FoAM - luminous green

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maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:19:08 +0000

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maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:13:57 +0000

Luminous Green Workshop 2007

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:23:51 +0000

Start: 2007-05-01 14:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2007-05-05 17:00 Europe/Brussels

In a time when energy use and electronic waste production should be rapidly decreasing, can media artists comfortably use arsenals of computers and their peripherals in the name of art?

Several artists and designers came together for four days to explore the opportunities and challenges of working to minimise our ecological foot-prints, while maximising our cultural hand-prints. Should we gather together to design and deploy new strategies for functioning independently of power-grids, proprietary networks and established waste disposal networks? How will our artworks change when we can only count on low-power computing for processing and presentation? What kind of displays can we use for audiovisual works, without relying on power-sucking projectors and amplifiers? And - what is the low-power, renewable aesthetics of ecologically sustainable media arts?

Using a collaborative methodology, we learned about designing miniature solar power plants and discussed a waste processing using microwave ovens. We built solar-powered singing robots and looked at designing artworks from a whole-systems perspective. Each day started with a theoretical presentation or a technical tutorial, while the afternoons were reserved for hands-on experiments in small teams. The evenings were filled with screenings, discussions and salon-type presentations, where the participants had a chance to get to know each other, spawn new collaborations, or just chill-out in good company.

Workshop participants: Angelo Vermeulen, Olu Vandenbussche, Patrick De Koning, Robert Brecevic, Geska Anderson, Vahida Ramujkic, Annemie Maes, Steven Pickles, Bart Vandeput, Rachel Wingfield, Matthias, Gmachl, Carole Collet, Cristina della Giustina, Toby Borland, Marko Peljhan, Goran Kuzmanovic, S. Srinivasan Rajan, Tapio Makela, Andrew Morrison, Idunn Sem, Herve Gouget, Nik Gaffney, Lina Kusaite, Rasa Alksnyte, Pieter de Wel and Maja Kuzmanovic.

Luminous Green Open Lab 2007

maja — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:58:06 +0000

Start: 2007-05-05 17:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2007-05-05 23:59 Europe/Brussels

On Saturday the 5th of May 2007, at 5PM, we opened the doors of our lab to everyone who wanted to have a final taste of the first Luminous Green series.

In the Luminous Green Open Lab, the differences between food and fuel, biology and electronics, organic and inorganic chemistry had all but collapsed. The participants discussed and showed the hands-on experiments developed during the Luminous Green Workshop, revisited some of the questions raised during the many discussions and celebrate the end of an intense and inspiring week. The visitors could experience our power generating flower arrangements, solar panels printed with berry pulp and a small swarm of tiny robotic crickets. They could soil their hands with some old-school microscopy, or an emulsion of foodstuffs and electrodes. They added their bit to the discussions on personal fabrication, low-power computing, patterns, crafts and whole systems thinking. The thirsty and hungry among us had a taste of our 'wild, well travelled and leftover cuisine', or have a sip from the bar serving FoAM's famously shaken Luminous Green cocktails.

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lina — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:25:25 +0000