FoAM - website

...grow your own worlds

nik — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:34:40 +0000

FoAM is a research group and a transdisciplinary laboratory for holistic and speculative cultures.

FoAM consists of a network of generalists, committed to supporting and developing a holistic culture. Our members include artists, facilitators, gardeners, cooks, technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, writers and scientists from all walks of life.

FoAM's activities arise from the gaps between traditional disciplines, to uncover and strengthen links & interdependencies between them. The activities are developed in three interconnected streams: creative research, collaborative facilitation and archiving. The activites range from research initiatives and residencies, to workshops and coaching, public events and publishing.

All FoAM's pursuits foster cultural resilience, interdependent collaboration and playful curiosity. We are dedicated to supporting and advancing a community of generalists, people who live and work in the interstitial spaces between professional & cultural boundaries, operating under the motto “grow your own worlds”.

Previous Public events 2008

nik — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:15:35 +0000

previous events for 2008 can be found in the calendar.

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/11/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/10/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/09/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/08/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/07/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/06/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/05/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/04/01/list/all/all

Media Ecologies: Tech Nouveau

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/03/01/list/all/all

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/02/01/list/all/all

Formant of Apparent Morphology

http://x4.fo.am/event/2008/01/01/list/all/all

darcs repositories

nik — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:38:08 +0000

The darcs repos previously found at this URL are currently unavailable. please contact nik.at.fo.am with any questions/requests/commits.

http://x4.fo.am/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi

playing

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greening

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entangling

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feeding

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crafting

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x

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Previous Pulic Events 2000

nik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:55:33 +0000

Current Events | calendar

Transforma[c]tion, FOAM presentation at the Starlab Event, December 2000, Brussels, Belgium

Future Moves - Time Tracking workshop, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, November 2000, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.v2.nl/deaf/

T-Garden, Medi@terra Art Gallery, November 2000, Athens, Greece
http://www.fournos-culture.gr/festival/2000/Medi2000.html

GroWorld, Burning Man Festival, August 2000, Black Rock City, Nevada, USA
groworld

T-Garden, SIGGraph Art Gallery, July 2000, New Orleans, USA

FOAM, presentation and inclusion in the European Cultural Backbone, a network of European Media Labs, July 2000, Brussels
http://platon.ee.duth.gr/data/maillist-archives/sois/msg00242.html

Time based Space, lecture and presentation at v2's Wiretap series, July 2000, Rotterdam
http://www.v2.nl/wiretap/index.php?wiretapID=112&lang=en

Global trends in Culture and Technology, lecture on the founding meeting of the Croatian Future Development Committee, June 2000, Pula, Croatia

Virtuele Realiteiten, lecture at De Balie's 'Things to Come' series, June 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

T-Garden demo, Iwear days, June 2000, Starlab, Brussels

Sauna #1, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, USA

Closed reality, April 2000, Zagreb, Croatia
http://embryo.inet.hr/

Previous Pulic Events 2001

nik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:51:05 +0000

Current Events | calendar

Creative Research @ FoAM , RADICAL Conference, December 2001, Paris, France
http://www.get-radical.net/
[slides]

Le corps et son autre, CIVA, November 2001, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.imal.org/cobrac-workshop/

FoAM , Ways of Working Study Day, November 2001, London, UK
http://www.artsonline.com/space/streams/011107/index.html
[slides]

TGarden playspace, Rotterdam 2001, October 2001, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.v2.nl

Wiretap 7.09: Wireless Taps & Short Wave Commotions V2, September 2001, Rotterdamm, The Netherlands
http://www.v2.nl/wiretap/

Workshop Presentation, Exhibition MicroMuseum, Performance Medi@terra, September 2001, Lavrion, Greece
http://www.mediaterra.org

Tgarden workshop, Ars Electronica Festival, September 2001, Linz, Austria
http://www.aec.at/takeover/

FoAM, Bridge the Gap, July 2001, Kitkayushu City, Japan

Play | No Rules , June 2001, Mediamatic, Amsterdam
http://www.mediamatic.nl
[slides]

FoAM presentation , EC IST workshop, May 2001, Darmstadt, Germany
[slides]

TGarden: long term design, Subtle Technologies Conference, May 2001, Toronto, Canada

Previous Pulic Events 2002

nik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:47:25 +0000

Current Events | calendar

WEAR ME, txOom presentation, Future Physical Network Exchange, 05 - 08 December 2002, Norwich, UK
http://www.futurephysical.org

txOom, responsive environment, 30 November - 08 December 2002, Great Yarmouth, UK
http://x4.fo.am/txoom

txOom public education project, txOom audience research, 25-29 November 2002, Great Yarmouth, UK
http://x4.fo.am/txoom

txOom process lab, txOom professional development workshop, 22-23 November 2002, Great Yarmouth, UK
http://x4.fo.am/txoom

w-orms, Oorsmeer Festival, 03 November 2002, Brugge, Belgium
http://www.brugge2002.be/index_flashed.htm [images]

Glue: case studies on how things stick, panel presentations, ISEA, 27-31 October 2002, Nagoya, Japan
http://isea.jp [stuff]

[ Alive Textiles ], txOom public workshop, 11-16 October 2002, Norwich, UK
http://x4.fo.am/txoom

Free your Mind and Your Wardrobe will follow, lecture for symposium Lookalike Live: Barbie, Lolita en Lara, 11October 2002, NFI, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.nfi.nl

|yt_A. Remote Touch Generator. Version 0.5, MUKHA, 01-07 October 2002, Antwerp, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/lyt_A/

p~lot, txOom public workshop, 15-22 September 2002, Groznjan, Croatia
http://x4.fo.am/p~lot

zeiljurk, by Cocky Eek, Open Haven Festival, 16-18 August 2002, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

FoAM: on growth and form., media mediterranea 4- festival of expressive culture, 12-18 August 2002 Pula, Croatia
http://www.metamedia.hr

wings 03, by Cocky Eek, Oerol Festival, 23 June 2002, Terschelling, the Netherlands
http://www.oerol.nl/

ultroneous ubiquitous unsinew u, Interface theory, culture and design, 13 June 2002, Universiteit van Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Aloni, by Sia Kyriakakos, State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki in conjunction with the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, 06 June - Greece

TransCodecExpress, TransCodecExpress, 06 June 2002, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria + Internet
http://www.timesup.org/closing/tce.html

wings 02, by Cocky Eek, Vliegercircus, 17-20 May 2002, Ijmuiden aan Zee, the Netherlands
http://www.theateraanzee.nl/
[images]

weedy sociality | distributed wilderness, Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, 16-20 May 2002, Seattle, USA
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/
[slides]

Les Friandises Digitales, Dak'Art 2002, Dakar African Art Biennial, 13 May 2002, Dakar, Senegal

on slipping between cracks and the growing of worlds in them. Digital Media Lecture Series, 13 May 2002, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/matWeb/lectures/lectureS02.html
[slides]
[story]

slip/stick. an excercise tightrope balancing above the sludge of creative practices
, lecture for the Critical Upgrade, Reality Check for Cyber Utopias 04-05 May 2002, Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.mi2.hr

tx0om, Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane 2002, 19-27 April 2002, Torino, Italy
http://www.bigtorino.net/

inleiding in het groeien van werelden, We meet no Stranger but Ourself, 27 March 2002, Den Bosch, the Netherlands
http://www.kunstbos.nl/

Introduction to Advanced Error Engineering , Glitch Festival and Symposium, January 2002, Oslo, Norway
http://www.liveart.org/glitch/
[slides]

Previous Pulic Events 2003

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Current Events | calendar

evolve: Minutiae, exhibition of Catherine Walting on evolution of micro organisms on microscopic and holographic media, 18-21 December 2003, /foam/tmp/ on Kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/evolve/

f0amfr0th04: KREV de-auguration of the Temporary Embassy 13 December 2003, /foam/tmp/ on Kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/fr0th/

illumine: Surface Dialogue, exhibition of Rachel Wingfield on responsive luminescent surfaces 05-11 December 2003, /foam/tmp/ on Kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium
http://loop.ph

p~lot, media installation and presentation of the workshop results, 14-22 November 2003, /foam/tmp/ on Kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/p~lot/

p~lot,performance and installation for the Levelup GameFest, 5 November 2003, Tivoli, Utrecht, the Netherlands
http://www.gamesconference.org/2003/index.php?Gamefest

Code 31. Code Communications Camp, open studio, 24 October 2003, /foam/tmp/ on Kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/events/code31.html

illumine: Sound Modulated Light #1, media installation by Edwin v/d Heide, 17 October -02 November 2003, /foam/tmp/ on Kanaal 20, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/illumine/

txOom, DVD Launch and presentation of the project, 03 October 2003, De Waag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://f0.am/txoom/

f0amf0od: Blanc-Mange Cinema, marathon screening and performance at the FoAM lab, 27 September 2003, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/f0od/

illumine: Syncop_tic Structure, responsive environment by Karmen Franinovic (Interaction Design Institute, IVREA) and Yon Vissel (FoAM) at the FoAM lab, 21-24 September 2003, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/illumine/

illumine, presentation of the residency of Isabel Rocamora and Camila Valenzuela, 02 September, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/illumine/

f0amfr0th03: surface tension, rooftop party celebrating inflatable matter, 23 August, FoAM Lab Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/fr0th/swell.html

Imagine Interface, workshop organised by FoAM/Looking Glass/De Waag, 18-21 July 2003, Brussels, Belgium
http://code31.lahaag.org/

f0amfr0th02: Interfaces Imagined, symposium and aperitivo at the FoAM lab, 19 July 2003, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/fr0th/

Digestible Media: A Cooking Class in Interdisciplinary Strategies., 29 June 2003. KUDA, Novi Sad, Vojvodina (Serbia)
http://x4.fo.am/events/2003_kuda

Rambling Responses: The Artist, The User, The Environment and Their Problems., 28 June 2003. KUDA, Novi Sad, Vojvodina (Serbia)
http://www.kuda.org/

f0amfr0th01: litha | midsummer night feast, 21 June 2003, FoAM, Brussels, Belgium
http://f0.am/fr0th/litha.html

Luchtschip, Theater aan zee, 23-25 May 2003, Ijmuiden, the Netherlands
http://www.theateraanzee.nl/

Beauty of Collaboration summit, 21-22 May 2003, Banff, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/bnmi_beauty_of_collab/

Presentation p~lot and txOom. Appendix 2 - diffusion and its topology., 17 May 2003, Media Art Farm, Tbilisi, Georgia.
http://www.farm.ge

presentation of the txOom user research at User_mode, 9-11 May 2003, Tate Modern, London, UK
http://www.usermode.net

txOom: de c o m pr e s s i o n, final presentation of the txOom project - a symposium, publication launch, documentation exhibit and a final party featuring the Australian Synaesthesia Records and many others, 11/12 April 2003, Brussels, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/txoom/

txOom user research, presentation of the user research results on the Future Physical RESPOND network exchange, 6 April 2003, Cambridge, UK
http://www.futurephysical.org/pages/content/resp_env/nex.html

Swings on a Bungee Cord: Proposals for an Elastic Methodology for user Research in Responsive Environments, lecture for Digifest, 29 March 2003, Toronto, Canada
http://www.dxnet.net/digifest

FoAM: New Public Contexts?, presentation at the Society for Arts and Technology, 25 March 2003, Montreal, Canada
http://www.sat.qc.ca

txOom: Data Ecology, public workshop as a part of the txOom project by Time's Up, 27 - 29 March 2003, Time's Up, Linz, Austria
http://www.timesup.org/prop/winter03/index.html

Data Quilting, lecture and concept for program at Dutch Electronic Art Festival, 2 March 2003, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.v2.nl/deaf

txOom: A Balanced Act, experiment as a part of the txOom project by Time's Up, 28 February - 8 March 2003, KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia
http://www.timesup.org/prop/winter03/index.html

formant of apparent morphology, history, present and future of FoAM activities, dorkbot, 22 February 2003, Ghent, Belgium
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotgent/

embriology of evolving spaces, short presentation on the Genderdemicratisch Labyrinth, 14 February 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands
http://www.genderdiversiteit.unimaas.nl/labyrinth.htm [stuff]

Bubbles of Knowledge or Empty Balloons: Dips into thin Air, Opening Week Jan van Eyck Academy, 12 January 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands
http://www.janvaneyck.nl

Previous Pulic Events 2004

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Current Events | calendar

lunch-time lectures: choice, Danica Kuzmanovic on Psychological needs, behaviours and communicative co-existence, 17 December 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium

TRG open lab 02, presenting the latest developments in the TRG media systems and the results of the responsive environments workshop, November-December 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/trg/

lunch-time lectures: 4D, Joost Rekveld about the exhibition in the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and his own experimental works, 26 November 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium

responsive environments, the last workshop in the .x-med-k. series for 2004, 15-21 November 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/xmedk/

lunch-time lectures: Media Choreography, Sha Xin Wei and Harry Smoak on their responsive environments research at the Topological Media Lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 11 November 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium

f0amfr0th07: inflatable meeting room, in collaboration with looking glass and Linda Karlsson. 4 November 2004, Looking Glass, Brussels, Belgium

lunch-time lectures: Performance Space Expression, Sonia Cillari on the 'Investigation of spatial learning: 3D Modeling Theory applied to Real-time Systems', 5 November 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium

FOtones12, visual performance for Cimatics festival, in collaboration with foton, 27 October 2004, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

lunch-time lectures: engaging responsive video, lunch, presentation and discussion with Tom Donaldson and Tina Gonsalves from clutch, 1 October 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium

TRG open lab 01: tornado room, inflatable experiment at theCultuurnacht 25 September 2004, Archief, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Exercises in Colloquial luminescence, panel presentation, 18 August 2004, ISEA, Tallinn, Estonia
http://www.isea2004.net/

tunable ecologies, panel presentation on Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence, 31 July - 04 August 2004, Banff, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=144

FoAM's wearables / sensor systems / wearables and performance, talk / technical workshop / moderation on Inside/Outside Boundary Crossings, a Wearable Design workshop, 31 July - 04 August 2004, Banff, Canada
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=143

MR media worlds, public experiment for the 3rd .x-med-k. workshop, 24-25 July 2004, Halloy, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/xmedk/

lunch-time lectures: audio-cubes, lunch, presentation and discussion with Bert Schiettecatte, 9 July 2004, FoAM Lab, Brussels, Belgium http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~bschiett/

RED#NET, public experiments by Kayle Brandon and Heath Bunting, 05-10 July 2004, Brussels, Belgium
http://duo.irational.org/red_net/

On borders and edges: physical interfaces in mixed reality environments, panel presentations by Kristina Andersen, Vali Lalioti, Alok Nandi and Sha Xin Wei, organised by the IAK in collaboration with FoAM, 29 May 2004, Nadine, Brussels, Belgium

http://x4.fo.am/events/2004_obe/

Disturbance, audition and the betrayal of geometry, paper presentation by Yon Vissel, 28 May 2004, Subtle technologies symposium, Toronto, Canada
http://www.subtletechnologies.com/

SoftBomb, design process, 15-31 May 2004, Looking Glass, Brussels, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/softbomb/

f0amfr0th06: Antepodeans @ FoAM , presentations by Radioqualia on Sonifying space and Lucas Chirnside / Rachael Tempest on softBomb. Associated with the offf04 festival. 14 May 2004, MAP, Brussels, Belgium

fertilisers of apparent morphology, visual performance on FOtones 7.0, 06 May 2004, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.fotonrecords.com/fotones/

readymade bureaucracy, by Lina Kusaite, 03 May 2004, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.beursschouwburg.be/

f0amfr0th05: Bombing from within, Mayday celebration in ost.europa style. Associated with the offf04 festival. 01 May 2004, FoAM, Brussels, Belgium

drift: cocky's kites, performance on the International Kite Festival, 20-25 april 2004, Weifang, China
http://x4.fo.am/drift/

Vampire's Ball, Vampire's Garden, media and space design for the closing party of the BIFFF, 27 March 2004, Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film, Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.bifff.org/en/

groWorld, symposium, exhibition and gathering session at "The Art in the Biotech Era", 26 February - 04 April 2004, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/program/biotech.asp

te gast2:fO.am, responsive environment, chill out space, elevator pitches, lockery.... , 10 February 2004, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.beursschouwburg.be/

readymade, f0amf0od performance, 09 February 2004, Beurschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.beursschouwburg.be/

Previous Pulic Events 2005

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Current Events | calendar

Alive or dead?, bite size lectures by biologically inspired artists Angelo Vermeulen and Catherine Watling. 01 December 2005, 20:00, FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium

software: realtime animation, Master class and open lab lead by Dave Griffiths and Nik Gaffney. 13-17 December 2005, FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
http://x4.fo.am/xmedk/

lyta: distance touch generator, permanent installation for the Phaeno Science Centre. Museum opening: 24 November 2005, Wolfsburg, Germany
http://x4.fo.am/lyt_A/

foam's play, presentation during Open Lab of Block 23: The Grand Integration Game. 20:00, 16 November 2005, DasArts, Mauritskade 56, 1092 AD Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.dasarts.nl

human/machine interactive experience, round-table with Patti Maes and Daniel Franco. 20:00, 14 November 2005, OKNO, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium

http://okno.be/en/past/expo_55.html

"16". electro-botanical, luminescent window-display in collaboration with foton and loop.ph, opening 03 November 2005, exhibition open from 04 November 2005 - 27 January 2006, Recyclart, station brussel- kapellekerk, Ursulinenstraat 25, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
http://www.recyclart.be/

softwear: active materials, Bite-Size Symposium, Master class and open lab lead by Joey Berzowska and Rachel WIngfield. 25-31 October 2005, FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels
http://x4.fo.am/xmedk/

trg-blob, responsive environment. 9 October 2005, Happy New Ears / Sonokids Festival, fabriekspand H. Hart, Kortrijk
http://www.happynewears.be/nl/2005/10/09/

Experiments in audiovisual botany #3 visual performance for microFOtones 3.0 / Nuit Blanche, 01 October 2005, Courtyard of Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels
http://www.foton.be/

Experiments in audiovisual botany #2, performance for 5daysoff Festival, 17 July 2005, Montevideo, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam.

http://www.5daysoff.nl/

f0amfr0th08: Infernal Noise, with Postworld Industries' Infernal Noise Brigade and Filastine. 14 July 2005, FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels
http://www.postworldindustries.com/

Stories from the flesh factory, bite size lecture by bio-technologist and bio-artist Brian Degger. 14 June 2005, 19:00-20:00 FoAM Lab, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, B-1080 Brussels

watertanden, food performance, accompanied by the sounds of Lowdjo. 12
June 2005, New Atlantis festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.illuseum.com/atlantis/1-new-atlantis.htm

TRG at Fotones 18.0, TRG closing party as a part of fotones18, in collaboration with Foton. 01 June 2005, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

http://x4.fo.am/trg/

transient reality generators, symposium + performances by Time's Up and Kibla. 30-31 May 2005, Nadine, Brussels, Belgium

http://x4.fo.am/trg/

the past, present and future of transient reality generators, conference presentation at the 'space and perception' workshop. 19-21 May 2005, RIXC, Riga, Latvia

http://www.rixc.lv/

imaginary physics: trg and the man behind the curtain, conference presentation on the 'data ecologies workshop part II'. 13-14 May 2005, Time's Up, Linz, Austria

http://www.timesup.org/laboratory/DataEcologies/index2005.html

groWorld seedbombing, guerilla gardening at NCSU. 16-18 April, Bristol, UK

http://x4.fo.am/groworld/

trg, transient reality generation at kibla. 11-13 and 17-20 March 2005, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia

http://x4.fo.am/trg/

.x-med-k./nmt : a collaborative output-project, closing event of the .x-med-k. project. 18 February 2005, Plateau, Brussels, Belgium

http://www.okno.be/xmedk/output.html

subliminals, screening of 2 DVDs for the Fotones Subliminal edition. 22 January 2005, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

vampire ball, screening of the DVD during a performance by Lowdjo on the muviments festival. 14 January 2005, Castello Medievale Itri (LT), Italy