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IHME Club 2010

IHME Club 2010 is co-organised by IHME Days 2010 and Pixelache. It will be held at Vanha Student House on Saturday 27.3.
The club’s main act is Slagsmålsklubben from Sweden. Also performing the Finnish band Black Horse. Legendary Jaakko Eino Kalevi and Amon Düde will be the evening’s DJs. As for the visual part, a special guest from Denmark Sune Petersen aka Motorsaw and Sakke Soini from Finland.

The Club programme has been put together by Timo Kaukolampi (music programme) and Petri Ruikka (visual programme).

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The labs are back!

There seems to be a renaissance of experimental media labs going on at the moment. While some of the big ones have closed during the past years (IVREA, Media Lab Europe, Interactive Institute) the small ones are thriving – Kitchen Budapest has produced an impressive amount of work in a couple of years, FabLabs are opening around the world (our friends in Ghent just opened one), Hackerspaces as well (there is now one in Helsinki as well), Baltan Laboratories recently organised The Future of the Lab seminar and LABtoLAB network just started its activities.

Pixelache Helsinki presents annually fresh work from various art / design / media / technology labs and study programmes. Pixelache Helsinki 2010 features work by researchers and students from Carnegie Mellon University, Valand c:art:media, Piet Zwart Institute and many more, see updated programme.

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Greetings from Kultivator Dyestad farm, Öland, Sweden!

As part of Kultivator’s preparations for The Wedding Between Art and Agriculture in July 2010, Tapio Mäkelä and Andrew Paterson were invited from Finland to contribute to their ‘Land-reform and open-source?’ seminar. Kultivator’s related ‘Lysning’ exhibition and event programme is hosted by Kalmar Konstmuseum on the mainland next to Öland.

Kultivator will be presenting their work and plans for the ceremony during the ‘Herbologies/Foraging Networks’ Seminar on Saturday 27th March, 13-17, in Kiasma Seminar Room during Pixelache Festival.

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Register for Adam Zaretsky’s Vivoarts workshop

Renowned bioartist Adam Zaretsky (US) leads a hands-on lab in Pixelache Festival entitled: ‘How to Extract DNA from Anything Living in the Laboratory or in your Kitchen: A Compare and Contrast Vegetarian Laboratory and Hobbyist Workshop’. It will include a bio-political discussion on the difference between whole plant preparations and purified, ‘isolated’ extracts, with a risk assessment of intentional release ‘utilisation’ of Hybrid DNA.

The workshop will take place in Kiasma Seminar room on Saturday 27th March, from 1730-1900, and is free of charge. Held in English language, it has a limited number of spaces for involved persons (Maximum 25 participants), although another 15 are welcome to watch the proceedings.

Please register before 25.3. Look here for more information.

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Register for Herbologies Workshops

On Sunday 28th March, the Pixelache Festival weekend, from 13-17, there will be two interactive workshops at Kaisaniemi Botanic Gardens, Helsinki:

‘Herbal Tinctures’ Workshop by Interdisciplinary Arts Group SERDE (LV), and ‘Fermentation Sermon’ by Finnish wild plant expert Ossi Kakko, which teach artistic and ‘hands-on’/practical skills, and give DIY -tools to prepare and enjoy wild vegetables and local herbs following traditional and contemporary procedures.

These workshops are free of charge, but have a limited number of spaces (Max. 16 participants Herbal Tintures workshop). Please register before 25.3. Look here for more information.

Reports

Windowfarms Finland installation with viewers / Photo by Antti Ahonen

The Making of Windowfarms Finland Part 2

The LEDs for the ‘Windowfarms Finland’ installation are now glowing. Also, Helsinki days are sunnier, longer, and many of the plants are growing in the huge Kiasma takaikkuna window.

‘What plants are there?’ you ask.. The latest update can be found in the ‘plant chart’ recording the current content of the installation in an online spreadsheet. Hopefully the majority will make it until the end of the month, where there will be workshops on 27th and 28th March, using some of the plants.

Documentation of the participatory building workshop, LED module-making, and finishing of the installation, have now been gathered onto one page.

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Opening of Anisostropics 11.3

Not to miss next week, the opening of the Anisotropics exhibition (12-28.3), with Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran (India)!

The featured projects are based on temporary public works, media interventions and other artistic probes into technologies, communities and spaces in cities like Bangalore, Bombay, Dakar, Delhi, Jerusalem and Mexico. Anisotropics is part of Pixelache’s annual Signals from the South programme, which also includes a seminar to be held during the festival on 28.3.

Artist Ashok Sukumaran will be present at the opening.

Opening Time: Thursday, March 11th, 5-7 pm
Location: MUU Gallery, Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki, Finland

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Golan Levin exhibition & Window Farm in Kiasma

The Golan Levin exhibition opened in Kiasma this week, here are a couple of photos:

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New Puredyne’s soup is tasty!

Puredyne, a USB-bootable GNU/Linux operating system for creative media, was chosen as Pixelache Software of the Year, next to another multimedia distribution, APODIO. It’s been nearly a month now that the new version, “carrot and coriander“, has been released. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback, making us a really proud and happy crew of developers.

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Art and Technoscience seminar

A conference by the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland, in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society and Pixelache festival.

!! This conference takes place already on Wednesday 24 March + Thursday 25 March !!

Speakers include Roy Ascott (artist, theorist, UK), Jill Scott (artist, researcher, AUS/CH), Andy Gracie (artist, UK/ESP), Ingeborg Reichle (art historian, DE), Adam Zaretsky (artist, US), Tuija Kokkonen (theatre director, FI), Terike Haapoja (artist, FI), Pau Alsina (researcher, ESP), Ulla Taipale (curator, FI/ESP), Anu Osva (artist, FI), Erich Berger (artist, coordinator ArsBioarctica, AUT/FI), Helena Sederholm (head of department of art Aalto University, FI), Laura Beloff (artist, researcher, FI), Manu Tamminen (microbiologist, FI), Eija Juurola (forest researcher, FI), Raitis Smits (artist, curator, LV), Jan Kaila (artist, professor, FI), Antti Sajantila (professor,  medical doctor, FI), Minna Långström (artist, FI) among others.

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