NEWS + PRESS
Telluride Mushroom Festival
August 2024
Open Fung was a sponsor of the 2024 Telluride Mushroom Festival. Founder Phil Ross attended the festival and reports back with reflections and his experience of spending time in the midst of this community.
Read Phil’s reflections on the festival.
Mycopreneur PodcastAugust 2024
Open Fung Founder Philip Ross is interviewed on Dennis Walker's Mycopreneur podcast this week. He talks about the origins and goals of Open Fung and our ambition to create tools, resources, systems around how to work with these fungi and also how to radiate this information out to more people through art and culture.
Link to listen the full podcast here.
Enlightended Omnivore PodcastJune 2024
Open Fung Co-Founder and Co-Director of Science Rachel Linzer is featured on the inaugural episode of Steven Sabicer ‘s Enlightened Omnivore podcast. In a wide-ranging talk about fungal possibility, they delve into the fascinating world of mushrooms, exploring their science, benefits, and the incredible potential they hold.
Link to listen to th full podcast here.
Brilliant Minds: Discovery 2024
June 2024Philip Ross is a speaker at the Brilliant Minds 2024 Festival in Stockholm. He’ll discuss the subject of discovery in conversation with Susanne Gløersen and Renee Davis. They’ll talk about mushrooms in the larger view of their contemporary popularization, and the growing acknowledgement of their utility for wide ranging applications and solutions. In this discussion he’ll touch on the ambitions that Open Fung is pursuing through genomics and art.
Brilliant Minds Foundation is a global platform for creative individuals to come together on world changing ideas.
Fungi IssueNational Geographic
March 2024
National Geographic magazine published its first cover story on fungi in the 130+ year history of the magazine. The Fungi edition includes a story on mushroom leather featuring Open Fung founder, Phil Ross.
Fungi – In Art and Science
Exhibition, Nobel Museum
September 2023 - January 2024
In the exhibition Fungi – In Art and Science at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, the world of fungi is explored through artworks, design objects, fashion and contemporary scientific research.
Phil Ross and Vera Meyer’s biogenerator project is included in the exhibition. “Their SciArt contribution tries to appreciate the beauty and diversity of microscopically small fungal cell factories and their infinitely large contribution to our life through bioreactor technology.”
A Second Skin
A short film by ReD Associates, October 2023This original short film, A Second Skin, part of a special series on flesh, looks at how novel applications of natural materials, specifically mycelium, challenge our categories around beauty, material production, and innovation.
Fungal Manifesto
A short film made BIOCOM, 2023A film featuring how fungi change the world and how they inspire scientific and artistic research of Vera Meyer and Phil Ross.
The Mushroom Man’s Magic
by Adam Fisher, July 2021
Alta MagazineArtist Phil Ross built sculptures, furniture, and houses with fungi. Now, his mycelium material is being used in Hermès bags, and his company is worth millions. The unlikely entrepreneur’s next idea: lederhosen, made from the fleshy plants.
The Future is Fungal: Interview with Phil Ross
by Andrea Grover, September 2012 Phil Ross works in the realm of “biotechniques.” He makes sculptural and architectural works from plants and fungi, and videos about live cultures. His work is part of the touring exhibition, Intimate Science.