previous events for 2008 can be found in the calendar.

• Real Code at Piksel 08 festival
• 48 degrees Celsius
• Winter Solstice

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

• gRig's All Hallow's Eve
• Recipes for Disaster
• Food pairing & Molecular Gastronomy
• Semiotics of the Kitchen Radio
• Edible Perfume

The Dialogue on Art, Culture & Climate Change is an investigation into the role of culture and the arts in the cross-cultural dialogue on climate change between and in Asia and Europe. The project gathers 50 Asian and European artists, designers, architects, cultural practitioners, environmentalists and scientists.

Maggie Buxton will be representing FoAM as one of the event's facilitators.

More information: http://www.culture360.org/artandclimatechange/

FoAM presentation and mini-workshop on 'Creative Innovation' in collaboration with the Social Innovation Park in Singapore.

Moderated by Penny Low

Presentation of FoAM & gRig by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technical University in Singapore

Toilets have been a source of taboo, embarrassment and humour in many cultures. This project explores the subject of toilets and defecation and aims to bring it out in the open. The intent is to create a cafe which makes toilet discussion a table discussion, thereby giving it legitimacy. ‘WcCafe’ would serve coffee and snacks in an environment which is beautiful, refreshing and purposeful.

In progress: http://libarynth.org/wccafe_report

A hands-on workshop involving cranks, solar robots, citrus batteries and the nature of reality for students at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

FoAM presentation at the mini-summit on government support for new media arts.

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_forums.html#asef

Electronic Arts in Turbulent Weather

The Luminous Green panel is an open discussion forum, in which we will examine the five themes of ISEA2008 under the lens of environmental and social turbulence.

Conference participation, including paper presentation "Cursory Speculations on HPI (Human Plant Interaction)" by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney.

http://www.isea2008singapore.org/

FoAM and its collaborators see public events as ways to disseminate our work, meet new people, as well as provide exposure to people and ideas we respect.

We present our work to international conferences, exhibitions and festivals. These activities are scalable interventions - from a lecture given by one of FoAM's collaborators, to a full-grown responsive environment, tended to by a whole team. We prefer to tailor our public events on an individual basis, allowing us to work in a site- and context specific manner.

LIREC aims to establish a multi-faceted theory of artificial long-term companions (including memory, emotions, cognition, communication, learning, etc.), embody this theory in robust and innovative technology and experimentally verify both the theory and technology in real social environments.

[foam]'s network is composed of individuals, collectives, organisations and institutions, who we collaborate with on various aspects of our activities. The network gains its stability from long-term relationships, while the new, or temporary nodes provide the flexibility and dynamics. The resilience of the network lies in its diversity - its nodes vary in size, geographic position, expertise and resources.

Friends and collaborators. past, present and future

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