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f0amfr0th02: Interfaces imagined

2003-07-19 20:30 Europe/Brussels

f0amfr0th 02: Imagine the interfaces between the corporeal and the digital environments, in 1 month, 1 year, 1 decade, 1 century. Come and share your wishes, plans and musings in an informal setting with FoAM, Code 31 and their esteemed guests. Jonah Brucker-Cohen (MIT Media Lab Europe, Ireland), Katherine Moriwaki (University of Dublin, Ireland) and Stephen Barrass (CSIRO, Australia) will be presenting their work and ideas, accompanied by a musical and gastronomic 'Aperitivo'.

f0amfr0th09: Man - Horse

2008-01-04 17:30 Europe/Brussels

To celebrate (or perhaps invoke) its fertility, we will kick-off 2008 in a `down to earth' way. Our first event of the year will be the screening of Audrius Mickevicius' documentary about farmer Jonas and his horse. Jonas is one of the few remaining examples of the nearly extinct "Man – Horse" generation. A generation based on the existential relationship, a symbiosis of sorts, between the human and the animal.

We invite you to join us for the screening and a drink:

What: f0amfr0th09: Man - Horse
When: Friday, 4 January 2008, 17:30

f0amfr0th08: Infernal Noise

2005-07-14 12:00 Europe/Brussels

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/

f0amfr0th01: Litha

2003-07-21 07:01 Europe/Brussels

"There is no night in my land.... it is forever summer's twilight" -- Lady Titania

Bitesize Lectures

Bitesize lectures are periodic public events organised by FoAM in Brussels. The events consist of lectures and presentations, by emerging and established practitioners in a variety of fields. The talks last for approximately one hour, with another two to three hours reserved for discussions, moderated by one of FoAM's collaborators. The presentations are complemented by thematic foods and drinks, providing an informal and relaxed atmosphere. We designed this series to allow in-depth conversations with people who are great speakers and have interesting things to say, without being rushed.

Public Diet: Recipes for Disaster

2008-11-13 19:00 Europe/Brussels
2008-11-13 22:00 Europe/Brussels

Recipes for Disaster
A feasibility dinner for sustained sustenance...

Artists, cultural organisations and members of the assorted cultural proletariat are invited to a potluck dinner and round table conversation on nutrition, catering and survival in the art world and the cultural sphere.

New beginnings...

2008-06-20 20:00 Europe/Brussels

At the height of the summer solstice*, we have a couple of exciting things to celebrate at FoAM in Brussels. A few months ago, we moved into a wonderful new space & we'd like to open its doors to our friends on midsummer night. We have also been busily redesigning our website and will launch it sometime during the solstice celebrations at http://fo.am.

Luminous Green

Reflecting on the role of the arts, design and technology in an environment of turbulence





public experiments

FoAM’s work as a whole could be seen as one large public experiment. However, that’s is not what this page is about. What we call ‘public experiments’ are events which allow our audiences to participate in a creative work-in-progress, that can benefit from their feedback. A public experiment at FoAM can consist of a prototype for an installation, a software demonstration, an improvised performance, or a tasting menu. These works are still in their ‘experimental phase’, without having their edges polished to be considered ‘finished’.

Sprinckelink

Sprinckelink is a collection of shows held in the front-space of FoAM Lab in Amsterdam. In this former-shoeshop a series of exhibitions takes place that started in May 2005. From the street a diverse program is offered to passers-by. Sprinckelinxkes are the old Dutch term for sparks that fly off. The lab-window serves as a portal for sparks to jump onto our neighbourhood inhabitants.

tapedeck diamonds

2007-02-08 20:00 Europe/Amsterdam

This Sprinckelink event at Foamlab in Amsterdam brings together sound collectors for a session of sharing the brightest sonic diamonds from their archives of recorded sounds of landscapes, animals and music. This results in an evening of crisp, flabby or spongey sound-snippets from collectors reacting to the presented audio files. Some true gems come from a Russian collection of frog and fish sound-recordings accompanied on the LP by the comments of a Russian biologist.

When We Were Kings!

2006-12-21 15:49 GMT
2006-12-31 15:49 GMT

For the ideal Christmas dinner, all the guest sport impressive beards. To celebrate the second Christmas-special a festive dinner is organized at Foamlab just next to the exhibition. Dress-code: Biblical, which for obscure reasons implies beards. So beards and curtains for everyone. This jolly congregation sits down at a table full of food and miniature roman soldiers that seem to have fled the arid landscape of the diorama of the show and found a true Cockaigne, a land of plenty on our table.

Hooggeeeeeerd Publiek!

2006-05-18 19:30 GMT
2006-05-18 23:30 GMT

Sawdust on the floor, in the food and up your clothes in this show at Foamlab Amsterdam. The circus has come to Foamlab inspired by the tiny handcrafted circus by the artist Calder. Today we concentrate on the importance of play in creative practices. Designers, architects, artists and performers come together for a session of make-up and glitter.

An Excursion into the Rainforest

2006-03-02 20:00 GMT
2006-03-02 23:00 GMT

Biologists, artists and Sanctuary supporters are among the participants in the Spiegelaer event at Foamlab. They are hurtled head-first into the rain-forest canopy during this research report by Theun Karelse on a fieldtrip to the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary. A incomplete but detailed introduction of the workings of the rain-forest, plants and parts of plants is paralleled by the hypnogotic vision of the forest in the work of cineast Werner Herzog and his work with a navigable balloon in South America.

Matthew Barney Night

2005-09-01 19:30 GMT
2005-09-01 23:00 GMT

The artist Matthew Barney comments on his rich worlds in a splendid interview on internet. This modern day Hieronimous Bosch is a great inspirer and the Foamlab team goes through the offices in Amsterdam to collect objects suitable for recreating such worlds in the lab. The interview and special food-design and suitable clothing create a full Barney experience for a night about this confident artist and his huge works.