11,520 wells. Four living fungi. You get 46. Anyone can steal them — and you can steal them back. The final image only appears when the fungi grow, and every player is credited as co-author.
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Claim your wells
Pick up to 46 wells on the plate and a fungus for each one.
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Name your team
Every player joins a team. More friends, more wells, more territory.
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Steal and defend
Any well can be stolen until inoculation day. Come back every 10 minutes to defend yours.
When reservations close on 7 November at 23:59 (Lisbon), the team with the most wells on the board wins.
From inoculation day we photograph the plate every day until 30 November — or until the fungi destroy it, whichever comes first. The winners choose which day becomes the final artwork: a fine art print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper at the piece’s real size, 120 × 105 cm, signed by Tomás João and by every participant. Only three copies will be printed: one for the winners, one for the artist’s archive and one to be auctioned.
These three prints are the only physical form 10 000 Well Plate will ever take. Never reprinted.
Illustration — the real photos start on 9 November.
The count is live on the leaderboard. Claim, defend and steal wells to climb it.
Same plate, same angle, every day — as the colonies grow, merge and break out of their wells.
The winning team chooses the day. Printed at real size (120 × 105 cm) on Hahnemühle Photo Rag and signed by everyone who played: one copy for you, one for the artist’s archive, one for auction. Never repeated.
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