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===== Foam Newsletter Winter 2013 ===== | === Winter Newsletter 2013 draft === |
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==== Outline ==== | While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere turns inwards and descends into wintry hibernation, we'd like to look back on FoAM's bustling activities over the last six months while looking forward to a new year where distillation and transmutation are on the cards. Travels, talks, workshops, celebrations, residencies (punctuated by copious EC reporting and accounting) -- there’s been much interesting ferment (and fermentation), some of it simmering down, more bubbling up, and much that is quite new to all of us. |
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Intro, summarising 'topics', looking back and forward. | At FoAM Brussels we continue deepening and broadening our work with food systems, speculative culture and synaesthetic experiences. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts and thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a short guided tour of the highlights. We feel that some of these are peak experiences not only of the last few months, but indeed of our work at FoAM as a whole. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! |
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=== Food culture === | |
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* biochymickal arts http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/ | |
* smoke & vapour http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/ | |
* foodprints online http://fo.am/foodprints-book/ | |
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=== Speculative culture === | |
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* FF - outline of what we want to achieve, why ff, plans for 2014 and insights from: | |
* improving reality - http://fo.am/improving-reality/ | |
* practical utopias - http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/ | |
* small revolutions - (needs details) | |
* parenzana residency | |
* * http://lib.fo.am/improving_realities - conference paper, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEX8q4HUkI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUCZHVgTT_EpA9-pBaP1aotg | |
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=== Citizen Science – FoAM Kernow === | |
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* Future of Live coding (Kernow) | |
* The Farm Crap App (Kernow) | |
* "Where is that Nest? (Kernow) | |
* Smartphones in ecology and evolution: a guide for the app-rehensive (Kernow) | |
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=== Synaesthetic experiences – FoAM Amsterdam ==== | |
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* sphaerae | |
* in linz & todaysArt | |
* http://fo.am/sphaerae/ | |
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=== Supporting a community of generalists === | |
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* hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft | |
* doing nothing | |
* residencies | |
* 3 families (lies, sarah, mexicans) | |
* macro: luea, michka | |
* coaching (available spots in 2014) | |
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=== Misc === | |
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* EITC Homecoming | |
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for orientation and/or comparison here is last winter's edition: http://fo.am/blog/2012/12/22/foam-newsletter-winter-2012/ | |
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==== Towards a draft ==== | |
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=== Winter Newsletter 2013 === | |
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While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as nature turns inwards and descends into wintry hibernation in the northern hemisphere, we'd like to look back on FoAM's bustling activities and look forward to a new year in which distillation and transmutation are on the cards. Travels, talks, workshops, celebrations, residencies (punctuated by copious EC reporting and accounting) -- there’s been much interesting ferment (and fermentation) at FoAM, some of it simmering down, more ongoing, and a lot that is quite new for all of us. | |
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In FoAM Brussels we continue deepening and broadening our work with food systems, speculative culture and synaesthetic experiences. FoAM Kernow has found its niche with blending science, technology and the arts and thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae and FoAM Nordica consolidating their work with Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a short guided tour of the highlights. We feel that some of these are peak experiences not only of the last few months, but indeed of our work at FoAM as a whole. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! | |
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== Food culture == | == Food culture == |
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[Biochymickal arts] | A colourful congregation of artists, scientists, technologists and enthusiasts came together at FoAM in Brussels to explore the fuzzy edges between the craft of fermentation, the science of biochemistry and the interesting socio-technological developments surrounding the phenomenon known as bio-hacking, biopunk or DIY biology in the **Biochymickal Arts** workshop this September. Led by Maria Tarantino, Meredith L. Patterson and Brian Degger and facilitated by Maja Kuzmanovic, the group spent a weekend engaged in charged discussions about synthetic biology, biomimicry, sushi as a flattening of an older form of fermented rice, and other issues. The workshop adopted the form of a curated open space, with several parallel experiments taking place in FoAM's kitchen and makeshift wetlab. The wetlab will remain operational until further notice, as several of the participants (and collaborators from their networks) continue to perform experiments such as DNA extraction, growing bacterial colonies from ferments made during the workshop, and so forth. If you are interested in using the lab, feel free to contact bxl@fo.am for more information. |
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A colourful congregation of artists, scientists, technologists and enthusiasts came together at FoAM in Brussels to explore the fuzzy edges between the craft of fermentation, the science of biochemistry and the interesting socio-technological developments surrounding a phenomenon known as bio-hacking, bio punk or DIY biology. Lead by Maria Tarantino, Meredith L. Patterson and Brian Degger, the group spent a weekend engaged in charged discussions about a.o. the issues surrounding synthetic biology, biomimicry and sushi as a flattening of an older form of fermented rice. Facilitated by Maja Kuzmanovic, the workshop had a form of a curated Open Space, with several parallel experiments happening in FoAM's kitchen and makeshift wet-lab. The wet-lab will remain operational until further notice, with several of the participants (and people from their networks) still performing experiments including DNA extraction, growing bacterial colonies from ferments made during the workshop etc. If you are interested in using the lab, feel free to contact bxl@fo.am for more information. | [[http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/|Biochymickal Arts workshop]]\\ |
| [[http://lib.fo.am/biochymickal_arts_2013|Notes, summaries and references]]\\ |
| [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635582680823/|Biochymickal Arts on Flickr]] |
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[[http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/| Biochymickal Arts workshop]]\\ | After weeks of planning, preparation, testing, tasting, hearing and above all cooking, we hosted **Smoke & Vapour**, two etherial evenings and degustation dinners dedicated to smoke and vapour in their many forms. Maja Kuzmanovic, Stevie Wishart, Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney and Alkan Chipperfield composed a synaesthetic experience where food and sound melted and evaporated into one other. We held a full dress rehearsal with guests from within the FoAM network first, then hosted the wider public event two days afterwards. We’re happy that both evenings were well received by our guests, and also gave us such exhilarating pleasure to produce and perform. Read more about it in Maja’s blog post, and browse the collection of specially designed recipes for the event. Check out the photo documentation as well, covering the whole production from preparation to presentation and performance. |
[[http://lib.fo.am/biochymickal_arts_2013 | Notes, summaries and references]]\\ | |
[[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635582680823/| Biochymickal Arts on Flickr]] | |
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[Smoke & Vapour]\\ | Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on developing the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. |
After weeks of planning, preparation, testing, tasting, hearing and above all cooking, we hosted two etherial evenings and degustation dinners dedicated to smoke and vapour in their many forms. Maja Kuzmanovic, Stevie Wishart, Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney and Alkan Chipperfield composed a synaesthetic experience where food and sound melted in and evaporated from each other. We held a full dress rehearsal with people from the FoAM network, and the wider public event two days afterwards. We’re happy that both evenings were received well by our guests, and were also such an exhilarating pleasure for ourselves to produce and perform. Read more about it in Maja’s blog post, browse the collection of recipes and check out the photos, which cover the whole production from preparation to presentation and performance. Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on developing the Open Sauces website, where these and other FoAM's recipes and food related information will migrate in 2014. | |
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[[http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/|Smoke & Vapour]] event\\ | [[http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/|Smoke & Vapour]] event\\ |
[[http://libarynth.org/open_sauces|smoke_vapour|Documentation, process, inspirations and recipes]]\\ | [[http://libarynth.org/open_sauces:smoke_vapour|Documentation, process, inspirations and recipes]]\\ |
[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635490865219/|Smoke & Vapour photos]] on Flickr\\ | [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635490865219/|Smoke & Vapour photos]] on Flickr\\ |
[NOTE: add link to blog post when it's finished!] | [NOTE: add link to blog post when it's finished!] |
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[Foodprints online]\\ | FoAM Nordica’s **Foodprints publication** by Anna Maria Orru, Johan Zetterquist and David Relan has made it onto printed paper, and looks great. Examining the role of food in urban renewal, it represents the nourishing culmination of many projects, people, networks and thinking in the field. Meanwhile, Anna Maria and David have been working on a prototype app and website of the Foodprints Ruler system discussed in the publication. Anna Maria talked about it recently at the Switched on Nature event at Shift in the Stockholm Resilience centre, where they've been hacking the space between nature and technology on themes of resilience. |
FoAM Nordica’s Foodprints publication by Anna Maria Orru, Johan Zetterquist and David Relan has made it onto printed paper, and looks great. Examining the role of food in urban renewal, it represents the nourishing culmination of many projects, people, networks and thinking in the field. It’s also available online. Meanwhile, Anna Maria and David have been working on a prototype app and website of the Foodprints Ruler system discussed in the publication. Anna Maria talked about it recently at the Switched on Nature event at Shift in the Stockholm Resilience centre, where they've been hacking the space between nature and technology on themes of resilience. | |
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[[http://fo.am/foodprints-book/|Foodprints]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/foodprints-book/|Foodprints]]\\ |
[[http://payload19.cargocollective.com/1/6/195556/2699591/Foodprints_ruler%20cover.jpg|Foodprints Ruler]]\\ | [[http://payload19.cargocollective.com/1/6/195556/2699591/Foodprints_ruler%20cover.jpg|Foodprints Ruler]]\\ |
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== Seculative culture == | == Speculative culture == |
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In our previous newsletter we celebrated the closure of Resilients and PARN, two of our projects that put our work in speculative culture on the map. Since then the PARN publication has been printed and distributed (if you'd like a copy email us at bxl@fo.am), and we've started Future Fabulators, a European project that combines our work with alternate reality narratives and future preparedness and continues our fertile collaboration with Time's Up in Linz. | In our previous newsletter we celebrated the closure of Resilients and PARN, two projects that put our work in speculative culture on the map. Since then the PARN publication has been printed and distributed (if you'd like a copy email us at bxl@fo.am), and we've started **Future Fabulators**, a European project that combines our work with alternate reality narratives and future preparedness and continues our fertile collaboration with Time's Up in Linz. |
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In Future Fabulators, we're extending our research into speculative culture, scenario building, future pre-enactments, physical narratives and other forms that embody possible futures today. We began by reflecting on our current work, first at the Improving Reality conference in Brighton, where Maja discussed using future preenactments and alternate reality narratives as ways to guide us through the swarm of possible futures. Following this Nik and Maja headed off to the Brionian islands in Croatia for the Summit of Practical Utopias, a four-day workshop where participants playfully designed and experimented with the seemingly paradoxical notion of creating a utopia that can be practical. We realised that creating and maintaining FoAM is an exercise of practical utopianism, always balancing on the fine edge of becoming impractical. | In Future Fabulators we're extending our research into speculative culture, scenario building, future pre-enactments, physical narratives and other forms that embody possible futures today. We began by reflecting on our current work, first at the **Improving Reality conference** in Brighton, where Maja discussed using future preenactments and alternate reality narratives as ways to guide us through the swarm of possible futures. Following this Nik and Maja headed off to the Brionian islands in Croatia for the **Summit of Practical Utopias**, a four-day workshop where participants playfully designed and experimented with the seemingly paradoxical notion of creating a utopia that can be practical. We realised that creating and maintaining FoAM is an exercise of practical utopianism, always balancing on the fine edge of becoming impractical. |
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A few days afterwards, Maja and Nik welcomed Sarah Neville and her daughter Florence in Castelletto Parenzana, FoAM's temporary residence in Istria, Croatia. These residents spent a couple of intensive weeks exploring the past, present and future of weather lore in a time of turbulent climate changes.This residency will continue in our mobile studio in Adelaide, Australia in February 2014, and may involve Sarah's possible return to Europe for a Future Fabulators public event. | [[http://fo.am/improving-reality/|Improving Reality conference]] and [[http://libarynth.org/improving_realities|Transcript of Maja's talk]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/|Practical Utopias]]\\ |
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| A few days afterwards, Maja and Nik welcomed the **residency** of Sarah Neville and her daughter Florence in Castelletto Parenzana, FoAM's temporary residence in Istria, Croatia. These residents spent a couple of intensive weeks exploring the past, present and future of weather lore in a time of turbulent climate changes.This residency will continue in our mobile studio in Adelaide, Australia in February 2014, and may involve Sarah's possible return to Europe as part of a Future Fabulators public event. |
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| [[http://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|Sarah Neville and family in residence]]\\ |
| [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes, in Progress]]\\ |
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Since September when the project started, we facilitated several scenario planning workshops, fine-tuning the method to different audiences and subject matters. We worked with the Vooruit to design the future of the Possible Futures festival. At the Future Fabulators kick-off in Linz, we investigated what we'd like the legacy of the project to be and more widely - what will happen to fear in about thirty years. With Timelab and Lisa Ma we focused on the future of invasive species in Ghent and beyond. Nik Gaffney participated in AltArt's version of forecasting in Cluj, Romania, looking at the future of the city. We're currently designing a series of scenario workshops with M-ITI (Madeira Institute of Technology) to assist their staff, students and sponsors in designing technologies and programmes that could be used in some of Future Fabulators' physical narratives and pre-enactments. We're also plotting and scheming workshops and seminars for the spring, summer and autumn of 2014, but first we'll take a couple of months to delve into the research of the philosophy, ethics, aesthetic and methodology of speculative culture that will inform most of our activities in 2014. Keep your eyes on the Future Fabulators wiki to find out more as the project develops. | Since the start of Future Fabulators in September, we've facilitated several scenario planning workshops, fine-tuning the method to different audiences and subject matters. We worked with the Vooruit to design the future of the Possible Futures festival. At the Future Fabulators kick-off in Linz, we investigated what we'd like the legacy of the project to be and more widely -- what will happen to fear in about thirty years. With Timelab and Lisa Ma we focused on the future of invasive species in Ghent and beyond. Nik Gaffney participated in AltArt's version of forecasting in Cluj, Romania, looking at the future of the city. We're currently designing a series of scenario workshops with Madeira Institute of Technology to assist their staff, students and sponsors in designing technologies and programmes that could be used in some of Future Fabulators' physical narratives and pre-enactments. We're also plotting and scheming workshops and seminars for the spring, summer and autumn of 2014, but first we'll take a couple of months to delve into the research of the philosophy, ethics, aesthetic and methodology of speculative culture that will inform most of our activities in 2014. Keep your eyes on the Future Fabulators wiki to find out more as the project develops. |
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[[http://fo.am/future-fabulators|Future Fabulators]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/future-fabulators|Future Fabulators]]\\ |
[[http://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|Sarah Neville and family]] [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes| In Progress]]\\ | |
[[http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/| Work in progress]] | |
[[http://fo.am/improving-reality/|Improving Reality] conference]] and [[http://libarynth.org/improving_realities|Transcript of Maja's talk]]\\ | |
[[http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/|Practical Utopias]]\\ | |
[[http://fo.am/human-invasive-interaction/|Human Invasive Interaction]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/human-invasive-interaction/|Human Invasive Interaction]]\\ |
| [[http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/|Future Fabulators work in progress]]\\ |
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== Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == | == Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == |
== Synaesthetic experiences == | == Synaesthetic experiences == |
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[Sphaerae]\\ | **Sphaerae** is a portable multidome performance space designed by Cocky Eek of FoAM Amsterdam. It featured outside the Ars Electronica building during this year's festival, and in association with Synergetica Lab and ArtScience interfaculty hosted a diverse program of performances and compositions. During TodaysArt festival in The Hague the inflatable was set up at the city hall, attracting huge crowds of Hagenezen (locals) intrigued by the large, strange object emitting weird sounds. Future plans for Sphaerae include performances in South America and other continents, in collaboration with Synergetica and ArtScience. |
Sphaerae is a portable multidome performance space designed by Cocky Eek of FoAM Amsterdam. It featured outside the Ars Electronica building during this year's festival, and in association with Synergetica Lab and ArtScience interfaculty hosted a diverse program of performances and compositions. During TodaysArt festival in The Hague the inflatable was set up at the city hall, attracting huge crowds of Hagenezen (locals) intrigued by the large, strange object emitting weird sounds. Future plans for Sphaerae include performances in South America and other continents, in collaboration with Synergetica and ArtScience. | |
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Meanwhile, Theun Karelse has been traversing across the Iberian peninsula on a foldable bike for the second instalment of Default, which is focussing on the Shifting Baseline syndrome. Some of the biotic samples taken from the expedition were transplanted to on the Neringa peninsula in Lithuania during the Nida Art Colony Techno-Ecologies residency program, as a demonstration of assisted migration. | Meanwhile, Theun Karelse has been traversing across the Iberian peninsula on a foldable bike for the second instalment of **Default**, which is focussing on the Shifting Baseline syndrome. Some of the biotic samples taken from the expedition were transplanted to on the Neringa peninsula in Lithuania during the Nida Art Colony Techno-Ecologies residency program, as a demonstration of assisted migration. |
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[[http://sphaerae.net|Sphaerae]]\\ | [[http://sphaerae.net|Sphaerae]]\\ |
[[http://fo.am/blog/2013/11/23/assisted-migration/|Techno-Ecologies]] | [[http://fo.am/blog/2013/11/23/assisted-migration/|Techno-Ecologies]] |
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[EITC: The homecoming] | Unfolding under the gently coordinating hand of Perfoming Pictures of Sweden, the Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures was a project in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies, bringing together Europeans and Mexicans in participatory workshops and multisensory exhibitions. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for **Fiesta del EITC -- The Homecoming**, where we celebrated the project's closure. Designed and co-ordinated by Christina Stadlbauer, Loes Jacobs, Bart Vandeput, Pacome Beru and others, the event was an opportunity for dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest two years of intercontinental travels, co-creations and discussions that emerged from the project. |
Unfolding under the gently coordinating hand of Perfoming Pictures of Sweden, the Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures was a project in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies, bringing together Europeans and Mexicans in participatory workshops and multisensory exhibitions. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for Fiesta del EITC -- The Homecoming, where we celebrated the project's closure. Designed and co-ordinated by Christina Stadlbauer, Loes Jacobs, Bart Vandeput, Pacome Beru and others, the event was an opportunity for dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest two years of intercontinental travels, co-creations and discussions that emerged from the project. | |
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nadine and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting. We saw old friends like Dougald Hine, Geska and Robert Brecevic, and met some of the project partners for the first time. Daniela Porras and Luis Conseco, together with their child Dante, spent a month at FoAM working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the EITC exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand painted beer coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about the meeting between Belgium and Oaxaca. Aside from the exhibition that displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the gallery event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald Hine's movie //Memories of Development,// a long conversation with Gustavo Esteva. With teary eyes our Mexican residents made us promise that we will come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home. | nadine and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting. We saw old friends like Dougald Hine, Geska and Robert Brecevic, and met some of the project partners for the first time. Daniela Porras and Luis Conseco, together with their child Dante, spent a month at FoAM working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the EITC exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand painted beer coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about the meeting between Belgium and Oaxaca. Aside from the exhibition that displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the gallery event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald Hine's movie //Memories of Development,// a long conversation with Gustavo Esteva. With teary eyes our Mexican residents made us promise that we will come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home. |
== Supporting FoAM's community == | == Supporting FoAM's community == |
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To end we'd like to mention the work of FoAM Brussels focused on facilitation and support of a wider community of generalists, transdisciplinary and speculative cultural proletariat. We call this work our 'services' for the cultural sector and beyond. Firstly we're delighted to let you know that the digital catalogue of our physical library is now online. Alkan has been hamstering in the library cataloguing the publications and sorting them on shelves, so it is much easier to find what you're looking for in our humble but exciting collection of more than thousand books, magazines, grey literature and other ephemera informing and emerging from FoAM's activities. From 2014 we're planning to hold Open Library Days and Salons, allowing not just our audiences, but also ourselves to spend time in the library and perusing its materials. Soon after the library was catalogued, our first residency after the summer recess in 2013 used the library in the most creative manner. Lies Declerck and her two year old son Adi spent a week in FoAM cooking from FoAM's food-related books. This was one of the most unique and generous residency we have ever experienced. Lies experimented with the fine line between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we took care of Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of an arts lab. Aside from short-form residencies, the library is extensively used by our two macrotransients Luea Ritter and Michka Melo. Luea is working on writing about how to deal with transitions on a personal, organisational and even societal scales, and Michka (having just started a few weeks ago) has wallpapered a room in post-its containing plans to disentangle from a scientific career and explore the boundaries between self sufficiency and interdependence. Their transiencies are continuing well into 2014, so you can expect updates in the next newsletters. Both Luea and Michka are supported through FoAM's coaching programme, lead by the executive coach and FoAM's board member Vali Lalioti. There are still a few places left for cultural workers in Flanders and Brussels in need of coaching, so if you're interested, drop us an email at bxl@fo.am. | FoAM Brussels continues to be involved in the facilitation and support of a wider community of generalists -- th transdisciplinary and speculative cultural proletariat. We call this work our 'services' to the cultural sector and beyond. Firstly we're delighted to let you know that the digital catalogue of our physical library is now online. Alkan has been hamstering in the library cataloguing the publications and sorting them on shelves, so it is much easier to find what you're looking for in our humble but exciting collection of more than thousand books, magazines, grey literature and other ephemera informing and emerging from FoAM's activities. From 2014 we're planning to hold Open Library Days and Salons, giving not just our audiences but also ourselves a chance to spend time in the library and peruse its materials. |
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[[http://fo.am/services/|Services of FoAM bxl]]\\ | Soon after the library was catalogued, our first residents after the summer recess in 2013 used it in the most creative manner. Lies Declerck and her two-year-old son Adi spent a week in FoAM cooking from recipes found in FoAM's food-related books. This was one of the most unique and generous residencies we have ever experienced. Lies experimented with the fine line between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we took care of Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of an arts lab. |
[[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|Digital Catalogue of the FoAM library]]\\ | |
[[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/| Lies and Adi Declerck]]\\ | |
[[http://fo.am/macrotransiencies/| Macrotransiencies]\\ | |
[[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]] | |
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* hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft --> i don't know how to fit this in... maybe leave it out until the next newsletter? | Aside from short-form residencies, the library is used extensively by our two current macrotransients, Luea Ritter and Michka Melo. Luea is working on how to deal with transitions on personal, organisational and even societal scales, and Michka (having just started a few weeks ago) has wallpapered a loft in Post-Its outlining plans to disentangle from a scientific career and explore the boundaries between self-sufficiency and interdependence. Their transiencies will continue well into 2014, so you can expect further updates in coming newsletters. Both Luea and Michka are supported through FoAM's coaching programme, lead by executive coach and FoAM board member Vali Lalioti. There are still a few places left for cultural workers in Flanders and Brussels who feel the need for coaching, so if you're interested, drop us an email at bxl@fo.am. |
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| [[http://fo.am/services/|Services]] offered at FoAM bxl\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/macrotransiencies/|Macrotransiencies]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/|Lies and Adi Declerck's microresidency]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]]\\ |
| [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|Zotero digital catalogue]] of the FoAM library\\ |
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Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- but we're working hard on a new project: Doing Nothing. In view of the malaise pervading the cultural sector but also throughout the wider society of Europe and beyond and fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points, FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM and our networks, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page. | hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft --> i don't know how to fit this in... maybe leave it out until the next newsletter? |
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[[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing|Idleness in progress]]\\ | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- but we're working hard on a new project: Doing Nothing. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector but also throughout the wider society of Europe and beyond, FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM and our networks, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page. |
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| [[http://fo.am/doing-nothing/|Doing Nothing]]\\ |
| [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing|Idleness in progress]] |
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To conclude this newsletter, we'd like to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and a beautiful 2014, with much space for speculation, experimentation, good food, fun, games and inspiring culture, and above all else plentiful time to do nothing and enjoy the abundance of life, whatever it may bring. See you on the other side of the holidays, in person or online… | To conclude this newsletter, we'd like to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and a beautiful 2014, with much space for speculation, experimentation, good food, fun, games and inspiring culture, and above all else plentiful time to do nothing and enjoy the abundance of life, whatever it may bring. See you on the other side of the holidays, in person or online… |
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| ==== Outline ==== |
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| Intro, summarising 'topics', looking back and forward. |
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| === Food culture === |
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| * biochymickal arts http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/ |
| * smoke & vapour http://fo.am/smoke_vapour/ |
| * foodprints online http://fo.am/foodprints-book/ |
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| === Speculative culture === |
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| * FF - outline of what we want to achieve, why ff, plans for 2014 and insights from: |
| * improving reality - http://fo.am/improving-reality/ |
| * practical utopias - http://fo.am/summit-practical-utopias/ |
| * small revolutions - (needs details) |
| * parenzana residency |
| * * http://lib.fo.am/improving_realities - conference paper, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEX8q4HUkI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUCZHVgTT_EpA9-pBaP1aotg |
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| === Citizen Science – FoAM Kernow === |
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| * Future of Live coding (Kernow) |
| * The Farm Crap App (Kernow) |
| * "Where is that Nest? (Kernow) |
| * Smartphones in ecology and evolution: a guide for the app-rehensive (Kernow) |
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| === Synaesthetic experiences – FoAM Amsterdam ==== |
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| * sphaerae |
| * in linz & todaysArt |
| * http://fo.am/sphaerae/ |
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| === Supporting a community of generalists === |
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| * hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft |
| * doing nothing |
| * residencies |
| * 3 families (lies, sarah, mexicans) |
| * macro: luea, michka |
| * coaching (available spots in 2014) |
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| === Misc === |
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| * EITC Homecoming |
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| for orientation and/or comparison here is last winter's edition: http://fo.am/blog/2012/12/22/foam-newsletter-winter-2012/ |