Pixel Lab #7 | Mari Keski-Korsu & Erich Berger "Case Pyhäjoki" --------------------------------------------------------------
Presentation: Case Pyhäjoki Sat. 13 December, 5-7PM; Workshop; DIY Geiger Counter Sat. 13 & Sun. 14 December, 2-6PM; 2-days Workshop; in Pixel Lab / Laboratoire Ouvert @ la Gaîté lyrique, Paris Conference will be streamed on : http://gaite-lyrique.net/conference/conference-case-pyhajoki #7A | Presentation Case Pyhäjoki -------------------------------- ‘Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence’ was a trans-disciplinary artistic expedition, production workshop and presentation events on the 31st of July to the 12th of August 2013, in Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, where the sixth nuclear power plant of Finland was planned to be built at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki. The aim of the project was to explore artistic perspectives on the vast changes planned in Pyhäjoki, through the planning of a nuclear power plant at the site, and this way of considering energy production and consuming in the world. Artists can not only reflect upon and depict social phenomena and socio-economical relations, but can also situate themselves in between politics, activism and science. Can art make changes? If so, what would be the creative tools of activism? http://casepyhajoki.info/en/about/ #7.B | Workshop DIY Geiger Counter ---------------------------------- Learn how to make a Geiger Counter and measure the radiation caused by nature or human activities. Artists Martin Howse and Erich Berger have designed an easy to build Geiger Counter for Case Pyhäjoki, and have made a "Geiger Counter building manual" based on this design. The manual is available at casepyhajoki.info/casepyhajoki_geiger.zip <http://www.casepyhajoki.info/casepyhajoki_geiger.zip> BIOGRAPHIES ----------- Mari Keski-Korsu is an trans-disciplinary artist. She explores how ecological and socio-economical changes manifest in people’s everyday life. How macrocosm becomes microcosm and visa versa? Her works have a political nature with a humorous twist. Often, the starting point of the work is in location, a place and people’s relations to it and collaborations with different kinds of communities and individuals. Keski-Korsu’s practise is for example interventions, documentary, performance, virtual worlds, photography, live visualisations and installations as well as mixtures of all these media. She is interested in relations in between art, activism, politics and science. http://www.artsufartsu.net/ Erich Berger is a visual artist and trained as a communication engineer and in philosophy. He has produced interactive art installations, artistic wearable interfaces, audiovisual performances and sound-art, which have been shown internationally since the mid 90ties. He also works as educator, curator, content developer and facilitator, focusing on the intersection of art, technology and science. Research interests include telerobotics and telematically mediated environments, interactive participatory spaces, sonification and visualisation of real-time processes with related questions in composition, semiotics and linguistics, generative processes, feedback situations and autopoietic systems. His research engages with hybrid space, deep time processes, biology and ecology and involves the facilitation of interdisciplinary environments for working and learning. His research also includes close cooperation with international partners within the arts and sciences. http://randomseed.org/ PIXEL_LAB | LABORATOIRE OUVERT ------------------------------ Within the residency program "Laboratoire Ouvert" of la Gaîté lyrique, Mal au Pixel and the Pixelache network propose a series of monthly meetings in Paris, until April 2015, consisting in a public talk and a hands-on workshop. Since 2006, Mal au Pixel festival is looking at connecting technology, urban electronics and social transformation issues, and to investigate our contemporary beliefs. The festival brings together young digital artists and unconventional electronics : unexpected technologies, open source tools, prototypes and open ended events. http://www.malaupixel.org PRACTICAL --------- Talk On Saturday 13 Dec, plateau Media 5PM-7PM, Free access; Workshop On Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 Dec, in Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, Salle Accueil Groupe, 2PM-6PM, 5€ + 10€ for components and PCB, limited to 12 participants, Reservations = [email protected]; PARTNERS -------- In partnership with Pixelache Network. http://www.network.pixelache.ac With the support of the Grundtvig Foundation for Life Long Learning.
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