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FREE CITY (VABA LINN) 26.-27. April 2012 in Tallinn
FREE CITY is an interdisciplinary series of events for young people, students and professionals targeted at highlighting specific urban space problems and finding solutions to them using freeware instruments and the underlying thought paradigm. FREE CITY showcases freeware instruments (in the field of IT and in other fields), the paradigm that links them and the [...]
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‘Space is the Place’ exhibition & lecture nights
How do you experience space? Kaiku-gallery at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts turns into a process-space during the final weeks of January. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to modify and change the space according to their own tastes with materials available at the gallery. The process does not have a defined objective, neither [...]
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Open lecture series in art-design-technology-science: HUMAN DESIGN or EVOLUTION?
4 lecture evenings, 9 international speakers discussing the future of the human! Mondays 5-7pm at Aalto Media factory, Arabia. Starting on the 23rd of January and continuing on the subsequent 3 mondays. Body enhancement, body modification, prosthetics, wearable and embedded technologies, mind uploading, memory-upgrades, biotechnologies and other nano-scale technologies are keywords in contemporary societys answers to [...]
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Camp Pixelache 2012 Open Call
This spring, 11-12 May, we make a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called ‘Camp Pixelache’, at Arbis adult education centre, with the the theme of “Do It With Others” (D.I.W.O.). How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as [...]
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International Teletext Art Festival: Open Call
TAF is organised by FixC cooperative (http;//www.fixc.fi) in collaboration with YLE, the national broadcast corporation of Finland. The works will be shown on YLE Teletext pages 8.3.2012 -8.4.2012 and presented in the one evening TELETEXT event 8.3. Artists are welcome to participate with 24 -page animations (1 page + 24 sub -pages) or single image works (much [...]
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MEDIA FACADES 2012 – CALL FOR PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
This call is to invite projects and collaborations for the Media Facades 2012 festival, to be organized in Helsinki 20.8-2.9.2012 as part of the Helsinki Festival programme. Deadline for proposals is 20.01.2012 – download the call and proposal form here. Media Facades is a festival to present media and electronic art projects in public space. [...]
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FABLAB CITY HELSINKI 14.12.
Alternative Design Capital (ADC) arranges a meeting to bring together various emerging ‘fab lab’ initiatives and other related projects. Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome to the meeting! Fab labs offer tools such as laser cutters and 3D printers which designers can use to produce prototypes or small sets of unique objects. [...]
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The Wearable Electronics -course presentation 5.12.
Electronics and sensors allow artists to create interactive smart garments that produce sound and images in reaction to movement. They sense and communicate with the environment and the user, and may react to them. In some cases the garment is in connection with the Internet and exchanges information based on the data it has measured. As [...]
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Open lecture by Artist Ursula Damm 9.12.
Ursula Damm (DE) is an artist working at the intersection of art, technology and science. She has developed installations on the relationship of nature, science and civilization which have been shown at numerous exhibitions worldwide. Since 2008 she holds the chair of Media Environments (Media Arts&Design) at the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-University, Weimar. In 2010 [...]
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ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION: BANKNOTE FOR LOCAL CURRENCY IN SUOMENLINNA