FoAM - exhibition

Immanentia 04

maja — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:09:10 +0000

Start: 2011-09-10 00:00 GMT+2

End: 2011-10-02 00:00 GMT+2

Immanentia, an interactive application, story and artwork by FoAM and Performing Pictures, is shown at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Dortmund. In Immanentia, the viewers are drawn into a world of Lina Kusaite’s patabotanical drawings of phantasmagoric trees and plants. The drawings describe a place for day-dreams of a little girl, found at the doorstep of the children's house in Rose Cottage Home in Dickleburgh around 1890. The artwork is created for a i3DG, an interface for iPhones/Pods/Pads, able to turn 2D imagery into 3D - creating a minuscule theatre-stage in the palm of your hand. i3DG is created and designed by Jitsuo Mase.

More about the festival:

http://dortmund.bunka-jmaf.jp/?lang=en

HALIKONLAHTI - FOOD CHAINS

christina — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:32:12 +0000

Start: 2011-09-09 12:00 Europe/Helsinki

End: 2011-10-30 18:00 Europe/Helsinki

Halikonlahti Green Art is a collection of art exhibits which winds round the Bay of Halikko. The 2011 festival is the third of a series of 3 exhibitions exploring Art and Ecology in the Baltic Sea Region, focusing mainly on the aspects of landuse, energy, production, nutrition, waste and politics.

FoAM is participating with 2 art-works and 1 worklab.

In the installation "It is so dark inside the hive", by Christina Stadlbauer, an osmatic auditorium connects the human senses with the world of insects. The work is based on investigations and experimentations with honeybees. In the installation Christina uses mainly wax as concentrated medium to trigger our oldest, most primal sense proposing an unusual multi-sensorial visit.

'Phoefarium' -a Temporary 'Lapidarium' of "PhoEf"- by Bartaku contains sketches, video, ongoing experiments and photographs inspired by the increasingly intimate entanglement of mind and body with the transformations of light into electrical-, nutritional- and human energy. The works are micro-interventions, fragments of Bartaku's artistic research driven narrative "PhoEf: the undisclosed poésis of the photovoltaic effect'.

Bartaku is also directing 'Temporary photoElectric Digestopians [TpED] Worklab #7 as part of a series of
co-creation worklabs in which the participants/creators are invited to reenact and build upon the 'events' leading up to the occurence of photoelectric bites on October 20, 2010 in Brussels [Be].

Halikonlahti Green Art is taking place at the Roundhouse of
Salo Art Museum Veturitalli, Mariankatu 14,
24240 Salo
Finland

More info:
http://www.halikonlahti.net/index.php
http://apiary.be
http://libarynth.org/luminous/phoef

ArtBots 2011

nik — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:12:46 +0000

Start: 2011-10-07 00:00 GMT+2

End: 2011-10-09 00:00 GMT+2

ArtBots is pleased to announce that the sixth international ArtBots exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots will take place at the Ugent UFO-building in Gent, Belgium on October 7-9, 2011. Creators of talented robots are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the show.
We have no fixed idea of what qualifies as robotic art; if you think it's a robot and you think it's art, we encourage you to submit your work. Regardless of whether it's hi-tech, low-tech, or neg-tech, we're interested in the ideas you're working with, not just the gear. Proposals for workshops, performances, and other kinds of participation are also welcome.

Each ArtBots is a bit different; the location changes and we invite new humans to co-curate the show with us. We hope that by changing the specifics of the show each year we can keep it accessible to a diverse range of people, works, and ideas.

This year's co-curators are: Douglas Repetto (ArtBots), Kurt Van Houtte (timelab), and Nik Gaffney (foAM)

ArtBots 2011 is a joint production of: timelab (Gent), FoAm (Brussels), University of Gent, ArtBots, and The Columbia University Computer Music Center

http://artbots.org/2011/

Immanentia03

lina — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:30:29 +0000

Start: 2011-06-07 19:30 GMT+2

End: 2011-09-18 19:30 GMT+2

Immanentia @ Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities exhibition, in MAD (museum of arts and design ) in N.Y.
June 7 - September 18, 2011

Performing Pictures and FoAM – once again have been invited to be part of exhibition, and this time - as part of the worlds of "magic realism" of Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities at the MAD museum in N.Y.

Virtual reality has been a powerful factor in shaping our social and artistic environment since the 1970s.
Today, innovations in digital technology have completely transformed film, video, and television: extraordinary special effects and three-dimensional imaging created using computer-based software are commonplace.
Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities illuminates the phenomenal renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video.

Immanentia – a palm top theatre piece
The dream life has always been there. Mere shapes ever so clear and distinct. It is as if her little mind invented these shapes, labyrinths of the mind and for the mind - to drift away and try to lose oneself in - even though the mind cannot entirely trick itself. She always finds her way back. Abandonment. Mirroring. Pealing the thin layers of an onion, which in turn ends up as the perfect metaphor for the cluster of will, attention and dreams that we call consciousness. Sliding and hopping between different layers, she will perform together with you; a choreography, a game with no end and a music piece assembled into a sublime instrument to be played out by the sensitive user.
The Patabotany drawings of phantasmagoric trees and plants which intertangle and interdepend on each other, becomes a daydream world for a little girl who was found at the doorstep of a children's house in Rose Cottage Home in Dickleburgh around 1890. She carried all of her worldly possessions with her– clutching only 'a chestnut and a penny'. Picture courtesy of The Children's Society, UK.

The artworks was created for a special interface called i3DG, that turns 2D into 3D on iPhones, iPods and iPads - in the palm of your hand.

Concept and production by Performing Pictures and FoAM
i3DG_Palm Top Theatre by Jitsuo Mase and Tom Nagae.

more info:
http://www.performingpictures.se

http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=advsearch&r...
http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=searchreque...

Immanentia02

lina — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:27:47 +0000

Start: 2011-04-27 19:30 GMT+2

End: 2011-05-29 00:00 GMT+2

On the 27th of April, Palm Top Theatre exhibition travelled to the new location of EMAF festival. Together with other two artworks, 'Immanentia', was selected to be part of European Media Art Festival in Osnabrueck, Germany
The EMAF is one of the most important forums of international Media Art, and is an open laboratory for creative and artistic experiments that help shape media and the aesthetics of their content.

Immanentia – a palm top theatre piece

The dream life has always been there. Mere shapes ever so clear and distinct. It is as if her little mind invented these shapes, labyrinths of the mind and for the mind - to drift away and try to lose oneself in - even though the mind cannot entirely trick itself. She always finds her way back. Abandonment. Mirroring. Pealing the thin layers of an onion, which in turn ends up as the perfect metaphor for the cluster of will, attention and dreams that we call consciousness. Sliding and hopping between different layers, she will perform together with you; a choreography, a game with no end and a music piece assembled into a sublime instrument to be played out by the sensitive user.
The Patabotany drawings of phantasmagoric trees and plants which intertangle and interdepend on each other, becomes a daydream world for a little girl who was found at the doorstep of a children's house in Rose Cottage Home in Dickleburgh around 1890. She carried all of her worldly possessions with her– clutching only 'a chestnut and a penny'. Picture courtesy of The Children's Society, UK.

The artworks was created for a special interface called i3DG, that turns 2D into 3D on iPhones, iPods and iPads - in the palm of your hand.

Concept and production by Performing Pictures and FoAM

Images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157625770900809/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxEtMqMABPQ

More information:
http://www.v2.nl/files/2011/archive/works/palm-top-theater-artworks/imma...
http://www.emaf.de/index.php?id=70&L=2
http://www.v2.nl/events/palm-top-theater
http://www.performingpictures.se/

Immanentia01

lina — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:41:53 +0000

Start: 2011-01-21 00:00 GMT+1

End: 2011-02-13 00:00 GMT+1

Immanentia – a palm top theatre piece

Performing Pictures and FoAM – have been invited by curator Maki Ueda and V2 to create a piece for the Palm Top Theater exhibition at the upcoming Rotterdam International Film Festival. The piece, Immanentia, is based on Lina's organic and flowing illustrations from the Groworld project, brought to life by Robert Brecevic.

The Patabotany drawings of phantasmagoric trees and plants which intertangle and interdepend on each other, becomes a daydream world for a little girl who was found at the doorstep of a children's house in Rose Cottage Home in Dickleburgh around 1890. She carried all of her worldly possessions with her– clutching only 'a chestnut and a penny'. Picture courtesy of The Children's Society, UK.

The film festival has brought cinema to the large screen. The intimacy of small mobile screens are giving new impulses to the cinematic experience. V2_ will present a series of films and animations small enough to watch in the palm of your hand. The artworks will be created for a special interface called i3DG, that turns 2D into 3D on iPhones, iPods and iPads - in the palm of your hand. Visitors will experience film and animation in a way that is strikingly similar to pre-cinema, when watching a moving image was an intimate and individual experience. At the same time, the Palm Top Theater will offer a glimpse of a cinema of the future in which the developments in mobile communication technology and the changing roles of users and producers will have a profound effect on the future of cinema.

Images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157625770900809/

More information:
http://www.v2.nl/events/palm-top-theater
http://www.performingpictures.se/
http://x4.fo.am/

Toegepast: Fit to Boost!

maja — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:32:41 +0000

Start: 2010-09-08 18:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-11-13 21:00 Europe/Brussels

FoAM has a groWorld installation, pruned and cared for by Lina Kusaite at the "Toegepast: Fit to Boost!" exhibition.

Rasa Alksnyte, Christina Stadlbauer and Maja Kuzmanovic prepare their food interventions at the Toegepast Dream Team Dinners.

Rasa Alksnyte works with one ingredient: goat, to elaborate a day-long food performance.

http://www.designvlaanderen.be/en/about-design-flanders/toegepast-fit-to...

SEAFair

maja — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:31:25 +0000

Start: 2010-10-02 00:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-10-31 00:00 Europe/Brussels

FoAM presents groWorld at the 7th edition of SEAFair “The apparatus of life and death”. The fastival creatively responds to the evolution of society in the sphere of bio-politics, thereby visualizing of our possible futures. SEAFair 2010 conveys the story of artists, critics and theorists attempting to navigate through the maze of the newly constructed global bio-political apparatus, in a changing social matrix, in which the rules are just being set. The artists in the exhibition "The apparatus of life and death" present an array of approaches — from the humorous and playful to the deadly serious — regarding the way we think about the origins of life, the scale and dimensions of living matter, to relationships with nourishment, death, fashion and appearance.

http://travel.mediamatic.net/page/58620/en

Farming the City

theun — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:51:16 +0000

Start: 2010-09-11 00:00 GMT+2

End: 2010-09-19 00:00 GMT+2

CITIES Foundation together with the Municipality of Amsterdam, is co-organizing an exhibition/workshop about Urban Agriculture. This event will take place during the Week of Sustainability, a 9 days program made by the city of Amsterdam to support and promote sustainable projects in the city.

CITIES, a platform for urban research based in Amsterdam, is currently researching and promoting alternative approaches for the development of temporary urban agriculture practice. The exhibition is part of the 'Farming the City' project.

FoAM is exhibiting the foraging application Boskoi for mobile phones.

http://farmingthecity.net/

groWorld revisited

maja — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:33:57 +0000

Start: 2009-04-08 18:00 Australia/Adelaide

End: 2009-05-02 18:00 Australia/Adelaide

Groworld: borrowed scenery at the "Biotech Art Revisited" Exhibition at the Experimental Art Foundation.

http://www.eaf.asn.au/2009/biotech09.html

the Blob, playspace for children

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:06:41 +0000

Start: 2007-02-25 14:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2007-02-25 18:00 Europe/Brussels

Disco Kids, a playful afternoon for children and their parents, with music, movies and endless bouncing on the blob.

In collaboration with Lowdjo.
http://www.recyclart.be/content/view/13596/10/lang,nl/

Final Call Supercrew

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:08:25 +0000

Start: 2007-07-21 00:00 GMT-7

Screening of In Human Format DVD by Bent Object and FoAM at the Portland Art Center.

None of the above

nik — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:10 +0000

Start: 2006-12-08 11:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2006-12-16 11:00 Europe/Brussels

FoAM's trans-local lab is prepared to continue 'business-as-usual' wherever they go. Their members are trained in the art of 'Nista Nas Ne moze Iznenaditi', that enables them to make art in uncertain conditions, variable situations and heavy weather (as well as operating as extreme programmers, growing their own food and guiding the masses into shelters in case of unexpected war). This month, they are ready to set up a survey camp for the expedition to Altitude 1000.

Camp Inventory: Food. Art. Technology. Ecology. Design. Fortune. Plant matter. Pareconomy. Radical Bureaucratisation. Strange attractors. Tsunami pants. Inflatable patterns. Active materials. Publication as Performance. Hi-tech. lo-fi. DIY. People: Rasa Alksnyte, Jack Anderson, Kayle Brandon, Cocky Eek, Nik Gaffney, Theun Karelse, Lina Kusaite, Maja Kuzmanovic, Steven Pickles, Kate Rich, Pieter de Wel.

Unpack as required.

http://www.altitude1000.be/festival2006/foam.php

surface dialogue

nik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:53:04 +0000

Start: 2003-12-05 09:51 Europe/Brussels

End: 2003-12-11 09:51 Europe/Brussels

Rachel Wingfield creates reactive, luminous surfaces and objects through the use of new technologies enabling familiar products to take on a new dimension.

http://loop.ph

Rachel's research explores electronically reactive, light emitting surfaces as a form of visual communication in built spaces. The flat light source, electroluminescence is applied to traditional interior textiles in order to create sensed environments and with the use programming and sensors surfaces can be made responsive to their surroundings, providing a visual and luminous reflection of its environment. One of the key concerns is how light can be used to relieve the problems of sufferers of seasonal affect disorder, SAD, as the absence of daylight can cause severe medical problems. Light has a profound impact on our emotional and physiological being and by integrating illumination into our everyday objects and surfaces we can enhance our lives for a sense of well being. Work is created that visually illustrate the constant dialogue that occurs between our environment and its materiality. Biomimetics and growth are key elements alongside a strong reference to a textile heritage and its possible new role.

Flat display technologies are used to form reactive skins of spaces. The initial work uses fixed printed imagery of electroluminescence but with further research looks to produce an active dot-matrix print where the forms and patterns are generated solely from the sensor data, resulting in actual image growth across the surface. Like the actual physical world of living plants and organisms the material surface too will rely on environmental inputs to live and grow. This development would incorporate a more sophisticated display material. By treating the material surface as a screen with a dot-matrix function systems of growth can be achieved using simple graphic L-Systems that can be programmed to evolve naturally depending on their sensory input. The material would be biomimetic in behaviour and function in the built environment, surfacing and containing space with a continuing flow even extended to the exterior of our bodies bringing a richer visual language to the our skin, as can be seen in nature with aquatic organisms that luminesce with morphing communicating patterns.

Under the name loop Rachel Wingfield launched Digital Dawn, a reactive window lamp at 100% Design in London September where she was short listed for best new comer 2003 in the 100% Design Blueprint Awards. Digital Dawn functions as an ambient lighting product that illuminates in response to its surroundings. The window lamp digitally emulates the process of photosynthesis using electroluminescent technology. Light sensors monitor the changing ambient light levels of a space triggering the growth of organic foliage on the blind. The darker a space becomes the brighter the blind will glow maintaining a balance in luminosity. A natural environment will appear to grow and evolve on the window lamp, exploring how changing light levels can have a profound and physiological effect on our sense of well being.

In Brussels, Rachel will also exhibit the Light Sleeper, a silent alarm clock. An illuminating, personalised alarm integrated into your bedding that gently wakes you and you alone in the most natural way. Ever since the beginning of time light has controlled our body clock telling us when to sleep and when to wake. As lifestyles are rapidly changing with increased travel and demands on our time, people's natural body clocks are out of sync. This pillow and duvet simulates a natural dawn that eases you into your day. Light Sleeper Bedding is made with electroluminescent wire hand couched between silk and cotton wadding and maintains a traditional soft textile aesthetic.

Artist's Biography

Rachel Wingfield graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 with an MPhil in textiles. She now works as a freelance designer and researcher working with the integration of electronics and display technologies into textiles and interior surfaces, addressing future living concepts. Rachel was a finalist for the Peugeot Design Awards winning the development prize in 2002 for Light Sleeper Bedding and featured on BBC's Tomorrows World 'Best New Invention 2003'

Digital Dawn was commissioned by Future Physical in collaboration with the Royal College of Art's Innovation Unit and Firstsite Gallery and was presented at the Eco-Technology strand in February 2003. The Eco-Technology strand explores the physical body in the natural environment in a digital age, focusing on the creative use of technology to facilitate sustainable and responsible use of the environment. Future Physical commissions represent some of the most pioneering and cutting edge digital work being created globally today.

'Sound Modulated Light #1' by Edwin van der Heide

nik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:45:22 +0000

Start: 2003-06-05 09:43 Europe/Brussels

'Sound Modulated Light #1' is environment of light and sound. The sound is not present acoustically but is radiated by the lights. The light sources are the carriers for the sound. The space consists of a design of multiple lights. Every light source has a double role. It's part of the light design and part of the sound design. The sound is modulated on top of the light by means of intensity modulation. The lights are flickering but mostly with a speed which not perceivable with the eye.

The visitors of the installation get a special hand held device which makes the modulated light audible as sound on a headphone. It can be seen as a light receiver instead of a radio receiver. The balance between the different sounds depends on the light falling on the receiver. By moving (the receiver) in space the different (combinations of) lights are sensed. The sound changes according to the movements because every light is radiating a different sound. The space itself is dynamically changing over time. The light composition is changing and the interrelated sound composition as well.

'Sound Modulated Light #1' is an environment in which the visitors are invited to explore and interact with the space.

In the year 2000 Edwin van der Heide realised the first version of 'Radioscape'. There are certain similarities between 'Sound Modulated Light' and 'Radioscape'. 'Radioscape' however is designed for the public space and not related to light nevertheless it has resulted in the first experiments for 'Sound Modulated Light'

This installation was co-produced with Argos (for the Argos festival 2003) and was supported by the Flemish Ministry of Culture.