2017 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Study on wet a-life art in the context of living technology
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16K16741
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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Research Products
(9 results)
