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Utopia läpäisee Helsingin toukokuussa
Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen kaksivuotinen suurprojekti Utooppinen todellisuus avaa laboratorionsa ovet viikoksi ja kutsuu yleisön Utooppiselle alueelle 9.-15.5.2012. Utooppinen alue on seitsemän päivän mittainen koe: mitä tapahtuu, kun utopia lävistää elämämme? Voiko arki olla teos ja taide yhteiskuntaa mullistava voima? Voiko yhteinen elämämme olla taiteen kanvaaseista se suurin, merkittävin ja vaikuttavin? Utooppiselle alueelle pääsee monia reittejä: viikon [...]
News, Pixelache Festival
Pixelache Club – tickets for sale now!
After a day full of events at Camp Pixelache on Saturday 12 May, we invite you to relax, enjoy good music & chill out with pixelache-minded people at Pixelache Club! We’ll have a pair of gentlemen known as Prometheus, offering a mobile audio / visual Performance while leading you from Arbis through the grey blocks of Helsinki, deep [...]
News, Pixelache Projects, Pixelversity
Pixelache and Linnalabor contribute together to Finnish Social Forum 21.4.
How can cultural associations engage with urban/social change? When can or should cultural associations hand over community-orientated projects to the local communities they are initiated with? On Saturday 21. April, at Finnish Social Forum event Pixelache Helsinki and Linnalabor Tallinn discuss the organisational and participatory practices of engaging in one’s neighbourhood and the different economies involved. They [...]
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Jennifer Gabrys visits Camp Pixelache 2012
Jennifer Gabrys, Senior Lecturer and Convener of the MA Design and Environment from Goldsmiths University, London, visits Pixelache events in May. Gabrys gives a Talking Trash(lab) lecture on Thursday 10 May at Aalto Media Factory and is a plenary speaker and facilitator of Camp Pixelache subtheme ‘The art of gathering environmental data‘ on Saturday 12 May [...]
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Free City (Vaba Linn) in Tallinn gathers students, experts & visionnaires
FREE CITY event in Tallinn calls students, experts and visionnaires to meet on 26th-27th April in workshops and dialog-actions for learning to use different open-source tools inside and outside IT, to study the method of action in open-source paradigm and find open-source solutions to start your own new initiatives in analysing, influencing and planning our urban [...]
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Camp Pixelache calls for Open Design demos – deadline 27 April!
Within the context of Camp Pixelache, Demo Stalls on Open Design, Crafts and Manufacturing will be exhibited at Arbis on 12 May, on the same floor where Camp Pixelache takes place. We are calling out for open design, trashlab and hacklab demos to join the Open Design stalls. Deadline for proposing your demo is 27 [...]
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AAVE Alternative AudioVisual Event 12.-15.4. in Helsinki
AAVE Alternative AudioVisual Event is a Helsinki-based yearly festival. The mission of the festival is to represent, promote and showcase different forms of audiovisual arts. Festival activity consists in screenings, live cinema, workshops and side venues. AAVE is not a mere film or media art festival but aims at opening the gates into the vast [...]
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OPEN KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL – CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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 an action-packed 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, Pixelache Projects
UPDATE ABOUT SUOMENLINNA BANKNOTE ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION: DEADLINE EXTENDED!
We have extended the deadline of illustration competition for the Suomenlinna local currency banknote with one week! Competition is now open untill Friday 16 March. Updated info about there competition here!
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