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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, 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 [...]
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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, Open calls, Pixelversity
Open Map Workshop at Invisible City WDC2012
You‘ve been involved in Pixelache Helsinki activities/festival past and/or present? Join us in our open map workshop charting out the connections among the Pixelache -related scene(s), as a contribution to Invisible City WDC2012 event (facebook event). Our plan is to map and visualize the history and connections between different activities, organisations and people in the [...]
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1st Stop on Virtuality Grand Tour
The Pixelversity cluster theme ‘Virtuality, Social Identity & Augmented Reality’ begins its activity on Thursday 26.1. (today!) with the first stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour. A ‘grand tour’ was, in the tradition of classical learning, a travel around cultural landmarks. In this theme we revive the practice online. Each stop on the Virtuality Grand [...]
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Trashlab begins on 14.1. (ongoing monthly events during 2012)!
Trashlab monthly events during 2012 will explore experimental art-design-technology practice between hacker and maker cultures, in the context of re/up-cycling and the increased availability of new fabrication tools. Trashlab’s objective is to build up a community of people (artists, designers, hackers, makers, re/up-cyclers, activists) who are concerned with material and electronic waste in contemporary society, [...]
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Social Responsibility & Design: Future Development of Suburbs Lecture Series
Social Responsibility & Design research platform, based in University of Helsinki Geosciences and Geography department, begins on Thursday 17.11. from 13-15 a lecture series on the future development of suburbs from both a local and international perspective. Public attendees are encouraged to attend the multi-disciplinary series at the University Main Building (Fabianinkatu) which covers artistic, [...]
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First Social Gathering about ‘TrashLab’ in Pixelversity 2012
We gather at Pub Magneetti, Vallila on Friday 11.11. from 18.00- to discuss what might be the ‘TrashLab’ monthly workshop next year as part of Pixelversity, including ambitions, tool & material needs, & to decide upon it’s name. The event follows on from the gathering that took place at Megapolis2026 on 13.10. Anyone is welcome [...]
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RIXC hosts ‘Techno-ecologies’ 13th Art+Communication Festival, Riga
‘Techno-Ecologies’ is the theme of this year’s Art+Communication festival in Riga, Lavia, that explores how we inhabit the deep technological spheres of our everyday life. From Friday-Saturday 4-5th November a conference will facilitate a discussion between artists, theorists, designers, environmental scientists, technologists, responsible entrepreneurs and activists to develop this perspective. Diversity, social and ecological sustainability, [...]
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Urban Activism in Post- Socialist Cities Workshop in Tallinn, 14-20th June