FoAM - sym

Radio Mycelium

maja — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:59:24 +0000

Start: 2011-12-08 10:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2011-12-09 17:00 Europe/Brussels

Radio Mycelium tutorial includes the construction of a series of experimental situations examining a new networked imaginary, the single organism of the fungal mycelium, in relation to pathogenic, electromagnetic communications.

"A mycelial network has no organs to move the world, no hands; but higher animals with manipulative abilities can become partners with the star knowledge within me and if they act in good faith, return both themselves and their humble mushroom teacher to the million worlds all citizens of our starswarm are heir to." -Terence McKenna. The Mushroom Speaks

The mycelium, a fungal network of thread-like cells, represents a truly underground communications network, spreading out over vast areas of earth substrate, acting with ecosystem intelligence as an interface across across symbiotic networks such as plant and tree roots.

PARN's Radio Mycelium tutorial aims to actively examine the cross-spore-germination between two parallel wide area networks; between radio-based communication technologies and the single organism network of the mycelium. Fungal transceivers sprouting mycelial antennas form an imaginary underground network. Diversity of human networks is mapped across fungal diversity in the urban environment. The influence of electromagnetic carrier wave on the mycelial network is to be examined.

The well-documented transformative potential of the mycelium (for example, decomposing pollutants) is invoked to remediate an increasingly pathogenic electromagnetic networked culture.

A series of experimental situations will be established and studied by participants, who will also learn how to construct simple measurement devices, and culture shiitake, pink oyster and Enokitake mushrooms, amongst other mycelium (simple moulds). A short field trip will find and map winter mushroomings of electromagnetic fungi in Brussels.

The workshop is facilitated by Martin Howse: http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

This tutorial is a part of PARN: http://x4.fo.am/parn

Supported by the Flemish Authorities and Culture 2007 - 2013 Programme of the European Commission.

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

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...

groWorld at Pixelache

dave — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:35:13 +0000

Start: 2010-03-25 18:35 Europe/Helsinki

End: 2010-03-28 18:35 Europe/Helsinki

groWorld will be at this years Camp Pixelache, allowing people to touch, taste, play and plant the fruits of the project.

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2010/programme/camp-pixelache/

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/

Vlaamse Overheid

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:36 +0000

Culture 2000

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

groworld / sym

_pix — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:48:40 +0000

groWorld's 'sym' trajectory is looking at plants as organisational principles for the culture of the 21st century. It is about transforming cultural experiences, informed and inspired by biological and ecological systems.

sym projects: groworld game, germination x

sym looks at emergence, diversity, resilience and other properties of Earth-bound systems, to develop a deeper connection between human societies and the rest of the planet. To begin with, sym aims to encourage a stronger connection between contemporary cultural experiences and plant life; in physical, hybrid and cybernetic realities. Within sym, creative practitioners from all walks of life work together to imagine and bring about a greener contemporary culture. We collect and collate knowledge that can enable us to develop the vegetal side of our minds. We weave stories and draw possible futures. Then we rehearse them through play and games, hands-on experiments, generative media and responsive environments. We bring food and food-related systems back into the focus of cultural experiences. We craft biomimetic and biomorphic structures with biodegradable, found and living materials. We make, but also unmake. We design experiences that can be consumed, subsumed and absorbed, in all stages of their lifecycles. Inspired by the necessary process of hibernation, sym sometimes involves doing absolutely nothing.