[Event] DIYbio: from biohacking to bioart

[Justin Lee]

JULY 30, HACKERSPACE

 

DIYbio: from biohacking to bioart

 

part of http://www.bioethics-singapore.org/wcb2010/

 

address: Hackerspace.sg

from 5 PM

 

Would you like to play with your genome or create synthetic organisms that compete in biotech games? Would you like to use lab tools when cooking and transform your kitchen into biotech lab where alcohol is served as ice-cream and unexpected flavors like white chocolate and caviar can mix? Would you like to translate scientific protocols into art manifests and create sculptures from tissues, do performances with DNA, make installations from biotopes and use media displays made from bacteria? If your answer is yes, join us in Hackerspace to test your ideas and visions.  We will turn the local Hackerspace into Biohackerspace for one day to explore the territory between public, private and lab spaces and discuss various forms of biohacking, biopunk, bioart and molecular gastronomy. How relevant are these citizen science and science enthusiast practices for innovation? What are some new design and art ideas related to biotechnologies? How can we involve critical design practices in bioethics discussions? How can these probes and experiments introduce new Science Technology Society questions? We will cook, play and hack in order to discuss this and in the evening will have the first ever DIYbio party in Singapore

 

Preliminary programme:

5pm – 9 pm

DIY molecular gastronomy with Meng Weng Wong (Hackerspace.sg): sous vide & sweeteners

DIY bioporn with Denisa Kera (Comm & New Media, NUS), Yuchen Ang (Evolutionary Biology, NUS) and Isabel Löfgren (Lasalle College of Arts):

build your microscope and camera to shoot fly porn

DIY bio-data visualization with Catelijne Coopmans (Sociology, NUS)

 

Exhibition of Nexus One low quality photos - DIY culture in Boston (Denisa Kera)

 

9 pm – 10 pm

Interactive debate with Brian Rappert (University of Exeter) expert in biosecurity & policy on DIYBIO enthusiasts, terrorists and hackers http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/rappert/

 

10 pm party

 

From 2am (July 31) there will be a streaming of the Open Science Summit http://opensciencesummit.com.

Regards,
Justin Lee
Consultant, Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer C#)
Tech-Schizo, Editor, Tech65.org
blog: www.justinlee.sg
twitter: @triplez82

[Splicer]

DIYbio and hackerspace participation were removed from the final
programme?

On 20 Juli, 16:31, Justin Lee <triple...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From 2am (July 31) there will be a streaming of the Open Science Summit
>http://opensciencesummit.com.

The Open Science Summit actually starts streaming from the 29nth:
http://fora.tv/live/open_science/open_science_summit_2010


-Splicer



On 20 Juli, 16:31, Justin Lee <triple...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *JULY 30, HACKERSPACE*
>
> * *
>
> *DIYbio: from biohacking to bioart*
>
> part ofhttp://www.bioethics-singapore.org/wcb2010/

>
> address: Hackerspace.sg
>
> from 5 PM
>
> Would you like to play with your genome or create synthetic organisms that
> compete in biotech games? Would you like to use lab tools when cooking and
> transform your kitchen into biotech lab where alcohol is served as ice-cream
> and unexpected flavors like white chocolate and caviar can mix? Would you
> like to translate scientific protocols into art manifests and create
> sculptures from tissues, do performances with DNA, make installations from
> biotopes and use media displays made from bacteria? If your answer is yes,
> join us in Hackerspace to test your ideas and visions.  We will turn the
> local Hackerspace into Biohackerspace for one day to explore the territory
> between public, private and lab spaces and discuss various forms of
> biohacking, biopunk, bioart and molecular gastronomy. How relevant are these
> citizen science and science enthusiast practices for innovation? What are
> some new design and art ideas related to biotechnologies? How can we involve
> critical design practices in bioethics discussions? How can these probes and
> experiments introduce new Science Technology Society questions? We will
> cook, play and hack in order to discuss this and in the evening will have
> the first ever DIYbio party in Singapore
>

> *Preliminary programme:*
>
> *5pm – 9 pm*
>
> *DIY molecular gastronomy* with Meng Weng Wong (Hackerspace.sg): sous vide &
> sweeteners
>
> *DIY bioporn* with Denisa Kera (Comm & New Media, NUS), Yuchen Ang

> (Evolutionary Biology, NUS) and Isabel Löfgren (Lasalle College of Arts):
>
> build your microscope and camera to shoot fly porn
>

> *DIY bio-data visualization* with Catelijne Coopmans (Sociology, NUS)

>
> Exhibition of Nexus One low quality photos - DIY culture in Boston (Denisa
> Kera)
>

> *9 pm – 10 pm*
>
> *Interactive debate* with Brian Rappert (University of Exeter) expert in

> biosecurity & policy on DIYBIO enthusiasts, terrorists and hackershttp://huss.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/rappert/
>

> *10 pm party*
>
> From 2am (July 31) there will be a streaming of the Open Science Summithttp://opensciencesummit.com.

[Meng Weng Wong]

hey guys, apparently there's going to be a little event at HSG tomorrow night involving fly porn.  it's open to members as usual.  denisa kera will be here also.

i will do my best to feed the crowd using the power of science: i will do a more detailed egg cooking demo, and i will serve a slow-cooked lamb shoulder.  i don't think i've served that to the crowd here yet.

On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Justin Lee wrote:

DIY molecular gastronomy with Meng Weng Wong (Hackerspace.sg): sous vide & sweeteners

what does a hot pan have in common with a wine glass?  both demonstrate the marangoni effect:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/dining/08curi.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

With some research, I soon learned that I had been observing Bénard-Marangoni convection, which is related to Marangoni convection in a wineglass. Uneven temperatures at the pan surface cause regional differences in the oil’s surface tension, and this causes the oil to get pulled toward the cooler areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_of_wine

how can you estimate the temperature of a hot pan?  by using the leidenfrost effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect

how can you make a reverse-hard-boiled egg?
normally, the white is hard and the yolk is liquid.  can you make an egg where the yolk is hard and the white is soft? Here's a hint:

Egg white contains approximately 40 different proteins with Ovalbumin (54%), and Ovotransferrin 12% being the major components. Ovalbumin begins to set at 180°F/80C while Ovotransferrin only begins to set when heated to 140°F/60C. Egg yolks contain lipoproteins which coagulate at about 158°F.