The Digital Naturalism Conference
Field Biology | Interaction Design | Wild Hacking
Hi, I’m Joel. I will be at Dinacon from the 3rd to the 18th.
These are the things/ideas that I want to explore
I know a lot of things, and I don’t know a lot of things. I look forward to helping and learning with all the Dinasaurs!
Hey hey. I’m Friedrich. I will be at DINACON from the 25th to the 31st of August.
My main project for my time at DINACON will be to reserarch how to best convert non-human species and objects into fun, but also weird characters in videogames, and figure out how best to describe and model interactions with them.
In additon, I’m happy to listen and talk to the other participants and see how I can help out with the knowledge I have.
Project: Marcus will be working on two potential projects. First, working with natural materials and up-cycled waste to recreate science equipment in the wild. Second, to isolate and paint with pigmented bacteria and other microorganisms.
Bio: Marcus is a current MFA Design and Technology student at Parsons School of Design and has a B.S. in Biology. His current works center on sustainability and testing alternative materials for use in non-traditional and underfunded laboratory spaces.
Dates 8/25-8/31
Project: I would like to create a prototype for an interactive exhibition about ecosystems and or biodiversity.
Bio: Samantha will be graduating hunter college this May with dual majors in biology in art and a minor in english. She loves making things and has been in the museum world for about 7 years, focused on communication, education and exhibition design. This will be her first time out of the US on her own but is excited to expand her boundaries and meet new people. She loves power tools, is very high energy and knows a bunch of random animal facts.
Period: 8/18~8/31
Project: several brain stormed ideas:
1: procuring medicine from ayurvedic point of view; possibly making coconut based coconut medicinal oil from Keraliya traditional way.
2: (no knowledge to finish) I would like to create bio-digital devices to assess environmental micro-organism metagenomically and see how they are influencing our physiology by digital bio-marker assessment, eventually 2 data are put together and connect with recorded environmental ambient sound and AI generated ambient music by metagenomic data of the 2
3: if possible I would like to give workshop/talk on Ayurveda interpreted from biohacking
4:mobile Ayurvedic Lab; instruments to identify chemical analysis ayurvedically
Bio: 1st Japanese ♂to get Official Ayurvedic License in India (but my notion of gender is non-binary, lol, so it does not count, simply a 3rd person to acquire the license) Having worked in Clinic in Tokyo for 9 years in clinical and as of Dec 2018, ;eft the clinic and started to live freelance in pursuing my wish to become real CHARAKA, the name of most important Ayurvedic Classics meaning, wondering life scientist with the cyborg/grinder taste attached to it.
Since early 2010s, wishing bringing together Traditional knowledge into the field of citizens science and biohacking scene and have attended Calafou Hack the Earth 2016, Biofabbing at CERN 2017, Citizens Biosummit at MIT 2017, and （I will update the name later) conference in Tokyo 2018 .
My favorite Ayurvedic classical quote so much lingered with saying; a person is expanding into the world and the world is into the person. to me the quote lingers very much with Donna Haraway’s view of synpoiesis, becoming with multi-spieces and over-coming the gap of so called artificial and natural. Further expanding this and currently making little bit of boobs and attaching ECG and LED to the nipple pierce. My grinder cyborg project.
After DINACON, I am travelling to US, South America, EU, and ASIA without much of concrete plan with full open possibility of anything, other than going to visit Shaman in Peru, walk Santiago de Compostela, focusing more in Meditation and seeing Biohacker Paula “Jelly Pin” and Mary Maggic in EU and most importantly make my life on the road. I am hoping to meet beautiful souls here and hoping to jump into the wonderful unknown unexpected future about to unfold.
Dates: 26/08/2019 – 01/09/2019
Project: Rainforest digital paintings
I´m a creative coder and visual artist based in Madrid specialized in new media and digital technologies applied to the performance arts; and also in digital fabrication.
I create visuals, interactive and generative graphics, custom electronic devices, wearables and interactive installations for musicians, artists, designers, arts institutions and dance and theatre companies, along with developing dynamic and interactive lighting design; and also teaching about interaction.
Currently I’m Fab Academy Instructor at Fab Lab IED Madrid.
About me: www.martaverde.net
info@martaverde.net
[Aug 21 – 26] Elliot Roth (https://thatmre.com) is a synthetic biologist, musician and entrepreneur from Los Angeles. For his day job he sells genetically-engineered microalgae ingredients to food companies. At night he writes science fiction and wanders, trying not to sleep. His work centers around building communities that are more than the sum of their parts, understanding how to best help individuals self-actualize and building tools that work to solve basic physiological needs. In his spare time he is learning to build airships and setting up a health system on the ocean.
His project is to give a gift back to nature for his birthday (august 24th). The only rules? It has to be able to be done anywhere with the items you can find around you.
Dates: July 1st – July 6th
Jennifer Jacobs is a Brown Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, working with Professor Maneesh Agrawala in the Computer Science Department. Her research examines ways to diversify participation and practice in computationally-supported creation by building new creative tools, software, and programming languages for creative expression. Jennifer received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group. She completed a masters of science in the High-Low Tech group and an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College. Her work has been presented at international venues including CHI, SIGGRAPH, and Ars Electronica.
More of her work is located at jenniferjacobs.co
Dates: 06/26/2018-07/07/2018
Project: Island Caterpillar
Bio: Hannah Wolfe is a media artist and PhD candidate in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned a B.A. in Visual Arts from Bennington College (2009) and both an M.S. in Media Arts and Technology (2016) and an M.S. in Computer Science (2017) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has been shown at international art exhibitions and published in academic journals. Her artwork focuses on the relationship between body and technology, giving computers and robots biological qualities. Her research interests include human robot interaction, affective computing, virtual reality, and computational creativity.
Dates : June 18 – July 1
Project : Playable simulation of how plastic waste disrupts ecosystems using the Boids flocking model (cool example here).
Bio : I’m a game developer in Austin. I got Master’s degree in Digital Media and met super cool people at Georgia Tech. I play a lot of video games but as a creator I’m trying to use them as a way to express ideas about myself and the world.
https://marchuetgames.com/