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2017 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

Study on wet a-life art in the context of living technology

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16741
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

カストロ ホアン・マヌエル  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 (60759794)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Keywordsメディア芸術 / ウェットな人工生命 / 美学 / 生命らしい技術 / プロトセル / Media art / Wet artificial life / Aesthetics
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The outcomes generated during the last phase of the investigation include: 1) two international workshops on art and wet artificial life 2) two lectures on art, protocells and wet a-life 3) two publications on protocell models 4) a website on media art and wet a-life.
During May and June (2017), I organized together with Prof. AKihiro Kubota an international workshop on art and wet a-life at Tama Art University. In May, I made an introductory presentation followed by an exploratory hands-on session on protocell models (self-propelled droplets). In June, we held the second part of the workshop with an international expert in the field of wet artificial life: Prof. Steen Rasmussen (Univ. of Southern Denmark). He gave a special lecture on living technology. After the presentation, we had a hands-on session on self-dividing droplets.
On the other hand, I organized together with Assoc.Prof. Taro Toyota an international workshop on minimal living systems at The University of Tokyo. For this workshop, we invited Prof. Rasmussen, Prof. Kunihiko Kaneko (The Univ. of Tokyo) and Prof. Masayuki Imai (Tohoku Univ.), among others researchers to give presentations on the latest advances on wet a-life. After this meeting, Assoc.Prof. Toyota, Prof. Imai and I wrote a paper on protocell models. During this year, I wrote another research paper with Assoc.Prof. Toyota about a self-reproducing system.
In order to make this investigation known to general public a website (art-wetalife.com) was created. This site contains photos, texts and videos about the workshops, protocells and media art.

  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2018 2017 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Invited: 2 results) Remarks (2 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Center for Fundamental Living Technology/Department of Physics & Chemistry/University of Southern Denmark(Denmark)

    • Country Name
      Denmark
    • Counterpart Institution
      Center for Fundamental Living Technology/Department of Physics & Chemistry/University of Southern Denmark
  • [Journal Article] Budding and Division of Giant Phospholipid Vesicles Linked to Membrane Growth2018

    • Author(s)
      Castro Juan M., Sugiyama Hironori, Toyota Taro
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 印刷中 Pages: 印刷中

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Locomotion and Transformation of Underwater Micrometer-Sized Molecular Aggregates under Chemical Stimuli2017

    • Author(s)
      Toyota Taro、Banno Taisuke、Castro Juan M.、Imai Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

      Volume: 86 Pages: 101006-1~11

    • DOI

      10.7566/JPSJ.86.101006

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Wetbots: protocells and moist automata2018

    • Author(s)
      Castro Juan M.
    • Organizer
      プロトセルとウェットなオートマタ生成ワークショップ. BioClub - FabCafe Tokyo
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Art, protocell models and wet a-life2017

    • Author(s)
      Castro Juan M.
    • Organizer
      Information Design Department, Tama Art University
    • Invited
  • [Remarks] Art and Wet Alife (アート+ウェットな人工生命)

    • URL

      http://art-wetalife.com/

  • [Remarks] Art + soft matter

    • URL

      http://juanmcastro.com/

  • [Funded Workshop] Expanding the evolutionary potential of minimal living systems2017

  • [Funded Workshop] アート+ウェットな人工生命2017

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Published: 2018-12-17  

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