Oct 19 2025 to Oct 19 2025 5 p.m.

Where

Cubbon Park

Kasturba Road, Behind High Court of Karnataka Ambedkar Veedhi, Sampangi Rama Nagara 560001

Event Description

Network Walk is a gentle exploration of Bengaluru’s hidden infrastructures, where telegraph buildings, internet cables, trees, fungi, and lichens appear as interconnected webs. Beginning at the Central Telegraph Office and moving into Cubbon Park, the walk invites participants to trace signals, measure hotspots, and notice the quiet work of mycelium. Guided by fungi culturist Biplab Mahato and curated by media artist from Germany Iz Paehr, the walk offers glimpses into histories and encounters with ecologies. Join in to touch networks that carry stories and to sing with lichens.
 
Place: Cubbon Park
Schedule:
12.10.2025 -  3 pm to 5 pm
19.10.2025 - 3 pm to 5 pm
Limited spaces, Register here.

Biplab Mahato is an interdisciplinary explorer of ecology who works with fungi — from cultivation to creating food, art, and immersive experiences — while documenting their ecological stories. As the founder of Shroomin’, he builds communities around learning from fungal networks and their connections to human systems. Based in Bengaluru, Biplab blends ecology, art, and digital culture to reveal hidden connections between fungi, trees, and communication infrastructures, encouraging people to sense the invisible threads that weave together urban and natural systems.

Iz Paehr works as an artist-designer touching access, criptastic hacking and trans*feminist world building. Their experiences as a disabled person inform their work and drive their desire for furthering Disability Justice through critical technological practice. Currently, they are designing haptic virtual interfaces. Paehr lives and works in Berlin. Iz can be found online via izpaehr.xyz

Iz Paehr was a bangaloREsident @ The Archives at NCBS in 2024.