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 ↩︎

105Naebo Base, Shukatsu

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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