HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta

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Overview

HackteriaLab 2014 is scheduled to be held in April 2014, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A number of smaller events, workshops, residencies and exhibitions will prequel the main collaborative lab-phase. It is the fourth edition of an intensive two-week transdisciplinary collaboration amongst international and local artists, hackers, activists, scientists, and designers. HackteriaLab 2014 expands on ideas and methodologies about BioArt, DIY biology, Appropriate Technology, ArtScience and BioHacking, developed during the previous versions of HackteriaLab 2011 - Romainmotier and HackteriaLab 2010 - Dock18/Zürich in Switzerland and HackteriaLab_2013_-_Bangalore in India.

Within the framework of "Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art", the HackteriaLab immersive format plays a key role in experimentation and the development of new models for knowledge sharing and collaboration building, in the emergent artistic practices related to bio- and nanotechnology and science in general.

HackteriaLab, our version of a production workshop, is a form of cultural intervention, contributing to the development of our contemporary culture and art milieu. It creates a melting pot of the practices of art and science, of culture and environment. It aims to broaden the intercultural knowledge exchange and realizes this know-how through workshops, participatory prototype exhibitions and online wiki-like documentations.

Format and Schedule

  • HackteriaLab Pre-Phase and Exhibition: 10 March - 6 April. BioArt / Citizen Science Workshop tour around Java and Sumatra promoting HLab and recruiting regional Participants; Exhibition in Yogyakarta on BioArt / Citizen Science.
  • HackteriaLab Main-Phase: 14 - 25 April. 2 weeks production/research in Yogyakarta with 30 local and international participants.
  • HackteriaLab Post-Phase and Exhibition: 23 - 30 April. Exhibition in Yogyakarta for sharing the output to the larger local audience; making of the co-documentation and reflection.
  • HackteriaLab Dissemination Phase: June - Dec 2014. Various international workshops and presentations at festicals accross SE-Asia and Europe.

International Collaborations meet Regional Networks

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HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta

HackteriaLab 2014 - Pre-Phase, Connecting to local communities - Feb - April 2014

  • Exhibition
  • Workshops
  • Field-trips

HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta - 14. - 25. April 2014

Ecological Nodes of Artistic and Citizen Science Research during the HackteriaLab

Different ecologies in and around Yogyakarta - Volcano, Rivers, Forests

Citizen science has long contributed to the health of local communities by making people aware of their environment in the form of oral histories and traditional wisdom. Recently, international open source and maker movements have been actively engaging with the life sciences to focus on the environment. This brought a revival of the traditional knowledge as well as an opportunity for innovation and a model for public participation in science. These activities are becoming influential policy forces, changing how we produce and share knowledge, as an iterative and collective process. Yogyakarta, Indonesia is one of the most active hubs in this movement. The proposed project highlights the interests of the hackteria network to develop policies based on awareness-raising. We believe that awareness is essential for consensus building.

Bioremediation of Volcanic Soil

The project will be based on Lifepatch's ongoing study of agricultural microbiology for soil bio-remediation of soil altered by volcanic eruptions. Based on this field research, novel policy suggestions will be made on how workshops can raise community awareness, and applied to other ecology management issues.

Environmental Monitoring of the Rivers in Yogya

There are three main rivers which pass through the urban areas of Yogyakarta, Code River, Winanga River, and Gajahwng River. Lifepatch in collaboration with many communities have conducted a project called Jogja River Project (JRP) on these rivers since 2011. This project is also part of the Biodesign collaboration with EPFL and will be disseminated in June '14 in Lausanne.

Biodiversity conservation in Wonosadi Forest

Wonosadi is one of the last natural forests in Java. This forest is protected by the local villagers in close collaboration with Green Tech Community. The node aims to document the diversity in the forest, along with narratives and knowledge from the local villagers.

Practices during the HackteriaLab

Lab-on-a-Bike: Various collaborations with hackteria.org have been implemented since 2009

BioArt Practices for Participatory Intervention

How can an artistic practice support social innovation and cultural shifts? Various participants will explore methods and formats to include the public in participatory actions, invite the public for discourse during lectures and symposia and present their work throughout the HLab phases. A symposia will be chaired by two artists, Robertina Sebjanič and Špela Petrič together with the local curator, tba.

Open Source Hardware

Invited Researcher-in-Residence Gabriella Levine will lead various projects on OSH for environmental sensing, water monitoring and co-organize local workshops pre and during the HLab14.

DIY & Low-Cost Laboratory Infrastructure

How can we set-up a simple DIY laboratory in a low-resource setting or even in the forest without electricity? Which tools and infrastructure we have to make ourselves, how hack custom household devices to use as laboratory equipment, design simple electronics for control and monitoring of biolab protocolls? The Researcher-in-Residence, Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr, together with various participants will look into these topics in the preparation phase and go out into the wild for field-testing during the main HLab14.

Field-Trips

Mobile Labs

Workshopology

HackteriaLab 2014 Participants

Dear Participants, please write a few words abouts yourself to introduce you to all the other participants, add some links and add some "Interests" specific to your participation at HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta

HackteriaLab 2014 - Info-kit for participants

coming soon...

HackteriaLab 2014 - Commons

Background

Background of Collaboration

Since our participation at Cellsbutton#03 in 2009, we have very actively collaborated with various initiatives in and around Yogyakarta. We also worked together on projects and workshops about microscopy, fermentation and other playful biological experimentations across the globe and had active participants from the lifepatch community joining both HackteriaLab 2011 - Romainmotier and HackteriaLab_2013_-_Bangalore. Our collaborations are described on the hackteria website and the lifepatch wiki.

As partners in the Hackteria network, Lifepatch has been a most active node and contributor in citizen-science and artistic works at the art/sci interface, especially with their award-winning microbial fermentation project applied to agriculture and wine-making in Yogyakarta. As a platform for knowledge sharing and artistic exploration, Hackteria constitutes a network of artists and researchers that merge the use of life sciences with artistic interpretations, hacking and do-it-yourself strategies. Since 2010 the network met regularly and gathered in Switzerland in 2010 & 2011, where the Asia-European collaborations have intensified, including co-organization and active participation at HackteriaLab 2013 - Bangalore (IN). Workshops within this network have been held in more than 20 countries since 2009.

Earlier HackteriaLabs

Decriptions about earlier HackteriaLabs can be found on the hackteria website

presentation slide by dusjagr

Short Video by Togar

Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta (English: /ˌjɒɡjəˈkɑrtə/ or /ˌjoʊɡjəˈkɑrtə/, Malay: [jɔɡjaˈkarta]; also Jogja, Jogjakarta) is a city and the capital of Yogyakarta Special Region in Java, Indonesia. It is renowned as a centre of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. Yogyakarta was the Indonesian capital during the Indonesian National Revolution from 1945 to 1949. One of the districts in Yogyakarta, Kotagede, was the capital of Mataram Sultanate between 1575 and 1640. The city is named after the Indian city of Ayodhya from the Ramayana epic. Yogya means 'suitable, fit, proper', and karta, 'prosperous, flourishing' (i.e., 'a city that is fit to prosper'). - taken from [Wikipedia]

As a central city of education in Indonesia, Yogyakarta is a destination for students from every location in Indonesia to pursue higher education. Yogyakarta offers high quality of education and affordable daily living cost. These condition made Yogyakarta suitable for wide range creative communities activities.

Dissemination Phase: Trans-Equatorial Workshops - June - Dec 2014

During the second phase, June – December 2014, together with our large network of partners we are planning a series of smaller events across Asia, Australia and Europe, in their own environments (workshops, lectures and symposia), to share the experiences and practices from the HackeriaLab.

Workshops in various places in Asia

hackteria open-bio node at playaround.cc, Taiwan

Art – Science – Nature, MzA, Schaffhausen, June 2014

The Art – Science Soirée will be an evening of presentations and a panel discussions with our invited international and Swiss guests. This will be a great opportunity to present and disseminate the collaborative project we are organizing in Indonesia in April 2014, the HackteriaLab 2014 – Yogyakarta. Additionally we invited the Finnish Bioart Society to present their transdisciplinary activities during their artistic research residency in Kilpisjärvi, Lappland, Field_Notes – From Landscape to the Laboratory. Our partners from lifepatch - citizen initiative in art, science and technology will show their participatory art-science activities on ecologies such as the Merapi Volcano and the Yogya Rivers. For the discussion we have invited the Swiss art historian Boris Magrini to moderate the evening.

Post-tropical Sub-Arctic Hackteria Residency in Kilpisjärvi, Finland, August 2014

A reflection residency is co-organized with the Finnish Bioart Society, to continue some of the projects in the new ecological environment of northern Lappland, in Kilpisjärvi, a post-tropical sub-arctic experiment. Additionally we are aiming to provide travel opportunities to allow individual HackteriaLab participants to visit these other initiatives across the globe and further develop their projects in the new cultural and environmental milieus.

http://bioartsociety.fi/

Farm/Goat/City Hackathon, Kathmandu, Nepal

Workshops and Presentations in various places across Europe

Participation in WSK festival, Philippines

Organizers

Host

HackteriaLab 2014 - Yogyakarta is hosted by lifepatch.org.

LIFEPATCH - citizen initiative in art, science and technology

lifepatch house in Bugisan area

lifepatch – citizen initiative in art, science and technology: is an independent community-base organization working in creative and appropriate application in the fields of art, science and technology. It’s an organization run by multi-disciplinary people that reflects the active local creative community and the confluence of academic institutions of higher education in Yogyakarta in Central Java. In its’ activities, lifepatch focused on educative and artistic approaches for the communities by developing appropriate creative and innovative technologies such as biotechnology, digital technology with the spirit of DIY and DIWO culture. lifepatch mission is to aid the development of local human and natural resources by building bridges of domestic and international collaboration platform which give open access for anyone to the sources of the research and development.

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International

Hackteria

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Hackteria is a collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February 2009 by Andy Gracie, Marc Dusseiller and Yashas Shetty, after collaboration during the Interactivos?09 Garage Science at Medialab Prado in Madrid. The aim of the project is to develop a rich web resource for people interested in or developing projects that involve DIY bioart, open source software and electronic experimentation. As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their expertise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, festival and meetings.Since 2009, Hackteria has conducted workshops in Europe (Switzerland, Slovenia, Norway, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, United Kingdom, Germany) , Asia (India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong), Africa (Kenya) and North America (US, Canada).

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International Partners

BIO-DESIGN for the REAL WORLD (Switzerland, India, Indonesia)

BIODESIGN for the REAL WORLD is an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project to define, build, and field-test prototypes that require the integration of wetware, hardware, and software to address real world water problems. In this phase of the project, we aim to build an open-source field-robust bio/chemical/electronic sensor elements and crowd sourced mapping of results that can be replicated in any country with online access and an interested community. We believe that behind any solution, there is a community: to define the problem of interest, make design decisions, to communicate the concerns, and to implement the solutions. This project was launched in 2012 as a partnership between (Art)ScienceBLR with design students from the Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, (Bangalore, India) the Lifepatch citizen initiative in art, science and technology (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), and students at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).

http://biodesign.cc

http://wiki.epfl.ch/biodesign-realworld

The Society of Bioart (FI)

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The Finnish Society of Bioart, established May 2008 in Kilpisjärvi and based in Helsinki, is an association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and science, especially natural and life sciences, with biology and ecology at its centre. The Society is the Finnish contact node in international networks of bioart and art&science. It has currently 62 members, representing a multitude of fields within art, scientific research and other expertise. Its activities encompass the development and production of lectures, workshops, conferences, exhibitions, and collaborations with scientists and institutions. The Society runs the Ars Bioarctica project including an artist in residency programme at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station and fosters public discussions about biosciences, biotechnologies and bioethics. ARS BIOARCTICA. Ars Bioarctica is a long-term art&science project by the Finnish Society of Bioart together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station / Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki and was initiated in autumn 2008. The focus of Ars Bioarctica is on the Arctic -nature, -biology and -ecology, with a special interest in the biology of water, snow and ice, environmental and climate change and the relations between nature and culture, perceived through the lens and methods of art- and science-practices.

http://bioartsociety.fi/

Karkhana, Kathmandu, (Nepal)

Karhana is a social enterprise, based in Kathmandu, that is focused on catalysing an innovation ecosystem in Nepal. Toward that end we run a for-profit education company and are building a not-for-profit makerspace. The for-profit company works directly in the classroom running co-curricular activities that reinforce the national curriculum through hands-on projects. Our emphasis is on teaching grades 6 - 12, using an interdisciplinary approach that combines the STEAM subjects. Karkhana’s intervention in the school level originates from our observation that a rote learning, exam oriented education system is incapable of generating the base of tinkers, innovators and disruptive thinkers necessary for social progress. Karhana also has a strong focus on building connections and developing a creative community. The diversity of our relationships are apparent in a brief overview of what our makerspace has done over the last year. We have collaborated with a local community arts center to integrate robots into a storytelling workshop for kids. We have worked to document traditional brewing methods of the Kathmandu Valley. At the same time, we ran the second iteration of our annual robotics competition. Our big-tent approach is breaking down the silos many of these creative groups operate in and promoting interdisciplinary work. We are looking to the construction of a larger makerspace to give these diverse groups a single address to work in.

http://www.karkhana.asia/

Gabriella Levine (US)

Gabriella Levine is a creative technologist, interactive artist and open-source hardware designer interested in the relationship between technology and ecology. Levine just returned from a radical experiment, circumnavigating the world by boat, as a Fellow of the Unreasonable At Sea accelerator, exposing Protei to 14 different ports worldwide.

http://www.levinegabriella.com/

Art/Science Bangalore (India)

(Art)ScienceBLR's work is at intersection of art-science and pedagogy, creating spaces of dialogue and interaction between artists, designers and scientists. Since 2009, the group has focused on building low-tech laboratories and low cost equipment, making it easier for outsiders to explore the life-sciences. Their work has been awarded prizes and recognition in both the arts and the science contexts. It has been supported by the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore The National Center For Biological Sciences, Bangalore and the TATA group.

http://artscienceblr.org/

Affiliated Partners

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playaround / dimension+ / TW bioart community, Taipei, Taiwan / Hongkong, China

PlayAround is a hybrid format of workshop that intensely parallel and collaborative, of mediating the creative use of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) and DIY practices to an audience of young students and artists of diverse backgrounds. It combines the knowledge creation and open distribution of new media technologies and contemporary art practices in a socially responsible and relevant context.

http://playaround.cc/

UR Institute Zagreb, Croatia

Universal Research Institute - UR Institute for independent interdisciplinary scientific research. It was founded to promote free and independent scientific research and development of innovations. The main areas of research conducted at UR institute are several fields of life sciences such as; all areas of biology & medicine and also research in cutting edge fields of science such as bioelectronics & nanotechnology. It's goal is to provide an environment for citizens to develop their innovation, especially those which can benefit the mankind. UR Institute supports & promotes; DIY culture, freedom of knowledge & learning and culture of science.

http://biotweaking.com/

http://radiona.org/

http://ur-institute.org/

Manila BioPunk Movement & SABAW Media Art Kitchen

SABAW Media Art Kitchen, founded in 2005, is a not-for-profit organization that acts as a curatorial platform specializing in digital art and new media art, particularly those created by artists from the Southeast Asian region. It is the primary proponent behind Fete dela WSK!, a sonic art and electronic art festival that takes place in Metro Manila, Philippines. Its ongoing BedroomLab Lecture Series project functions as a platform for conversations and lectures about contemporary art, emerging technologies, DIYbio, and design. SABAW's headquarters, known by the name "Terminal Garden," is currently based in Metro Manila, Philippines, where it serves as a hackerspace, providing a residency program for visiting artists and researchers.

Fete dela WSK: http://wsknow.com

Bedroomlab: Lecture Series: http://bdrmlab.wordpress.com

Terminal Garden: http://terminalgarden.tumblr.com

BioTehna / Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

BioTehna is an open platform for interdisciplinary and artistic research on life sciences and a series of public workshops, each mentored by expert/s in a specific scientific field. The initiative started as a collaboration of hackteria | Open Source Biological Art and Kapelica Gallery.

http://hackteria.org/?p=2423

Waag Society open wetlab, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Open Wetlab focuses on life sciences and the design and ethics of life. We want to involve the industry, artists and designers, but also the political forces and the public, hands-on in the shaping of biotechnology, as well as in what biotechnology creates. The Open Wetlab aims to offer a platform and discuss other forms of knowledge production in addition to the scientific one. Via a hands-on approach (where the public itself enters in contact and interacts with the technology) the Wetlab wants to give a different interpretation for the debate on usefulness and desirability of Life Sciences in society.

http://waag.org/en/lab/open-wetlab

Various individuals from the DIYbio.EU network

Martin Malthe Borch (BiologiGaragen DK), Brian Degger (UK), Rüdiger Trojok (DE), Pieter van Boheemen(NL)

http://www.diybio.eu/

Collaborating Local Partners

Microbiology Laboratory of Agriculture Faculty UGM

Nur Akbar Arofatullah in Microbiology Lab UGM

A community of scientist led by Irfan D. Prijambada and Donny Widianto, lecturers at Faculty of Agriculture Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta. The community is represented by Nur Akbar Arofatullah, also a member of lifepatch, and also several students, have been working in close collaboration with lifepatch members for several years. Several examples of art and science collaboration projects between them are Bio-ethanol fermentation and Jogja River Project.

Otakatik Creative Workhop

Otakatik Creative Workshop

Otakatik declare themselves as creative community to facilitate and contain their member to learn, express and explore creativity in creating their works. Otakatik engaged in the exploration creations with local materials/ingredients, either waste or non-waste, as well as the development of appropriate technologies with the spirit of Do it Yourself (DIY). Creativity and the desire to seek answers through exploration is the main capital for Otakatik in each development of material processing method or process of work. Otakatik always try to see the limitations that exist as an opportunity to innovate. Otakatik are open to collaborate with anyone from any background. The openess of it, realized from the thoughts, interactions, transfer knowledges in a collaboration which enrich each individual involved.

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Green Tech Community

Greentech study and research community Indonesia

A community of young people from University Pembangunan Nasional Yogyakarta, focusing in environmental activities. Green Tech and lifepatch has been working in close collaboration in Jogja River Project.

Bumi Pemuda Rahayu – BPR

Bumi Pemuda Rahayu is a Space for Sustainability Learning, located in Dlinggo, Imogiri Yogyakarta. It is managed by Rujak Center for Urban Studie (http://rujak.org), a space where ideas, actions, questions, know-how’s, challenges and solutions are shared to transform Jakarta into a sustainable metropolis. Established in 2013, BPR is a space which invites artists, designer and engineer to engage with the local community living remotely on the hills of Dlinggo, Imogiri.

Kedai Kebun Forum

Kedai Kebun Forum is an alternative art space in Yogyakarta, managed independently by artists and consisting of a gallery, performance space, ‘HALTE’ a text learning media in art, bookstore and restaurant. Kedai Kebun Forum is a small community established with the purpose of providing an arena of learning and studying, in the context of developing sensibilities to all phenomena of social transformation through art. All activities of Kedai Kebun Forum are supported by its extraordinary restaurant.

W.A.F.T.

Waft is an institution engaged in the development of interdisciplinary art in Surabaya. It was founded by a group of local practitioners with various backgrounds of event organizing and art movement. Since the establishment, Waft emphasizes on documentation as a basic idea of sharing information within the scope of art. Waft takes role as educative yet innovative media of dynamic art sphere.

Venues

Lifepatch Lab Bugisan

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Adress: Jl. Bugisan Selatan, Gumuk Indah RT 13 RW 36, Yogyakarta (Belakang SMKI) 55182

Temporary Lab for HackteriaLab

Ecological Environments

Wonosadi Forest

lifepatch and Green Tech during Wonosadi Seed Expedition 2012

Wonosadi Forest is one of the last natural forest in Java. This forest is protected by the local villagers in close collaboration with Green Tech Community. Wonosadi Forest is located 1 hour away from Yogyakarta city area.

Rivers of Yogyakarta

Code River Yogyakarta

There are three main rivers which passes through the urban areas of Yogyakarta, Code River, Winanga River, and Gajahwong River. lifepatch collaborating with many communities have conducted a project called Jogja River Project (JRP) on these rivers. These project is also part of Biodesign For The Real World, a collaboration between (Art)Science Bangalore, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and lifepatch.

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Merapi Volcano

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Application Dossiers and Further Documents

During the recent months the team of international organisations has applied to various sources for funding, some of them have been rejected, others accepted and some of them are still in progress. Please find the most recent dossiers and appended documents here for downlaod: