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CHAIN ACADEMIC SEMINAR #49
第49回CHAIN Seminar: Georg Tremmel “Mutations, Media, Milieu, Metaphors and Matter”
オーストリア出身で、現在札幌を拠点に活動するアーティストであるGeorg Tremmelさんは、アーティスト集団BCLの創設者として、iPS細胞から作製した心筋細胞に初音ミクの身体的特徴を記したDNAを組み込む「Ghost in the Cell」を制作するなど、アートと科学が交差する領域で精力的に活動されています。今回のCHAINセミナーでは、アートと生物学、バイオ／メディア／アート、そして、「バイオデザイン」について、また、合成生物学に関するコミュニティ活動とサイエンスコミュニケーションについてご講演いただきます。ご関心のある方は、ぜひご参加ください。
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Mutations, Media, Milieu, Metaphors and Matter
Abstract:
Georg will also talk about his efforts of community engagement and science communication at BioClub Tokyo, metaPhorest and at the MIT Media Lab’s HTGAA (How to Grow Almost Anything) global Syntheic Biology course.
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Georg Tremmel
- University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Waseda University, metaPhorest Bioaesthetics Platform
- BioClub Tokyo
Georg Tremmel is an Austrian artist living and working in Sapporo. He studied Biology, Informatics and Media Art with Peter Weibel and Karel Dudesek in Vienna and continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London with Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Since 2001 he is intertwining biological, cultural, ethical and societal codes, creating objects, installations and situations for contestable discussions. He is the founder of the BCL - an Artistic Research Framework for critically exploring Art & Biotech. BCL’s body of works includes projects like Biopresence, the Common Flowers Series and Ghost in the Cell. Georg has been working as a Project Researcher in the Laboratory for DNA Information Analysis at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Medical Science, specialising in the Information Visualisation of Cancer Genomic Data. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the metaPhorest Art & Science group at Hideo Iwasaki’s Lab at Waseda University and the co-founder and community director of BioClub Tokyo, Japan’s nicest Open Biolab & Biohackerspace. Georg is currently pursuing an Artistic Research PhD at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.