Pixelache 2010 is in less than 2 months! We are looking for volunteers to help make the festival happen. Getting involved is a unique opportunity to experience a major international electronic art event and to contribute to its success!
More info about how to get involved here
Pixelvärk 2010 kicks off tomorrow!
This year’s edition cross-pollinates with the Göteborg Film Festival and brings together people from the film scene into the mix. It is organized by the Swedish VJ Union and Pitbull/Pixel Lab. The programme includes VJ performances, artists presentations and workshops. It aims to inspire and boost the Gothenburg VJ and new media scenes as well as inspire film makers to experiment with live mixed video and animation.
See the full programme here: http://www.pixelvark.se/program/
Finnish makers Mikko Laajola and Niko Punin are working in collaboration with artist-producers Andrew Gryf Paterson and Ulla Taipale/Capsula to create a new localised manifestation of the Windowfarms Project in Finland, using local specialist (hydroponic and LED growing technologies) and recycled materials. The plants grown will be used in participatory workshops during Pixelache Festival.
Progress is now underway.. Seeds are shooting & growing!
Follow the progress here, and/or become a Facebook fan of Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme. If you are based nearby (Helsinki), there is still a chance to join in!
Afropixel is a festival dedicated to art, technology and the transformation of society, organised in Dakar, Senegal, by Kër Thiossane – Ville for Art and Multimedia. In advance of the second edition of the festival, Kër Thiossane welcomes artists from Africa and the Caribbean in residence for experimentation and the creation of works related to the themes of Afropixel 2010: the inter-relationship between technology and the transformation of society (citizenship, ecology, town development, energy…), digital experimentation, free practices (Do It Yourself and Open Source), high tech and low tech technological creations, re-routing, recycling.
Deadline for application : 22 February 2010
More information : www.ker-thiossane.com
Pixelache Software of the Year 2010 title has been awarded to…
APODIO by APO33
and
Puredyne by GOTO10
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Puredyne and APODIO are ‘live CD’ projects – distribution versions of Gnu/Linux operating system, which boot on any PC laptop or desktop, including the intel-based Mac and x86 netbooks. These distributions are dedicated to creative multimedia tools for audio/video processing and real-time performance and aims to provide a full set of tools for the average media artists needs.
In addition to these two initiatives, we would like to draw attention to the practice of developing custom GNU/Linux distributions tailored for specific uses such as media production, audio/video streaming, hacktivism, art installations and more. Other such initiatives include dyne:bolic, Sahabuntu and PikseLiveCD.
Still time to sign in for the pixelache art and sustainability workshop. It will be held 23-24.1 at Ptarmigan by koelse.org and MIM-project from Estonia. In this workshop we will be thinking about different kinds of sustainability issues regarding production of art, focused on the issue of energy consumption.
At the moment art is becoming more and more dependent on electricity, and since our electricity production relies heavily on unsustainable methods it is our responsibility as artists to figure out better alternatives.
On our workshop we will be experimenting with different lo-tech sollutions for powering up our equipment and also think about the artistic possibilities of energy production.
So join us on our journey towards more sustainable forms of art-production.
To sign up for the workshop send me an email aahonen(AT)gmail.com
The online system for proposing content for Pixelache 2010 and Pixelache 2011 is now open!
Please send an email to office ((ät)) pixelache.ac if you have any questions regarding the submission forms or other details.
There are two deadlines for Pixelache Helsinki 2010: Wed 20 Jan and Mon 22 Feb. We would prefer you to send your proposals to us as soon as possible, since we will be going through the applications on a regular basis and making programme decisions. The early birds have a better chance of being accepted.
The Aching Pixels are back! Please have a look at the Pixelache Helsinki 2010 preliminary programme!
Date: 3-6 December 2009
Organised by: RIXC
Location: RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35, Riga, Latvia.
Link: orgnet.rixc.lv
A Meeting focusing on the development of an Art and Renewable Energy Network takes place in Riga, on December 3-6, 2009. The event is organised by RIXC (Latvia) together with partners from the Nordic and Baltic region: KCCC (LT), Piksel (NO), iolab (NO), Lorna (IS), Pixelache (FI), Marin Association (FI), Kultivator, Mejan Labs, Interactive institute (Sweden) > as well as Baltan Laboratories (the Netherlands) and involving new partners from the Caucasus region: ACCEA/NPAK (Armenia) and Center for Contemporary Art – Tbilisi, GeoAir (Georgia), and others. The event will feature also Latvian organizations such as Interdisciplinary art group SERDE, The New Theatre Institute of Latvia, and other NGO members.
Public artworks commenting energy consumption in Helsinki area
Educational events around the year
Helsinki, Stockholm, Bergen, Reykjavik, Paris, Istanbul, Dakar, Santa Marta
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Camping à la BarCamp
We have decided to try out BarCamp-style of programme format for our Camp Pixelache in Kerava. BarCamp is ‘an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment’, more information at www.barcamp.org. BarCamp is similar to a more generic OST / Open Space Technology.
Our Camp will be a slightly modified version of BarCamp/OST, but the main principle will be the same – the participants thenselves will be in charge of the programme of the day, which will be decided upon on arrival at the venue. We will publish more details soon!
This decision means that we will have to cancel the second round of the Call for Proposals – instead, we would like to ask anyone who wants to participate in Camp Pixelache to propose ideas already beforehand (this will be possible in a wiki page, we will add the link to Camp Pixelache page) and to show up on the day to participate.
We would like to thank Mike Bradshaw (organiser of BarCamp Helsinki events) and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen / YKON for helping us to develop the Camp Pixelache programme format.