Artist Talks accompaning the metaPhorest Biome Exhibiton at the White House Gallery in Shinjuku. Please join us online for this first round of Artist Talks, featuring: BCL / Georg Tremmel, Tomoki Matsumura. Tomoya Ishibashi, Kazutoshi Uemura, Takahiro Tsukamoto, Henry Tan, Hideo Iwasaki, Mio Iizawa, Hanna Saito & Akira Fujioka.

From Saturday 6 July 2024 metaPhorest will hold a group exhibition 'metaPhorest Biome: Art Ecosystems in the Biological Laboratory'. The exhibition takes place at Whitehouse Art Space in Shinjuku, artists and members affiliated with the metaPhorest Research Group at Waseda University will showcase their work - and their ongoing artistic research.

Human-centric thinking is causing us to damage our planet and other forms of life in ways that can’t be repaired. As the Anthropocene rampages, our challenge for the next decade will be to reimagine how we live through the lens of the environment.

In this Artist Talk, Pino will take you on a journey to uncover the almost forgotten Shibuya River. We will discuss what the river truly represents, with all its complexities, and imagine ways to approach it with empathy to transform it from an urban hazard into an ally that has a positive impact on the city.

In this Artist Talk, Georg will talk about his practice as BCL and about the projects and technical developments leading up to the CRISPR Tomato Project.

Kumavis will introduce his background with hackerspaces in Tokyo and San Francisco, as well as his research on peer-to-peer applications and javascript software supplychain security. Kumavis is a founder and software engineer with a focus on software security and secure protocol design.

Georg Tremmel will give an overview of the orgins, history, present and future of BioClub Tokyo. We will take a look back and the amazing events that happened (and are happening) at BioClub, and look at potential & possible future for BioClub. Please also join us after the talk for a small get-together and party!

In collaboration with BioClub Tokyo, FabCafe is hosting a lecture and exhibition tour alongside Multidisciplinary Artist and Material Designer, Eleonora Ortolani. You will get a chance to hear a deeper discussion on her award-winning Guilty Flavours project and even smell the actual vanillin made from PET plastic!

Mikael Hwang/Psients is a scientist-turned-artist exploring the intersection of biology, sound, and music by creating art that incorporates biological sources. His work centers around developing and performing alongside a new class of 'living' instruments to meditate on agency, speciesism, and our relationships with manipulated living systems.

Interactive data visualization is an important part of the data science process, especially in the life sciences. Visualization enables analysts to directly interact with the data, exploring it with minimal effort. Alexander Lex will demonstrate the value of visualization for set data, as is commonly used in genomics and cancer microscopy data.

BioClub will participate in How to Grow (Almost) Anything 2024. If you are interested in the cutting edge of bioengineering and synthetic biology, this is the course for you!

Learn how you can use the BioClub Lab for your art, design and science projects, and what kind of biosafety rules and regulation you will have to follow to keep everyone save.

Ekaterina Kormilitsyna will talk about her research visit to the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT and about her ongoing and future research.

BioBus brings science to the people! We support the local community to explore science and answer the research questions that matter to them. In this talk I will present several examples of BioBus's community science initiatives, and discuss how we support the next generation of problem solvers.

Korean Artist and Researcher Soyo Lee will present her latest work exploring the notion of the Anthropocene through excavation and analysis of municipal landfills in South Korea.

Throughout my practice, I have explored the theme of 'existence' since the early stages, contemplating and researching what it means to 'be'. As part of this exploration, I've been thinking about human evolution. After the pandemic, the fluctuation between physical and virtual experiences has accelerated. In our current state, how can we understand and interpret our own existence?

How to Grow (Almost) Anything (HTGAA) - is a global distributed course in Synthetic Biology, taught by the experts in field, including George Church, Joe Jacobson, Patrick Boyle, Drew Endy, Manu Prakash, Neri Oxman and many others. David Kong is kindly opening up the lectures to the global audience, and with the help of Global TAs (Teaching Assistants), Global Committed Listeners are also challenged to complete the course and homework.

Weekly BioClub Meeting. Everyone is welcome.

• This week will hear from the new lab manager some suggestions on how to organize the lab. We also want to hear your ideas!

Also, we make the BioClub Bonenkai (Part 1).

This year's Artist-in-Resident for the Finnish BioArt Residency at BioClub Tokyo is Antti Tenetz. Please join us in welcoming Antti to BioClub Tokyo.

Weed Day will talk about their artistic practice and about contemporary foraging in today's age.

An artist talk to introduce a new speculative film Finnish artist Aaro Murphy is making exploring electronic noses and ways in which they might assimilate into our urban fabric. The talk is a continuation of The Tokyo Arts & Science research residency hosted by BioClub Tokyo, The Finnish Institute in Japan and BioArt Society Finland, in October 2022.