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 "..was inspired by British novelist J.G. Ballard writing about living plant technologies in his collection of short stories Vermilion Sands (1971). In his fictional world Ballard describes a psychotropic house that interacts with its inhabitants and bio-clothes made from hypersensitive plants that respond to their wearers. Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas created a laboratory in the gallery making living material by mixing mycelium (mushroom root) with agricultural waste (sawdust, straw etc)."(https://traceywarrwriting.com/2015/10/15/m-for-mycelium/)
+===Theresa Schubert===
+bodymetries, 2013
+“In bodymetries visitors can experience virtual slime mould growth on their skin. Visitors enter a semi dark room with a bar table in the center. Some wobbling blobs appear on a small sections of the surface. Visitors are invited to lay their arms onto the desk. The system ‘scans’ it by taking and analysing a picture. The slime mould algorithm starts to grow from the darkest area it can find on the skin.”(http://theresaschubert.com/arts-experiments/art/bodymetries-mapping-the-human-body-through-amorphous-intelligence)
+=== James Whitting, Ben De Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky ===
+Sonification
+Towards slime mould chemical sensor: Mapping chemical inputs onto electrical potential dynamics of Physarum Polycephalum
+Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. response to BenzylAlcohol
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTJEYHaIIM
+https://soundcloud.com/lessnullvoid/physarum-sonification
+===Toshiyuki Nakagaki===
+Experiments with Physarum polycefalum finding the shortest way to the food source through the maze
+-5 min @ Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxGrde1NDA
 == Fungi / mycelium==
 ===Gallery===
+====Mycelium====
 <gallery>
 File:miga-IMG_2543.JPG
 File:networks_photo_robert_metzner-web.jpg
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+====Physarum Polycefalum====
+<gallery>
+Image:IMG_2025.png
+Image:IMG_2032.png
+Image:IMG_2033.png
+Image:IMG_2037.png
+Image:IMG_2333.png
+Image:IMG_2343.png
+</gallery>
 === Features ===
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 === Sclerotium ===
 A sclerotium (plural sclerotia, from Greek skleros - hard) is a compact mass of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves.
+== Slime molds ==
+“Slime mold is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures.”(Wikipedia D)
+Slime molds belong to Protista, that is neither animal, nor fungi nor bacteria. They feed on microorganisms.
+“When food is in short supply, many of these single-celled organisms will congregate and start moving as a single body. In this state they are sensitive to airborne chemicals and can detect food sources. They can readily change the shape and function of parts and may form stalks that produce fruiting bodies, releasing countless spores”(Wikipedia D)
+It is said that slime molds can exhibit some degree of intelligence, like sacrifice or computation of the shortest paths to the nutrition source.
+===Physarum Polycephalum===
+Physarum Polycephalum and its life cycle
+"Physarum polycephalum, literally the "many-headed slime", is a slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. Like slime molds in general, it is sensitive to light; in particular, light can repel the slime mold and be a factor in triggering spore growth."(wikipedia A) It feeds on bacteria, spores and other microbial creatures.
+* Vegetative phase: plasmodium (consists of networks of protoplasmic veins, and many nuclei)
+* sclerotium (hardened multinucleated tissue)
+* sporangia
+<gallery>
+Image:life-cycle.png
+</gallery>
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 * Paul Stamets (2005) "Mycelium running". Available at: https://decroissons.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/paul-stamets-mycelium-running-how-mushrooms-can-help-save-the-world.pdf (Accessed 8 November 2016)
 * Paul Stamets (2008) “6 ways mushrooms can save the world”. Available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world (Accessed 8 November 2016)
-* Wikipedia. Micelium. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium (Accessed 8 December 2016)
+* Wikipedia (a). Micelium. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium (Accessed 8 December 2016)
+* Wikipedia (b). Physarum polycephalum. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum (Accessed 8 December 2015).
+* Wikipedia (c). Slime mold. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold (Accessed 6 December 2016).