130Fermenting Seeds

I extracted the seeds from both the wild-type Sicilian Rouge and the Hi-GABA Sicilian Rouge variety|cultivar, they are now fermenting at room temperature (whatever that mean in Sapporo) 20ºC in the incubator.

Photos

129The American Way (Intermediate)

The Sony CP-33 Repeat Card Player “The Repeater” The American Way (Intermediate)

Interesting to note, that another contribution to the same topic come from this blog https://41j.com/blog/2015/11/the-repeater-cp-33-repeat-card-player/, which is run by Nava Whiteford - one of the authorities in Sequencing Tech & Bio - and who is also Japan-based, and therefore might frequent HardOFFs quite frequently as well.

Card Boxes

  • The American Way (Intermediate)
  • Business English

The cards themselves have the japanese sentence printed on the back. The english translation is only audible by scanning the card.

Player works with the same 6V power supply as the PCT-15, but the feeding mechanisms seems to be broken, need to investigate more. Some sounds are coming out.

128Fusiformis x Lunula

Pyrocystis lunula https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28796-8

Volumetric Bio Display

Step 1. Source P. lunula12 Step 2. Set up growing/multiplication conditions

BioGlow

Location: 🇳🇱 Species: Pyrocystis lunula Volume: 250ml Price: €29.99 Nutrients: €19.99 (no info on ingredients) Ships to 🇯🇵?: No

Pyrofarms

Location: 🇺🇸 Species: Pyrocystis fusiformis Content: 200ml, Price: ¥5,600 Ships to 🇯🇵?: YES!


  1. BioGlow, https://bioglow.eu, Accessed Dec 3rd, 2025 ↩︎

  2. https://pyrofarms.com, https://pyrofarms.com, Accessed Dec 3rd, 2025 ↩︎

127Micro-Shukatsu

Test Prints Discord

120Sicilian Rouge, Recherche & Ender

  • Research into Sicilian Rouge
  • Setting up recherche.bcl.io
  • Installing 3D Printer @Hackerspace Tenjinyama

https://fasmac.co.jp Primer

116CRT Radio & Model Organisms

Weizenbaum & ELIZA Model organism paper Radio-emissions of CRT/video games

115PCT-15 Ensemble

PCT-15 Ensemble PCT-15 Assemble PCT-15 Orchestra PCT-15 Universe PCT-15 Mosaic PCT-16 PCT-17

Picture Communication Terminal - 15 Personal Communication Telephone Picture Communication Terminal Picture Communication Telephone

Create a submission form/system for

  1. Image format
  2. Audio length, sampling rate, duration
  3. Transcode images/audio

G-Form.. pah how mondane! Git PR.. how techno-critic of you! In-browser editor?

Naming convention:

PCT-15-<####>-

PCT-15-0000-BCL PCT-15-0001-GT PCT-15-0002-ALFA-TONTON

PCT-<####>-

PCT-0000-BCL PCT-0001-GT PCT-0002-ALFA-TONTON

Relation, chain-of-remix, fork

PCT-0234 ↪︎ PCT-0024PCT-0001

PCT-15-0234 ↪︎ PCT-15-0024PCT-15-0001

  • Login via Google, Github, etc
  • Submit

PCT-15 Mini

Remake PCT-15 in a smaller form factor

  • Camera
  • B/W Screen

114Transport, Hokudai & Sharing

CC Tapes at Yodobashi

112Closed

Mondays the Art Studio is closed to the public. Only the residents and the ghosts of the former residents are roaming the hallways.

Should be a nice time to concentrate and work, where it not for the periodic double-knocking. I need to find out who/what that is. Wind?


Live Coding
Live Decoding
Life Decoding
Life Coding
Live Life Coding

bio/data/bases/DNA/protein/etc data as basis for life coding

...
A
- [ ]
C
C
G
G
T

TT
T

Live if Life
Life is Live

LEBEN . . .. HEIßT LEBEN

111Tranportation

Mami-san is kindly helping with the movement of things for the residency to the studio.

109Semi-living Media & RISPR Tomato DNA

Semi-Living Media

Test Records

LaserDisc

VHD (Video High Density)

VHD?

GameBoy Pokemon Case

CRISPR Tomato DNA

The plan was to go to the Hokudai Test Field and collect samples of my CRISPR Tomato, and store in the the lab freezer for downstream analysis. The weather (snow & rain) defeated my effors to go from 天神山 to 北大 by bike. I’ll try again next week, probably withough the bike.

108Applications and Lists

One goal during the residency is to concentrate on half-finished works and semi-forgotten ideas, and to develop them to a stage where they become anschlussfähig.

NEW STRUCTURE - NEUE STRUKTUR

  • BCL: Ultra shiny & new!
  • JOURNAL: Not a Blog, but a Journal
  • RECHERCHE: Radikal Research, Radikal Recherche
  • CODEC: Code/Decoding
  • APPARAT: Handapparat, Apparat, Hardware, Machines

107Sacred Trees & Mushroom Music

Fellow residents Julia Kiryanova and Pin Yi Tu are currently showing their work at the Tenjinyama Studio.

Also, this Saturday (Nov 15h) from 13:00 onwards there will be a Opening Party and Artist’s Talk. And maybe some Mushroom Music!

  • Found a book/booklet by a previous Artist-in-Residence titled ‘This book is written by GPT-2’ (2018). Use ChatGPT-3, -4, -5 to retranslated/expand/answer it.

  • Chatted with Pin about Sunday Morning Japanese TV. We both admired the Cardboard/DIY aesthetic of info-graphics on Japanese TV, especially on NHK. This - and Pythagora Switch (ピタゴラスイッチ) explains a lot.

106Transport & Bears

A bear was seen in Maruyama/Asahiyama. Maruyama-park and -zoo are now closed. The bear must have been just across the mountain when we were watching the Normal Hill National Ski Jumping Competition at Miyanomori Schanze on Sunday.

The amazing staff here at Tenjinyama Studio will kindly assist me this coming Sunday to bring some of my things1 to the studio. The


  1. Incubator, Bento Lab, Quadra 700, NeXTstation Color, SGI Indy, Sony PCT-15, Printers, Monitors, GameBoy Camera, etc ↩︎

bio-musicBio Musak

  • Genetic Engineering
  • Life is Live

105Naebo Base, Shukatsu

fsfsf fsfs

101Residency at the Tenjinyama Art Studio(s) in Sapporo: Techno-poetics & Bio-Pop

I will be an Artist-in-Residence at the Tenjinyama Art Studio in Sapporo from November 5th until December 24th.

The Tenjinyama Art Studio is a programme run by Sapporo City, housed in a former hotel on the top of Mount Tenjin. The space acts as a library, community center, exhibtion space - and residency place for both foreign and domestic artists. Once a month the Art & Breakfast and the Open Studio events.

I aim to be at the studio research Residency production residency

collaboration residency.

Instead on working on one project/piece during the residency, I want to explore different elements and directions genres, I don’t want to

I will also force myself happily write an update each day during the 51 days of Tenjinyama.

Some directions I want to explore:

  • Zombie Glitches: Re-animating dead media (LaserDisc, VHD)
  • PCT-15 Test Patterns: Image ⇆ Sound
  • DNA Extraction & PCR for ¬🧬🍅 Project
  • Non-Conventional Computing: Quadra 700, NextStation Color, SGI Indy
  • GameBoy Camera Test/Portraits
  • Remixing Audio Test Records
  • Ludic Labware↗︎
  • δ (Delta) Gardens: Modelling Gammator-NT
  • DNA Languages
  • Protein Memory/Memory Protein