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Three Brussels art labs invite you in Koolmijnenkaai 30-34. OKNO opens their rooftop garden and Open Greens-project to all. You can taste urban honey and drinks made of plants from the garden. You can nibble on FoAM's detoxifying treats to help you fight urban afflictions, spiced up with plants from the Kanal area. Q-O2 invites the sound artist Pierre Berthet for a concert using waterdrops as an instrument.

FoAM is present as one of four Belgian artistic laboratories at the E-Culture Fair in Dortmund.

More: http://www.eculturefair2010.eu/

As a part of our AEGIS residency programme (http://fo.am/aegis), Desire Machine Collective will spend some time at FoAM in Brussels this summer. This Bite Size Lecture will include a presentation of their work, spiced up with a taste of Assamese cuisine.

http://www.desiremachinecollective.net/

FoAM will host the Brussels meeting of The Long Now Foundation, whose aim is "to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."

http://www.meetup.com/longnowbrussels/calendar/13649599/

http://longnow.org/

Flesh, Steel and Codecs
Eisa Jocson & Angelo Vermeulen

During this research gathering Eisa Jocson and Angelo Vermeulen talk about recent work in which they explore notions of the body and its relation to space and technology.

Visual

Anna Maria Orru talks about food & urban resilience over a locally sourced lunch.

About Foodprints:
‘Foodprints’ explores how the discipline of biomimicry can promote urban food resilience and opportunities for biodiversity to flourish in urban developments.

FoAM will host the Brussels meeting of The Long Now Foundation, whose aim is "to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."

http://www.meetup.com/longnowbrussels/calendar/13257147/?from=list&offse...

http://longnow.org/

A wartime food storage prepared from local wild plants is presented by Wietske Maas at the fortress Ruigenhoek in the Netherlands. FoAM Amsterdam assisted with the map showing edible plant locations. Claud Biemans who helped with plant spotting, will give several plant excursions on the opening Sunday.

Exploring the unplanned forest with Wilfried. FoAM Amsterdam will present the Boskoi mobile phone foraging application.
See: http://fightthegooglejugend.com/

A solstice festivity celebrating the interactions between the human and the vegetal realms during a picnic in the Belgian Ardennes.

If you'd like to join, send an email to bxl [at] fo [dot] am at the latest on Friday the 18th of June 2010.

* Luminous Green at Pecha Kucha Night
* Rethinking Food #2
* Phoef & Biomodd

http://fo.am/event/2009/01/01/list/all/all

* Hard Landing
* Luminous Green Desert
* Diggin' the future
* Metabolicity workshop

http://fo.am/event/2009/02/01/list/all/all

* Borrowed Scenery 0.1
* Art & Science at NOW

http://fo.am/event/2009/03/01/list/all/all

* groWorld revisited
* f0amfr0th11: On Beerology
* groWorld at Openlab London

http://fo.am/event/2009/04/01/list/all/all

* gRig: PhoEf Workshop
* groWorld at Futuresonic
* Green food

Groworld will be at this years Camp Pixelache, allowing people to touch, taste, play and plant the fruits of the project.

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2010/programme/camp-pixelache/

chmod +x art The computer as theatre, as writer of love letters, the computer as world, a place for revolution, art as executable. chmod +x art presents artists that turn our ideas, dreams and fantasies about machines and code up side down and show programming as an infinitely intriguing way of creating. Code is a medium. Whether it is used to formulate instructions for a machine, ideas for people or both. The writing of it influences and shapes the creative process of the artist. For that reason, ghost programmers may be left at home.

FoAM will take part in the TippingPoint event held at the EESC.

"TippingPoint aims to ‘harness the power of the imagination to help stabilise the climate’. We offer a range of activities centred on exposing creative artists to the enormous challenges of climate change; at the heart of this lies a series of meetings involving very high quality, intense dialogue between artists, scientists and others close to the heart of the issue. These encounters provide a chance to explore the broader cultural challenges precipitated by climate change."

http://www.tippingpoint.org.uk/

Live coding dissections by Michele Pasin, Wrongheaded, Thor Magnusson, Slub and Evan + Jag at Kings College Anatomy Museum on the 14th of January, more info at:
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/events/livecoding/