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== Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == | == Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow == | ||
- | Over the autumn FoAM Kernow has both been investigating the future of live coding, and working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of ‘The Farm Crap App’ with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and ‘Where is that Nest?’ -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar? | + | Over the autumn FoAM Kernow has been investigating the future of live coding, and working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of ‘The Farm Crap App’ with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and ‘Where is that Nest?’ -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar? |
In September Dave Griffiths attended ‘Collaboration and learning through live coding’, a seminar in Schloss Dagstuhl that explored live coding with experts in the fields of education and software engineering, | In September Dave Griffiths attended ‘Collaboration and learning through live coding’, a seminar in Schloss Dagstuhl that explored live coding with experts in the fields of education and software engineering, | ||
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Unfolding under the gently coordinating hand of Perfoming Pictures of Sweden, the Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures was a project in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies, | Unfolding under the gently coordinating hand of Perfoming Pictures of Sweden, the Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures was a project in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies, | ||
- | nadine and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting. We saw old friends like Dougald Hine, Geska and Robert Brecevic, and met some of the project partners for the first time. Daniela Porras and Luis Conseco, together with their child Dante, spent a month at FoAM working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the EITC exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory ' | + | nadine and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting. We saw old friends like Dougald Hine, Geska and Robert Brecevic, and met some of the project partners for the first time. Daniela Porras and Luis Conseco, together with their child Dante, spent a month at FoAM working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the EITC exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory ' |
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- | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we're working hard on a new project: Doing Nothing. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector but also the wider society of Europe and beyond, FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM and our networks, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, | + | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we're working hard on a new project: |
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