FoAM - presentation

Pecha Kucha, Amsterdam

theun — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:18:26 +0000

Start: 2011-04-27 20:00 GMT+2

End: 2011-04-27 22:00 GMT+2

FoAM will be presenting the Boskoi mobile phone app for foragers during Pecha Kucha in Amsterdam.

Open Sauces in Pula

maja — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:25:21 +0000

Start: 2011-04-30 20:00 GMT+2

End: 2011-05-01 00:00 GMT+2

In Pula's emerging cultural centre 'Galerija Makina', Maja Kuzmanovic talks about FoAM's approach to food & resilience, diet as medicine, kitchen art & science, urban hunting & gathering and other topics collected in the Open Sauces book. Several delicacies from this book will be spiced up with seasonal Istrian wild foods and offered for degustation.

Galerija Makina: http://on.fb.me/icu7qt
Open Sauces: http://opensauces.cc

FoAM talk at Pixelache

dave — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:19:30 +0000

Start: 2011-02-22 18:00 GMT+2

End: 2011-02-22 20:00 GMT+2

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...

Digital Art panel in Davos

maja — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:50:49 +0000

Start: 2011-01-29 15:30 GMT+2

End: 2011-01-29 16:15 GMT+2

Maja Kuzmanovic moderates a conversation with Aaron Koblin at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. The conversation will focus on fusing art, science and technology in the digital age.

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data visualization; work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns.
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/

http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2011

Toolquiz conference

lina — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:56:37 +0000

Start: 2010-12-14 18:56 GMT+1

End: 2010-12-16 18:56 GMT+1

Toolquiz conference in Rogaland, Stavenger, Norway

Toolquiz aims at defining relevant public policies able to support the cultural sector as a key factor regarding the blossoming of knowledge based society based on a sustainable development of human capital.
Its objective is to developing, in each partner region, suitable strategies, policies and tools on the link between the cultural and creative sector, the knowledge-based economy and the employability, by the identification and exchange of good practices.
It should thus enable to improve the competitiveness and the economic development of the partner territories, by focusing more particularly on their human capital.

In order to achieve such objective, Toolquiz partnership is bringing together 6 local authorities, 5 technical experts, one scientific expert and one political expert

Hendrik Tiesinga will represent FoAM at the conference

Toegepast Research Gathering

maja — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:30:06 +0000

Start: 2010-10-08 18:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-10-08 21:00 Europe/Brussels

FoAM holds a research gathering at the Design Vlaanderen Gallery, in collaboration with Toegepast: Fit to Boost! (Design Vlaanderen & Design Platform Limburg)

With:
Michaël Verheyden, Designer, Belgium
Rula Sayaf, Information Systems & Software Engineer, Syria

facilitated by Maja Kuzmanovic

Research gatherings are designed for creative practitioners to discuss their works in progress, research questions & creative processes in a casual and interactive setting. There are no formal speeches or presentations, but instead the guests are invited to share brief remarks, research questions & conceptual sketches to set the scene, followed by a conversation between the guests & the audience. The goal of Research Gatherings is to receive valuable feedback early in a creative process, in an open & non-judgmental manner. For this session an additional goal has been included – to bring together two guests from different fields & cultures, who explore interaction between tradition & innovation from different perspectives.

The main question of the Toegepast Research Gathering is "What can we learn from interaction between traditional creative disciplines (such as crafts or dance) and innovation, to make our works more sustainable?" To help answer this question, the guests present their works in progress, followed by a moderated conversation between the guests & the audience, 'lubricated' with especially designed food & drinks.

In other words, the purpose of this session is to understand each other's creative process and expected results, hearing from two Syrian artists & technologists and a Belgian designer both working on the cusp between tradition & innovation, by getting an insight into their respective perspectives & experience.

In addition to the Research Gathering, FoAM is present at the Toegepast: Fit to Boost! with a groWorld installation, as well as in the design of the food programme for "By Design for Design" and "Dream team dinners".

Flemish Primitives

maja — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:21:24 +0000

Start: 2010-02-08 11:30 GMT+2

End: 2010-02-08 12:00 GMT+2

As a guest of the international gastronomic event The Flemish Primitives, FoAM will present a sneak preview of the Open Sauces book.

http://www.theflemishprimitives.com/

AIA lecture Betwixt Realities

maja — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:32:35 +0000

Start: 2010-04-19 18:30 Europe/London

End: 2010-04-19 20:30 Europe/London

As a part of the Spring Lecture Series of the American Institute of Architects, Maja Kuzmanovic is invited by Anna-Maria Orru to give a lecture about FoAM's work in the field of sustainability and ecologically inspired creative practices.

The aim of this lecture series is to expose architects and designers to the field of multi-disciplinary sustainable practice through innovative thinking and solutions to our environmental and social challenges. What makes 2010 particularly appropriate for this topic is that there is a heightened necessity towards sustainable design and ecological responsibility post the recent COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
http://www.aiauk.org/

The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/

gRig at Pecha Kucha

maja — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:53:12 +0000

Start: 2009-11-06 20:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2009-11-06 23:00 Europe/Brussels

A group of 6 representatives from FoAM and nadine present the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators, its people & activities and announces the birth of Resilients.

http://pechakucha.architempo.net/

groworld at Postflux

maja — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:50:34 +0000

Start: 2009-11-07 00:00 Europe/Brussels

Maja Kuzmanovic presents groWorld and gRig, talks about play, storytelling and scrying at the Post Flux conference in Brussels.

http://www.post-flux.architempo.net/

groworld at dorkbotlondon

dave — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:13:51 +0000

Start: 2009-12-16 19:00 GMT

End: 2009-12-16 22:00 GMT

Featuring the pine scented and sparkling...

* "I'm going to put you back in your box" - Sarah Angliss
The 30s voder and ventriloquism revisited
* Tim Hunkin
Electricity Sex and Death
* Alex McLean
Acid sketching
* Circuits for a sordid SatNav - James Larsson
A characterless SatNav unit is made a bit more human...
* Dave Griffiths
groWorld - gardening, permaculture and games

More info: http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbotlondon65/

Groworld at Silicon Hackney

dave — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:57:14 +0000

Start: 2009-09-10 18:30 GMT+1

End: 2009-09-10 21:00 GMT+1

A talk on groWorld and a demonstration of the current incarnation of the game.

http://internetpro.meetup.com/56/calendar/11215003/

Transmediale 2010

nik — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:11:06 +0000

Start: 2010-02-05 13:00 GMT+2

End: 2010-02-05 22:00 GMT+2

Maja Kuzmanovic will be taking part in the "Long Conversation" during Transmediale 2010.

http://www.transmediale.de/en/futurity-long-conversation

EcoArt, at Waag

theun — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:47:38 +0000

Start: 2009-05-26 20:00 GMT+2

EcoArt, lecture in cooperation with artist and scientist Boo Chapple, environmental artist / ecological researcher Brandon Ballengée and artist, bioartist Andy Gracie from England and FoAM member Theun Karelse.

Tuesday 26 May, at 8 pm in the Theatrum Anatomicum of the Waag. Entrance is free.

groWorld at Openlab London

dave — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:36:02 +0000

Start: 2009-04-25 12:00 GMT+1

End: 2009-04-26 00:30 GMT+1

Dave Griffiths will be presenting groworld at Openlab#5 at Cafe OTO, Dalston, London.