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Lens Exhibition

The Lens conference is held as a conclusive event to the Lens project, funded by the EU for the Asia link program which aims at the development and diffusion design for sustainability in design institutions.

The conference was held in Srishti School of Art Design and Technology this year and we set up an Art Science Bangalore exhibit

This year the conference was held in Bangalore hosted by Srishti. We were given an opportunity to set up an exhibit at the conference. We displayed our Jugaad Lab and a DNA cocktail stall where the guests were served cocktails made of their very own DNA. We also projected a C.elegans plate magnified by our handmade microscope.

Jugaad Lab

The Jugaad lab is a genetic engineering lab built by Artists and Designers, to conduct genetic engineering experiments of their own. It consists of the basic equipments used for any experiment. (For example, a Sterile hood, an incubator, a centrifuge, a water bath)

Further more, the lab is made out of locally available materials and is built by the students after a lot of research on their functioning and use.

The idea was to find alternative ways of re-creating a lab setup that is cheap and functional. We achieved so at 1/3rd the price of an actual lab.

We also realized that getting protocols for experiments was a big issue. So we created a react table that gives protocols and equipment information.

Lab Equipment

DIY handheld centrifuge

1. INTRODUCTIONS
2. You will need
3. PROCEDURE
   1. How our centrifuge functions
   2. Making a Hand-held Centrifuge
   3. Picture Reference :
4. PRECAUTIONS

DIY table top centrifuge

1. INTRODUCTION
2. You will need,
3. PROCEDURE
   1. How our centrifuge works
   2. To make a centrifuge
4. PRECAUTIONS

DIY Incubator

1. INTRODUCTION
2. You will need,
3. PROCEDURE
   1. How our box functions
   2. Our Process
   3. Ref photos
4. PRECAUTIONS

DIY Sterilization Hood

1. INTRODUCTION
2. You will need,
3. PROCEDURE
   1. How our hood works
   2. To make a sterile hood,
   3. Process Pictures
4. PRECAUTIONS:

DIY Water Bath

1. Introduction
2. You will need,
3. Procedure
   1. How our water bath works
   2. To make a water bath,
   3. PROCESS PICTURES:
4. PRECAUTIONS:

GFP Protocol Jugaad

1. Materials
2. Procedure:
   1. Day 1:
   2. Day 2:
   3. Day 3:
3. Precautions:

React Table

1. Introbuction
   1. How reacTIVision works
2. Building the table
   1. table & surface
   2. illumination
   3. camera
   4. How Our box functions
3. Using reacTIVision
   1. Fiducial Symbols
   2. Finger Tracking
   3. Application Handling
   4. Calibration and Distortion
4. TUIO in Processing
   1. Installation
   2. Application Programming Interface
   3. Our Program

DESIGN WORKSHOP

Art/design workshop run by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and James King with Yashas Shetty and the ArtScienceBangalore iGEM 2010 team

James and Daisy joined us for two weeks to help our the team generate ideas for iGEM 2010. In these 2 week, we're explored the role of Art and Design in synthetic biology and iGEM, and tried to generate new ideas about what this contribution might be!

1. Monday 14th June: Reverse Engineering Workshop
2. Tuesday 15th June: Jugaad Biology
3. Wednesday 16th June: Welcome to iGEA 2010
4. Thursday 17th June: On Tigers and Small Disasters
5. Friday 18th June: Telling Tales
6. Saturday 19th June: The Guardian of Your Genome
7. Monday 21st June (Daisy's Birthday): Synthetic Mythologies
8. Tuesday 22nd June: Myths Are Lies That Tell The Truth
9. Wednesday 23rd June: A New Myth
10. Thursday 24th June: Playing Gods
11. Friday 25th June: Future Myths
12. Monday 28th June: Altogether Now
13. Tuesday 29th June: A Critical Stance
14. Wednesday 30th June: Thinking about Ecosystems
15. Thursday 1st July: To the lab!

PUBLIC INTERVENTION

Mock tails

A public intervention was conducted, people were told that we hat we had created ‘’genetically’ engineered’’ mock tails (when they were just concoctions of juices and flavors.

The idea was to document people’s reaction to the concept of genetic engineering. One comes up with his/her true feelings about an object when it is directly related to him or her, And what better than drinks?

• Quite a few people didn’t have a problem consuming the genetically engineered drinks, they thought more or less everything in this modern world is engineered ‘’ even fruits are engineered dude’’.
• Few were aware of what we were talking about.
• Others were disgusted by the idea and taste of genetically engineered drinks.