bitesize lectures

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/

Bernard Lahousse, an internationally renown food scientist, one of the founders of CREAX Food (http://creaxfood.com/) & consultant to creative chefs worldwide (in Belgium: L'air du temps, Oud Sluis, In de wulf, Kasteel Withof,...) will prepare a nutritious lecture on food pairing, molecular gastronomy and new kitchen techiques. Bernard will talk about the concepts of coupling and replacing ingredients based on their chemical components. He will explain how to use his food pairing website (http://www.foodpairing.be) and introduce "The Flemish Primitives" (http://www.theflemishprimitives.com/).

Brian Degger's Stories from the flesh factory

Whilst building my art practice, i have been working at a fish factory, this has given me various inspirations for bioart projects Working with fish calls into question sustainability of harvesting

Our two guests in the last 'bite-size-lecture' for 2005 are experts in artistically grown ecologies and ecologically inspired arts. They talked to us about what happens when you depend on living (or recently living) organisms to become cooperative partners in your artistic process...

Panel presentations and discussion with Kristina Andersen, Vali Lalioti, Alok Nandi and Sha Xin Wei

Lunch, presentation and discussion about Bert's project 'Audiocubes'.

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~bschiett/audiocubes/index.html

Tina Gonsalves and Tom Donaldson, founders of Clutch have created ‘Medulla Intimata’, responsive video jewelery. While wearing the jewelery, software monitors the tone and intonation in the wearer’s voice. These measurements help the software select video sequences appropriate to the emotional state of the wearer. Once selected, the

A lecture on Media Choreography and responsive architectures at the Topological Media Lab in Atlanta and Montreal.

Joost Rekveld (1970) has been making abstract films and kinetic installations since 1991, originally inspired by the idea of a music for the eye. Through his invention of various animation techniques he became interested in the prehistory of moving image media, especially the technological history of perspective, optics, motion capture and scanning. These themes became the basis for a number of films and installations. His recent work is moving away from film towards more architectural and theatrical forms of articulated light.

Investigation of spatial learning: 3D Modeling Theory applied to Real-time Systems

Sonia Cillari, a digital architect currently based in the Netherlands, presented her electronic environments and discussed theoretical investigations into human perception, non-linear movement and participatory architecture. At the same time, FoAM influenced the sensory perception of the lecture, by subtly stimulating the visitors' taste buds.

Psychological needs, behaviours and communicative co-existence

SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of the life sciences. Operating since 2000, SymbioticA is the first research laboratory of its kind, enabling artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department. SymbioticA's artists have exhibited their pioneering works world wide, best known for their work on Stelarc's Extra Ear and the Welcome Trust awarded Pig Wings. It is FoAM's pleasure to bring these renowned artists and researchers to Brussels and Belgium for the first time.

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FoAM and the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators organised a talk by Adrian Hon, on Alternate Reality Games (ARG), collaborative fiction, puppetmasters, backstories and other tools for playful reality generation.