Category: Teaching
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FaceSponge workshop photos
Some great photos by Boudewijn Bollmann from the Naked on Pluto workshop on social media and privacy at Baltan Laboratories last week. A more in depth post about this event coming soon.
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Drawing plant spirits in Brussels
Some pictures from the Germination X plant spirit drawing workshop, part of FoAM‘s contribution to Open House Brussels, a public invitation for people to visit the artistic groups and labs in the city. The plant spirit drawing system has improved a bit from last year’s workshop at Pixelache Helsinki, being able to upload to the…
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Germination X at Loading Bar, Falmouth
Where better for doing a game focus group test than in a games cafe? We had a fantastic turn out last night – we actually ran out of space! This was the third Lirec focus test using Germination X, but the first I’ve been physically involved in, and the biggest public event about this game…
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A week in Stockholm
The Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm is an interdisciplinary lab that does serious research on unserious activities and comprises computer scientists, interaction designers, sociologists, psychologists and game designers. They are also part of SICS, and are partners with FoAM on the Lirec project. Last week I was lucky enough to work with them for 5…
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Splinterfields: Mathematickal Arts #3
A third and final update on the Mathematickal Arts Workshop – following the previous outline, some more detail on the process of going from software to textile using plain weave. First create a program and choose the colours: Axiom: O Rule: O => : O O : Repeat 5 generations : = Green 0 =…
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Splinterfields: Mathematickal Arts #2
For my contribution to the Mathematickal Arts workshop, I wanted to explore weaving, specifically plain weave. This is the simplest form of weaving, but when combined with sequences of colour it can produce many different types of pattern. Some of these patterns when combined with muted colours, have in the past been used as a…
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Splinterfields: Mathematickal Arts #1
Textiles and mathematics have a long but sometimes easy to ignore shared history. The Mathematickal Arts workshop at FoAM in Brussels last weekend celebrated and brought this history to the fore with Tim Boykett and Carole Collet taking us on an exploration including knots, origami, group theory, mobius strips, donut making, weaving, symmetry, crochet and…
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Artvertiser in Helsinki
Yesterday I had the chance to take part in Julian Oliver’s and Damian Stewart’s Artvertiser walk around Helsinki. Advertising space was augmented with new artworks made by the workshop participants and displayed by their custom built camera goggles. It was also a chance to chat with the group behind m-cult, who were supporting the workshop.…
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Germination X: Draw your own plant spirits
Part of our groworld bazaar at Pixelache 2011 was the “draw your own plant spirits” workshop/gallery installation in the Augusta gallery on Suomenlinna island. This was the first event to use the Germination X game in a public setting, and the idea was to get people to help us design characters to represent the layers,…