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MonsterCode StrandLAB

First public experiment in the MonsterCode research-line around Almere beach during the Summer Sessions at StrandLab Almere.

Convivia, refugia. Not always everywhere

On distributed convivia and networked refugia, shelters from the always everywhere of the Digital Age.

Change is coming to the FoAM Kernow studio

We’ve been up and running since 2014 - much has changed since then, and the time for a shift in direction has come. This post is to outline what’s changing and why.

Becoming Realists of a Larger Reality

A guided tour along FoAM's interconnected paths through the larger reality.

[Open Call] Online Lodging and Virtual Travel to MSR=HAAG SAEZ

In the first round of V-AIR (virtual artist-in-residence) at Minamisanriku = Hague Special Art Experiment Zone (SAEZ), we are recruiting two Netherlands-based artists to make an artistic version of Online Lodging and Virtual Travel.

Results from the Great Bower Building Experiment

Showcase of participants' attempts at building bower bird architecture.

(Algo|Afro) Futures artist announcement

We're very happy to announce the four artists selected for the (Algo|Afro) Futures programme, who will be approaching live coding from diverse range of practices including spoken word, digital art and electronic music.

Techniques Journal: Animating Worlds

Techniques Journal is a new peer-reviewed publication examining techniques for intervening in the many crises our planet faces today. The inaugural issue features our article Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies (CPT.R7).

AccessLab for libraries - end of project review

We’ve come to the end of the latest series of AccessLab workshops. This post is a debrief on how we’ve progressed and a review of the feedback.

Art, Technology and The Cosmos

The opening panel of the event on Art, AI and Everything Else, started with not knowing, ventured into augmented sociality, ancestral knowledge, corporate cyborgs, ecological intimacy and more.

Hiking with Monsters, a curriculum

A semester of fieldwork and embodied research practices, where design students dive into the world of a wild animal in their area.

Woven robots for dancing together during a pandemic

We've repurposed our maypole robots so people can dance together safely (woven robots don't need to social distance).

Viruscraft evaluation and ask-me-anything

Evaluation of the viruscraft game - what do people learn from playing it, and does it result in any misunderstandings? Also a summary of questions and answers from our virus Ask-Me-Anything session.

(Algo|Afro)futures

(Afro|Algo)futures is a mentoring programme for early career Black artists who want to explore the creative potential of live coding.

The Evidence Support Initiative launch

We’ve been awarded seed funding to pilot a new system to encourage and facilitate scientific researchers to work with their local councils, providing on-demand advice on scientific issues to fit the needs of councillors, and perhaps also passing on the skills to find and use scientific information.

FoAM 02020

A photo album weaving together FoAM's trajectories through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of 02020.

FoAM Kernow 2020 review

A review of the FoAM Kernow studio's activities from 2020.

Tiny Mining

Joining the Tiny Mining sweatshop led by Martin Howse as a mineral exploration of the interior of the human body for rare earth and other mineral resources.

Start from not knowing...

When engaging with art, AI and everything else, start from not knowing, start from where you are. A suggestion, a talk, and a series of questions for the 20th anniversary of the Art Centre Nabi.

Comment bien démanteler ?

This article shares ideas and thinkers trying to figure out how to appropriately dismantle life-destroying extractive industries and economic activity.

A Gathering of Ghosts

A repetition is only interesting if it is a rehearsal.

Dust & Shadow in The Future of Print

How can immersive experiences stimulate engagement with printed books in a library? Here's what the experience looked like from a librarian's point of view.

"Fungi make worlds..."

"...They also unmake them"

Open call for a non-executive director

We are looking to appoint a Non-Executive Director for the FoAM Kernow studio for one year, to build our new advisory team.

Delta Casus

First results from the field exploration of the multi-species futures in the Dutch river delta region, on invitation by the Embassy of the North-sea.

FoAM digest - Autumn 02020

Some of our attempts at sensemaking while navigating uncertainty and the "turbulent times" also known as 2020.

Voicing the dawn

Reflections on rewilding my professional life through experiments with birdsong, on living and working with nature, linking sound, habitat and physiology of the time and place.

Plotting a path

Reflecting on the pandemic as a transitional process, including phases of separation, liminality and re-integration.

Step by step: building tangible livecoded braid robots

Robots as a potential tangible interface for thinking with.

Building a new Pattern Matrix with conductive thread

While processor speeds and the use of computation in our society have increased enormously, it is significant that the materials of electronics construction itself (discrete components soldered on to resin printed circuit boards) has been broadly consistent for well over fifty years.