Future Ideations Camp Vol.4 Keynote Lecture 2 – 4 : Elizabeth Hénaff , Murakami Hisashi , Nakamura Keiko

2024.10.12(Sat), 2024.10.13(Sun), 2024.10.15(Tue)

Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]

Date & Time: October 12 (Sat) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm (Open 7:15 pm) October 13 (Sun) 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Open 6:15 pm) October 15 (Tue) 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (Open 6:45 pm)
Venue: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT]
Capacity: 40 (First-come, first-served basis)
Admission: Free
Accessibility and Support: October 12 (Sat): Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

Understanding and expressing ecosystems through data to reinterpret them from multispecies perspectives: keynote lectures by artists and researchers, and an exhibition of workshop results.

In conjunction with Future Ideations Camp Vol. 4: Understanding and Creatively Expressing Ecosystems as Data, held at Civic Creative Base Tokyo in October 2024, four keynote lectures aim to instill renewed awareness of ecosystems from the perspectives of art, design, behavioral science, and the history of life. Today, the negative impact of human activities on ecosystems has become a major concern. These lectures are an opportunity to learn from the practices of Japanese and international artists and researchers the means of understanding the broader ecosystems that encompass our lives and discover new guiding principles for enriching those ecosystems.

【Keynote Lecture 2】
Elizabeth Hénaff: Microbial Metrics and the Multispecies City: Scientific and Creative Practice

Date: October 12 (Sat) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Lecturer: Elizabeth Hénaff (computational biologist, artist)
*Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

背景に都市の風景が広がる中、笑顔でカメラに向かっている女性が写っています。彼女は黒いジャケットを着ており、風で髪が少し乱れている様子が見られます。背景には高層ビルや工事中の建物があり、都市の一角で撮影された写真であることがわかります。全体的に明るい雰囲気があり、女性の穏やかな笑顔が印象的です。

【Keynote Lecture 3】
Murakami Hisashi: The Science of Herds—Separate Steps and Interpreting Movement

Date: October 13 (Sun) 18:30-20:00
Lecturer: Murakami Hisashi (Researcher)

Murakami Hisashi (Researcher) :
We can detect order in the movements of bird flocks, fish schools, and human pedestrians, almost as if they are functioning as a single living creature even when there is no leader or control tower directing them. What are the mechanisms behind such herd behavior? The lecture discusses this question in terms of separate steps and interpreting movement.

男性がカメラに向かってまっすぐに見つめている。彼はライトブルーの柄シャツを着ており、背景は白い壁になっている。髪は肩までの長さで、自然なスタイルにまとまっている。

【Keynote Lecture 4】
Nakamura Keiko: Biohistory, Learning from the 3.8 Billion-Year History of Life

Date: October 15 (Tue) 19:00-20:30
Lecturer: Nakamura Keiko (doctor of science / Honorary Director, JT Biohistory Research Hall)

Nakamura Keiko (doctor of science / Honorary Director, JT Biohistory Research Hall) :
Human beings are living creatures and part of nature. Based on that essential fact, this lecture considers how we can live as members of an ecosystem. It hopes that we can positively overcome the impasse of contemporary civilization, which detaches itself from nature and seeks uniform progress, by shifting to recently revealed future ways of living.

淡い黄色の背景に「生態系をデータとしてとらえる／表現する」というタイトルがピンク色の文字で書かれています。画像の中央には、実験装置の写真が配置されており、その周囲には抽象的なイラストが散りばめられています。また、イベントの日時や内容が記載されており、基調講演「変わりゆく生命の概念」がテーマとして紹介されています。

【Keynote Lecture 1】
Oron Catt: Life is Not What it Used to Mean

Date: September 21 (Sat) 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Lecturer: Oron Catts (artist / co-founder and director of SymbioticA)
*Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

淡いピンク色の背景にタイトル「生態系をデータとしてとらえる／表現する」がピンク色で書かれています。10月に行われる成果展示の情報が記載されており、日時と入場無料であることが強調されています。画像内には、さまざまな抽象的な形状やイラストが配置され、視覚的に興味を引くデザインが施されています。

Future Ideations Camp Vol.4 Results Exhibition

Dates: October 17 (Thu)-20 (Sun) 13:00-19:00

Elizabeth Hénaff

computational biologist, artist

Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff is a computational biologist with an art practice and has produced a body of work that ranges from scientific articles to artworks shown nationally and internationally. She leads the Laboratory for Living Interfaces where she investigates microbial metrics in urban environments with a focus on anthropogenic change, alongside students in design, engineering, and biology. Research directions include engineering of green wall infrastructure, remediation of Superfund sites, and the impact of street-level flooding on urban microbial diversity, and for this they build software, hardware and wetware. She holds an assistant professor position at the NYU Tandon school of Engineering’s Integrated Design and Media program, where she teaches courses in Biodesign.

Murakami Hisashi

Researcher

Murakami Hisashi earned his PhD in physics from Kobe University in 2015. After stints as a postdoctoral researcher at the Waseda University School of Science and Engineering, assistant professor at the Kanagawa University Faculty of Engineering, and at the University of Tokyo Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, he took up his current post as a professor in human science at the Kyoto Institute of Technology Department of Information Science in 2021. Murakami does research on the Mictyris brevidactylus crab, Austruca perplexa fiddler crab, sweetfish, and human beings, conducting experiments and building computation models on herd behavior, exploratory behavior, and navigation.

Nakamura Keiko

doctor of science / Honorary Director, JT Biohistory Research Hall

Born in 1936 in Tokyo, Nakamura Keiko earned a degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo, where she then completed a PhD in biochemistry. Her career includes stints as manager at the Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences, lecturer at Waseda University, visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, and a lecturer at a graduate school affiliated with Osaka University. Nakamura conceives biohistory with a vitalist view of the world rooted in the core fact that human beings are living creatures. In 1993, she founded JT Biohistory Research Hall, becoming its director in 2002, and is currently honorary director. Her many publications include A Scientist Is a Human Being (Iwanami Shinsho), Is Science OK Like This? (Chikuma Q Books), Nakamura Keiko Collected Writings (8 volumes, Fujiwara Shoten), and Where Did Humans Go Wrong? (Chuko Shinsho La Clef).

Organizer: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] (Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

Brochure

Future Ideations Camp Vol.4 Keynote Lecture 2 – 4 : Elizabeth Hénaff , Murakami Hisashi , Nakamura Keiko

【Keynote Lecture 2】Elizabeth Hénaff: Microbial Metrics and the Multispecies City: Scientific and Creative Practice

【Keynote Lecture 3】Murakami Hisashi: The Science of Herds—Separate Steps and Interpreting Movement

【Keynote Lecture 4】Nakamura Keiko: Biohistory, Learning from the 3.8 Billion-Year History of Life

【Keynote Lecture 1】Oron Catt: Life is Not What it Used to Mean