Kimitobo Tuomo Tammenpää held an exciting two-day workshop during 6-8 August, around solar panels, sound making, analog electronics and toys hacking. In spite of the pouring rain and solar panels on electric light, he transmitted his hacking fever to 8...

Pikslaverk November 6 - 9, 2008. Reykjavik, Iceland www.pikslaverk.org The Pikslaverk 2008 conference is the Icelandic component in the international network of Pixelache conferences. It is organized by Lorna (the Icelandic organization for electronic...

November 6 - 9, 2008. Reykjavik, IcelandThe Pikslaverk 2008 conference is the Icelandic component in the international network of Pixelache conferences. It is organized by Lorna (the Icelandic organization for electronic arts) in collaboration with The...

< <<<<<<>>>>>>>**Piksel08: code dreams december 4-7 2008 Bergen, NorwayHow 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...

I had a chance to visit Kitchen Budapest 1 year anniversary event in Budapest a couple of weeks ago. An amazing amount of work has been produced in at the KIBU lab and many of the projects are becoming commercial products and/or being released as open...

Congratulations for Heiko and Helen (and we can tap ourselves on the back as well ;) for winning the Ars Electronica Golden Nica! The award was given in 'Hybrid Art' category, here is the jury statement: "Pollstream – Nuage Vert transforms clouds into...

The first Afropixel (organised by Kër Thiossane) was a great success! The open source programming tool Pure Data was a major discovery for many of the participants of the Bricolabs workshop (some of them came all the way from Mali - a bus ride that took...

Dear friends and colleagues, According to a recent claim by Liepaja City Council (Latvia) the Center for Culture & Information “K@2” in Karosta, "no longer exists". Liepaja authorities says that “K@2” stopped existing already in May 2006. Why? This is...

The first Afropixel (organised by Kër Thiossane) was a great success!The open source programming tool Pure Data was a major discovery for many of the participants of the Bricolabs workshop (some of them came all the way from Mali - a bus ride that took two...

The first Pixelache Summerschool will be organised between 7-8 August on the island of Kemiö, more information will be published soon! Meanwhile, please have a look at the impressive lineup of workshops that David Cuartielles & co are offering later in...

In connection with Pixelache 2008 festival, we made a small survey about organisational strategies of some grassroot initiatives. We received replies from these people / organisations: - Ben Fry & Casey Reas / Processing - David Cuartielles / Arduino -...

Thanks for joining us for the second Guerrilla Grill summer party! Photo by Antti Ahonen Photo by Nathalie Aubret) Photo by Wojtek Mejor (boringdesign.org) Photo by Antti Ahonen