Monthly Archive for January, 2012

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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Visits to the Fields

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Checking the Sorghum Field outside Yogyakarta

Cacao Plantation and Reforestation in Wonosari

Strange Fruits in DIY

Small cocoa fruits
Mmmmhhh Schoggi
Cocoa fruit full of ants
Biiiig one... Jackfruit


Fungi farm
Bamboo, biiiig grasshalm
dusjagr likes mushrooooooms
Looks yummy, but its just water.. no taste


Ouch... checking the snakefruit!
Mhhhh... Manggis
Fresh from Pendingsari... Timbil collects the Manggis, Akbar is on the tree. Naaaiice


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Sruti Box Hacking aka X-Spirituaahl Sound Hacks

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Background
After my visit to Bangalore, jamming with Yashas, shopping cheap electronic gadgets on the streets and some experiments on the beach in Goa, i finally got really inspired to work on some new musical instruments. The Gmoettophon MK2 is still with me, but i thought I could use some new noises, this time its spirituaaahl. At every corner in the streets of india you can buy these little divine "mantra chanting boxes" ... ooooohhhhmmmm navashivaaaa ganapathiiiii, just a few rupees, and maaaany tunes 9in1 at least! They are super easy to hack, they come with a speaker, a nice little plastic case, a 220VAC plug and inside an AC/DC converter (uiuiuiui indian electronics loooks daaaangerous), this is then powering the little sound chip (seems that one is made in china). On the board is as usual one resistor for the clock, which already allows to bring the mantras directly into the noise of hell. A few other connections can be made, eg to the LED output or the speaker, generating weird echoes and distortions... Naaaiiice.

Upcoming Workshop with Keith Lam, Hong Kong
After talking for hours with Keith about workshops, OpenSpaces, Hackerscenes etc, we decided that we have to do a workshop in Hong Kong before I fly back to Zurich. Said and decided, so we are looking forward for the one and only, first time ever "X-Spirituaahl Sound Hacks" workshop, combining the easy hackable mantra boxes with some local sound toys, buddha machines and maybe even some musical souvenirs from indonesia. We plan an introduction into simple music toy hacking for making experimental and noisy tunes, first steps into lo-fi electronic circuits needed to expand the hacked circuitry with oscillators and amplifiers and most of all having fun hacking!

Details about where and when will be posted soon, see the SGMK wiki for more info...

1, 2, 3, 4 Noise-Mantra hacks already done...
While the first mantra chanting box hacks we made in Goa at the beach, new ones have already seen the light of day. And the first thing to do in the new year, make some new toys. Instantly the appartement's coffeetable at Jalan Wora Wari, where I stay during my residency at HONF, was turned into a hacklab...

Radel - Mantra Hybrid Hacks