BREEZE OF MYCEL

Where Technology Meets Nature
A new culture of life emerges in MYCEL Inc.'s laboratory. Light and sound envelop the cultivation chamber, where digital forests dance with growing mycelium, creating an unprecedented artistic ecosystem. As technology and nature intertwine, four visionary artists come together to breathe life into this unique project.

In this immersive experience, the boundaries between the artificial and natural blur into a single breath. Digital textures embrace nature's order while unpredictable rhythms mirror organic growth patterns, creating a living, breathing artwork where science meets art.

"A Laboratory Becomes a Stage"

Q. What was the starting point for this project?

We wanted to treat our cultivation chamber, the place where mycelium actually grows, as more than a production space. It's already a site where biology behaves in ways that feel almost choreographed: invisible networks expanding, structures forming over time. We invited artists to respond to that environment directly, rather than to the material after the fact.

Digital Forests, Living Mycelium

Q. How do technology and nature come together in this piece?

Light, sound, and digital projection were layered directly into the cultivation space, so that digital forests and growing mycelium share the same room, almost the same breath. The digital elements follow nature's own order rather than imposing a separate logic on it, while the unpredictable rhythms of sound and light echo the organic, irregular way mycelium actually grows. Neither one leads; they move together.

Four Artists, One Ecosystem

Q. How did four different artists shape a single, unified experience?

Each artist brought a different language: ambient sound, media art, video direction, sound engineering, but all of them were responding to the same living subject. That shared subject is what holds the piece together. Rather than four separate works placed side by side, it became one ecosystem where each discipline reinforces the others, much like the mycelium network itself, distinct strands functioning as a single organism

Where Science Meets Art

Q. What do you hope people take away from this experience?

We hope it blurs, even briefly, the line people usually draw between a lab and an art space, between something grown and something made. This is a living, breathing artwork in the most literal sense: the mycelium is actually growing while the work is being experienced. That's the new culture of life we wanted to capture, science and art sharing the same breath.

Featured Artists

Ambient Artist : Mohani

Media Artist: Gijeong Goo

Video Director: Kim Jinju

Sound Engineer: Cho Hyungwoo

Creative Team

Producer: GiGi Jeehyun Jung

Screenplay: Sah Sungjin

Project Information

Year: 2025
Courtesy of: MYCEL Inc., Korea