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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. 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 took 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 the phenomenon known as bio-hacking, biopunk or DIY biology. 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 took 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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| [[http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/| Biochymickal Arts workshop]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/biochymickal-arts/| Biochymickal Arts workshop]]\\ |
| [[http://lib.fo.am/biochymickal_arts_2013 | Notes, summaries and references]]\\ | [[http://lib.fo.am/biochymickal_arts_2013|Notes, summaries and references]]\\ |
| [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635582680823/| Biochymickal Arts on Flickr]] | [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635582680823/|Biochymickal Arts on Flickr]] |
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| [Smoke & Vapour]\\ | 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, and 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. Photo documentation also covers the whole production, from preparation to presentation and performance. |
| 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 and evaporated into one other. We held a full dress rehearsal with guests from within the FoAM network first, and 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. Photo documentation also covers the whole production, from preparation to presentation and performance. | |
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| 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. | 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. |
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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. 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. |
| 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 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. |
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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. | 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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| 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://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|Sarah Neville and family in residence]]\\ |
| [[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/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/summit-practical-utopias/|Practical Utopias]]\\ |
| [[http://fo.am/human-invasive-interaction/|Human Invasive Interaction]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/human-invasive-interaction/|Human Invasive Interaction]] |
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| | [[http://libarynth.org/future_fabulators/|Future Fabulators work in progress]]\\ |
| | [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes, 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. |
| [[http://fo.am/coaching|Coaching with Vali Lalioti]] | [[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? | 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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nik