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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!

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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 Wednesday 29.2.! (8 more days left).

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Catherine Lenoble (FR) is our first Learner-in-Residence!

Pixelache launches a new series of micro-residencies, consisting of ‘Leaner-in-residence’ positions. We offer 4 ‘Learner-in-Residence’ positions in 2012 to invited professionals of Pixelache’s extended network. These one week micro-residencies in Helsinki are not oriented towards new productions but towards the exchange of knowledge between Pixelache and these individuals, and towards supporting current developments and changes [...]

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Suomenlinna Sound / Duration Map by Geoff Robinson

Geoff Robinson is presenting 2 projects and a sound performance next week 3-5 February on Suomenlinna. His work is based on  research and documentation of Suomenlinna during his HIAP residency  November 2011 -February 2012.

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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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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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HACK THE CITY OPEN CALL

Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking proposals for an upcoming major exhibition and festival HACK THE CITY Call Opens: Monday 5 December Call Closes: Friday 20 January Exhibition duration: 22.6. 2012 – 7.9. 2012 Festival dates: 11-15 July 2012 Calling all hackers, makers, doers, data nerds, hobbyists, artists, citizen scientists, tech geeks, [...]

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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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