2019 Spring Lecture and Workshop series at Bio Builder Lab of FABO , College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University have been held recently. The second open night of biology will be held on Thursday, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. , April 11th, 2019 at the Angry Bird Plaza, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. This time the topic focuses on The Art and Design of Sustainable Science (Hypothesis and Experiment Talk Series) and How to Become a Vegetable.
Our human history is a history of niches of technologies that abstract from and interact with the vegetative world surrounding us. In an age where sustainable questions have grown into pressing public issues, how we engage with our floral cousins becomes tantamount. As part of the Art of Sustainable Science, Erik Zepka will introduce the mutualistic relationship between humans and plants and how technology can be involved. Subsequently we will be joined by Spela Petric, a Slovenian artist specializing in the social and scientific problems around plants and ourselves, who will present a series of her works instantiated from Ars Electronica to the Waag Society. Get introduced to the techniques of Plant Science and learn about how art science projects can envision that – sustainability depends on how much you’re willing to become a vegetable.
Špela Petrič
Špela Petrič is a Slovenian new media artist and scientific researcher based in Amsterdam, NL. She received a PhD in Biomedicine at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and an Advanced Master in Arts from LUCA, Brussels, Belgium. She is a member of Hackteria and winner of the Bio Art & Design award. Her work has been shown at many exhibitions around the world Kapelica Gallery (SI), Touch Me Festival (HR), Pixxelpoint (IT), European Conference on Artificial Life (IT), Playaround (TW), Harvard (US), Ars Electronica (AT), National Center for Biological Sciences (IN), HAIP (SI), Arscope (DE), Mutamorphosis (CZ) and Galleries de la Reine (BE)
2019 Spring Lecture and Workshop series at Bio Builder Lab of FABO , College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University have been held recently. The second open night of biology will be held on Monday, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. , March 18th, 2019 at the Angry Bird Plaza, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. This time the topic focuses on The Art and Design of Sustainable Science (Hypothesis and Experiment Talk Series) and bioinformatics and how to design a new family.
Biology is becoming increasingly digitized. This is not just about how we are represented, but how the future of life is made and evolved. The next lecture workshop in Erik Zepka’s series The Art of Sustainable Science, will approach just this topic. As part of FablabO & Biobuildlab’s Open Nights, we will be joined by two international artists: Julian Stadon, an Australian-British researcher who explores augmentation aesthetics as a way of creating biodigitally convergent systems and Roland van Dierendonck, a Dutch open scientist and artist-innovator working on projects between DNA data storage, algorithmic lab semiotics and biotic games. Explore how software is an integral tool in today’s biological research, and discuss Dierendonck and Stadon’s hybrid projects that probe the permutations biology will take in a world bound for technological growth. The biodigital future is here – it’s up to you whether you want to take an active part.
Julian Stadon is an Australian artist/designer/curator/researcher/educator. He is also the director of marart.org. Previously, he was Programme Leader of Digital Media Design at The University of Hertfordshire, Subject Leader in Innovative Media at London College of Fashion and Senior Lecture of Interface and Interaction Design at FH Salzburg. He is currently a Steering Committee member for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Previously, Stadon founded and directed Dorkbot Perth. Originally studying Marine Biology, then Fine Arts and a Master of Electronic Art, Stadon’s current PhD research focuses on how art can better our understandings of identity, augmentation aesthetics, the relationship between bodies, embodied data and data bodies in the Anthropocene.
Julian Stadon是一名澳大利亚艺术家/设计师/策展人/研究员/教育家。同时他还是混合与增强现实研究机构（marart.org）的主管。他曾担任英国赫特福德大学（The University of Hertfordshire）数字媒体艺术设计专业（Digital Media Design）的课程负责人、伦敦时尚学院（London College of Fashion）创新媒体专业（Innovative Media）的学科带头人以及奥地利萨尔茨堡高等专业学院（FH Salzburg）界面与交互设计专业（Interface and Interaction Design）的高级讲师。现在他已是国际混合和增强现实研讨会（International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality）指导委员会的成员之一。Stadon还曾创立并管理Dorkbot Perth工作室。Stadon最初研究的是海洋生物学，后来研究美术并成为了电子艺术专家，目前博士在读，重点研究方向：艺术是如何让我们更好地理解人类起源时期的身份认同、增强美学、以及物体本身、呈现出来的数据和数据本体之间的关系。
Roland van Dierendonck
Roland van Dierendonck is a Dutch artist/ designer/ biologist/ technologist/ researcher/ illustrator/ educator. He is currently Lead of the Biohack Academy at Waag’s Open Wetlab. Previously he helped set up the Biolab at the University of the Arts Utrecht. Originally studying Beta-gamma (interdisciplinary sciences) with Biology and then Media Technology in Amsterdam and Leiden. Throughout personal projects and various collaborations, Roland’s research focused on drawing robots (Emerging Traces), para-fiction of authenticity (Paling Funk), human-biotic interaction (biotic games), bringing together algae and human cells (Strange Encounters), DNA data storage and genetic editing (Return to Dilmun), human and algorithmic meaning making in a biolab (Semiotics of the Lab), and food as a medium for communicating interdependencies in nature (Ecosystematic Lunch). He published about the weight of the dodo bird, and lately on Mould Rush, together with Raphael Kim.
Roland van Dierendonck是一名荷兰艺术家/设计师/生物学家/技术专家/研究员/插图画家/教育家。他目前担任荷兰开放设计组织Waag协会开放湿实验室（open wetlab)中生物黑客学院（Biohack Academy）的主管。他曾参与创立了荷兰乌得勒支艺术大学（University of the Arts Utrecht）生物实验室。Roland最初研究的是生物学的交叉学科（β-γ）， 后来在阿姆斯特丹大学和莱登大学学习媒体技术。在Roland所有的个人项目与合作项目中，他的重点研究领域始终是绘画机器人（Emerging Traces）、真实性超小说（Paling Funk）、人类-生物互动（生物游戏）、海藻与人类细胞的结合（Strange Encounters）、DNA数据存储和基因编辑（Return to Dilmun）、生物试验室的人类和算法意义建构（Semiotics of the Lab）以及食物是自然界传达相互依赖关系的媒介（Ecosystematic Lunch）。他曾发表过有关渡渡鸟重量（dodo bird）的文章，不久前还有Raphael Kim共同发表了有关Mould Rush的文章。
2019 Spring Lecture and Workshop series at Bio Builder Lab of FABO , College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University have been held recently. The first open night of biology will be held on Monday, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. , March 18th, 2019 at the Angry Bird Plaza, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. This time the topic focuses on The Art and Design of Sustainable Science (Hypothesis and Experiment Talk Series) and Open Medical Methodologies. The above content is the advance notice of our open night, please look forward to more information later.
Industry and commerce propel us from a scientific worldview to one of technical modules and formal applications. The state of our knowledge over time has slowly receded into this immediate space of creation without empirical content. Citizen science and medicine work to restore this: an ecological foundation in both the before and after of invention become intrinsic to a more robust view of knowing. Join Tongji Design and Innovation and FablabO’s Biobuildlab for Erik Zepka’s series on the future of sustainable scientific approaches and their global reach. Michelle Lewis-King will be presenting on her practice engaging as an artist-scientist with interdisciplinary medical methodologies, from China’s traditional medicine to contemporary techniques. Participate in the movement taking accessible and practical ideas and joining them with global scientific needs.
7:40-9:00pm: Demo Workshop: Creating a Topical Medicine
晚上7:40至9点：示范工作坊：创造一种外用药
Michelle Lewis-King is a creative researcher investigating the cultural interfaces between art, medicine and technology. She holds a PhD in Art, Science and Technology from Cambridge School of Art/Anglia Ruskin University and an MA in Sculpture from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Her creative practice reflects her diverse training in fields from art, performance, and traditional Chinese medicine to sound coding, clinical practice and institutional biology. She has exhibited internationally, including shows for Digital Futures at the V&A Museum in London UK, “Experimental Notations” at The Royal Nonesuch Gallery in Oakland CA, “Artist’s Games” at Spike Island Ireland, and “Rencontres Internationales” at various locations in Paris, Madrid and Berlin. She is the recipient of the research fellowship in Digital Performance by the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.
Erik Zepka is a scientist and artist interested opening the paradigm of empirical research. Through education, publication and exhibition he explores methods by which our knowledge can be made more robust and experimental. As a scientist his research ranges from Immunology and Pathology to Environmental Health and Chemistry. He helped found both XOX Labs and the Open Science Network. As a writer he appears in Furtherfield, VIVO Press, Publication Studio and Free Dogma Press while as an educator he has taught at global universities like University of British Columbia, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Arts London. His global universities has been exhibited around the world, from Nabi Museum (Seoul, Korea), Humlab (Umea, Sweden), and the Tate Modern (London, UK), to CultureHub (New York City, USA) and the IT Inkubator (Regensburg, Germany).
Erik Zepka 是一位主张扩大经验研究范例的科学家和艺术家。Eric通过教育，出版和展览的模式探讨了可以使我们获得经过验证知识的方法。作为一名科学家，他的研究领域贯穿免疫学、病理学以及环境健康学、化学等等。他协助创建了XOX实验室和开放科学网络。作为一名作家，他出现在多个出版物上，包括 Furtherfield、VIVO Press、Publication Studio和Free Dogma Press的多家出版社，而作为一名教育家，他任教于英属哥伦比亚大学、新泽西理工学院和伦敦艺术大学等全球各地的大学。他的作品也在世界各地展出，包括韩国首尔的那比艺术中心，瑞典于默奥的Humlab艺术学院，英国伦敦的和泰特现代美术馆，美国纽约的CultureHub艺术机构和德国雷根斯堡的IT Inkubator。
上面是我们生物主题开放夜第一场的预告，接下来还有更多内容值得你期待哦！！
The above content is the advance notice of our open night, please look forward to more information later.
The Art and Design of Sustainable Science Event Series 可持续科学活动系列相关的艺术与设计
TCM and Open Medicine (Michelle/Extraction) 中药和开放药物（Michelle/提取方面）
Spela Petric Julian Stadon Gunther Seyfried Marta de Menezes Roland Dierendock Georg Tremmel Marta de Menezes Yasmin Jaidin Henry Tan Adeline Seah (Karolyn, Nay, Bhavna, Promon…)
Biobuildlab @ Tongji FablabO Space 生物“智造”工坊@同济大学Fablab O中国“数制”工坊
This space is a basic open laboratory space, that combines common biosafety 1 methods with the advantage of being connected with a fully-equipped Fablab. This is a flexible space that can be reconfigured according to needs and is best suited for simple DIY projects.
Similar to a kitchen, it has basic temperature control (Fridge, Freezer, Heating Elements) and a variety of storage and measurement means and consumables for experimentation.
BioBuilder Lab @ ShanghaiTech University 上海科技大学开放生物智造实验室
This space will be equipped with all the basics that a university laboratory has, with a focus on bioengineering and creation. Fields like genetics and biochemistry are the focus to create a space where students can learn college level molecular biology and combine it with collaboration and invention.
A professional level lab means being able to work on a microscopic scale, with precise controls on sterility, measurement and temperature.
专业水平的实验室意味着能够在显微镜下工作，能控制温度，在无菌环境下精确测量。
Some of the things you can do in the space:
Genetic engineering of Plants, Yeast, Bacteria and Other Organisms Identification, Concentration and Extraction of Molecules of Interest Invention and Generation of Laboratory Strains Professional Level Citizen Science: Environmental, Health and Food Testing with possibility for Publication-worthy results
