Rhizomancies is a generative bioelectronic installation that investigates the potential transductions of mycelial growth activity into image sequences through an AI-driven generative system. The work comprises a fruiting capsule designed to host a Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom) mycelium sculpture, which continuously monitors real-time fluctuations in humidity, temperature, and CO₂. These environmental data are employed in two complementary ways: to direct a generative image network trained on fungal patterns, and to synchronize the unfolding of a film whose duration corresponds to the life cycle of the sculpture.

By integrating a living agent as a constitutive element, the work foregrounds its durational dimension—unstable, mutable, and contingent upon the changing conditions of its environment. During its temporal span, the installation calls for an attentive engagement with its rhythms and temporalities, activating narratives that interrogate the entanglements between mycelial networks and artificial neural networks. Rather than seeking translation, the system attempts to accompany the fungal body in a critical exploration of the interstices between the biological and the algorithmic.

What might it mean for human existence to be mediated by alternative cycles? Considering the multiplicity of worlds that constitute the Earth, their vital processes, and the interspecies relations they generate, one possible approach to fostering empathy with more-than-human entities is to dislocate dominant temporal frameworks and, consequently, reconfigure what it means to be alive. Urgency emerges in disrupting the linear conceptualizations of body, space, death, and time.