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Open Call: Cartes Flux 2012 Festival of New Media Art

May 16, 2012 | kati

Cartes Flux calls for Digital Artists and Filmmakers to participate in the selection for the festival of New Media Art. The call is for Finnish and international experimental and innovative new media art works with a fresh and unique approach. The focus is on art works which are movable and suitable for public spaces.

Deadline is May 28, 2012! >>> read more

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Art and Technology studies start in Aalto University

May 16, 2012 | kati

Aalto University introduces Art and Technology, a multi-disciplinary study module that is targeted to MA level students and starts in the academic year 2012‐13. It brings media art and electronic art for the first time as independent subjects to the curriculum of the university. The study module combines media artistic thinking and practice with the aesthetic and philosophical foundations of the field. Students are encouraged to cross over boundaries between technology, art and design.
Application deadline: 31 May, 2012.

>>> read more

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Finnish Bioart Society screens Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis (2011) 18.5.

May 16, 2012 | kati

Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis documents the life of an artist who is driven to pursue questions that can only be answered in the space where science and art lose their individual distinction. Why would someone want to encode poetry into the eyes of a fly, fish for paramecium or send transgenic organisms into outer space? Joe Davis’ projects can seem fantastical, impossible, even ill-advised. A deeper look into his work reveals a hidden logic that is surprising and contagious – more philosophy than art. >>> read more

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TV LIKE US – book launch at Camp Pixelache 12.5.

May 10, 2012 | kati

Amid the current technological and social changes, does television hold the kind of relevance it once did? To coincide with the UK digital switch over, the Finnish Institute in London is pleased to present a new publication about community, media and art. TV LIKE US brings together artists, researchers and technologists working with community TV in Finland, Britain and Ireland.

The texts show that the thing called ‘television’ still holds a potent grip on our collective imaginations and that community TV is fast becoming a key player in the changing broadcasting landscape. Community television builds citizenship, tells stories and gives people a voice through DIY participation. From artist TV to open media platforms, TV LIKE US presents cases, methods and ideas behind this lively, local TV culture. >>> read more

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Tribunal 12 ottaa kantaa Euroopan ihmisoikeusrikkomuksiin

May 10, 2012 | kati

Tribunal 12 Helsinki 12.5. on koko päivän kestävä tapahtuma, joka ottaa kantaa Euroopan ihmisoikeusrikkomuksiin pakolaisia, turvapaikanhakijoita ja siirtolaisia kohtaan. Tapahtumassa nähdään suorana lähetyksenä Tukholman Kulturhusetissa ja Sergelin torilla järjestettävä näytösluontoinen oikeusistunto TRIBUNAL 12. Sen tuomareina toimii eri alojen kansainvälisesti tunnustettuja asiantuntijoita, kuten kirjailijoita Nawal el Saadawista ja Nuruddin Farahista Henning Mankelliin. Päivän aikana käsitellään muun muassa rajakontrollia, vastaanottoprosesseja, paperittomuutta, käännytyksiä ja säilöönottoa. >>> read more

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Ptarmigan 2012 residency programme: Call for proposals!

May 9, 2012 | John

Ptarmigan seeks creative projects from the Nordic and Baltic regions for two-month residencies in Tallinn, Estonia. These residencies are supported by the Kulturkontakt Nord Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme.

Ptarmigan is a transdisciplinary cultural platform operating in both Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland. For three years, Ptarmigan has organised events, residencies, workshops, performances and other projects that span across various spheres of art, music, performance, humanities, and other more nebulous fields. Our focus is on event-driven cultural production that’s simultaneously inclusive and unusual.

>>> read more

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Melliferopolis Seminar & Workshop 15-18.5

May 5, 2012 | nathalie

Melliferopolis is a long term research project inviting expertise from various backgrounds to engage with the topic of the bee. It is an initiative by Christina Stadlbauer at Aalto University, Future Art Base / Biological Arts in Helsinki, Finland. The first stage of the initiative consists of a series of lectures and discussions about bees and urban beekeeping from scientific and artistic viewpoints.  The seminar gives a framework and basis to engage and grow the theme into artistic dimensions and cultural levels.  The seminar will be followed by a 3 day hands-on workshop, where themes of Melliferopolis are explored in more detail and implemented practically. During the workshop, new bee hives and insect hotels will be built and installed in several locations in Helsinki and Espoo metropolitan area.

More info

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Afropixel # 3, Dakar (Senegal) 11-20.5!

May 4, 2012 | nathalie

Kër Thiossane, the craddle of the Festival Afropixel in Dakar is turning 10, just as Pixelache!
As part of the ‘off programme’ of the 10th Dakar Art Biennale, Kër Thiossane is launching the third edition of the festival Afropixel on May 11th. This year, the programme focuses on ‘Commons’ from the perspective of Africa and countries of the South and in the context of new technology and artistic creation. ‘Commons’ are  traditionally defined as the elements of the environment- forests, atmosphere, rivers, fisheries or grazing land – that are shared, used and enjoyed by all. A source code, knowledge, artistic creations, these things too can be considered commons as soon as a community is willing to take care of and share this collective resource.

Read more in French

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Utopia läpäisee Helsingin toukokuussa

April 27, 2012 | kati

Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen kaksivuotinen suurprojekti Utooppinen todellisuus avaa laboratorionsa ovet viikoksi ja kutsuu yleisön Utooppiselle alueelle 9.-15.5.2012.

Utooppinen alue on seitsemän päivän mittainen koe: mitä tapahtuu, kun utopia lävistää elämämme? Voiko arki olla teos ja taide yhteiskuntaa mullistava voima? Voiko yhteinen elämämme olla taiteen kanvaaseista se suurin, merkittävin ja vaikuttavin?

Utooppiselle alueelle pääsee monia reittejä: viikon aikana tapahtumat laajenevat Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskukselta Suvilahdesta kaupunkitilaan, Camp Pixelache -tapahtumaan ja Designpääkaupungin paviljonkiin. Osa tapahtumista ei vaadi ennakkovarausta, osaan saavutaan Utooppisen vastaanoton kautta. Vastaanotto auttaa sinua löytämään itsellesi sopivan koeympäristön. Se on auki tapahtuman aikana joka päivä, joko Utopiapuhelimessa tai tapahtumien yhteydessä. Kaikki tapahtumat ovat maksuttomia.

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Free City (Vaba Linn) in Tallinn gathers students, experts & visionnaires

April 13, 2012 | kati

FREE CITY event in Tallinn calls students, experts and visionnaires to meet on 26th-27th April in workshops and dialog-actions for learning to use different open-source tools inside and outside IT, to study the method of action in open-source paradigm and find open-source solutions to start your own new initiatives in analysing, influencing and planning our urban space.

FREE CITY acts with informations, phenomenons, questions and problems in different levels of urban scpace – culture, art, communication, security, sustainability, mobility etc – to connect these assemblages with open-source technology, its thinking methods and creation logic and start protoypes that could manage various problems, ideas, deficities through emphasising on the value gained from open-source ideology.

>>> read more

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Res Agri (resilient technologies for urban agriculture) peer-learning process begins!

May 16, 2012 | varamikko

This peer-learning initiative aims to develop and study and gather knowledge on appropriate agriculture technologies, organic nutrient processing and hydroculture systems, powered with renewable energy sources.

Initiated by Mikko Laajola, activity focuses on common, recycled and scrap materials, guerilla gardening and reclaimed urban sites, as well as greenhouse and indoors technologies.

The process is open, so bring in your projects or proposals!

>>> read more

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Demoteekki – Your Local Underground Library: Bring your works!

May 11, 2012 | agryfp

For Camp Pixelache demo-stalls Demoteket is planning to make a Finnish version of their underground library established in both Denmark and Sweden. Demoteket is based on works by local artists – so please bring your own works along! Music, zines, books, software, drawings – anything goes!

They can be found at the Demo Stalls (2nd floor corridor) at Camp Pixelache on Saturday 12.5. from 12.30-20.00

>>> read more

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Talking Trash(lab) 10.5. Jennifer Gabrys: Remaking Electronic Waste

May 9, 2012 | agryfp

Thursday 10.5. from 18.00-19.30, at Aalto Media Factory, Hämeentie 135 A, Helsinki.

Camp Pixelache invited guest Jennifer Gabrys’ contributes to Talking Trash(lab) lecture series presenting about the material life of digital media.

Digital technologies appear to be immaterial and relatively free of resource constraints. Yet as the environmental issue of electronic waste indicates, the material effects of digital media are significant. As one of the fastest growing waste streams, e-waste quantities are generated at approximately 20-25 million tons per year to 35-40 million tons per year. This waste is hazardous, difficult to recycle, and is often processed in harmful ways, which raisesconsiderable environmental justice issues.

Click here for instruction to get to Aalto Media Factory venue.

>>> read more

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Open Design Demo stalls & Suomenlinna Money Lab exhibition at Camp Pixelache!

May 9, 2012 | kati

Open Design demo stalls are exhibited at Arbis during Camp Pixelache on Saturday 12 May 12:30 – 19:00, with several interesting projects.

Helsinki Hacklab Reactionists present their Chernobyl simulator and RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture from Latvia presents TALK TO ME, a human-plant communication interface for exploring relational aesthetics in these hybrid environments. Other demos include for example the results of Electronic Embroidery workshop held in March and Animation App, a rolling “tiny film festival” of the animations that have been made by audience during the exhibition!

Also exhibited in Arbis are the results of Suomenlinna Money Lab bank note design competition held in March.

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VINAY GUPTA KICKS OFF CAMP PIXELACHE 2012 WITH A KEYNOTE PRESENTATION & HEXAYURT TALKOOT THIS FRIDAY!

May 8, 2012 | kati

This year’s Camp Pixelache opens on Friday 11 May with a keynote lecture by Vinay Gupta (The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution). Gupta is one of the world’s leading thinkers on infrastructure theory and managing geopoltical risks as well as an environmentalist and a sustainability activist. He is known for example for developing Hexayurt, the free/open source emergency shelter and writing the book The Future We Deserve.

In his keynote speech, Tools and Language – Why government can’t manage the 21st century, but we can Gupta ponders for example the shifting balance of power between the State and Corporations, which is a huge part of the problems our democracies face in responding to issues like climate change.

Gupta’s keynote presentation will take place on Friday 11 May at 18.00 at Camp Pixelache 2012 main venue Arbis.

>>> read more

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Do It With Others – D.I.W.O is the new D.I.Y!

May 7, 2012 | kati

Camp Pixelache 2012 is already this week on 11-12.5!!!! It is organised around the overarching theme 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?

Don’t miss the opening keynote presentation by Vinay Gupta on 11.5 at 18.00 at Arbis. On Camp Pixelache main day 12.5, the main theme of D.I.W.O. will be outlined by Marc Garrett (UK), activist, artist, writer and co-director/founder of arts collective Furtherfield.  Check the rest of the themes that will run during the whole day and add your own suggestions here. Share your vision of Doing It With Others, present a project or host a discussion! The call for presentations is open untill the Camp day.

Camp Pixelache has free entrance. WELCOME!

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Melinda Sipos in residency at Pixelache!

May 5, 2012 | nathalie

We have the pleasure to welcome Melinda Sipos from Budapest to be the second resident of our micro-residency programme. Her visit takes place during one of the busiest times of the year in Helsinki at large and at Pixelache. She will stay with us during 9-17-5, and thus attend Camp Pixelache to be held next week on 11-12.5.  Since her current interest includes research on food and food culture, Melinda is up for testing a sort of data-visualisation model and different ideas around catering at Camp Pixelache, amongst other things…

>> More info

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“The world is a place of impossible extremes, and we are all in this together!”

May 3, 2012 | kati

Camp Pixelache keynote speaker Vinay Gupta took some time of his busy schedule and aswered some questions by journalist Anna-Sofia Joro from Finnish newspaper Voima. Part of this interview is published in Finnish in Voima’s issue 4/2012.

Here you can read the whole interview, in which Vinay Gupta shares his inspirational thoughts on cooperation, democracy and of course the Hexayurts.

Read the interview

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Abandoned Mystery project currently based at Nida Art Colony

May 2, 2012 | jon

The Abandoned Mystery project seeks to explore those mysterious locations and study their inner logic as an interaction between nature, people, ancient, contemporary, past and future. In cooperation with international partners, the core-group of initiators is organizing a number of field-trips towards abandoned places in Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Finland, working from Nida (LT), Aizpute (LV), and Hamina (FI) as 3 temporary bases in 2012. The Finnish camp in Hamina will take place in late August-start of September.

Currently the project is based at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania. The documentation, data and artistic outcomes will be published on their wiki-website http://abandonedmystery.info/, becoming the platform for their cross-disciplinary on-going laboratory and collaborative archive.

>>> read more

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7th Stop on Virtuality Grand Tour: G+ Hangout

May 1, 2012 | agryfp

Wednesday May 2nd, 18:00-19:00 EEST/GMT +2

In the 7th Virtuality Grand Tour Stop (and last before Camp Pixelache Virtuality gathering on 11.5.) we are going to play with a toolkit from Google: the G+ Hangout, led by Owen Kelly. Hangout allow to to screenshare, to coordinate Slideshare and YouTube and play group games. We will be looking at the possible value of G+ Hangouts as a pop-up learning resource, with a view to its use at Camp Pixelache and beyond. At first glance it seems much better than Skype or Twitvisio, but to find out if this is actually true or not we need a test team willing to have fun trying to bend it to our collective will!

We will begin at our usual meeting place in Twitvisio where we can share all our information. We can also use this as a fall-back place if the Hangout crashes.

For more info see static & dynamic pages.

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