A collection of articles written about FoAM and our work by other people (press, journals, books…).

Tiny Mining

• Exploring the extreme ecologies of the body by Rob La Frenais. Published 20201217

Covid-19

• https://www.makery.info/2020/05/20/reponse-de-crise-au-royaume-uni-les-makers-en-ordre-serre/ → Kernow on makers responding to covid 19 issues (This was written by the journalist who contacted us on Facebook, english version on it's way)

• U situaciji kada se svijet zatvara, mi se moramo otvarati interview with Maja Kuzmanovic by Zvjezdan Strahinja for Glas Istre. Published in print 20200426. Online version of the article published 20200427.

Sonic Kayaks:

• Sonic Kayak by Phil King in Magpi Magazine. Published October 2020. Photo of the physical magazine
• BBC Evening News 20191006.
• Cerys Matthews with David Griffiths for BBC Radio Published 20160828.
• Sonic Kayaks – sound science by Jo Garret] for The Naked Scientists. Published 20180411.
• Deep-sea diving and noisy neighbours, podcast for The Naked Scientists. Published 20171205.
• LISTEN: These kayaks turn ocean science into music for PBS News Hour. Published 20171130.

Dazzlebug:

• Stripes Vs. Dull Patterns: Which Provide Better Protection From Predators?. Published 14 Jan 2021.

AccessLab:

• Opening up science: what can public engagement efforts learn from the AccessLab project?. MSc Thesis published December 2020.

Dust & Shadow

• live stream from the Attunement to the Desert event featuring FoAM (Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney) and Timothy Morton. Introductions by Ron Broglio, Jeffrey Cohen and Adam Nocek. By ASU Now. Published 20190923.
• Communing with the desert article by ASU Now. Published 20191003.
• music review of the Dust & Shadow vinyl by Neural Magazine. Published 2020/05. In print: Neural 65: Redirecting Networks. Winter 2020. ISSN: 2037-108X

The Art of Futuring

• Podcast by Kunstenpunt. With excerpts from the Art of Futuring lecture and an interview with Maja Kuzmanovic. By Delphine Hesters and Joris Janssens. Published 20190801.
• In anticipation of things already present. Video of the Keynote by FoAM Earth at the Anticipation 2017 conference in London. Published October 2019.
• Interview:FoAM by Speculative Edu. Published 20191009.

The overlooked and the unheard

• Održano performativno predavanje FoAM-a „The overlooked and the unheard“ u Savičenti by Paola Albertini in Kultur.Istra. Published 20190701
• Prevođenje tradicije u suvremenu kulturu: "Predviđeno i nečujno" Maje Kuzmanović i Nicka Gaffneyja u petak u Gradskoj loži in Glas Istre. Article about FoAM's lecture performance in Savicenta. Published 20190627.
• Nevidljiva Savičenta: FoAM -performativno predavanje umjetničkog dvojca Maje Kuzmanović i Nika Gaffneya in TV Istra. Published 20190624
• Press release by Nevidljiva Savicenta Published 20190610
• Teza Published January 2020

Terra Fiction

• TerraFiction Mini documentary by Fiber (featuring an interview with Maja Kuzmanovic and an excerpt from FoAM-Earth's lecture-performance). Published July 2019.
• Naar een nieuwe wereld. Laatste editie in de Brakke Grond haalt Brusselse FoAM naar Coded Matter(s). About FoAM's involvement in the TerraFiction event. Published September 2018.

Learning Labs, FoAM as a case study of future design education in Blueprint issue 360: Learning Labs by Veronica Simpson. Published 201809

• See also: Learning labs. Simpson, Veronica. Blueprint; Oxford Iss. 360, (Sep/Oct 2018): 114,116-121,124. https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/learning-labs/docview/2113736127/se-2

Pergola/Ephemeral Garden:

• Dozivljaji za sva osjetila by Diana Setka in Gloria. Published 20180621
• Cloud Pergola: The Croatian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale by Kaley Overstreet for ArchDaily. Published 20180604.
• Event report from the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 by Diana Setka in Gloria. Published 20180530.
• Interview with the curator by Vanesa Begic in Glas Istre. Published 20180525
• Reportage from the opening by Vanesa Begic in Glas Istre. Published 20180526

Machine Wilderness

• Machine Wilderness: a world of ecological robotics by Regine Debatty for WMMNA. Published 20160222

Midimutant:

• Aphex Twin Midimutant in The MagPi Magazine. April 2018.
• Watch Aphex Twin’s new Midimutant AI patch generator in action by Miles Bowe in Fact Mag. Published 20170714.

Nightjar citizen science games:

• Eggcellent citizen science: evolution of camouflage in bird eggs by GrrlScientist for The Guardian. Published 20140827.

Penelope:

• Emily Bick visits AlgoMech Festival in Sheffield for The Wire. Published December 2017.

Naked on Pluto/VIDA prize:

• Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths and Marloes de Valk - Naked on Pluto by FACT Liverpool. Published 2012.

Invisible Worlds residencies

• Disintegrated Rock art residency by Eden Project. Published 2018.
• Invisible Worlds art residency by Eden Project. Published 2018.
• Invisible Worlds art residency: Ferment! by Eden Project. Published 2018.

Dust and Shadow

• FoAM: Dust & Shadow by The Museum of Walking. Published Spring 2018

Future Fabulators and other FoAM Futures work

• Bioluddites with FoAM by Lisa Ma. Published 20140423
• Futures Lab at Z33 by Karen Verschoren and Future Fictions Opening and Future Fictions Catalogue. Published October 2014.
• Bewoners and Bezoekers tonen het Godsheide van 2024 by UHasselt and Godsheide anno 2024 by Sarah Martens. Published December 2014
• Improving Reality 2013 by ND Kane. Published 20130913.
• X Factor Futures by xcoax and in this blogpost by Time's Up. Published 20140626.
• Lucid Dreaming Storyworld (published 20140604 and Lucid Dreaming by Tina Auer, published 20140808
• FoAM: The Future of Doing Nothing (Futures Lab) by Z33. Published October 2014.
• The possibility of a single culture by Michael Cobley. Published 20150828.
• Electrifying Trends by Sarah McFadden. Published October 2010.
• Imagining the Changing Weathers: Climate and System Changed world by Time's Up in Changing Weathers. Published 2015.
• Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times in the Futures Journal. Published in Futures Volume 86, February 2017, Pages 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2016.05.007
• Capstone Futures by M-iti. Published 20150123.
• Tasting Tomorrow Fieldwork by Tim Boykett. Published 20170310.
• Improving Reality 2013 - Maja Kuzmanovic by Lighthouse Arts. Video published 20131030.

groWorld

• on Patabotany and on Plant Eyes by data is nature. Published 20110527.
• Green groWorld by Six To Start
• Collaboration or Complicity by Anna Munster / RealTime #60 / http://www.realtimearts.net/article/60/7375 . Published April/May 2004.
• Zelf groente en kruiden kweken op vensterbank by Bruno Depover in Het Nieuwsblad.be. Published 20080626.
• GroWorld Vegetal Culture by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney in Fourth Door Review. Full article on the libarynth. Published 2016.
• Foam – Borrowed Scenery. in Vooruit Magazine. Published 20121104.
• It's Important, really by Bruce Sterling in Wired. Published 20070702.
• How to Save the World in 10 Days at Vooruit in Ghent by Regine Debatty for WMMNA. Published 20090317.
• Several blogposts about Borrowed Scenery on The Vegetal Studies blog
• Stadsfestivals: Kunst of Kermis? by Laura Herman includes review of Borrowed Scenery and Buratinas. Published 20121212.
• Biopiracy and Lifeboats: Intervention 05: FoAM and groWorld. Published 2012.
• De beste apps in het weekend in NRC Next, includes review of Boskoi. Published 18 February 2011.

Marine CoLABoration

• Marine CoLABoration by The Gulbenkian Foundation. Published 2015.
• Why we use the lab approach by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney for the Gulbenkian Foundation. Published March 2017.

Open Sauces

• Speels, kritisch en intensief (Playful, Critical and Intensive, by Lut Pil in Kwintessens 2012-1 - Food (page 30-35). On Open Sauces, Dream Team Dinners and other food activities at FoAM. Published 1st Trimester 2012.
• Betonski med i parfem od juhe poriluka by Lara Bagar for Glas Istre. Published 20110502.
• Hrana kao znanost, umjetnost i aktivizam by Zeljka Klemencic for Jutarnji List. Published 20110828.
• Open Sauces, hrana kao spoj umjetnosti i znanosti by Lara Bagar for Zoom. Published 20110528.
• GastroLabs Open Sauces, published 20140418 and The Art and Science of Collaboration (slide 20-23) by Amanda McDonald Crowley, published June 2013.
• Edible Perfume by Maki Ueda. Published 2008.

Transiencies

• Het verlangen om te kunnen omdenken by Barbara Raes in De Wereld Morgen. Published 20151020.
• Doe beter doe niets by Maja Kuzmanovic en Nik Gaffney in Rekto:verso. Published 2051124.
• Une semaine d'open labs à Bruxelles. Makery, present on the night of Michka's Transiency graduation.

Resilients

• Resilients in We Can Change the Weather by Marleen Wynants. Published VUB Press 2010
• Temporary photoElectric Digestopians (Fusing Cooking and Solar Tech with Design) by Regine Debatty for WMMNA. Published 20110611.
• The Dark Shapes Ahead by Dougald Hine. Published 20120710

Luminous Green

• Podcast with Jennifer Leonard on Worldchanging. Archived on archive.org. Published 2007.
• Interview about Luminous Green by Luca Barbeni for Ecopolis. The archived version of this article can be found on archive.org. Published May 2007
• Luminous Green by Carole Collet in Textile Futures Catalogue 2007. Published June 2007.
• Luminous Green by Regine Debatty for WMMNA. Published 20070501
• Review of Luminous Green 2010 by Thomas Jellis retrieved from archive.org. Thomas wrote several articles about FoAM's library, events and other activities, but only their titles have been archived here.

gRig rGig Web by Alexandra Dementieva for Cyland. Published 20091030.

T-series

• FoAM's responsive environments as a case study in Josh Wodak's PhD Thesis “Interrogating Interactive Interfaces: On balance in the evocation of environmental responsibility in the creation of Responsive Environments”. See specifically Chapter 3: Case Studies. Published June 2010.
• Dr Satinder Gill wrote about FoAM's work with responsive environments in several books and papers. Most recently in https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-21620-1, specifically in Chapter 5, Tacit Engagement: Betwixt and Between. Published Springer 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21620-1
• Dr Sha Xin Wei. Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter. MIT Press, 2013.
• Dr Christopher Salter. Entangled. MIT Press 2010

TRG

• FoAM by Igor Spanjol in Delo. Published 20050311.
• FoAM v Kibli by Petra Simoncic in Spekter. Published April 2005.
• Brussel blaast hedendaagse kunst op by Bruno Depover in De Morgen. Published 20041108.
• Zmesana resnicnost v Kibli in Stil. Published 20050305.
• Prvi del interaktivnega projekta TRG by DKJ in Vecer. Published 20050309.
• Simulacija fizicnega in fizicnost simulacije by Klavdija Sipus in Zurnal. Published 20050418.
• Inflatable Clothing by Regine Debatty for WMMNA. Published 20050301.

Lyta

• Keep it Simple by Kira Van den Ende in Durf Falen. Published Lannoo 2016.

tx0om

• Room that reacts to the people inside it by James Goffin for Eastern Daily Press. Published 20021204
• Circus show where everyone's involved by Nick Butcher for Evening News. Published 20021204.
• Grow your own bubbles world in Label 6. Published summer 2002.

P~lot

• Istarski gradici idealna scena za kompjutorske igre by Drazen Majic in Glas Istre. Published 20020918
• Kisa oprala virtualne kulise by Z. Strahinja in Glas Istre. Published 20020923

TGarden

• TGarden by Marc Neelen in Archined. Page archived on archive.org
• Eigen wereld van beeld en geluid by Cor Vos. Published 20011013.
• Gesture and response in Field Based Performance by Sha Xin Wei and Satinder Gill. Published January 2005 in Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Creativity & Cognition. DOI: 10.1145/1056224.1056253
• TGarden:TG2001 Ars Electronica by Sha Xinwei. Published 20140512.
• TGarden by V2. Published 2001.

Reviews:

• Edited by Time’s Up, FoAM – PARN: Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives by Aurelio Cianciotta for Neural. Published 20140207.
• .x-med-a., experimental media arts by Alessandro Ludovico in Neural. Published 20060716
• Bent Object by Peter Deschamps in Gonzo Circus. Published 20060220.
• Ever and Again - Experimental Recycled Textiles by Leonora Oppenheim for Treehugger. Published on 20071023.

Various:

• General interview on FoAM by Michka at Radio Campus Brussels
  • This should be the (broken) link to the podcast: https://twitter.com/SrcRadio/status/615613332545011712
• 88’ FoAM fait pousser ses propres mondes FoAM Grows Its Own Worlds in Digital MCD#65 L’Internet voit vert / The culture of green tech. Published 20111205.
• DesignMarch 2013 - 03 Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney HD by Design March Reykjavik. Published 20150810.
• Alex Davies in residence at FoAM by Alexandra Dementieva. Published 20130210.
• Jan Elder and Maja Kuzmanovic and Maja Kuzmanovic and Joy Tang by Transmediale 2010.
• FoAM's Family-in-Residence Program by Christa Donner for Cultural Reproducers. Published 20121026.
• Hoy digital promille by Trond Davidsen in Bergens Tidende. Published 20000805.
• Nepostojeca granica izmedju virtualnog i tjelesnog by Z. Strahinja in Glas Istre. Published 20020816.
• Prakticne Utopije transl. by Goran Stankovic for Gradina. Published 62-63/2014.
• Press release from the World Economic Forum. Published 20060109
• Cimatics in Digital MCD #56. Published 20100104.
• Zemlja bi bez nas brzo ozdravila in Glas Istre. Published 20110902.
• Spoj tjelesnog i digitalnog by Hrvoje Saric in Vecernji List. Published 20061007.
• Zena za buducnost by Lara Bagar in Zoom. Published October 2006.
• Interview with Maja Kuzmanovic by Drasko Ivezic in Feral Tribune "Bog i Hrvati" The front page archived on archive.org. Published 20061101.
• Puljanka medju 400 mocnika by Robert Bajrusi in Nacional. Published March 2006.
• Stvaralastvo bi trebalo biti dostupno svima i svatko bi na neki nacin mogao biti umjetnik by Asim Cabaravdic in Financijski Vijesnik. Published 20010212.
• Signals from the hive: urban beekeeping by Sarah Mc Fadden in The Bulletin (about Christina Stadlbauer's urban bee keeping). Published 20130624.
• Kūrybinės dirbtuvės su Rasa Alksnyte "Valgoma - Nevalgoma" by Vitalija Povilaitytė­ - Petri. Published 201602.

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