My first time on Radio and TV. I’m not someone who likes to be at the centre of attention. My work ’2.6g 329m/s’ should be, but me myself I’d like to hide in the shadow, observing.
But the invitation to join Labyrint Radio, the one-hour science broadcast on [...]
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After the initial tests at the shooting range of the Netherlands Forensic Institute were successful, it was about time for the real deal. The 2nd batch of bulletproof skin for ’2.6g 329m/s’ was ready and so were we. All the partners in the project where there [...]
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Today was the day where I’ve been living up to for these past few months. My first batch of ‘bulletproof’ skin is ready to be destroyed, to be murdered in cold blood. Sentenced to death, executed by firing squad.
It’s time to introduce my living warm [...]
Continue Reading →First Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award was presented for a bullet proof skin, an ecological bioreactor and an opera performed by mutated worms.
Wednesday, 8 December, Robbert Dijkgraaf presented the first Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (DA4GA) to three winning projects in Naturalis, Leiden. DA4GA [...]
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This week I had an interview with Bart Smout for Brabant Cultureel about me and my project for DA4GA. At this stage I didn’t have much to show yet but luckily the transgenic spider-silk arrived earlier this week from Korea. We talked about the [...]
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We have won with my project proposal 2.6g 329m/s!! I hate these kind of events because I can’t stand the pressure. The uncertainty, expressing myself in words rather than with my work isn’t my strongest point. Standing on the stage in front of people, I realise by how [...]
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Ok I’ve made it past the first round for the DA4GA-awards with my project proposal for 2.6g 329m/s, and I got teamed up with a great partner Marcel Piët (left on the picture) from the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands who shares the same vision [...]
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I’ve now been officially teamed up with Marcel Piët (picture below) from the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands! Time to really work out the project proposal and make sure we both agree with its vision/goal.
We’ve been discussing the possibility of starting a different project for [...]
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