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D plus one
“the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid”
Lecture Performance with Fanny Zaman

What do we observe?

The setting is the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. ECX is the current centre of control of the newly installed Ethiopian market system. Ethiopia today ranks n°5 in the world list of emerging countries by producing primary physical goods (commodities).

Stories, rumours and attitudes

The workshop organized by Filemon at the youth center " A place to live" in Laeken and guided by Bram (Aifoon) and Rasa (FoAM)
was introducing different tastes and sounds by association methods.
The children involved created visual expressions of different edible ingredients and sounds that surround us. They correlated tastes and sounds in order to create an imaginary edible neighborhood.

The 7 young participants kids started their first session blind folded, smelling and tasting different vegetable extracts and ingredients.

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

FoAM hosts a workshop to become a facilitator in the The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an amazing and very powerful way for co-creation, proto-typing and unlocking the full potential of any organisation. It helps diverse groups of people engage in creative way with and develop innovative solutions to complex issues.

In collaboration with Per Kristiansen, one of the original developers of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, we are offering a facilitator training in Brussels in two open programs, both lasting two days: Stage 1 and Stage 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

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The March Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Wednesday 23 March 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium. (Please note the scheduling change!)

We'll be checking out Rachel Sussman's Long Now talk entitled ?The World's Oldest Living Organisms?. Rachel Sussman is a photographer whose works have been showcased throughout Europe and North America. (Perhaps you've seen some of her work already.) Her project has carried her around the world to document ancient lifeforms.

In her 02010 talk at TED Global in Oxford she summarized her project thusly:

During this research gathering Kiran Gangadharan -who has an engineering and design background- will present a round-up of Project Decode. The gathering covers an outline of the project’s main goals and research approach through various studies, conceptual design and iterations and the collaboration with dancers and artists.

Kiran started his residency at FoAM on January 1st, 2011, continuing his research on 'growth'. The new node in his ongoing research is "Movementors", in which he relates to growth and form through the metaphor of movement.

RadioMUS-E – Lunch with Insects

On March 1st 2011, two school classes visit FoAM to broadcast their radio-programme and investigate edible insects.

In RADIOMUS-E children of elementary class develop and produce a radio-transmission based on the Flemish classic 'Erik of het klein insektenboek' by Godfried Bomans. Following two months of work with Elias Vervecken (bruitage) en Rebecca Lenaerts (theatre, radiostories), two classes from two Brussels' schools (De Wimpel, Elsene and St-Joris, Brussels), get a chance to meet each other on the 1st of March at FoAM.

The February Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Thursday 17 February 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium.

We live in an era of distant frontiers. The seas (spanning 71% of Earth's surface) might one day support permanent human settlements - but few take that distant possibility seriously. Recent exoplanet discoveries are tremendously exciting yet space remains, for all but the very few, almost unthinkable.

For the months of January and February 2011, Kiran is in residency with his ongoing research - the Project Decode.

The research is on looking at the prospects of an existence of geometrical structures in living and non-living beings and its potential application using new technologies and materials.

To re-look, the geometrical state of art which can bring new dimensions to surfaces/spaces in its physical well being of living and non-living existence.

Decoding the various elements in nature to its various geometrical relations and reflecting to a question why beauty is there.

Everything that lives and cohabits on earth is composed by mechanisms of living processes- animist encounter on reading the traces of life, growth and infiltration. The research addresses the space as a living organism, a body. It suspends, a poetic and symbolic interference that proposes the illness of the space as a metaphor, a reveal of spatial malfunctions, disabilities, and failures of its metabolism. The transformation on the space involves a methodology, trying to understand how organisms grow in common grounds of invasion, infiltration, catastrophe and collapse.

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/

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Concentrations and Temporary photoElectric Digestopians - Tuesday, 18th of January 2011:
The FoAM team works on the impact of a possible disaster scenario, where getting enough nutrients requires resilient practices. During the last wars or other economically stressful situations, many governments paid scientists to come up with highly concentrated products to remedy certain nutrition deficits and to provide energy to the body.
For Burning Ice, FoAM will prepare a vegetable concentrate, in the course of an entire day. The product, rich in anti-oxydants will be

The January Long Now Brussels meetup will take place Thursday 13 January 02011 at 19:00 at FoAM Belgium.

We'll be watching Jesse Schell's talk on the gamification of society, entitled "Visions of the Gamepocalypse". This is one of the most thought-provoking and entertaining talks I've encountered in the SALT series. Whether you're a hard-core gamer or crypto-Luddite bookworm, this talk is sure to make you think about the direction we're heading.