Monthly Archives: June 2010
General
Herbologies Expedition to Kurzeme, Latvia
These midsummer days an interdisciplinary and international group gathers in Kurzeme, Latvia, for the second part of Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme this year.
Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE coordinates, hosts and builds upon their experience of engaging cultural heritage subjects as an arts organisation, based in Aizpute town, Kurzeme. Signe Pucena, in collaboration with Andrew Gryf Paterson, has [...]
Announcements
Hacklab at the sea July 12-18
Call for proposals deadline is 26 June!!!
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M.A.R.I.N. invites short proposals to attend Hacklab at the Sea, an informal workshop on an island in the Finnish archipelago combining tinkering and brainstorming of ideas. The workshop explores sensory experience of marine environment and ecologies. Participants should all do hands-on tinkering with the likes of [...]
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Mal au Pixel 5
(in English below)
• MAL AU PIXEL 5 •
Paris, du 20 au 27 juin 2010
Depuis 2006, le festival Mal au Pixel explore la création numérique en développement (visuelle, sonore, spectaculaire…) et ses hybridations avec des pratiques connexes (game design, architecture, activisme, recherche, ingénierie…), avec un fort penchant pour les solutions technologiques libres et open source et [...]
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Summercamp Electrified
One more summercamp! This one is organised by our friends in Ghent, Belgium.
Summercamp Electrified from 17th till 26th of June 2010
From June 17 till 27 the second edition of Summercamp Electrified will take place in Ghent. Summercamp Electrified is a ten day intensive encounter between 12 local and international artists with the city as a [...]
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Summer Picnic by the Megaphonebooth tonight from 18.00 on Kiasma lawn
The weather looks ok for the picnic right now but a bit uncertain though. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
If it starts raining we have an indoor plan B near by. Call this number if it’s raining and you don’t see us on the Kiasma lawn: 050 46 57 929 / Nathalie.
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Hacking and farming
ESTIVE NUMÉRIQUE * PIKSEL SUMMER CAMP * THE WEDDING BETWEEN ART AND AGRICULTURE * BARNCAMP
This summer artists and hackers will go camping and farming outdoors!
General
Interview of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
“How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the rest of the world press combined? It’s disgraceful.”
>> The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
(bwo Patrice Riemens @ Nettime list | bwo Geert Lovink)
Announcements
Transbiotics @ Riga, June 14-20
TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal stability points
Riga, June 14 – 20, 2010
This year the Festival for New Media Culture „Art+Communication” will focus on the emerging biotechnologies as means for artistic expression as well as challenge to the constantly changing materiality in arts. Festival programme with its title “TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal Stability Points” will take place in collaboration with a [...]
General
Summer Picnic by the Megaphonebooth
Welcome to our summer picnic by the Megaphonebooth, on Kiasma lawn, on Tuesday 15.6 klo 18.00!
´Megaphonebooth Kiasma-nurmi’ by Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson from Unsworn Industries (SE), is a coin-operated megaphone installed in the Kiasma lawn until the end of June. We are lucky as Magnus and Erik from Unsworn Industries will be around at [...]
Reports
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