Keyword Archives: bio+eko+energy

Reports

The Making of Windowfarms Finland Part 2

March 8, 2010 | agryfp
The LEDs for the ‘Windowfarms Finland’ installation are now glowing. Also, Helsinki days are sunnier, longer, and many of the plants are growing in the huge Kiasma takaikkuna window. ‘What plants are there?’ you ask.. The latest update can be found in the ‘plant chart’ recording the current content of the installation [...]
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Art and Technoscience Seminar

ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE Practices in transformation A conference by the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland, in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society and Pixelache festival. Helsinki, 24-25.3.2010 Location: Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Kaikukatu 4. www.kuva.fi Full programme to be announced later. The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of environmental issues. Facing [...]
Keywords: Modified: March 5, 2010

Herbologies/Foraging Networks

* The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki (Finland) and Kurzeme region of Latvia, explores the cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants, within the contemporary context of online networks, open information-sharing, biological and hydroponic technologies. The traditions of finding and knowing about wild food in the local Nordic environment are slipping [...]
Keywords: Modified: March 6, 2010

Art and Sustainability

This programme section is organised in connection with MIM goes sustainable (working title) project by Maike Lond & Taavet Jansen. It aims to provide alternatives to traditional thinking of how theaters operate and prove that low-tech eco-thinking in theatre does not automatically mean simply substandard production quality. The main goal of the project is to [...]
Keywords: Modified: February 19, 2010

Art Meets Energy Consumption

Pixelache and Helsinki Energy are collaborating to produce artworks related to collective energy consumption in Helsinki area. The artworks will be located in public space in Helsinki and/or presented as online projects. In the first round of the project, following artists were invited to submit proposals for artworks: Miska Knapek, Andy Best, Maria Duncker, Unsworn [...]
Keywords: Modified: February 19, 2010