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--- f15:overview [2015-02-02 09:28] – created nik
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+==== Themes, stories, worlds ====
-[note from maja: i know i've expanded this too much, so it needs re-compacting and probably renaming. i also wonder how much of it needs to be a part of the pitch, and whether we could just include a link to the descriptions of the worlds?]
+As a way of structuring the [[grow_your_own_worlds|Grow Your Own Worlds]] publication, we have organised its themes and content into several “worlds” that broadly represent our foci of interest and possibly the shape of the book’s “chapters”.
-As a way of structuring the publication, we organise its themes and content into several “worlds” that broadly represent our foci of interest and serve, loosely, as the book’s “chapters”. These might be:
-  * __On Reality Generation__, where we talk about FoAM's experiments with immersive, responsive, transmedia environments, and our explorations of the edges between the digital and the physical worlds (e.g. The *t-series: http://fo.am/t-series/)
+===Reality Generation===
-  * __Behind the Algorithms__, in which we trace a path through computational worlds, beginning with Glitch Art and generative media, through to live coding, tangible media, mini-games and augmented reality apps. (e.g. http://fo.am/digital_art_and_the_glitch/ http://fo.am/kernow/ and http://fo.am/lyta/)
+... where we talk about FoAM's experiments with immersive, responsive, transmedia environments, and our explorations of the edges between the digital and the physical worlds
-  *  __On Human-Plant Interaction__, where we investigate the many possible relationships between plants and humans, including urban gardening, citizen science plant games, speculative experiments with human-plant communication and a reintroduction of seasonal rituals (e.g. http://fo.am/groworld/)
+  * The *t-series: http://fo.am/t-series/
+  * From Representation to Performance: http://fo.am/from_representation_to_performance/
+  * Human Scale Systems in Responsive Envrironments: http://fo.am/human-scale_systems_in_responsive_environments/
+  * Sensual Communication in Hybrid Reality: http://fo.am/sensual_communication_in_hybrid_reality/
+  * Performing Publicly in Responsive Space: http://fo.am/performing_publicly_in_responsive_space/
+  * T-Garden: http://fo.am/t-garden/
+  * TRG book: http://fo.am/media/pubfiles/2005-trg_book.pdf
+  * Fashion Ecologies: http://fo.am/fashion_ecologies/
+  * TK_S_UM Video: http://fo.am/_tk_s_um_/
+  * TRG DVD: http://fo.am/trg_dvd/
+  * Triggers are for Guns; Reality is Continuous: http://fo.am/reality-is-continuous/
-  * __Towards Luminous Green__, in which we look at FoAM's environmental and technosocial worldviews; combining technology and sustainability; electricity with green; augmentation with foraging (e.g. http://fo.am/luminous_green/, http://fo.am/boskoi/, http://fo.am/farm-crap-app/)
+===Behind the Algorithms===
-  * __Affordable Mysticism__ is the small niche of all things meta and pata, the esoteric, mystical and spiritual dimensions that though often occulted, are like dark matter interspersed as background radiation behind everything we do.
+... in which we trace a path through computational worlds, beginning with glitch art and generative media through to live coding, tangible media, (mini)games and augmented reality apps
-  * __Alternate Realities and Possible Futures__, balancing on the edges of fiction and reality, futurology and fortunetelling, delving deep into FoAM's explorations of speculative culture, looking at what emerges when we dare ask "what if?" and prototype the answers as artistic experiments and daily rituals; here we also explore several perspectives on surviving and thriving in turbulent times, and ask what cultural resilience might be like, today and in the future (e.g. http://fo.am/future-fabulators/, http://fo.am/borrowed-scenery/, http://fo.am/resilients/)
+  * http://fo.am/digital_art_and_the_glitch/
+  * http://fo.am/kernow/
+  * http://fo.am/lyta/
-  * __Grow your own__. Aside from being a well-known creed in the countercultural movement, Grow Your Own is a philosophy that we apply across different disciplines, through hands-on workshops and co-creation sessions. In the book we look back at the people, stories and methods we developed to encourage participatory learning and open knowledge sharing (e.g. http://fo.am/splinterfields/ and http://fo.am/xmedk/)
+===Human-Plant Interaction===
-  * __FoAM Food__ is one of the pillars of our transdisciplinary culture. In this chapter we reveal the secrets of FoAM's experimental kitchen and include recipes and menus from some of our most beloved meals (e.g. http://fo.am/open_sauces/ and http://fo.am/froth/)
+... where we investigate the many possible relationships between plants and humans, including urban gardening, citizen science games, speculative experiments with human-plant communication and a reintroduction of seasonal rituals
-  * __Hosting Craft__, where we talk about the foundation of a FoAM culture, based on hosting and nurturing its collaborators and participants, in intergenerational residencies and transiencies, coaching, mentoring and even matchmaking (e.g. http://fo.am/residencies/ and http://fo.am/services/)
+  * http://fo.am/groworld/
+  * Sustainable Arenas of Weedy Sociality and Distributed Wilderness: http://fo.am/sustainable-arenas-weedy-wilderness/
-  * __The Dandyist Parade__, where we disclose our love for costumed parties, pre-enactments and role-playing games; a chapter that might include some anarcho-dandyist guidelines and even patterns for "crocheting your own" (e.g. http://fo.am/grig/ http://fo.am/opening-electrified/ or http://fo.am/resilients-flotilla/)
+===Towards Luminous Green===
-  * __Institutional Hacking__, where we talk about the nuts and bolts of experimenting with an organisation as an artform, about FoAM as an extended clan blurring the boundaries between life and work, and discuss the many pros and cons that we experienced in the flesh during this process (e.g. http://lib.fo.am/future_of_the_lab, FoAM Manual)
+... in which we look at FoAM's environmental worldviews; combining culture, technology and sustainability; electricity with greenness; augmentation with foraging
+  * http://fo.am/luminous_green/
+  * http://fo.am/boskoi/
+  * http://fo.am/farm-crap-app/
+===Alternate Realities and Possible Futures===
+... balancing on the edges of fiction and reality, futurology and fortunetelling, delving deep into FoAM's explorations of speculative culture, looking at what emerges when we dare ask "what if?" and prototype the answers as artistic experiments and daily rituals; here we also explore several perspectives on surviving and thriving in turbulent times, and ask what cultural resilience might be like, today and in the future
+  * http://fo.am/future-fabulators/
+  * http://fo.am/borrowed-scenery/
+  * http://fo.am/resilients/
+  * http://fo.am/grig/
+  * http://fo.am/opening-electrified/
+  * http://fo.am/resilients-flotilla/
+===Grow your own===
+... aside from being a well-known creed in the countercultural movement, Grow Your Own is a philosophy that we apply across different disciplines, through hands-on workshops and co-creation sessions. In the book we look back at the people, stories and methods we developed to encourage participatory learning and open knowledge sharing
+  * http://fo.am/splinterfields/
+  * http://fo.am/xmedk/
+===FoAM Food===
+... is one of the pillars of our transdisciplinary culture; in this world we reveal the secrets of FoAM's experimental kitchen and include recipes and menus from some of our most beloved meals
+  * http://fo.am/open_sauces/
+  * http://fo.am/froth/
+===Hosting Craft===
+... where we talk about the foundation of a FoAM culture that is based on hosting and nurturing its collaborators and participants through intergenerational residencies and transiencies, coaching, mentoring and even matchmaking
+  * http://fo.am/residencies/
+  * http://fo.am/services/
+===Institutional Hacking===
+... where we talk about the nuts and bolts of experimenting with an organisation as an artform, FoAM as an extended clan blurring the boundaries between life and work, and the many pros and cons that we experienced in the flesh during this process
+  * http://lib.fo.am/future_of_the_lab
+  * FoAM Manual
+  * Growing Stories within stories: http://fo.am/growing_stories_within_stories/
+===Affordable Mysticism===
+... is the small niche of all things meta and pata, the esoteric, mystical and spiritual dimensions that though often occulted, are like dark matter interspersed as background radiation behind everything we do
+  * Data, metadata, pata- and para-data
+=== Who's who ===
+... where we talk about and hear from FoAM's extended family, the various people involved, devolved and in partial orbit or comet-rendezvous flyby. We want to surface the manifold links between people, places, projects and studios in FoAM's family and friends, as well as to find out what happened to the many individuals who worked with us as emerging artists, scientists and other generalists with whom we share(d) many things but have subsequently lost touch through temporal, spatial or philosophical distance...
+  * http://fo.am/people/
+----
+We have begun collating relevant material from our archives in the [[surfacing_stuff]] node.