When Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 announced its theme to be 'Open Helsinki - embedding design in life', my first reaction was - excitement! Choosing openness as a theme seemed like a bold move from the Helsinki WDC organisers - a commitment to try out...

It's Plektrum time again soon! The Tallinn-based festival will kick-off on September 8. The Pixelversity seminar event on 13.9 introduces the Pixelversity programme in Plektrum, seeking new connections and strengthening friendships across the Gulf of...

The Aquatrio; Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Alejandro Montes de Oca & Alejandro Olarte, will perform an outdoor concert of electroacoustic music playing with underwater sounds from the Turku area and water poetry from Aura River and Baltic Sea. The...

Upcoming are a couple of Pixelversity events associated around the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Global Research Conference that will take place next week in Finland, organised by University of Helsinki's Ruralia Institute, part of Mikkeli...

One of the guests of both Pixelache and Mal au Pixel festivals this spring was Lieven Standaert, one of the members of Timelab (Ghent). In our festivals he presented Timelab's Mini-CNC Kit project but he is also working on an ambitious project called...

We Love Open Data & Green Drinks Helsinki co-hosts a meetup event on Thursday 4th August to get back into a summer city mood, with a guest presentation by Anu Määttä from Protospace, a Utrecht-located Fablab, who will speak about the relationship...

This was the topic of one of the discussions that took place in small groups sessions during the Labtolab event in Nantes last June.What is a residency? A difficult question to answer, as residencies can unfold into some many formats, from'ideas in...

Piksel11November 17-20 2011Bergen, Norway\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized in Bergen,...

Pixelache Helsinki and many other organisations from Finland participated in this year's DMY MakerLab in Berlin. DMY Berlin had a special Finland country focus this time in anticipation of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 year. Here are some glimpses...

Since opening in March 2011, Nida Art Colony on the Curonian Spit, Lithuania, is confidently establishing itself as a new artist-residency centre and venue for cultural events in the eastern Baltic Sea region. Already it has hosted a series of...

USES AND ABUSES OF THE PUBLIC SPACEHere some ideas about the theme, and documentation pictures, of the expedition/workshop realized last 25th of June inside Pixelversity.Kallio expedition gets into the recent and future developments in Kallio and its...

Part of the Pixelache crew traveled to the LabtoLab event (8-10 June) in Nantes, France. LabtoLab is a network of media labs initiated by Constant (Brussels, Belgium), Kitchen Budapest (Budapest, Hungary, Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain) and PiNG (Nantes,...