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dusjagr's residency in Yogyakarta

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Moving in...

Visits to the Fields

See specific post for various visits to the fields and forests around Yogyakarta.


With Akbar, we also went to Gemolong in Surakarta, to see his recent project, a newly developed facility to make biodecomposer

Fermentation Philosophies

Talks & Presentations

see specific post

"On BioHacking and Education in the Life Sciences"
Wed 11 Jan, 13pm | Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Fakultas Bioteknologi

Discussion : Understanding Art, Science and Technology
Wed 18 Jan, 18pm, Umahseni, Jakarta
With Dr. Marc Dusseiller, Dr. Denisa Kera, HONF

MobileKitchenLab Workshop

see hackteria posts for more details...

Projects in the HONFablab

Writing some Texts
Starting soon...

Chill-out with Friends

Talks & Presentations in Indonesia

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Presentation/Discussion: DIWO, Citizen Science and Hacktivism in Art and Design / Science and Technology
Mon 30 Jan, 11h, ISI, Yogyakarta
With Dr. Marc Dusseiller, Dr. Denisa Kera, HONF

Lecture series: Hackteria, BioHacking and FoodHacking
Fri 27 Jan, 14h, UKDW, Yogyakarta
With Dr. Marc Dusseiller, Dr. Denisa Kera, Tommy / HONF

Thu 26 Jan 10h, Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta, Kampus Iii
With Dr. Marc Dusseiller, Dr. Denisa Kera, Ira / HONF

Prelude to the "Mobile KitchenLab Workshop - Hacking Angkringan"

Discussion : Understanding Art, Science and Technology
Wed 18 Jan, 18pm, Umahseni, Jakarta
With Venzha (HONF), Dr. Marc Dusseiller, Dr. Denisa Kera and Pak Enin

"On BioHacking and Education in the Life Sciences"
Wed 11 Jan, 13pm | Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Fakultas Bioteknologi

Download the .pdf slides here: dusjagr_UGM_bioteknologi_lowres

During the two hours I wanted to show some examples, on how such interdisciplinary activies in the sphere of biohackers, artists and geeks has a great and inspiring influence on developing new ways to teach and communicate science. During the 5 years of working in the framework of SGMK and the hackteria project, also in different cultural background from Europe through India, Taiwan and Indonesia, i could learn from all the collaborations. Being always open to learn new things is key of being a good teacher! Examples have been shown on how the HackteriaLab2011 has influenced the workshop for children at Ars Electronica "BioCyberKidzz" and generally the DIY and hacker's approach on my teaching to the students in life science technology at FHNW, in the "wetPONG" lab courses.

Visit with Akbar to BioDekomposer Facility

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Driving to Gemolong, Surakarta
A proud boss and a proud young agro researcher in front of their bio-reactors produci...
This is how to sterilize/boil the water for the starting cultures, jugaad staayyle...
Akabr checks the different cultures... this is the small bottles :-)


Testing the growth and quality. just smell it!
So lets start getting some of the broths out... yeah, they smell!
Preparing the mixing containers, naaaiice filter on top.
now pour and mix the 7 different microbial cultures, still alive...


bottling and labelling, 400'000 bottles to go, lets turn up the radio....
finshed and boxed. one room is already full
so lets get some samples for the lab and prepare the new inocculum for starting the n...
fill in some bottles from the best and most active bioreactors. slime fungi, spore an...


storge them in the fridge, to be used to the next starting cultures
naaaice and clean labels....
akbar gives me a sample of Biodekomposer... dont drink it! its not wine this time :-)
lab instructions for Farmers: A: Check sample by smell (1000l) B: Filter and mix (50l...


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Arrived in Yogyakarta for Residency with HONF et al

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Naiiice... 6 weeks in Yogya!

First impressions on dusjagr's fbook

And a nice nuYear party...

new GEM version of hacked mouse, thanks to Budi

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After presenting the hacked optical mouse to a few people at HONF during the cellsbutton#04, Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival, I have been working with Budi aka vj manticore, from DeadMedia.fm on improving the pd patch to use GEM for the visualization. Muuuuuch better now, than my earlier canvas spaghetti code, thanks a lot Budi!

With the new implementation we can now use the whole spectrum of live image processing and analysis, like openCV for motion tracking, or additional sound synthesis. hope to jam the worms soon...

download the new files here:
worm_on_mouse2pdGEM_v1

dusjagr is back to cellsbutton

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Niiiiice, I am back to cellsbutton#04, organized by HONF... the best festival ever!

The first few days were already busy, lots of interesting workshops, parties and discussions. also i met a lot of people, both new but also good old friends. I already got some first soldering action, and tried ways to make a diy version of the diy makeaway bitbadge. sadly i got the wrong site of pcb and cant use the shim for screen printing the solder paste. but with some patience we managed to get a few going...

also had some talks and workshops about new hackteria tools, such as the hacked optical mouse and the hacked PS3 eye mounted on an old microscope stage. i worked with akbar, a young microbiologist from UGM, on it and tested the DIY3 eye microscope for use with a haemocytometer to count yeast cells, which we then presented at the workshop at UGM later.

I was also happy to finally meet Georg Tremel again, from biopresence. He got some great recent work on DIY plant tissue culture and uses it with a blue flower, which is genetically modified for aesthetic reasons. He also did a workshop at UGM and hopefully the "Moondust" will grow there soon... and we got to have him collaborating for hackteria soon!