Two new Nordic events will join the Pixelache family!

PixelVÄRK in Stockholm will be held 5-6 October 2007 (organised by Mejan Labs in collaboration with local pixelites) and Icelandic version of Pixelache will be initiated by Lorna!

Bienvenidos!

The deadline for project submissions to Piksel07 has been extended to july 31. 2007!

Please see the open call for submission guidelines:
http://www.piksel.no/piksel07

and use the submission form for project proposals:
http://www.piksel.no/piksel07/subform.html

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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with open source audiovisual software, hardware & art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.

This years event - Piksel07 - continues the exploration of free/libre and open source audiovisual code and it’s myriad of expressions, and also investigates further the open hardware theme introduced at Piksel06.

Piksel07 is done in collaboration with Gallery 3,14 which will host this years exhibition. Piksel is organised by BEK and a community of core participants including members of collectives dyne.org, goto10.org, ap/xxxxx, hackitectura.net, riereta.net, drone.ws, gephex.org and others.

The white Finns juhuu + pete + henrik got a chance to visit Amazonia, Colombia for 10 days with Vanessa + Juan Carlos / Intermundos. We explored the area around the city of Leticia, located in the border area of Colombia, Peru and Brazil. The future goal for Pixelazo is to initiate a jungle residency for international artists, for staying in Colombia for a couple of months and working on projects with local artists and reseachers.

Check juhuu flickr for some pretty jungle photos (tag ’selvatorium’).

VJ Finland is an open forum dedicated to Finnish VJ culture, which aims to foster the development of the local VJ scene.

VJ finland organises its first workshop and jam in collaboration with Pixelache, at Korjaamo (www.korjaamo.fi) on Saturday, July 14

Workshop 17.00 - 21.00
Jam 21.00 - 02.00

VJ`s >>
Random Doctors
Turu Sanoma
Orchid Bite
Beige/Harmaa
Op- (Lumiere bros.)
Xploitec
Alien Killer
Visual Systeemi
Interkosmos
Klaustrofobia

Sounds >>
DJ Jyrkkä Pajulaakso (Notkea Rotta, Holohedral)
DJ Physics (Midnight Sun, Metalheadz)
www.myspace.com/physicsmsr
Boyz of Caligula vs. Munchies (PJVM, Mesak, Randy Barracuda, V.C)
http://www.nationofskweee.com/

Workshops >>

Resolume (Random Doctors, Harmaa, Op-)
Korg laitteistot (Xploitec)
Monipinta projisoinnit (Beige)
MaxMsp/Jitter (Turu Sanoma)
Modul8 (Orchid Bite,Visual Systeemi)
VDMX5 (Klaustrofobia)
Edirol V4 (Visual Systeemi)
Guerrilla VJ Unit Demo (Xploitec)
Pioneer DVJ (Op-)
GlassVU projisointipinta

For further information, check www.vjfinland.fi

WELCOME!

HOla,

Pixelazo 2007.2 just finished in Medellin! And Selvatorium continues this week in Leticia, Amazonas…

Photos are starting to appear in Flickr (tag ‘pixelazo’), I prefer to see my photos in big size instantly so I also made a couple of gallery pages:

* Photos from Barrio Santa Cruz
* Photos from VJ + music workshop show at Barrio Santa Cruz
* Photos from Pixelazo Bailable at Parque de las Luces

Also some quick videos shot with my tiny camera, compressed in MPG4 / DivX:
www.pixelache.ac/2007/pixelazo-videos

More stuff coming up when we get back from the Amazonas….

Abrazos,

Juha.

The first Pixelazo workshop (VJ workshop by Visual Systeemi) started today in Barrio Santa Cruz la Rosa in Medellin, Colombia. Rest of the program this week features a workshop on blogging by Alejandro Tamayo & Régine Debatty, music workshop by Bicho Vargas (Bogota), streaming workshop by Antena Mutante (Bogota), three conferences with presentations by Medellín Wireless, recycling project eRECICLAJE, radio and other media projects of indigenous tribe Nasa and many others… The week finishes with two fiestas featuring local acts like Systema Solar and demonstrations of the music and VJ workshops results.

The “Copyright Guerrilla” issue of NEURAL features a special DVD, the documentation of GRENZE performance (”a view of the capitalist system’s metamorphosis from Karl Marx’s book, Capital”) from Pixelache Helsinki 2006.

If you are interested in the DVD you can also contact Pixelache Helsinki office directly, we have a limited amount of copies available. Thanks a lot for Christina Kral who did the hard work of documenting the show + editing the material!

Photo by Juha Huuskonen

Photo by Antti Ahonen

+ More photos by Antti Ahonen

Pixelache + katastro.fi end of the season Grill Fiesta will be organised on Wednesday 6th of June, 6-9 pm! Bring your veggies and sausages and join us at a park in the corner of Nilsiänkatu and Ensi-kodin tie in Vallila, Helsinki!

Location in Google Maps

The park is a semi-abandoned one so organising this event involves some improvising, and also we have the risk of rain… Therefore if you have trouble locating us in Vallila then please call +358 40 570 96 17…

Pixelvärk Stockholm 2004 - Photo: Wojtek Mejor

The first Pixelvärk event in Stockholm took place in 2004, and now after a long break there might be more Pixelvärk action coming up this year…

If you are interested in getting involved in planning/organising Pixelvärk then please join our informal meeting on Thursday 31st May at 6 pm at Mejan Labs. For more information please send an e-mail to bjorn [[ät]] mejanlabs.se and juhuu [[ät]] juhuu.nu.