bio:fiction
Posted by razor | Filed under Biotech, English, Művészkedés
Bio:Fiction is a science, art and film festival in Vienna from May 13th – 14th 2011 at the Museum of Natural History. Biotech-labs around the world are busy in the field of Synthetic Biology – a new approach to engineer “life” and living systems. Synthetic biology aims at applying engineering principles to biology. The DNA [...]
Tags: bioart, Biotech, festival, film, synthbio, synthetic biology, Vienna
bio::stuff
Posted by razor | Filed under Biotech, English
Some random bioart, synthetic bio and DIYbio blogs, pages and stuff, I recently (or not so recently) discovered on the net. bioart.jp is a tumblr collecting mainly articles and pages on enviromental issues, biodiversity, DIYbio and synthetic biology, but sometimes links about dog modding/hacking or DNA rainbows also turn up. Short essay of Splicer on [...]
Tags: bioart, biohacking, biology, Biotech, diybio, hacking, kibu, synthbio, synthetic biology
send me coffee
Posted by razor | Filed under Agymenés, English
Things are on the move. Lots of gigs and exhibitions to attend, lots of ramen to eat, alcohol and coffe to consume, books to read, music to listen to. Also, the Budapest Science Meetup is forming, among other cool things. Attended a great con/workshop/meeting in Vienna, and another one in Cluj-Napoca. Will go to Science [...]
Tags: atari teenage riot, caffeine, coffee
intro to synthbio
Posted by razor | Filed under Biotech, English
Andrew Hessel, pioneer in synthetic biology, discusses the similarities between computing and biology during a talk at Singularity University.
Tags: andrew hessel, Biotech, computing, singularityu, synthbio, synthetic biology
unitxt u_08-1
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Művészkedés
Short movie directed by Carsten Nicolai, music by Alva Noto, voice by Anne James-Chaton, shot in Tokyo.
Tags: alva noto, anne james-chaton, carsten nicolai, movie, tokyo
on mendeley
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Szolgáltatás
I almost finished importing and correcting a large number of articles, books, tutorials and other stuff into Mendeley, and I promised on twitter to write about bugs, needed features, etc. In general, the title and author extraction is quite good by now, but there are some problems with journal titles, volume and page numbers, issues [...]
Tags: annotation, articles, journals, mendeley, metadata, pdf, software
journal club
Posted by razor | Filed under Bioinformatika, English
Yesterday we had another journal club, and I gave a talk [again]. Now on next generation sequencing and large scale genome projects. Basically I just threw a bunch of links, ideas and names at the audience. This was the 10. journal club and we had 10!!! participants. Somehow the word pathetic came into my mind [...]
Tags: conservation, dna, expression, genome, journal club, nextgen, presentation, sequencing, topology
open science: doop
Posted by razor | Filed under Bioinformatika, English
The Database of Orthologous Promoters needs some debugging, cleanup, new features and updated data. I decided that I will publish all notes, problems, developments, data, graphs and results here, as an Open Science experiment. First, the main lines of future development are the following, in no particular order. The web search interface needs some debugging, [...]
Tags: database, doop, open science, promóter, redesign
atemporality
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Filozofálás
Keynote of Bruce Sterling on atemporality at the Transmediale 2010 festival. [Sorry for the fucking autostart.]
Tags: atemporality, bruce sterling, transmediale, video
stéphane gladyszewski
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Művészkedés
The work of Stéphane Gladyszewski, a multi-disciplinary artist from Montréal, can be seen at Trafó, Budapest, during the festival Temps d’Images. He mixes sculpture, photography, contemporary dance with digital installations, multimedia and video into an illusionary, dreamlike performance. The titles of the short performances are In Side and Aura. You can find more information on [...]
Tags: art, Budapest, contemporary, dance, multimedia, performance, stéphane gladyszewski, Trafó
