Podcast appearances and mentions of amy franceschini

Amy Franceschini and Lode Vranken represent Futurefarmers, an international group of artists founded in 1995 including anthropologists, farmers, and architects who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political, and environmental organization of space. They are known for long-lived projects such as the flatbread society and the seed journey. There are quite a few gems in this conversation, about making spaces that call for communities; how connections to objects matter; and how to think about the tools we make and use. Futurefarmers invite us to rethink innovation, activism, collaboration. For me, the key takeaway was the correlation between crafting, communities, and form. Hearing about the way they use the material aspects of their work as ‘probes' to help collectively form communities, and the way this formal dimension or ‘aura' is key to the process was refreshing.Episode Notes & LinksAmy is an artist and designer whose work with Futurefarmers facilitates encounter, exchange, and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the "certainties" of a given time or place where a work is situated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_FranceschiniLode Vranken is an artist, architect, and philosopher. For more on Futurefarmers visit https://www.futurefarmers.com/Antoine Boute is an experimental writer and poet.Futurefarmers work on a public art program for Bjørvika, Oslo (Norway) named Flatbread Society which examines the interrelationship of food production to realms of knowledge sharing, cultural production, socio-political formations, and everyday life since 2012. http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/Built at Pollinaria in Abruzzo, Italy, "This is not a Trojan horse" is a large, human-powered, wooden horse designed by Futurefarmers with architect Lode Vranken. http://www.futurefarmers.com/thisisnotatrojanhorse/about.htmlThe Canoe Project by Flatbread Society is powered by four human legs and it includes a mobile baking oven within the canoe. Stephen Wright's description of the double ontology is perfectly exemplified in this case as flatbread is a conversation topic that is widely accessible while baking, unlike contemporary art is relatable to anybody regardless of profession or background. http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/actions/39/a-boat-walking-on-landFlatbread Society Bakehouse was built with local boat builders in the form of a vessel. The "ship" hosts three bread ovens for making a variety of bread types. It seeks to point to the past and to the future, extending metaphors of cultivation and sailing to larger ideas of self-reliance and the foregrounding of organic processes in the development of land use, social relations, and cultural forms. https://www.futurefarmers.com/projects/bakehouseStanford University is a private research university located in California which was a key factor in the development of the technology enterprise now known as Silicon Valley. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158815/Industrial agriculture is the large-scale, intensive production of crops and animals, often involving chemical fertilizers on crops or the routine, harmful use of antibiotics in animals. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/industrial-agriculture-101Rudolph Steiner (1861 - 1925) was a philosopher, social reformer, architect, esotericist. Apart from the scholarly work and metaphysical practice, he was interested in biodynamic agriculture, a practice similar to organic farming.Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that arranges a mutually beneficial relationship for land, resources, people, and the environment and employs multidisciplinary methods that source from the knowhow of agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development. https://www.permaculturenews.org/what-is-permaculture/Best known as the frontman of the multinational technology corporation Microsoft, Bill Gates is a business magnate and arguably one of the most influential individuals of the 20th century.Donna Haraway is a writer, educator, and academic within the field of science and technology studies. She authored countless seminal texts among these, Cyborg Manifesto, as well as the Companion Species Manifesto are must-reads for any and all of us.Founded by Joan Baez, Struggle Mountain is an international community located in California that evolved out of the sixties' counterculture and, most particularly, nonviolence and the draft resistance movement.Joan Baez is a singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.Amy teaches at the EcoSocial Design master program at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Can was there for a lecture. https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/design-art/master-eco-social-design/Co-designed by architects Doğan Tekeli, Sami Sisa ve Metin Hepgüler, İMÇ is an exemplary case within the canon of 20th-century architecture in Turkey as an open-air commercial complex located in the historical center of İstanbul. It was occupied by the record companies, especially during the 1980s upon their booming popularity.Run by artists Nancy Atakan and Volkan Aslan, 5533 is a contemporary art space located in İMÇ.http://imc5533.blogspot.com/Ahali Conversations is the love child of the Ahali Journal and MÇPS, the recording studio Amy mentions. Realized in 2017, MÇPS was an artwork in which Can turned 5533 into a walk-in record studio where local musicians were able to jump in jams and hang around the İMÇ complex once again long after its prime days passed. http://www.local-legends.org/people/2017/11/18/artist-can-altay-on-music-memory-and-imagined-futures-at-istanbuls-mythical-m-buildingRadio Ramona is an internet radio station that deals with strange affairs between bread, astronomy, migration, and gossip about old and forgotten communication gadgets by Future Farmers.Seed Journey is a seafaring voyage connected to a public art project. It occurred in three legs. Set off at Oslo and concluded in İstanbul a rotating crew of artists, anthropologists, biologists, bakers, activists, sailors, and farmers joined the journey and shared their findings at host institutions along the route from small harbors to large ports from barns to museums (contemporary art, natural history and maritime) to social centers. http://futurefarmers.com/seedjourney/Twitter is a social media platform that serves for microblogging where users express opinions within 280 characters.Noah Glass is a technology entrepreneur who launched Twitter in 2006.Episode recorded on Zoom in July 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses.

How does grain cultivation relate to urban agriculture? How can growing food in cities function as art? As education? Why do so many people love flatbread? Amy Franceschini, founder of Futurefarmers, joins the Fields team to discuss these and other aspects of her work. We also talk about seed banking, using agriculture to bring new social life to post-industrial waterfronts, and urbanization and the movement of knowledge about heritage grains. (Oh, and, yes—the King of Norway does get involved.) Check out all of Futurefarmers' brilliant ag-plus-art projects! And follow Fields for more surprising and wide-ranging conversations about urban agriculture and urban culture.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Fields by becoming a member!Fields is Powered by Simplecast.

In this sneak peek, hear just a snippet of a great story told by Amy Franceschini, Founder of Futurefarmers, about the Lykov family's hardships in rural Russia, a single grain of rye, and how agriculture-focused artists are making connections between rural grains and urban education today. Full episodes are dropping! Subscribe to Fields and don't miss out.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Fields by becoming a member!Fields is Powered by Simplecast.

Episode No. 486 features artists Baseera Khan and Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers. Kahn and Futurefarmers are among the artists included in "Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment" at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio through May 9. The exhibition looks at how artists engage with social issues and how they may shape institutions at a time when both racism and a global pandemic have caused many institutions to re-consider their construction and practices. The exhibition was curated by Lucy I. Zimmerman. "Climate Changing" features nine artworks commissioned by the Wexner, including work Torkwase Dyson discussed on the program last September. Baseera Khan addresses colonial histories, exile, place and displacement, and belonging within the context of capitalism and its impacts. Their work takes many forms, including performance, sculpture and, soon, a TV pilot produced during a recent residency at The Kitchen in New York City. Later this year they will have their first museum solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Futurefarmers is an ever-changing design studio and collective that supports art projects and research interests. Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, the group has focused on using projects to propose alternatives to present social, political and environmental constructs. Futurefarmers' project "Seed Journey" is included in "Climate Changing." Initiated in 2016, "Seed Journey" is a collaboration between Futurefarmers and local farmers and scholars to return heirloom grain seeds to their native lands. It began with a voyage from Oslo, Norway to Belgium, and expanded in subsequent years to include other seeds, nations and continents. 

Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature, and her projects reveal the ways that local politics are affected by globalization. In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers and in 2004, she co-founded Free Soil, an international collective of artists, activists, researchers, and gardeners who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political and environmental organization of space. In 2008, Amy worked with the City of San Francisco to transform the plaza in front of City Hall into a modern victory garden, and to build gardens in people’s back yards. She is currently sailing from Oslo to Istanbul as part of Seed Journey, bringing seeds found in Norway and other points in the northern hemisphere to their center of origin in the Middle East and connecting with seed savers, farmers, bakers, activists and others along the way. Amy grew up on a farm in the Central Valley of California. In this episode, Amy talks with Chelsea about her victory gardens project in San Francisco, a Seed Journey to the Middle East, and the importance of not finding a common language.Photo: RS 10 Christiania by Martin Høy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hit the streets as your own, custom-made Superhero and work for the common good of your city! Artist Amy Franceschini has fashioned an inspiring lesson that will help guide you through the entire process from brainstorming logos, mottos and costumes to ensuring that your Superhero works to help solve a community's needs.

In this episode of Art School we hang out with Franceschini in her Mission District studio that also serves as the headquarters for Futurefarmers, an international collective of artists, bakers, architects and other builders. Listen in as she talks about working collaboratively and making work that encourages dialogue and exchange.

Spark meets Amy Franceschini is a pioneer in the burgeoning field of net art, an art form that is created, circulated and experienced through the internet.

This week: The first in our series of interviews from the Open Engagement conference that took place in Portland this past May. We start off with an excellent discussion that Randall Szott, Duncan, Brian and the occasional Incubate person had with artist, writer, lemon tormentor Ted Purves. Topics include; Ted's work, the past present and future of Social Practice and what it means to be an artist today.This series of interviews (thusfar, I've only gone through the first two) are some of my favorite discussions that (the royal) we have had in the 5 years of the show. Great stuff!Ted Purves is a writer and artist based in Oakland. His public projects and curatorial works are centered on investigating the practice of art in the world, particularly as it addresses issues of localism, democratic participation, and innovative shifts in the position of the audience. His two-year project, Temescal Amity Works, created in collaboration with Susanne Cockrell and based in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce and finished its public phase in winter 2007. His collaborative project Momentary Academy, a free school taught by artists over a period of 10 weeks, was featured in Bay Area Now 4 in 2005 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Ted recently received a visual arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation and a Creative Work Fund grant from the Elise and Walter Haas Foundation. His book, What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, was published by State University of New York Press in 2005.The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration and co-sponsored by Portland Community College and the MFA in Visual Studies program at Pacific Northwest College of Art and supported by the Cyan PDX Cultural Residency Program. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series, this conference features three nationally and internationally renowned artists: Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini, and Nils Norman. The conference will showcase work by Temporary Services, InCUBATE, and a new project by Mark Dion created in collaboration with students from the PSU Art and Social Practice concentration. The artists involved in Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse, challenge our traditional ideas of what art is and does. These artist’s projects mediate the contemporary frameworks of art as service, as social space, as activism, as interactions, and as relationships, and tackle subject matter ranging from urban planning, alternative pedagogy, play, fiction, sustainability, political conflict and the social role of the artist. Can socially engaged art do more harm than good? Are there ethical responsibilities for social art? Does socially engaged art have a responsibility to create public good? Can there be transdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art making that would contribute to issues such as urban planning and sustainability? Open Engagement is a free conference May 14-17, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. This annual conference will be a focal point of a new low residency Art and Social Practice MFA that PSU hopes to launch in Fall of 2010. This years conference will host over 100 artists, activists, curators, scholars, writers, farmers, community organizers, film makers and collectives including: Nato Thompson, The Watts House Project, Linda Weintraub, Ted Purves, Henry Jenkins, Wealth Underground Farms, Brian Collier, Anne E. Moore, David Horvitz, Chen Tamir, and Parfyme.

This week: Duncan talks to Amy Franceschini. Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator whose work has at its core cross-disciplinary research with a focus on how humans impact the world we inhabit. Her work encourages new formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. These works often provide a playful entry point and tools for an audience to gain insight into a deeper field of inquiry – not only to imagine, but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.  Amy founded the artists’ collective and design studio, Futurefarmers, in 1995 and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been in international exhibitions at ZKM, Whitney Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University, MFA from Stanford University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art + Architecture at University of San Francisco and visiting artist at California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of the Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital and SFMOMA SECA Awards.

On this week’s Greenhorn Radio, Severine visits with Amy Franceschini, artist, food activist, and new media guru.

A casual chat with ultra-inspirational artists and 'Future Farmers' Michael Swaine and Amy Franceschini.

A casual chat with ultra-inspirational artists and 'Future Farmers' Michael Swaine and Amy Franceschini.

Amy Franceschini is a pioneer in the burgeoning field of net art, an art form that is created, circulated and experienced through the internet. She is the founder of Futurefarmers, an art and design collaborative dedicated to expressing environmental and community interests through digital media. Spark checks out her "Fingerprint Maze" at Pond gallery.