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News / Open calls / Pixelache Festival
You can now participate in Living Chatter, Pixelache's experimental knowledge-production laboratory this Friday. Living Chatter will assemble creative minds together and try to brainstorm new ideas for projects, philosophies and systems that emerge from the...
Living Chatter
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
One of the projects in the Gaming the System sub-programme is Street Line Critics - On Tour, by Lotte Bender. Lotte has been enagaging people in interactive explorations of meaning, memory and place using chalk and poetry, first in Limerick City, Ireland...
Street Line Critics - On Tour
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
Andrew Gryf Paterson has been an integral part of Pixelache for many years, especially during his coordination of Pixelversity from 2011-2014. This year, he'll be leading the Living Non-Fictions working group, which will attempt to capture the other...
Living Non-Fictions working group
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
One of the two exhibitions in this year's festival is the Helsinki opening of Weltstadt: Who Creates the City?, a Goethe-Institut project being exhibited at Laituri from 24.9 - 17.10. We're thrilled to have Leona Lynen, the project editor, coming to...
Weltstadt exhibition launch and discussion
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
Ruoan Tulevaisuus (roughly translated, 'Food's future') is a non-profit organisation that promotes a sustainable and equitable food system. They are the main organisers of the annual Foodycle event, which Pixelache has co-produced in 2013 and 2014. This...
Foodycle 2015
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
One of PIxelache's newest but most enthusiastic members in 2015 is Egle Oddo, a Helsinki-based artist, originally from Siciliy, who has her hands in a wide variety of local projects. She's a founder of the Ark of Seeds project since 2007, organiser of last...
How to Inhabit a Transitory Space
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Open calls / Pixelache Festival
We are still looking for volunteers to help out during the Pixelache Festival. We don't have much heavy lifting this year, but rather just are looking for some enthusiastic people to staff the festival infopoint (on the tram), help out taking tickets at the...
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
Justin McKeown, an Irish artist based in York, England, is the mind behind SPART Action Group. This year in the Pixelache Festival, SPART presents the tourist information kiosk R.A.T.I.S.M. (Random Alternative Tourist Information Service Machine) which will...
R.A.T.I.S.M. tourist information service
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News / Pixelache Festival / Recommended events
Gaming the System is an international city-wide art exhibition. It is created by the research group These Animals together with Helsinki Transport System's festival Taidelinja, Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture, and Pixelache. Situated...
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Pixelache Festival / Interviews
Mindaugas Gapševičius is a Lithuanian artist currently based in Berlin. He has been involved in the forefront of open-form pedagogical art experimentation in the Baltics and across Europe, and is a pioneer in Lithuanian Internet-based art and culture....
human-non-human-interfaces workshop
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Misc / Recommended events
Bits and Bytes is a large-scale sound installation combining sound art and technology, created by Marko Timlin. This work is based on the use of 104 3,5“ floppy disk drive recycled from old computers. The installation resembles a living organism: imagine...
Misc / Recommended events
Next week is the two day event Hard Rain Goes Aalto: a student organized event addressing the current state of environmental issues globally and locally. Together with artists, researchers, activists and students, we will share proposals and inspire action...