Events

The February Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Thursday 17 February 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium.

We live in an era of distant frontiers. The seas (spanning 71% of Earth's surface) might one day support permanent human settlements - but few take that distant possibility seriously. Recent exoplanet discoveries are tremendously exciting yet space remains, for all but the very few, almost unthinkable.

Dave Griffiths presents FoAM

Dave will talk about FoAM, who are bringing their Groworld Bazaar to Pixelache in March. He will give more context and background to this project as well as revealing other related and not so related work that FoAM has been developing in recent years. As well as explaining FoAM’s work in connecting plants and people, the talk will include cooking recipes, livecoding, robot cats playing chess, and demos of prototype computer games.

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/pixelversity/programme-2011/dave-griffi...

LAYAR ecologies:

The corporate battle over SmartCities has shifted last December to a race to dominance over monitoring our ecosytems.
This second meetup of Augmented Ecology will be focussing on these recent developments with an overview of the fast changing whirlpool of artistic, scientific and corporate projects that collect data on our environment en ecosystems. Johannes will be showing his LAYAR based air quality network called MIMAQ.

More info:
http://www.meetup.com/augmentedecology/events/16177090/

RadioMUS-E – Lunch with Insects

On March 1st 2011, two school classes visit FoAM to broadcast their radio-programme and investigate edible insects.

In RADIOMUS-E children of elementary class develop and produce a radio-transmission based on the Flemish classic 'Erik of het klein insektenboek' by Godfried Bomans. Following two months of work with Elias Vervecken (bruitage) en Rebecca Lenaerts (theatre, radiostories), two classes from two Brussels' schools (De Wimpel, Elsene and St-Joris, Brussels), get a chance to meet each other on the 1st of March at FoAM.

During this research gathering Kiran Gangadharan -who has an engineering and design background- will present a round-up of Project Decode. The gathering covers an outline of the project’s main goals and research approach through various studies, conceptual design and iterations and the collaboration with dancers and artists.

Kiran started his residency at FoAM on January 1st, 2011, continuing his research on 'growth'. The new node in his ongoing research is "Movementors", in which he relates to growth and form through the metaphor of movement.

//Pixelache - groWorld Bazaar, Helsinki, March 10 to 13, 2011

During 4 days in March 2011(10/03 – 13/03) FoAM presented a groWorld
Bazaar at Pixelache festival, using the Aronia Melanocarpa (Chokeberry)as a common connection to bring together game designers, gardeners,electronics experimenters and urban foragers with a set of hands-on-workshops, discussions and experiments.

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2011/03/groworld-bazaar-pixelache/
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/programme/groworld-bazaar...

March 10th

//Pixelache - groWorld Bazaar, Helsinki, March 10 to 13, 2011

During 4 days in March 2011(10/03 – 13/03) FoAM presented a groWorld
Bazaar at Pixelache festival, using the Aronia Melanocarpa (Chokeberry)as a common connection to bring together game designers, gardeners,electronics experimenters and urban foragers with a set of hands-on-workshops, discussions and experiments.

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2011/03/groworld-bazaar-pixelache/
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/programme/groworld-bazaar...

March 10th

//Pixelache - groWorld Bazaar, Helsinki, March 10 to 13, 2011

During 4 days in March 2011(10/03 – 13/03) FoAM presented a groWorld
Bazaar at Pixelache festival, using the Aronia Melanocarpa (Chokeberry)as a common connection to bring together game designers, gardeners,electronics experimenters and urban foragers with a set of hands-on-workshops, discussions and experiments.

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2011/03/groworld-bazaar-pixelache/
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/programme/groworld-bazaar...

March 10th

//Pixelache - groWorld Bazaar, Helsinki, March 10 to 13, 2011

During 4 days in March 2011(10/03 – 13/03) FoAM presented a groWorld
Bazaar at Pixelache festival, using the Aronia Melanocarpa (Chokeberry)as a common connection to bring together game designers, gardeners,electronics experimenters and urban foragers with a set of hands-on-workshops, discussions and experiments.

http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2011/03/groworld-bazaar-pixelache/
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/programme/groworld-bazaar...

March 10th

Cross species social networks,

The forth AE-meetup takes closer look at the question: Which social media platforms will animals and plants be using? And the possibility of using modern game interfaces like Kinect for cross species interaction or animal studies.

http://www.meetup.com/augmentedecology/events/16552509/