Monthly Archives: February 2012
Misc, Open calls, Recommended events
OGDcamp + OKCon = OKFestival
This year’s Open Government Data Camp and Open Knowledge Conference are joining to form a week-long celebration: the Open Knowledge Festival! This pioneering event will include a full week of lectures, seminars, workshops, hackathons, coding jams, and interactive sessions that will bring together individuals and organizations from a wide variety of backgrounds to exchange ideas, make [...]
News, Open calls, Pixelache Projects
Update about illustration Competition: Banknote for Local Currency in Suomenlinna
There is a still a couple of weeks to participate in the illustration competition for the Suomenlinna local currency banknote. Updated info about there competition here!
Misc, Open calls, Recommended events
Urban Activism in Post- Socialist Cities Workshop in Tallinn, 14-20th June
Linnalabor invites you to an international workshop taking place 14 – 20 June 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia. The workshop is part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) Grundtvig and it is organized by Linnalabor (Estonian Urban Lab). You need to apply for the workshop, deadline is now past (Wednesday 29.2.).
News, Pixelversity
3rd Stop on Virtuality Grand Tour
The third stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour* is upcoming this Wednesday 22.2. at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT. This time our host and tour guide is Darko Aleksovski, an artist and critic living in Macedonia. He will present to us as a website tour, the curious urbanization and architecture of two Macedonian cities, considering [...]
News, Pixelache Projects
Tuesday 21.2: Hack for Culture by Catherine Lenoble
Catherine Lenoble who is in residency at Pixelache. will give a presentation entitled ‘Hack for Culture’ on Tuesday 21.2 during 18.00-20.00 at Pixelache office. On this occasion, she will share with us her experience of informal learning within the field of art & technology, based on the LABtoLAB experiment. LABtoLAB is a nomadic university project, [...]
News, Pixelversity
2nd Stop on Virtuality Grand Tour!
The Pixelversity cluster theme ‘Virtuality, Social Identity & Augmented Reality’ continues its activity on Wednesday 15.2. at 18.00 with the second stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour*. Hosted by Owen Kelly, lecturer and researcher at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, we will introduce OpenSim, a open-source virtual world environment, and JokaydiaGRID, a 3D Virtual [...]
Recommended events
Tomorrow 14.2 Open Data Meetup. Policy issues: What changes when data opens?
The event is dedicated to open data and especially the societal impact of open data. The speakers will present a variety of macro level perspectives on open data. There will be speeches on how open data is changing the citizen participation, activism, journalism and business. After the presentations we’ll have an open Q&A session with [...]
News, Pixelversity
How I learned to stop worrying & love trash
Welcome to the first lecture in the ‘Talking Trash(lab)’ series by Antti Ahonen (Koelse, FI), on Friday 17th February, 17.30-19.00 at Aalto Media Factory. “How I learned to stop worrying and love trash” The question of trash is very essential today, as the rate our limited natural resources is turning into hazardous waste is constantly [...]
News, Pixelache Projects
ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION: BANKNOTE FOR LOCAL CURRENCY IN SUOMENLINNA
As part of the Suomenlinna Money Lab project we are looking for an illustrator to create a visual thematic for a new local currency called the Kuula (cannonball) for the Finnish island of Suomenlinna. These bank notes will not be legal tender but rather a complementary local currency that will only be used on this [...]
Misc, Pixelache Network
Watch Lab to Lab documentary online!