BioCoder is about biology as it moves from research labs into startup incubators, hacker spaces, and even homes. It’s about a very old programming language that we’re just beginning to understand, and that’s written in a code made up of organic chemicals. It’s the product of a sharing community of scientists that stretches from grade school to post docs and university faculty.
Authored articles:
1. "Synbio Axlr8r Teams" - Summer 2014
2. "#ScienceHack SynBio Hack-a-Thon" - Winter 2015
By Marisa Jahn, and Connor Dickie.
In 2009, a Tajik telecommunication company promoted their services by offering the first 10 seconds of any phone call for free. This freebie prompted a new art form — the 10 second conversation.
Inspired by this contemporary cultural form and the Tajik tradition of 2-verse poetry (or 'bayt'), Studio REV- initiated a competition for the best ten second poem. Tajiks could call in using any kind of cell phone, record their poem after a prompt. The number was instantly published online at 10sec1bayt.com and juried by a group of Tajik superstar poets and Habiba Jalivova, the "Oprah of Northern Tajikistan." The selected ten second poems were then published over the radio airwaves, on the television, in the printed newspaper, and during the national news hour in the form of a ten second text scrawl.
The project's title, 'Bayt' (pronounced 'bite' in English), refers to both the Tajik word for the short 2-verse poem popularized to Western audiences by the Rubayat, written in the 12th century by poet Omar Khayyam. 'Bayt' also resembles in sound the English noun that means, 'a small piece' (as in, "Just a bite"), and the 'byte', an internationally recognized unit used to measure quantities of digital data.
CLIENT/COMMISSION : CEC Artslink, Sogd Cultural Education Center, Bactria Cultural Centre
DATE : 2009
Conceived by: Connor Dickie, Sarah Jane Pell, Saeed Taji Farouky
There Will Be Some Who Will Not Fear Even That Void is an ecological film for the 21st century. It is a film about the future of our planet that turns the traditional environmental documentary on its head. Rather than looking at our influence on the environment, ...Even That Void examines the environment's influence on us - emotionally, psychologically and ethically. The film suggests that the limits to exploring and dominating nature are no longer technological, but moral. We now have the technology to "conquer" virtually any part of the planet if we want to - the question is no longer "can we" but "should we"?
Screened at:
Dark/Light Festival (Dublin, Ireland), April 2014
Northern Character Film & TV Festival (Murmansk, Russia) November 2013
Night / Shift Arts Festival (Kitchener, Canada), November 2013
Nordic Film Days Festival (Lübeck, Germany), October 2013
Nordkapp Film Festival (Honningsvåg, Norway) September 2013
World Premiere: Doxa Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada) May 2013
Tromsø International Film Festival (Norway), January 2013 **Winner Tromsø Palm (Best film from the North)**
Experience Director
"Changing the World," is a conference in the spirit of TED that brings together the world's greatest visionaries to inspire young people to make a difference. We were able to make this conference free for students with the support of our sponsors that include Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Starbucks and Umbra.
Speakers included:
Aubrey de Grey -- world's leading aging scientist, believes that we can live to 1000
Eva Vertes -- cancer scientist, made an Alzheimer's breakthrough at age 15
Vincent Lam -- author, 2006 Giller Prize winner for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Karim Rashid -- industrial designer, in 14 museums worldwide, created over 2500 products
Mike Beltzner -- director of Firefox at Mozilla
Don Lindsay -- creator and designer of Mac OS X at Apple, Design Director at Microsoft Live Labs, now Design Director at Research In Motion (RIM)
Eric Chivian -- Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work on stopping nuclear war. Among this year's Time 100 for his work on global environmental protection.
Melody Hossaini -- founder of UK Youth Parliament, youth leader of Al Gore's Climate Project
Editor, Sound, Developer | 2009
With Steve Mann and Chris Aimone. Toronto, Canada.
An ultra-high-resolution (photo-stitched) time-lapse movie showing the construction of the Art Gallery of Ontario's recent Frank Gehry designed expansion. This video begins a week before the construction started, and ends having shown the long lines at the re-opening gala. Audio is a composite of Toronto sounds that have been manipulated based on feedback from a custom computer-vision audio filter.
Executive Editor
When a Jewish guy and a Catholic girl decide to let their child choose his own spiritual path, no matter how you slice it, some things aren't so cut and dry!
Aired on:
CBC's "ZeD TV" - 2004
