named programs · 6 · from sources
What they call their work
ADOPT AN ACRE
Landshare initiative launched in 2024 offering one-acre plots to individuals or groups to support self-sustained living and co-op land management, emphasizing communal stewardship.
FARM for the FUTURE (F3)
Program launched in 2020 offering land allotments to individuals practicing regenerative, organic, and small-scale farming, fostering hybrid artistic and agricultural work.
FUTURE SEEDS Residency
Season-based artist residency (2010–2014) connecting bio-electronic media art with farming, supported by Eyebeam, focusing on sustainable living and data-driven cultivation.
GARLIC=RICHAIR
Art project initiated in 2002 using harvested garlic as a fictional social currency; includes public performances, trading systems, and wireless access events in New York City.
GEEKCAMP
Annual summer camp since 2021 bringing together field artists, geeks, and farmhands for a week of camping, field work, and feral labs in the Catskills to explore communal resilience and knowledge sharing.
MYCELIUM NETWORK SOCIETY (MNS)
Founded in 2017, MNS connects alternative art spaces and bio-hack labs as nodes in a fungal-inspired network to host workshops, residencies, and exhibitions on mycology and decentralized communication.
activities · 3 groups
What they do
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Site-Specific Artistic Installations and Performances 1 activity
- Presents ecological and technological art installations in public exhibitionsPresented Mycelium Network Society as an installation at the 11th Taipei Biennale in 2018, showcasing the intersection of fungal networks, land use, and decentralized systems. This reflects an ongoing practice of translating ecological research and land-based projects into public-facing artistic formats.
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Community-Based Urban Agriculture 1 activity
- Provides land access through regenerative farming and landshare initiativesRuns the FARM for the FUTURE (F3) program, launched in 2020, which allocates farming plots to residents practicing regenerative, organic, and small-scale agriculture. In Spring 2024, expanded access through a landshare initiative granting self-sustained individuals or groups one acre of land for cooperative use, supported by candidate site visits, shared meals, and planning discussions.
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Uncategorized 3 activities
- Hosts interdisciplinary artist residencies and collaborative field programsConducted seasonal artist residencies from 2010 to 2014 under the FUTURE SEEDS theme, merging farming with bio-electronic media art and data-driven explorations of growth. Launched GEEKCAMP in 2021, a week-long summer program in the Catskills that brings together artists, technologists, and farmers for collaborative field work and experimental lab practices.
- Implements public art and community engagement projects integrating agriculture and technologyLaunched the GARLIC=RICHAIR project in 2002, cultivating 3,000 garlic plants on-site and later exhibiting the work in the Net Art Anthology and The Art Happens Here at the New Museum in 2019. Executed the public performance project GET GARLIC. GO WIRELESS in September 2002, distributing garlic bulbs and providing free wifi access in New York City as part of a garlic credito trading system.
- Operates a 23-acre land-based hub for regenerative agriculture and interdisciplinary exchangeManages a 23-acre site dedicated to biodiversity, mycology, and permaculture, serving as a space for intergenerational collaboration between farmers and artists. The hub supports ongoing agricultural cycles, including annual garlic cultivation and harvesting, and integrates ecological practices with artistic and technological experimentation.
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financials · form 990EZ · fy2025
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Total revenue$186K
Contributions & grants$186K100%
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Total expenses$16K
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Total assets$268K
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Net assets$268K
2 years on record · 2024–2025 · YoY revenue +86.0%
relationships · 6
Who they work with
- Creative Time Partner — Presented the GARLIC=RICHAIR project in 2002, supporting the launch of the garlic credito trading system and public performance.
- EYEBEAM Partner — Collaborated on the FUTURE SEEDS residency program in 2010.
- Queens Museum New York Partner — Partnered on GEEKCAMP 2021 and hosted the "Wet Networks" exhibition curated by Celine Wong Katzman.
- Stadtwerkstatt Partner — Co-founded the Mycelium Network Society in 2017 at Linz, Austria.
- indigenous land Government — Acknowledges that CycleX is located on indigenous land as part of its landshare initiative.
- rhizome.org Partner — Collaborated on the GEEKCAMP 2021 project and later included GARLIC=RICHAIR in the Net Art Anthology.
strategies · 7
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- Bio-Electronic Agriculture as Bio-Media Integrationmethodology: bio-electronic agricultureBy merging electronic sensing and data processing with agricultural systems, we investigate bio-media and biological-digital feedback loops, because linking algorithms to living growth processes enables new forms of environmental monitoring and artistic-scientific inquiry.
- Community Land Trust for Collective Actionmethodology: community-land-trustBy providing access to land as a shared resource, we enable community-driven initiatives and collective action, because secure and communal land tenure fosters long-term stewardship and local empowerment.
- Decentralized Mycelium-Inspired Networksmethodology: decentralized network modelBy modeling networks on mycelium’s biological structure, we create decentralized connections across art spaces and labs to enable communication and political organizing, because this biomimetic approach supports resilience, adaptability, and resistance to centralized economic collapse.
- Farm-to-Geeks for Technological Stewardshipmethodology: farm-to-geeksBy providing land access to technologically oriented individuals, we enable integration of computational tools into food cultivation and environmental stewardship, because hands-on engagement with land redefines connectivity and fosters hybrid ecological-digital literacy.
- Geekcamp for Cross-Disciplinary Resilience Buildingmethodology: geekcampBy organizing GEEKCAMP to bring together farmers and technologists in collaborative land management, we dissolve professional silos and strengthen community resilience, because shared experiential learning across domains fosters innovative problem-solving in the face of ecological and economic instability.
- Permaculture-Based Intergenerational Exchangemethodology: permaculture-based educationBy integrating permaculture, biodiversity, and mycology into land education, we promote intergenerational cultural and technological exchange, because these practices bridge traditional ecological knowledge with modern sustainability science.
- Speculative Economic Intervention via Social Currencymethodology: speculative economic interventionBy introducing organic garlic as a fictional social currency (“credito”) in post-crash scenarios, we explore alternative economic systems, because speculative design makes tangible the possibilities for public networking and value exchange beyond traditional monetary frameworks.