Monthly Archives: March 2010
News, Pixelache Festival
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 [...]
Keywords: labs
Recommended events
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 [...]
News, Pixelache Festival
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Keywords: bio+eko+energy
News, Pixelache Projects
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 [...]
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IHME Club 2010