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Pixelache Network - alive and expanding! Helsinki * Paris * Bergen * Stockholm * Santa Marta * Dakar * Reykjavik - - - - RECENT EVENTS: - - - - :: HELSINKI :: Pixelache Helsinki 2008: Pixelache University :: 13-16 March 2008 :: http://university.pixelache.ac Pixelache Helsinki 2008 documentation: If you missed this year's Pixelache Helsinki festival, you can find hours of video documentation and other material here: http://university.pixelache.ac/documentation Also check out the documentation of Vihreä Pilvi / Nuage Vert environmental art installation by HeHe (Helen Evans & Heiko Hansen): www.nuagevert.org !! Nuage Vert was also awarded this year's Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Hybrid Art >> www.aec.at !! Nuage Vert also won the Green Prix for Environmental Art at 01SJ Festival in San Jose >> www.01sj.org We would also like to congratulate Julius von Bismarck (who presented his 'Top-shot helmet' at Pixelache 08) for winning the Golden Nica for Interactive Art with his Image Fulgurator project. - - - - :: DAKAR :: Afropixel, 8-16 May 2008 :: www.afropixel.org The first *Afropixel* focused on free software and artistic practices and grassroot initiatives in Africa. Jean-Noël Montagné and Jérôme Abel from Art Sensitif + Bricolabs gave a workshop on sensors and the use of Pure Data software. Afropixel is organised by Kër Thiossane, Villa for art and multimedia practices. It aims to encourage the democratization of multimedia tools, and their appropriation by artists and local audiences, to enable them to participate in the international development of electronic arts and grassroot networks. WikiAfrica/Palabre is a project aiming to 'africanise' Wikipedia through different networks, research projects, publications and events. WikiAfrica contributes texts, citations, images, audio and audiovisual documents to online and offline Wikimedia projects. WikiAfrica Art, the project that brings African artists and African art on Wikipedia has been launched in connection with the first Afropixel festival in Dakar. www.afropixel.org (in French) www.pixelache.ac (blog posting in English on Pixelache Network site) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPl5s83y_Tk (short video) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiAfrica (WikiAfrica, in French) www.ker-thiossane.com (Kër Thiossane) - - - - :: PARIS :: Mal au Pixel, 16-25 May 2008 :: www.malaupixel.org :: Printemps (im)médiat!, April-June 2009 :: www.printempsimmediat.org The third edition of Mal au Pixel just took place in Paris, the first photos have been posted at www.malaupixel.org. Printemps (im)médiat!, a season of Finnish media art in Paris, is still continuing for a couple of more weeks: www.printempsimmediat.org - - - - UPCOMING EVENTS: - - - - :: HELSINKI :: Pixelache Summerschool, 7-13 August 2008 :: http://university.pixelache.ac/prog/summerschool The first Pixelache Helsinki Summerschool will be organised in the pleasant Baltic sea island Kemiö, a couple of hours away from Helsinki. The summer camp is hosted by artist/electronics hacker Tuomo Tammenpää (www.misusage.org). The purpose of the camp is to learn about electronics and solar energy and meanwhile enjoy the Finnish summer ;) - - - - :: STOCKHOLM :: Pixelvärk, preliminary date: 27 September 2008 :: www.pixelvark.se The third edition of Pixelvärk will take place in the end of September 2008. Not much details can be revealed of the event at the moment - except that the event will be put together in a very unusual way. - - - - :: BERGEN :: Piksel08, 11-14 December 2008 (preliminary date) :: www.piksel.no How does code dream? What are the dreams of code? Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened. Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real, automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic. Open call for projects is coming out very soon! - - - - :: REYKJAVIK :: Pikslaverk, 6-9 November 2008 :: www.pikslaverk.org (information coming here soon) The first Pikslaverk event will take place in Reykjavik between 6-9 November. The event is organised by Lorna and the collaborating venues/organisations are Reykjavik Municipal Museum - Hafnarhusid and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. - - - - :: SANTA MARTA :: Selvatorium / Pixelazo :: www.pixelaxo.org The future plan of Pixelazo activities in Colombia is to focus on organising an artist residency near Santa Marta, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The artist residency will be connected to workshops organised with local universities and additional events in Medellin and/or Bogota. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
