BIOELECTRONIX FOR ARTISTS @ Pixelache, Helsinki
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The workshop is lead by Marc R. Dusseiller and Andy Gracie.
It is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society.
Andy Gracie is an artist working between various disciplines including installation, robotics, sound, video and biological practice. The work he produces is situated between the arts and the sciences, creating situations of exchange between natural and artificial systems which allow new emergent behaviours to develop.
Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for Micro- and Nanotechnology and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY-workshops in lo-fi electronics, music and robotics, has made various short movies and is currently developing means to perform biological science (mammalian cell culture, microfluidics, live-microscopy) in a DIY fashion in your kitchen or your atelier.
Instructions
DIY Microscopy
DIY microscopy instructions on dusjagr labs
generally check the DIY_microscopy instruction on this wiki
PS3 Eye hack
Instructions zu Playstation3 PS3 Eye
a movie in preparation on dusjagr's vimeo
pd - microscope
Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.
we developed open source software for microscopy and motion detection:
check some of the code on the Pd_microscope
Bioelectronix Basics
see the technical introduction on Bioelectronix on this wiki
or read Andy's article about the topic
BioElectronix Arduino
Arduino
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Hackteria Arduino-Clone
see hackteria site
Workshop schedule
Day 1
- introduction and overview
- microscopy and scale overview
- webcam hacking and microscope building
Day 2
- urban micro_walk / collection of microorganisms
- set-ups for extraction and isolation of organisms
- improve the microscope / leds, motors and sensors
Day 3
- designing and building bioelectronix devices
- investigation of samples collected
- Bio-Arduino / controlling bioelectronix device
- observation of organisms and bio-hacking
Day 4
- introduction to Pd for microscopy (if necessary)
- bio2sound and sound2bio communication
- finalising microscopes and devices
- brainstorming concepts for installations/performances – optional presentation
Material Planning
Pixelache organizes locally
3 or 4 sodlering irons
helping hands, 3x (if they already have some around)
Dremmel or similar
Small hand saws
Power cables and extensions
Small electric oven
Andy brings
Lab gear:
90mm Petri dish x 20
62mm Petri dish x 20
3ml disposable pipettes x 100
75mm plastic funnel x 10
5ml syringe x 20
10ml syringe x 15
tube clamps x 8
5mm silicone tubing x 3m
Glass microscope slides - 1 box of 50
Electronic gear:
5V relays x 8
L293 h-bridges x 15
Making gear:
cutters
super glue
contact glue
various metal and wooden bar (square, L and round section)
2mm acrylic sheet
4mm plywood sheet
various small nuts, bolts, washers and threaded bar
sand paper
hot glue gun and glue sticks
small pliers (5)
Living organisms:
Tardigrades
Blepharisma
Drosophila
Some other...
Marc brings
Lab Gear:
1ml syringe 20x
silicone tubing inner diameter 0.8 mm, 20 m
coverslips
Chemicals:
PDMS, 2 half empty bottles
fluorescein powder
Agar
Yeast extract
Electronix:
assorted box of resistors, 1x
assorted box of capacitors, 1x
assorted box of potentiometers, 1x (need to get more)
LED white, 50x, and some randon assorted LEDs
Temperature Sensor, TMP36, 10x
Photoresistors, 20x
prototyping boards, 5x
proto pcbs, 5x
wire, colored, lots of it
flatband, rainbow, 5m
solder, 20m, 1x
random box of motors, speakers, lasers and other stuff
BioArduino kits, 10x (to be sold individually)
WEBCAMS??
Electronix Tools:
Gas Solder Iron, 5x (get the gas in finnland)
NOPE : electric solder iron, 2x
3rd helping hands, 4x
europe to swiss power mulitsupply, 1x
wire strippers, 3x
Making gear:
MAYBE: cordless dremel, 1x
Hot glue gun, 2x (incl ammunition)
NOPE: Polymorph, 500g
Living organisms:
Slime mold
Nematodes
myself, 1x, and the stuff on my shoes and skin, 350'243'554'300 approx
misc:
NOPE: cheap torches, 3x
NOPE: pins, 50x
NOPE: stickers, 100x