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 === Live coding and citizen science ===
-FoAM Kernow has been investigating the future of live coding, working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=foam.swarmhubapp|The Farm Crap App]] with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and [[http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/story/nest_game|Where Is that Nest?]] -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar?’, which has been played over 10,000 times.
+FoAM Kernow has been investigating the future of live coding, working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=foam.swarmhubapp|The Farm Crap App]] with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and [[http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/story/nest_game|Where Is that Nest?]] -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to [[http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2013/08/where-is-that-nightjar/|Where is that Nightjar?]], which has been played over 10,000 times.
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 In September Dave Griffiths attended [[http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2013/09/dagstuhl-collaboration-and-learning-through-live-coding/|Collaboration and learning through live coding]], a seminar in Schloss Dagstuhl that explored live coding with experts in the fields of education and software engineering, leading to some exciting new collaborations (watch this space). He has also co-authored a new publication featured in the //Ecology and Evolution Journal//: [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.888/full|Smartphones in ecology and evolution: a guide for the app-rehensive]]. It includes discussions of the DORIS lobster mapper, [[http://fo.am/boskoi/|Boskoi]] and [[http://www.ushahidi.com/|Ushahidi]].
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 [[http://sphaerae.net|Sphaerae]] is a portable multidome performance space designed by Cocky Eek of FoAM Amsterdam. It recently travelled to Linz, where it was featured at this year's [[http://www.aec.at/totalrecall/en|Ars Electronica festival]], hosting a diverse program of performances and compositions. Subsequently, the inflatable was set up in the city hall of The Hague for the [[http://todaysart.nl/2013/|TodaysArt festival]], attracting huge crowds of Hagenezen (locals) intrigued by the strange large object emitting weird sounds. Future plans for Sphaerae include performances in South America and other continents, in association with [[http://www.synergeticalab.com/|Synergetica Lab]] and [[http://www.interfaculty.nl/|ArtScience Interfaculty]]. For more info see the [[http://li.fo.am/sphaerae/|Sphaerae blog]].
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 Meanwhile, Theun Karelse has been [[http://www.theunkarelse.net/text.html#baseLine|traversing the Iberian peninsula]] on a foldable bike for the second instalment of [[http://fo.am/splinterfields-default-1/|Default]], which is focusing on the Shifting Baseline syndrome. Some of the biotic samples taken from the expedition were transplanted to the Neringa peninsula in Lithuania during Theun's residency at the [[http://nidacolony.lt/|Nida Art Colony]], as a demonstration of [[http://fo.am/blog/2013/11/23/assisted-migration/|assisted migration]].
+Intercontinental exchanges involving FoAM Brussels focused this autumn on the [[http://euroaxaca.org/|Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures]], 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. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for [[http://fo.am/eitc-wrapup/|Fiesta del EITC -- The Homecoming]], where we celebrated the project's closure. [[http://nadine.be/|nadine]] and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting under the gentle co-ordinating hand of [[http://performingpictures.se/|Performing Pictures]] from Sweden. Designed and produced by [[http://apiary.be/|Christina Stadlbauer]], Loes Jacobs, [[http://www.bartaku.net/|Bart Vandeput]], Pacome Beru and others, it was an opportunity for widely dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest insights and some of the more tangible results of project, such as Bart and Christina's agave-inspired artworks developed with the glass artist [[http://www.xaquixe.com/glass/christian-thornton.php|Christian Thornton]]. We saw old friends like [[http://dougald.co.uk/|Dougald Hine]], Geska and Robert Brecevic, as well as a few of the other project partners for the first time. Aside from the exhibition, which displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald's movie //Memories of Development,// which featured him and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Esteva|Gustavo Esteva]] in conversation.
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-Intercontinental exchanges involving FoAM Brussels focused this autumn on the [[http://euroaxaca.org/|Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures]], 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. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for [[http://fo.am/eitc-wrapup/|Fiesta del EITC -- The Homecoming]], where we celebrated the project's closure. [[http://nadine.be/|nadine]] and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting under the gentle co-ordinating hand of [[http://performingpictures.se/|Performing Pictures]] from Sweden. Designed and produced by [[http://apiary.be/|Christina Stadlbauer]], Loes Jacobs, [[http://www.bartaku.net/|Bart Vandeput]], Pacome Beru and others, it was an opportunity for widely dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest insights and some of the more tangible results of project, such as Bart and Christina's agave-inspired artworks developed with the glass artist [[http://www.xaquixe.com/glass/christian-thornton.php|Christian Thornton]]. We saw old friends like [[http://dougald.co.uk/|Dougald Hine]], Geska and Robert Brecevic, as well as a few of the other project partners for the first time. Aside from the exhibition, which displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald's movie //Memories of Development,// which featured him and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Esteva|Gustavo Esteva]] in conversation.
 Leading up to the EITC closing event, two Mexican artists -- Daniela Porras and Luis Canseco, together with their child Dante -- spent a month at FoAM as [[http://fo.am/family-residency-porras-and-canseco/|family in residence]], working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand-painted coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about her experiences in Belgium and Oaxaca. As they were departing with teary eyes, they made us promise to come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home…
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 We're delighted to let you know that the [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|digital catalogue of our physical library]] is now online. Alkan has been cataloguing the publications and sorting them on the shelves, so it is now 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 enjoy reading and sharing our love of books and the written word. If you're interested to peruse the library, email us at bxl@fo.am for an appointment.
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 Soon after the library was catalogued, one of our families in residence used it in the most creative manner. [[http://fo.am/family-microresidency-declerck/|Lies Declerck and her two-year-old son Adriaan]] spent a week at 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 bleeding edge between work and life, art and housework and took care of FoAM and our guests for a week. In exchange we looked after Adi and involved both of them in the daily life of the lab.