Japan Tour

=Haku-teria-o | ハクテリア=

Lifepatch Tour with special guest, dusjagr - Hackteria


It's happening, dusjagr join Lifepatch for a series of workshop "Rumah dan Halaman" during feb 2017, mostly hosted at ICC, co-organized through Japan Foundation, and visits to YCAM, BioClub, Fab Cafe and Loftwork.

Hackteria Japan Tour
What is going on in open source bioart / DIYbio / generic lab equipment in Japan?



More than One Individual
KANTO
 * BioClub 2F of / FabCafe Shibuya 'Open Bio Lab', Lab will officially open end of August 2016. Good for workshops, lectures, demos.
 * Tamabi Art University. Akihiro Kubota. Next to metaPhorest one the oldest bio hacker spaces in Japan. Recently upgraded.
 * 'metaPhorest' Art & Biology group in Iwasaki Lab, Waseda University (Tokyo, Tokyo Pref.) - "is a practical platform for artistic researches on biological/biomedia art and bioaesthetics, located within a biological laboratory at Center for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Waseda University. We provide relatively long-term (more than several months) artist-in-residence program for those who are interested in biology-inspired/aided/criticizing artistic activity, sharing biological facility, discussion, seminars with life scientists." Irregular'metaPhorest seminars.
 * Fablab Kamakura (Kamakura, Kanagawa Pref.) Connected to SFC Keio and 'Super-FabLab Kamakura'. People: Yumi Nishihara, Mio Kato
 * Hacker Farm - Akiba (Kamogawa, Chiba Pref.)
 * Leave a Nest - "science venture company" (Tokyo, Tokyo Pref.) - through Denisa
 * Empowerment Informatics program (Tsukuba, Ibaraki Pref.)
 * Digital Garage Lab VC & Tech company, recently with a focus on bio. People: Halfdan Rump

CHUBU
 * Hamamatsu FabLab (is this the same?) Bio Space - Open Source Aigamo Project, Masato Takemura - participated in HGTAA 2015, became organizer for 2016

CHUGOKU
 * YCAM Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media - participated in HGTAA 2015. People. Ito, Tsuda. Good for workshops, longer stay, maybe mini-residency.

Online

 * DIY/Hacking to the Biology! Facebook group - Want to share information on how to set up DIYbio spaces (DIYバイオスペースを作る為の情報共有を行いたい)
 * http://bioart.jp/

Individuals

 * Hideo Iwasaki (Tokyo, metaPhorest)
 * Shiho Fukuhara (Tokyo, metaPhorest, BCL, BioClub)
 * Georg Tremmel (Tokyo, metaPhorest, BCL, BioClub)
 * Chiaki Ishizuka http://nin0jin.tumblr.com/ (Kyoto)
 * Ai Hasegawa http://aihasegawa.info (Currently in Boston 2016)
 * Sputniko http://sputniko.com/ (at MIT Medialab, Boston)
 * Hanna Saito (Tokyo, metaPhorest)
 * Tomoya Ishibashi (Tokyo, metaPhorest)
 * Yuki Yoshioka (Tokyo, metaPhorest)
 * Hiroo Komine (ayurveda biohacker)
 * Aisen Caro Chacin, Tsukuba University
 * Nur Akbar Arofatullah from Lifepatch, (Ibaraki Pref.)
 * Takeshi Oozu
 * Maša Jazbec
 * Naomi Kuramoto
 * Shingo Hisakawa, NinjaPCR, https://github.com/hisashin/
 * shigeru kobayashi
 * Take - Masato Takemura http://www.take-space.com/

Drinking

 * Science Bar Incubator review (in Japanese:http://biohacker.jp/c/BH98.html) (Tokyo, 7 Arakicho, Shinjuku)

Possible Dates
2016???

August - October

Possible Programme
metaPhorest Seminar & Lecture YCAM Workshop(s)* BioClub Workshop(s)* Tamabi Lecture

(*) == paid

Travel Grants and other Funding
started to work on a piratepad

http://grant-fellowship-db.jfac.jp/en/cultural-collaboration/