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Media Art Lab (Kazuhiro Jo)
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A media art lab with a background in acoustics and interaction that explores ideas by making artworks.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring technology and expression through making works
The Media Art Lab conducts practice-based research centered on making artworks, with a background in acoustics and interaction design.
The lab engages critically with media technology and, as one example of humanizing technology, explores forms of expression that go beyond demonstrating new technologies.
Its projects include a musical instrument grown from mycelium, as well as collaborative work such as visual expression using bioluminescent bacteria and a system that connects people with a nukadoko.
Key terms
- Media art
- Art made with technologies such as video, sound, and computers
- Bioluminescent bacteria
- Bacteria that emit light. In the works introduced here, they are used as ink for printing text and images
- Nukadoko
- A fermentation bed made by mixing rice bran with salt and water in a container, used for making traditional Japanese pickles
ResearchResearch themes
With a background in acoustics and interaction design, the lab conducts practice-based research centered on making artworks. It engages critically with media technology and explores forms of expression that go beyond demonstrating new technologies.
*Illustrative imageInstruments Grown from Mycelium
The lab makes "growing instruments" from mycelium. Mycelium is molded into a tube and fitted with a recorder head to make an instrument that can be blown like a flute, but its condition and how easy it is to play change greatly with temperature and humidity.
*Illustrative imageVisual Expression Using Bioluminescent Bacteria
In collaboration with others, the lab creates works that use bioluminescent bacteria as ink to print text and images through digital screen-printing plate making. Through works that incorporate microorganisms into digital technology, it considers what media can be.
*Illustrative imageA System Connecting Nukadoko and People
The lab is jointly developing "Nukabot," which connects a nukadoko and the person who tends it by voice. Chemical sensors check the state of fermentation, and with speech recognition and speech synthesis, people can talk to the nukadoko and ask it questions.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKazuhiro Jo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Captured, immersive installation by Hanna Haaslahti, 2021” Tomumaja / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Instruments Grown from Mycelium: “Bracket fungus in the hollow of a tree trunk” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Visual Expression Using Bioluminescent Bacteria: “Flask of luminous bacteria” Bathyctena / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- A System Connecting Nukadoko and People: “Pickle Jar, Hyderabad, India” meenakshi madhavan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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