FoAM - Bxl
As of 2020 FoAM's activities in Belgium occur in the shape of FoAM Zenne.
This page provides an archive of the FoAM Bxl studio between 2000 & 2019.
Born as the Art & Science department of Starlab in 2000, FoAM became and independent association in Brussels in 2001. Its shape, size and focus were as dynamic as the people involved. What began as a mixed reality lab transformed by mid 2000s into a transdisciplinary arts laboratory (kunstenwerkplaats). After a decade of working with hundreds of artists and generalists in our studio on the Kanal, FoAM Brussels transformed again. In 2017 we shapeshifted into a loose collective without fixed premises, focusing on the connections between art and nature, art and care. In 2020 FoAM Bxl, always a proponent of flow, became FoAM Zenne.
groWorld
The groWorld initiative brings together three “forces” capable of transforming the world on human and ecological scales: culture, gardening and technology. These three strands of inquiry inform and s…
Future Fabulators
Future Fabulators encourages us to imagine, experience and investigate living in a range of possible futures, designed as artistic experiments today. It takes uncertainty as a creative challenge in c…
Resilients
Resilients are people of all ages preparing for uncertain futures by experimenting with resilient forms of living and working as a form of artistic practice. The Resilients project collects, creates,…
Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN)
The central focus of the PARN project is dealing with the possibilities and problems of creating, presenting and representing narratives in physical space. Storytelling is a fundamental human capacit…
Splinterfields Workshops
Splinterfields is an initiative of several Brussels-based organisations (Constant, FoAM, nadine and OKNO) active in the fields of technological and media arts to foster collaborative, agile and flexi…
Luminous Green
Reflecting on the role of the arts, design and technology in an environment of turbulence, Luminous Green is a series of gatherings about a human world that is enlightened, imaginative, electrified a…
Open Sauces
Open Sauces is a collection of projects, writings and events related to sharing of food, food culture and food systems. Although their format might change, these activities all combine tasting, socia…
TRG
TRG is a responsive environment shaped by four fundamental forces made apparent on the human scale: the fictional equivalents of gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear interaction. It unf…
Activities
- Advice Centre
- Arboreal Identity
- Art in the Kitchen
- Bitesize Lectures
- Borrowed Scenery
- Doing Nothing
- Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures
- f0amfr0th
- Future Fabulators
- Germination X
- groWorld
- Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators (gRig)
- Hosting and Process Facilitation
- Library Salons
- LIREC
- Luminous Green
- lyt_A
- Marine CoLABoration
- Open Sauces
- Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN)
- Research Gatherings
- Residencies
- Resilients
- Rooted Hauntology Lab
- Splinterfields Workshops
- TGarden
- Transgenerational learning encounters
- Translucent Futures
- TRG
- txOom
- Voice of Nature: THE TRIAL
- Workshops
- .x-med-k.
Events
- Analoog naar Digitaal
- Drawn on Sound
- Edible Perfume
- Europalia: Ancestors & Rituals
- f0amfr0th07: Inflatable Meeting Room
- FO[am]tones (aka FOtones special edition)
- Food and Farmtruck
- Krachtige natuur, unieke mens exhibition
- Kunst in de Keuken 2018
- Kunst in de Keuken 2019
- LGRU Live
- Long Now Lab - Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
- Open Kitchen
- Performance Philosophy Biennal
- P~lot
- Reading & Research Group II - Fluid Fundaments - Working with ghosts
- Research Gathering Spring 2018
- RESHAPE: Lublin Forum
- Resilients: The Flotilla
- Rooted Hauntology Lab / Séance #1
- Softwear: Active Materials
- Swamp gathering
- The Art of Futuring
- The art of organising hope - workshop art & activism
- The Wild Brunch: Beyond Brunch
- Through Art We Care
- Voedsel 2.0
- Voice of Nature: The Trial - Mid-creation showing
- Workshop voor NMEDO cursus Helix
Blog posts
- Voicing the dawn
- Down the rabbit hole
- Silent tea at Beyond care retreat
- Communicating through Silence
- RADMIN Reflections
- Open Studio at FoAM Kernow
- Visible and invisible autism
- FoAM has left the building...
- Resilients Gatherings
- On human and vegetal resilience in Southeast Asia
- Hanging
- Talking about food
- Autumn appearances of FoAM and its members
- Vegetal Culture
- Play and Games
- Cycland video
Publications
- A Futurist's Fieldguide
- A Lab Approach for Marine CoLABoration
- Biomodd as a Paradox
- Borrowed Scenery: Cultivating an Alternate Reality
- Borrowed Scenery short film
- Cursory Speculations on HPI
- Digital Art and the Glitch
- Durf Falen: Keep it Simple
- Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times
- Exercises in Colloquial Luminescence
- Exploring and Designing our Future Robot Companions
- Fashion Ecologies: The Evolving Field of Responsive, Sustainable Textiles
- FoAM has left the building...
- Formalising Operational Adaptive Methodologies, or Growing Stories within Stories
- From Representation to Performance
- Futurish
- Glitch: Designing Imperfection
- gRigging container
- GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture
- groWorld HPI
- groWorld Initiative
- Grow Your Own Worlds
- Het verlangen te kunnen omdenken
- Human-Scale Systems in Responsive Environments
- Improving Realities
- In human format
- Introduction to Advanced Error Engineering
- Luminous Green
- Magic, Mistakes and the multitude of the matter
- Making Things Physical
- Multiplex translations | Entangled aphasia
- Open-Ended Processes, Open Space Technologies and Open Laboratories
- Open-grown dialogues in trans-local experiences
- Open Sauces
- PARN: Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives
- Particle Systems for Artistic Expression
- Performing Publicly in Responsive Space
- PHOEF – The Undisclosed Poesis of the Photovoltaic Effect
- Prehearsal Pocket Guide
- Prehearsing the Future
- Resilients Handbook
- Resilients – We Can Change the Weather
- Sensual Communication in Hybrid Reality
- starter organism
- stillness
- stillness (series)
- Structured Growth and Grown Structures
- Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality and Distributed Wilderness
- T-Garden
- The Case of Edmond A. – a displaced system for alpha repair
- The Story of Tarot
- Thriving in Uncertainty
- [tk's:um]
- Transient Patchiness: The Slippery Territories of groWorld
- TRG
- TRG: On Transient Realities and Their Generators
- Triggers are for Guns; Reality is Continuous
- Unmanned Aerial Ecologies
- Words which Matter to People
- .x-med-a.