How do you experience space? Kaiku-gallery at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts turns into a process-space during the final weeks of January. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to modify and change the space according to their own tastes with materials available at the gallery. The process does not have a defined objective, neither does the outcome need to be called a work of art. The aim is to investigate organic spontaneous ways of expression and different ways to approach space. Signification, meaning and sense will be constructed as the space transforms. This will be achieved through presence in the space, via participation and as a result of how we think about the space.
Activity
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1st Stop on Virtuality Grand Tour
The Pixelversity cluster theme ‘Virtuality, Social Identity & Augmented Reality’ begins its activity on Thursday 26.1. (today!) with the first stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour. A ‘grand tour’ was, in the tradition of classical learning, a travel around cultural landmarks. In this theme we revive the practice online.
Each stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour (VGT) explores different online platform(s) and tools, and is hosted by a particular persons. Pixelversity facilitator Andrew Paterson starts with exploring some online organisational tools, including Twitvisio (Twitter video-hangout), Doodle (event/poll scheduler) and Etherpad (collaborative writing). The event begins at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT by signing in with a Twitter account to Twitvisio #pixelversity channel.
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Camp Pixelache 2012 Open Call
This spring, 11-12 May, we make a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called ‘Camp Pixelache’, at Arbis adult education centre, with the the theme of “Do It With Others” (D.I.W.O.). How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as the core goal? Other sub-themes are ’Creative Neighbourhood Skills’, ’The Art of Gathering Environmental Data’ also ‘Virtuality/Social Identity’. We are CALLING OUT proposals for presentations as well as demos for Open Design, Crafts & Manufacturing.
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Trashlab begins on 14.1. (ongoing monthly events during 2012)!
Trashlab monthly events during 2012 will explore experimental art-design-technology practice between hacker and maker cultures, in the context of re/up-cycling and the increased availability of new fabrication tools. Trashlab’s objective is to build up a community of people (artists, designers, hackers, makers, re/up-cyclers, activists) who are concerned with material and electronic waste in contemporary society, and tackle this problem with creative and tangential approaches.
>>> MORE INFO about Trashlab programme, the different events and actions so far defined
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Piksel11 report
The 9th edition of the Piksel Festival took place on November 17th-20th 2011 in Bergen, Norway. The festival was subtitled this year as “re:public” for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context. As previously, through the nine-year history of the festival, Piksel is firmly grounded on free/libre and open source.
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Piksel11 & Pixelache Software of the Year 2012
The 9th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom launches today in Bergen! The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context. More info about the festival programme.
We are pleased to announce that the Pixelache Software of the Year 2012 title is this time given to din – din is noise and will be featured at Piksel through a workshop and presentation.
din is a Free software musical instrument exclusively for the GNU/Linux operating system made by the Indian programmer S. Jagannathan. din – din is noise presents an innovative way of generating live music from a simple visual interface based on Bezier curves, and is a good example of how creative and DIY technologies can foster new approaches and solutions that escapes the leading rules of the software industry.
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Pixelache 2002-2012
Pixelache is turning 10 in 2012 already!
Every year since 2002, Pixelache Helsinki has shown a different face, continually searching for new strategies to present fresh and inspiring projects on the interstices of experimental art, design, research and activism. Pixelache continues in 2012 to explore new production models, with an emphasised focus on all-the-year-round activities, which consider change holistically, towards social, bio- energy and human sustenance.
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First Social Gathering about ‘TrashLab’ in Pixelversity 2012
We gather at Pub Magneetti, Vallila on Friday 11.11. from 18.00- to discuss what might be the ‘TrashLab’ monthly workshop next year as part of Pixelversity, including ambitions, tool & material needs, & to decide upon it’s name. The event follows on from the gathering that took place at Megapolis2026 on 13.10. Anyone is welcome to join! Keep an ear/eye out for December gathering date.
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“Hot and Cold Debt – Citizens and the Global Economic Crisis
Pixelache Helsinki and HIAP-Talks series present: ‘Hot and Cold Debt – Citizens and the Global Economic Crisis’.
This screening and discussion event will follow the screening of the documentary Debtocracy by Aris Chatzistefanou & Katerina Kitidi, as part of Lens Politica festival on Friday 18 November (read more about film below). Director Aris Chatzistefanou will be present for discussion with researcher Teppo Eskelinen.
How is debt born and how does it affect the everyday lives of citizens? Does the Euro have a future? And what is the role and responsibility of journalists in analyzing the economic crisis and communicating about possible solutions? The discussion is part of Pixelache’s Suomenlinna Money Lab project, focusing on local currency as well as Helsinki International Artist Residency Program’s HIAP TALKS series.
Time & Place
Fri 18.11. at 19:30, Andorra (Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki)
Participants:
Aris Chatzistefanou (GR), journalist and the director of Debtocracy documentary film
Teppo Eskelinen (FI), researcher at Aalto University School of Economics
Discussion in English, Free entry!
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Award-winning Naked on Pluto project & new study group on Virtuality
Join us next week for the closing presentation of Pixelversity 2011 on Wednesday 9.11. from 18-20 in Pixelache office, Cable Factory, when Dave Griffiths returns to present the award-winning Naked on Pluto project, a Multiplayer Text Adventure on Facebook, that “explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go”. It was developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboraties and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. It was further developed in June 2011 with help from AVEK.
This session also introduces one of next years Pixelversity themes; The ‘Social Identity, Augmented Reality & Virtuality’ Study Group, initiated by Owen Kelly, which will explore over the next year digital tools, and interfaces between public / private, personal / social & real / virtual. Welcome to join this introduction session to contribute to plans and ambitions for next year, and help to shape the agenda!
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Suomenlinna Money Lab @ Väkevä Viapori 21-23.10
Suomenlinna’s neighbourhood festival Väkevä Viapori starts this Friday 21.10 with a money forging workshops for kids led by Christian Nold at the local school. The rest of the Suomenlinna Money Lab programme at Väkevä Viapori is open for anybody to join, including a workshop at MAA school on Friday afternoon 12-30-14-30 and a planning meeting on Sunday 23.10 from 17.00 to 18.00 inside the Kioski next to the ferry terminal. We are hoping that many people will also come and meet us at our stand inside the Kioski on Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 12.00 to 18.00 to discuss how money is currently functioning on Suomenlinna and how a local currency can improve local social, cultural and economic contact and exchange. Welcome!
Misc, Recommended events
Suomenlinna Sound / Duration Map by Geoff Robinson
Geoff Robinson is presenting 2 projects and a sound performance next week 3-5 February on Suomenlinna. His work is based on research and documentation of Suomenlinna during his HIAP residency November 2011 -February 2012. >>> read more