Georg Tremmel

About

Georg studied Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Peter Weibel and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London with Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Georg also has a background in Computer Science and worked at the Laboratory for DNA Information Analysis at University of Tokyo on the Information Visualization of Cancer Genomics. He formed the Artistic Research Frame BCL (Biological Computer Lab) as both a reference and continuation of Heinz von Foerster’s original BCL. Georg is long-term Artist-in-Residence & Visiting Researcher at metaPhorest/Hideo Iwasaki Lab at Waseda. He initiated the BioClub Tokyo, Japan’s nicest BioCommunity and Open Bio Lab, where he is leading the synbio education programmes like the BioHack Academy and HTGAA (How to Grow Almost Anything).

Georg is also currently pursuing his PhD in Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.