Honey Fungus VR Experience

Honey Fungus is a sci-fi Virtual Reality installation that invites audiences to expand their sensory connection to the greater ecosystem. A sentient ecological presence—manifested as a queer omnipresent mycelial entity—guides participants on a journey through an entangled ecology.

Through a series of interactive vignettes inspired by the fungal reproductive cycle, users are invited to shape and transform the virtual environment. As they progress, they encounter spores that speak in poetic passages generated by AI, trained on a unique blend of Smithsonian field research and amateur erotica. In these spaces, the scientific merges with the sensual, unveiling the earth’s erotic potential and opening new possibilities for ecological stewardship and mutual care between human and non-human life.

This VR world embraces the idea that each of us possesses more than a singular, isolated body. As scholar Daisy Hildyard suggests, we have a 'second body'—one that exists through our interconnectedness with the world around us.

Jonah King is an Irish artist, filmmaker and essayist exploring human–nonhuman relations and speculative futures through immersive technologies. Their work spans installations, VR, and video, shown at venues including IMMA, the American Museum of the Moving Image, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, EXPO Chicago, the New Museum, and SXSW. King holds an MFA from Columbia University and is Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Find out more about this project by visiting https://jonahking.com/honeyfungus

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