Japan Tour

Hackteria Japan Tour
What is going on in open source bioart / DIYbio / generic lab equipment in Japan?

Big in Japan

More than One Individual

KANTO

• 'metaPhorest' Art & Biology group in Iwasaki Lab, Waseda University (Tokyo, Tokyo Pref.) - "is a practical platform for artistic researches on biological/biomedia art and bioaesthetics, located within a biological laboratory at Center for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Waseda University. We provide relatively long-term (more than several months) artist-in-residence program for those who are interested in biology-inspired/aided/criticizing artistic activity, sharing biological facility, discussion, seminars with life scientists."
• Fablab Kamakura (Kamakura, Kanagawa Pref.)
• Hacker Farm - Akiba (Kamogawa, Chiba Pref.)
• Leave a Nest - "science venture company" (Tokyo, Tokyo Pref.) - through Denisa

CHUBU

• Hamamatsu FabLab (is this the same?) Bio Space - Open Source Aigamo Project, Masato takemura - participated in HGTAA 2015

CHUGOKU

• YCAM Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media - participated in HGTAA 2015

Online

• DIY/Hacking to the Biology! Facebook group - Want to share information on how to set up DIYbio spaces (DIYバイオスペースを作る為の情報共有を行いたい)
• http://bioart.jp/

Individuals

• Hideo Iwasaki (Tokyo)
• Shiho Fukuhara (Tokyo)
• Georg Tremmel (Tokyo)
• Chiaki Ishizuka http://nin0jin.tumblr.com/ (Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref.)
• Ai Hasegawa http://aihasegawa.info (Currently in Boston 2016)
• Sputniko http://sputniko.com/ (at MIT Medialab, Boston)
• Hanna Saito
• Tomoya Ishibashi
• Yuki Yoshioka
• Hiroo Komine (ayurveda biohacker)
• Aisen Caro Chacin, Tsukuba University
• Nur Akbar Arofatullah from Lifepatch, (Ibaraki Pref.)
• Takeshi Oozu
• Maša Jazbec
• Naomi Kuramoto
• Shingo Hisakawa https://github.com/hisashin/

Drinking

• Science Bar Incubator review (in Japanese:http://biohacker.jp/c/BH98.html) (Tokyo, 7 Arakicho, Shinjuku)

Possible Dates

2016???