ArtScienceBangalore!

Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology!

Who we are A group of young designers with a keen interest in exploring the subject of Synthetic Biology and Biomolecular Nanotechnology as a form of art and design.

What we do

Been part of IGEM since 2009 and Biomod since 2011. Work within the scientific space as artists and designers, Which includes building “jugaad” labs and raising ethical questions through our projects.

About

First started in a classroom by a few students and a faculty at MIT Boston, now an international competition with over 150 institutes participating.

A worldwide synthetic biology competition aimed at undergraduate students.

Encourages building of biological systems from standard interchangeable parts.

Find a way to operate them in living cells.

This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method.

iGEM 2009 The first design institute taking part in this competition.

They succeeded in genetically engineering a bacteria that smell like rain. Bagged the best Presentation award and a bronze medal.

In our second year at iGEM, we investigated the consequences of a synthetic ecology, in which organisms created in a techno scientific environment interact with organisms in the wild.

iGEM 2010

Jugaad Biotech Lab

We built a “jugaad” lab using common household equipments and other easily available materials. We have carried out the gfp protocol in the lab.

Outreach Projects To spread awareness of science and technology among the non-scientific community and to try and make it accessible to all.

Outreach projects: Comic Book

-“It was the angle I’d always hoped to find

at iGEM.”

-“A truly ground-breaking team of art students

led by artist/designer Yashas Shetty”

-“Learned the language and techniques of lifesciences and explored cultural, ethical and aesthetics implications.”

Features

iGEM 2011

By imagining a world in which standardized functional parts have become the accepted standard for synthetic biology and where these engineered products are ubiquitous in our lives and environment, we are proposing alternate re-appropriations by using existing standard biological parts primers as random PCR primers in investigating soil samples.

The samples we archive will serve as a baseline from which the subsequent extent of human influence can be measured.

BIOMOD is a bio molecular design competition that provides undergraduate students an opportunity to systematically engineer the self assembly of biological macromolecules into complex nano scale machines for scientific and technological purposes.

Students form teams and spend the summer to design, build and analyze their systems.

All teams converge at the Wyss Institute for biologically inspired engineering at Harvard in November to present their work.

On going project

With RASA-01, ArtScienceBangalore propose an updated,simpler DNA version of the Altair. RASA-01 uses the Shapiro-Rothemund Unit which is a programmable two state DNA automaton. It uses a double stranded DNA as input, endonuclease and DNA ligase as main hardware and transition molecules as software. By collaborating with artists, designers,scientists and chefs, ArtScienceBangalore presents alternate scenarios of Human Computer Interaction with bio-molecular computers and DNA  computing.

Biomod 2011

Dna Computing

Why we need you

We are looking for sponsorship to help us complete this journey we started and are confident that we will make a mark in the world of science as artists and designers.

As being our sponsorers, we wish to carry your name along this journey as the people who supported us through our endeavor.

Thank you