berlin that brings together hundreds of artists from diverse backgrounds in the heart of Tempelhof’s industrial area, the digital revolution meets physical space. This project, which I had the honor of curating and co-organising with TURBA Factory, FRAKTAL 0.0,…

  • Toilet Paper Research: Wiping Away Forests for the Illusion of Sanity

    Toilet Paper Research: Wiping Away Forests for the Illusion of Sanity

    June 2, 2022
    Bioart & Biodesign, DIY & Open-Source Knowledge, Hybrid Research & Speculative Futures, Multispecies Collaboration, Performance & Experimental Storytelling, Sustainability & Circular Economy

    A Pandemic Tale of Hoarding and Absurdity March 2020. The world locked down. Streets emptied, fear spread, and suddenly, in privileged nations, supermarket shelves were stripped bare—not of food or medicine, but toilet paper. For those with running water, bidets, and soap, the obsession was irrational. Yet, panic-induced consumer behavior took over. While scientists worked…

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