I am from Austria, the very eastern region of Burgenland - which is also one of the few places in Austria without mountains.
I have background in Visuelle Mediengestaltung (Visual Media Art), I studied with Peter Weibel and Karel Dudesek at the University of Applied Art in Vienna, after which I went on to study Computer Related Design (which became Interaction Design, and then Design Interactions) at the Royal College of Art in London. I am working in the field Art & Biology (sometimes also called 'BioArt'), exploring and critically engaging with emerging - and established - biotechnologies.
I am based living in Japan since quite a while (> 𝑻½), I have been working as a Bioinformatics Researcher at the University of Tokyo, where I worked on the Information Visulization of Genomic Data.
While I enjoyed the work - and the chance to be exposed to the Scientific Operating System the institutional closed-ness, prompted me the leave.
I am also the founder of the BioClub Tokyo, a DIY Bio and BioHacker Space in the center Tokyo - just 5min from the famous Scramble Square. I was running a local node of the BioHack Academy, together with the Waag's Pieter von Boheemen and Roland van Dierendonck.
I am also a member of the metaPhorest BioArt & BioMedia group, at the Hideo Iwasaki Lab at Waseda University.
Through my activities in the bio community I am also connected to the Global Community Bio Summit, - where I also was part of the initial Fellow cohort in 2019.
My Fab Journey
I have some historic connections to FabLab Kamakura. Hiroya Tanaka and Daijiro Mizuno are long-term friends, Hiroya was even so kind to name-check me in a piece on FabLab Kamakura in 2010. Daijiro was my 先輩 many (many) years back at the RCA.
I first came across FabAcademy through BioAcademy in 2015, where I participated in study groups meetings and got to know more of the Fab/Bio Community like Takayuki Ito and Kazutoshi Tsuda from YCAM, Take from FabLab Hamamatsu and Yumi Nishihara.
- Hiroya Tanaka (HTMAA 2010)
- Kazutoshi Tsuda (FabAcademy 2014)
- Takayuki Ito
- Masato Takemura (FabAcademy 2014)
- Yumi Nishihara (FabAcademy 2015)
Going to FabLab Kamakura - by Bike
Tsujido - Kamakura, ca. 10km, Ocean Road, then along Enoden Train Line.
And one nice one from the way home:
My (early) Programming & Computer Journey
Apple Macintosh SE/30
Psion 3c
Apple PowerMac 7300
IBM WorkPad Z50
Apple PowerBook G3 Pizmo
Apple PowerBook G4 12
(Computers at Uni)
Silicon Graphics Indigo
Silicon Graphics Indy
Silicon Graphics Onyx (very fast for checking email with pine) (The poster that was on the wall of my room - everyone here had poster of computers on their walls when they were younger, right? - was of a NeXTStation Turbo. I am still getting a little bit weak whenever I see one on auction. Maybe some day. If you see one on sale, let me know!)
HyperCard
Psion OPL
Max/MSP/Nato
VRML
Objective-C
Python
Javascript