How can cultural associations engage with urban/social change? When can or should cultural associations hand over community-orientated projects to the local communities they are initiated with? On Saturday 21. April, at Finnish Social Forum event Pixelache...

Jennifer Gabrys, Senior Lecturer and Convener of the MA Design and Environment from Goldsmiths University, London, visits Pixelache events in May. Gabrys gives a Talking Trash(lab) lecture on Thursday 10 May at Aalto Media Factory and is a plenary speaker...

The 6th Stop of Virtuality Grand tour is Pegman går i Rosengård - Google walk in virtual Malmö, taking place on Tuesday 17.4. at 18.00 EEST/+2 GMT. Artist Mikko Lipiäinen invites you to a dérive, an unplanned psychogeocraphical journey in the online media...

Within the context of Camp Pixelache, Demo Stalls on Open Design, Crafts and Manufacturing will be exhibited at Arbis on 12 May, on the same floor where Camp Pixelache takes place. We are calling out for open design, trashlab and hacklab demos to join the...

Welcome to join the 3rd Talking Trash(lab) lecture, this time by Ernest Truely (Polymer / Baltic Film & Media School, Tallinn, EE). The lecture takes place again at Aalto Media Factory, Friday 13th from 17.30-19.00. "The Polymer Method of production" Mr...

Camp Pixelache (11-12.5) is approaching but there is still time to send proposals for demos & presentations here! To whet our appetites, here is a link to a text by Wendy van Wynsberghe entitled 'DIY-DITO-DIWO and so on'. Wendy wrote it in connection...

The 5th stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour* is upcoming tomorrow (!) Tues. 20.3. at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT. Jon Paludan, artist-gamer from Copenhagen, invites us to an open google spreadsheet, as a free game world. Here you can make your own area the way you...

Tthis weekend (17-18.3.), a multi-faceted group of over 15 e-embroidery enthusiasts got together in Helsinki at Pixelache office in Cable Factory, putting their hands to combining yarns, stitches and LEDs. The wonderful outcomes of the E-embroidery...

There are currently an accumulation of Trashlab events to savour in Tallinn, Estonia. Culture Factory Polymer (Ülase 16/Madara 22) has been hosting a Trashlab workshop "down and dirty in Polymer" since last week, taking advantage of much space and junk to...

The 4th stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour* is upcoming tomorrow (!) Tues. 13.3. at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT. This time our host and tour guide is Sari TM Kivinen, a visual artist working mainly with text, performance, and video, who is interested in the relation...

This year Pixelache will be held at Arbis, during 11-12 May 2012. We are organising a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called ‘Camp Pixelache’ , based on previous Camp Pixelache experiments. More info We are looking for volunteers to help...

We have extended the deadline of illustration competition for the Suomenlinna local currency banknote with one week! Competition is now open untill Friday 16 March. Updated info about there competition here!