Networked Ecologies

Ecologies and telecommunications infrastructures are interwoven, so much so that telegraphy across oceans only became possible because of the extraction of a tree. At Cubbon Park in Bengaluru, I studied historic photographs of the Central Telegraph Office to find the old building. The area became an important node in my investigations of networks and a site of collaboration with fungi cultivist Biplab Mahato. Together, we searched for telegraph, internet, fungi, lichens and plant networks. To share our research-in-action on networks, we organized a walk titled 'Writing Telegrams to Fungi', in 2024 and are following up with four new Network Walks and a Network Walk Booklet during the Travelling Plant exhibition at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery Bangalore in October 2025.