FoAM
bio
Foam is a pliant material, a dynamic organisational principle, a possible quantum universe...
[ƒoam] is an intricate gossamer of people and places, extending through the interstices between artistic and scientific, physical and digital, professional and cultural boundaries. [ƒoam] is shaped by a group of designers, scientists, cooks, artists, engineers and gardeners, interested in advancing their own fields, as well as sharing and applying knowledge in new public contexts. Although our individual disciplines vary, everyone's practice integrates principles of ethical living, sustainable design and eco-technology. Within the [ƒoam] structure, we commingle fresh creative expressions, transdisciplinary knowledge, materialised imagination with emerging and forgotten crafts, for a lively present and an abundant future. We blend digital and physical realities in materials, interfaces and environments. We conjure up vibrant social situations, where food, art and technology intermingle to create 'total experiences'. In events and publications we raise public understanding of contemporary science. We conduct professional development and community oriented workshops to train new generations of interstitial explorers. We seek out, collaborate with and support forward-looking people, able to live and work in an ecotone of heterogeneous creative practices. These people work together in an elastic openwork of social and professional relationships, cotributing to a [ƒoam] ecology, while growing their own worlds.
[ƒoam] works with:
works
Luminous Green
Open Sauces
groWorld patabotany
groWorld Bazaar
Resilients
documentation
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Contemporary Visual Arts in Flanders
[text]
Marc Ruyters, Eva Wittocx, 2008Among the modern-art crowd, Belgium is known as the country with that 'surrealist' lineage: James Ensor - René Magritte - Marcel Broodthaers. While this is certainly a fine compliment for three artists of far-reaching significance, a great deal has changed in this country, which has been a crossroads of the Roman and Germanic cultures, a key logistic point between Great Britain, Germany and France, and home to the European Community.
FoAM
1080 Brussel, België
1057 ZH Amsterdam, Nederland
