Tosca describes herself as an interdisciplinary, human holobiont whose work is a confluence of art, ecology, and craft. Her work has been featured at The Harwood Museum, SOFA New York, The Toronto Design Exchange, MOCA Toronto, The Ontario Science Centre,...
Read MoreTosca describes herself as an interdisciplinary, human holobiont whose work is a confluence of art, ecology, and craft. Her work has been featured at The Harwood Museum, SOFA New York, The Toronto Design Exchange, MOCA Toronto, The Ontario Science Centre, Music Works, Vector Festival, Studio Art & Craft Canada, SONICA21, Glasna Music Magazine, The Mushroom UK, NAISA (New Adventures In Sound Art), and Ars Electronica.
Her MyceliaVR performance was a special event at The 78th Venice International Film Festival, and opened for AMAZE./Berlin22. MyceliaVR was nominated for and won the Spirit of the Festival award at the Raindance Film Festival.
Tosca has received funding support and residencies from the Goethe-Institut Montreal, The Canada Arts Council, BigCi Environmental Award Australia, Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, SUNY Buffalo’s Coalesce Centre for Biological Art for her immersive, expanded reality, nonhuman bio-sonification projects.
Artist Statement:
I view my research as a collaborative effort with the non-Human entities I touch, caress, grow. Having ‘minds’ of their own, current work explores sculpting forms with living mycelium, and bio-sonification. My fascination with mycelium (the root structure of mushrooms) is compounded by several factors: fungi are neither plant nor animal and fungi can clean up ecological disasters.
I have found my works that incorporate realtime, nonhuman bio-sonification illicit strong emotional, empathic responses towards nonhuman organisms.
Sound Works: https://www.nanotopia.net
https://www.nanotopia.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nanotopia
Instagram: @MothAntler @nanotopia_net
Download my CV here
https://www.toscateran.com/_files/ugd/c666a3_5d7f773395ff4c61895c777a7b86ae0d.pdf
