The Art of BioHacking or How to make Cheese and Wine, HEAD, Geneva



18 - 22. February, 2013 -  Dataclub / Option Interaction / HEAD / Geneva

Mentor
Dr. Marc Dusseiller

Interests: Daphnia-Hacking, Euglena burgers, BioElectronics, low-cost diagnostics, building DIWO community bio-labs

Short Bio: Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY (do-it-yourself) workshops in lo-fi electronics, hardware hacking, microscopy, music and robotics. He was co-organizing Dock18, Room for Mediacultures, diy* festival (Zürich, Switzerland), KIBLIX 2011 (Maribor, Slovenia), workshops for artists, schools and children as the former president (2008-12) of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK. Currently, he is developing means to perform bio- and nanotechnology research and dissemination, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art, in a DIY fashion in kitchens, ateliers and in developing countries.

Location
Dataclub / Option Interaction HEAD, Geneva général-dufour 2

Schedule
Working times: 9h30-12h30 /  14h-17h

Day 0 - Monday

 * individual preparations


 * browse through the hackteria website and the hackteria wiki, get inspired, confused, enlightened, curious.

Preparatory compulsary readings:


 * "THE ART OF FREE AND OPEN SCIENCE", MCD#68 THE OPEN FUTURE see more info here and available for download in English and French


 * Synthetic Ecology: Frequntly used terms, a comic book by the (Art)Science BLR team for IGEM 2010.


 * New Art/Science Affinities free for download. Please read through it briefly and select one article/project that inspires you and present it during the introduction round with a few sentences, what it is and why it inspired you.

Day 1 - Tuesday
Morning


 * Introduction, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art
 * personal introduction, Dr. Marc Dusseiller
 * short group introductions

Afternoon

Setting up the lab


 * un-boxing workshop | A BioHacker's Lab-in-a-Box

Guest Skype Lecture: Dr. Špela Petrič (SI), on "Genes, DNA, SNP mutations and the future of the human species"

Day 2 - Wednesday
Morning


 * DNA extraction experiments
 * Shopping aux marché aux puces
 * Shopping food and other stuff

Afternoon


 * finish setting up the DIWO BioHackArt lab

Cooking things


 * Agar is the Media!
 * let's start cooking...

Day 3 - Thursday
Morning

Seeing things


 * let's build a few DIY microscopes
 * Macro photography

Afternoon

Growing things


 * BioPrinting
 * Making Wine

16h: group discussions: sections from New Art/Science Affinities

17h: Guest Lecture: Dr. Sachiko Hirosue (CH/JP) and biodesign.cc, on "Art/Science collaborations, BioArt, BioEthics and BioDesign for the real world"

Day 4 - Friday
Morning

The Art of Documentation


 * BioPrinting
 * Making Wine
 * DIWO BioArtHack lab

Afternoon


 * Documenting process based work.
 * Media: Video, Photo, Drawings & Sketches, Instructions, Comics,

Killing things

tba: Guest Skype Lecture: Andy Gracie (UK/ES), short CV on Hackteria, more info soon...


 * Wrap up and discussions

Further Links and Readings
put stuff here

Minhee

 * network culture
 * communication
 * page 61

Vincent

 * Light & Sound -> Installation
 * Data
 * page 11
 * page 136

Sharon

 * cubes
 * video, 3D
 * page 89
 * page 99
 * lol

Alan

 * IT
 * Installations, digital arts & sculpture
 * amateur science
 * optical physical phenomena
 * teaching

Hervé

 * art before computers
 * virtual painter
 * teaching

Dimitri

 * electronics / programming
 * machine drawing (+)
 * 3D printing
 * pages 24 - 26 (Marius Watz)

The Art of Documentation
Strawberry DNA exctraction recipe ♥ :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpu4iN5Bh4

Home Experiment: banana DNA extraction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzERP3KGZ0

Art Science Bangalore

http://vimeo.com/41412416

Fruit Fermentation Video Tutorial, IB:SC

http://vimeo.com/13800199

Kapitän Biopunk - Intelligent Bacteria ; Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

http://vimeo.com/25495671

KAPITÄN BIOPUNK: FERMENTATION MADNESS at EDIBLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0m6RDDYiR0

MOIST SENSE | Installation - Mix Media | LIFEPATCH.ORG 2012

http://vimeo.com/56733904

Commons
HEAD BioHacking Commons