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.
Activity
Also posted in Misc, Pixelache Projects
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 in our organisation(s).
During 19-26.2, we have the pleasure to welcome Catherine Lenoble (FR), our first Learner-in-Residence.
Catherine 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, exploring the role of the lab as a space for collaborative learning and knowledge exchange. A documentary film of the process will also be screened as part of her presentation
More about Catherine & her talk
More about our Learner-in-residence programme
Also posted in Pixelversity
Exploring the maker scene in St. Petersburg
I (Jukka Hautamäki) was offered the role to be Pixelache/Pixelversity Ambassador during my artist-residency (11-12/2011) in St. Petersburg. This was an interesting idea, since it also fitted perfectly with my original working plans with the residency at Suomi-Talo in the city, awarded by Ateljeesäätiö. Before going to St. Petersburg, I gained some local contacts with whom to start with, managed to attend several of the November festivals, and visit the local Hacklab. But before any of that, I need to mention the discovery I made in local flea market Udelniy.
Also posted in 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 digital culture scene of Helsinki / Finland. We are joined by Minna Henrikkson, who has worked previously on social-mapping projects. This occasion we will make our relational map on paper, and use DOT language to make a digital version we release afterwards.
We have a table among the open data people in Kulmasali, Korjaamo, on Saturday 4th February from 14:00-20:00. Come and add your entries and/or remind us of what we have forgotten!
Also posted in Pixelversity
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 Tour (VGT) explores different online platform(s) and tools, and is hosted by a particular persons. Pixelversity facilitator Andrew Paterson starts with exploring some online organisational tools, including Twitvisio (Twitter video-hangout), Doodle (event/poll scheduler) and Etherpad (collaborative writing). The event begins at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT by signing in with a Twitter account to Twitvisio #pixelversity channel.
Also posted in Open calls, Pixelache Festival
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 the core goal? Other sub-themes are ’Creative Neighbourhood Skills’, ’The Art of Gathering Environmental Data’ also ‘Virtuality/Social Identity’. We are CALLING OUT proposals for presentations as well as demos for Open Design, Crafts & Manufacturing.
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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, and tackle this problem with creative and tangential approaches.
>>> MORE INFO about Trashlab programme, the different events and actions so far defined
Also posted in Pixelache Network
Piksel11 report
The 9th edition of the Piksel Festival took place on November 17th-20th 2011 in Bergen, Norway. The festival was subtitled this year as “re:public” for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context. As previously, through the nine-year history of the festival, Piksel is firmly grounded on free/libre and open source.
Also posted in Pixelache Network, Pixelache Projects, Recommended events
Piksel11 & Pixelache Software of the Year 2012
The 9th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom launches today in Bergen! The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context. More info about the festival programme.
We are pleased to announce that the Pixelache Software of the Year 2012 title is this time given to din – din is noise and will be featured at Piksel through a workshop and presentation.
din is a Free software musical instrument exclusively for the GNU/Linux operating system made by the Indian programmer S. Jagannathan. din – din is noise presents an innovative way of generating live music from a simple visual interface based on Bezier curves, and is a good example of how creative and DIY technologies can foster new approaches and solutions that escapes the leading rules of the software industry.
Also posted in Pixelache Festival, Pixelache Projects, Pixelversity
Pixelache 2002-2012
Pixelache is turning 10 in 2012 already!
Every year since 2002, Pixelache Helsinki has shown a different face, continually searching for new strategies to present fresh and inspiring projects on the interstices of experimental art, design, research and activism. Pixelache continues in 2012 to explore new production models, with an emphasised focus on all-the-year-round activities, which consider change holistically, towards social, bio- energy and human sustenance.
Also posted in Pixelversity
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 to join! Keep an ear/eye out for December gathering date.
Open calls, Recommended events
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 arising possibilities for own-initiative projects for the audience, representative of various fields.
The format of the events is both theoretical and practical. The participants are involved in active investigation and intervention and thereby take part in influencing the urban space of Tallinn or any other city. The objective of the activities is to find, collect and process information (from the different layers represented in cities: culture, art, communication, safety, economy, mobility etc.) and to express and use the information in order to raise issues or as source material for providing solutions. The paradigm of freeware is not limited to the field of IT, but searches for its meaning in the more general and wider context of the urban environment. The discussion will dwell upon keywords such as public and common space, freedom and responsibility, public creation of knowledge, ethics and politics. >>> read more