Jackie Hosyted: Symbiotica

The Stone Tower Gallery presents Symbiotica, a solo exhibition of work by artist Jackie Hoysted. In this interactive art installation Hoysted invites the public to contemplate the concept of symbiosis and mutually beneficial relationships as well as how we as humans need to cooperate in order to become better co-inhabitants of the planet.

Symbiotica is a cyborg sculpture garden that lights up in unison to the heartbeats of participants when they place their fingers on connected pulse-sensors. The garden comprises a network of fiber optic lights representing the extensive network mycelium forms underground, and the flowers represent the fruiting body of fungi i.e. the mushroom. The flowers are a composition of bio-material grown and cast from mycelium, discarded single use plastics, concrete, and LEDs.