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19:00 - Live performances / Theatre / 5 €
pikseliÄHKY // pixelACHE 2003 opening event!
VJ Jamming session is two and half hours long non-stop audiovisual
extravaganza, featuring 3 dj's and more than 20 vj's!!
The whole audiovisual setup will be on the theater stage, surrounded
with 3 screens for 3 simultaneous vj acts allowing collaborative improvisation.
This show offers an instant
introduction to the mysterious world of vj'ing! This will also be
a unique encounter of our local and international vj guests.
19:00
A: Brothomstates (Warp Records, Hki)
V: amfibio (Hki) + katastro.fi (Hki) + naive (Stockholm+Tku)
19:30
A: dj Genki (Exogenic Breaks/Stealth Unit, Hki)
V: K-Project & Hein? (Montreal) + Under Control (Tre+Tku) + Kangastus (Hki)
20:00
A: dj Genki (Exogenic Breaks/Stealth Unit, Hki)
V: Lumiere Bros. (Hki) + VJ Hahmo & Traumatrix (Hki) + Takakeno.cru (Hki)
20:30
A: Maxime Morin (aka Mad Max aka Champion, Montreal)
V: Jocool & EXP3 (Montreal) + Plasma VJs (Tre) + Vertex Visuals (Tre+Sln)
21:00
A: Maxime Morin (aka Mad Max aka Champion, Montreal)
V: deKam (NYC) + DVC project (Tre) + VJ Anyone (Vectors, London)
21:30
Jamming session closes.
Brothomstates (Warp Records) and dj Genki
(Exogenic Breaks/Stealth Unit) will play dj sets and Maxime Morin
(aka Mad Max aka Champion) from Montreal will play a live audio
set. In addition there will be special vj appearances by John deKron (Berlin),
Dag [Plazma] Engström (Stockholm) and Michael Heap (VJs.net, UK!
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SOFTWARE LOUNGE
12:00 - Workshops, Presentations & Discussions / Seminar room / 5 €
Friday afternoon is dedicated to audiovisual software
and their creators. Developer oriented discussions will lead the
day to new findings for the creators themselves, but also give insight
to DIY software attitude to general public. The day consists of
small informal presentations and gives a lot of space for thoughts
and elaboration on do-it-yourself approach.
Set up (10:00-12:00)
Brief presentations (12:00-14:30 & 15:30-16:00)
Workshops, discussion (16:00-17:30)
Wrap up (17:30-18:00)
-- intro
12:00 SOFTWARE LOUNGE, Petri Lievonen & Juha Huuskonen
12:10 BBCut - automatic breakbeat cutting library, Nick Collins
12:20 MediaObjects, Perttu Hämäläinen
12:30 Violent interface + 3D-display, **TELOK*
12:40 --
-- demoscene visuals
12:50 DEMOSKENE.katastro.fi, Lassi Tasajärvi
13:00 A Deepness in the Sky, Markus Pasula & Niko Leskinen
13:10 Moppi Demopaja, Mikko Mononen
13:20 Halcyon audio analysis, Antti Silvast
13:30 --
-- diy videojukka
13:40 Under Control, Kalle Jarva & Eetu Vihervaara
13:50 VVS Engine, Mika Pesonen of Vertex Visuals
14:00 DVC project - distributed VJing, Juha Vesanen
14:10 Pure-Data, Tommi Keränen
14:20 --
14.30-15.30 break
-- special appearances!!
15:30 Dirty Pot, John deKron
15:40 Head Phones, Topi Kaaresoja
15:50 Dolby 5.1 workshop, Markus Renvall
16:00 --
16:00-17:30 workshops, discussions
people are present, enjoy!
17:30-18:00 wrap up
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APB [all points between]
The Light Surgeons (UK)
20:00 - Live performance / Theatre / 12 €
The Light Surgeons collective is best known
for their pioneering design of visual displays at clubs, commercial
events, music tours & exhibitions (including Blue Note in
London and labels like Ninja Tune, Mo'Wax, Wall
of Sound, and Metal Headz).
Their live documentary performance APB [all points between]
produced for the onedotzero
festival in London is one of their best known works and among the
definitive highlights of this year's festival. A massive amount
of projectors and display devices are used to create a live narrative
film collage, a road movie crossing four continents and blending
into a political essay.
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pikseliÄHKY Club @
Mother
21:00-04:00 - Mother / 6 € + garderobe
PikseliÄHKY Club on Friday night will feature intelligent beats
from our local hero Brothomstates
(Warp Records), electronic dub from Stockholm by Johan
Skugge (Source Records) and a special audiovisual session
from Montreal by the SAT[mix_sessions]
crew: Maxime [DJ Champion aka
DJ Mad Max] Morin with VJs K-Project,
EXP3, Jocool
and Hein?.
mother.to
There will be three simultaneous VJ setups present, where also Lumiere Bros, takakeno.cru, DVC Project and Plasma VJs are performing.
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pikseliÄHKY Introduction
& Contemporary history of VJ'ing
11:00 - Presentation / Theatre / FREE
PikseliÄHKY directors Juha
Huuskonen & Petri Lievonen will give a short introduction
to the pikseliÄHKY festival and the VIDEOJUKKA theme.
Michael Heap from vjs.net will
give a presentation of the contemporary history of Vjing from Kesey
& Warhol to the latest generation of live AudioVisual bootlegs.
The talk is peppered with audiovisual samples.
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Interactive Installations
13:00 - Presentations / Seminar room and rear window / FREE
Presentations of the pikseliÄHKY 2003 interactive
installations selection. All of the works come this year from young
Finnish creators, with expertise ranging from electrical engineering
to interior design. The installations have been created with a good
dose of do-it-yourself attitude, most of them involving home-made
electronics and custom software.
Last Clock by Jussi Ängeslevä
has measured time around the world since its release last spring,
and is now shown in Finland for the first time. We are also happy
to bring back Animaatiokone,
which was featured as a prototype already in pikseliÄHKY 2002.
Works by Lotta Partanen, Toni
Laakso and Anssi Kasitonni
offer innovative and hilarious perspectives to such ordinary things
as benches, cardboard boxes and tv-sets.
13:00 Intro, Petri Lievonen & Juha Huuskonen
13:10 Jussi Ängeslevä : Last
Clock
13:15 Toni Laakso : Äänipahvilaatikko
13:20 Lotta Partanen : The bench that
became confused
13:30 Mikko Lindholm, Ari Nykänen, Perttu Hämäläinen: Animaatiokone
13:40 Anssi Kasitonni : mm. Knight-o-Matic, Herra Viiksimies, Sue Ellen and
Eikö täältä todellakaan tule mitään muuta
13:50 --
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VJ action forum
14:00 - Workshops, Presentations & Discussions / Seminar room / 5 €
Saturday afternoon will be devoted to the
brave action men and women of video mixing. People who regard themselves
as VJs from Finland, UK, US, Sweden, Canada and elsewhere, tell
about their projects and share tips to creative working. Forum participants,
whether they are involved in VJing or not, will get a kick-start
into the current scene and possibilities of VJing.
Set up (10:00-13:00) (possibly during the introductory lectures)
Presentations (14:00-15:30)
Workshops, discussion (16:30-17:30)
Wrap up (17:30-18:00)
-- intro
14:00 VJ action forum, Petri Lievonen & Juha Huuskonen
pikseliÄHKY 2002 aftermath: piknik frequency, amfibio vj collective etc
-- vj software
14:20 deKam + VDMX3
14:40 Simo Rouhiainen + Arkaos (Fluxville)
14:50 --
-- vj community
15:00 SAT[mix_sessions]
15:20 Toni Alatalo / Kyperjokki: PixelShox
15:30 --
15:30-16:30 break
16:30-17:30 workshops, discussions
- VJing with the Panasonic MX-50 with Marc-André [EXP3] Lapointe
- visualJockey software with VJ Fred [K-Project] Beaulieu
- Motion Dive software with Guillaume [Hein ? Moment Factory] Cardell
17:30-18:00 wrap up
In addition, there might be several special appearances on
Saturday VJ action forum - we will keep the stage open!
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BUSH roadshow - screening
16:00 - Screening / Theatre / 3 €
Emergency Broadcast Network and the Coldcut
& Hexstatic were pioneers of videoscratching and produced
politically provocative videos by using original news and film footage
as source material. BUSH roadshow screening features recent work
from Guerrilla News Network, Davy Force!, Mike
Nourse and Bryan Boyce, who are following the same footsteps
with their breathtaking image bombardment. The films range from
clever political commentary (for example Terror, Iraq, Weapons
by Mike Nourse) to absurd parody: A rare chance to see George W.
infiltrate the Teletubby world!
This films for this screening have been selected by Edmar Marszewski
/ Select
Media Festival, Chicago. All of the films are available on Select
Media Festival DVDs.
Duration 50 min. All films in English, without Finnish subtitles.
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Cities and sunsets - screening
(featuring live sound by Emi Maeda)
18:00 - Screening & Performance / Theatre / 5 €
Urban landscapes and extraordinary weather conditions.
Screening featuring live sound performance by Emi Maeda (for the
last film in the series, Storm by HC Gilje and Emi Maeda).
Cities and sunsets is a selection of
films which, rather than telling a narrative story, aim to present
a certain atmosphere, rhythm or mood. The films take their inspiration
from urban aesthetics, nature and weather conditions. Some of the
films were selected from our open call for proposals, some films
were found by coincidence.
visomat av (Berlin, Germany) : Montage, De-
Ran Slavin (Tel Aviv, Israel) : Organic Urbanic
Alli Savolainen (Helsinki, Finland) : Smile of Mona Lisa
Katarina Löfström (Stockholm, Sweden) : Hang Ten Sunset
finder. / Chris Coleman & George Cicci (Buffalo, NY) : Collusion
Vincent Morisset (Montréal, Canada) : L'homme superflu
HC Gilje + Emi Maeda (Norway, Finland): Storm
Duration approx 50 min.
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deKam + AVCENTRALEN
20:00 - Live performance / Theatre / 8 €
Two live audiovisual performances: a solo show by Johnny deKam
from New York and a performance by AVCENTRALEN from Stockholm.
Johnny deKam has created several popular software tools for
VJ's and is an innovative audiovisual performer himself. In Kiasma
Theatre deKam will premiere two new works for live camera, objects,
samples and synthesis using his latest software creations, a selection
of shorts, as well as a new version of an early piece for video
turntable drawing entitled '33 1/3'.
In addition, PikseliÄHKY 2003 audience will have a chance to
witness the very first performance of AVCENTRALEN, a group composed
of four established Swedish electronic artists: visual artists Olle
Huge & Martin Malm and sound artists Johan Skugge
& Andreas Tilliander. The project was born from a challenging
idea to create an audiovisual performance, where all the visual
material would be produced live without using any prerecorded material.
deKam
AVCENTRALEN
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pikseliÄHKY Club @ Jumo
21:00-03:00 - Jumo Jazz Club / 8 €+garderobe
The official Saturday ÄHKY party will take
place at Jumo Jazz Club, 21:00-03:00. Small and intimate club with
excellent sound system and a special visual setup for pikseliÄHKY.
The night will feature glitchy electronic sound from Andreas
Tilliander, Karri O. and Verhaverbeke Krzyzosiak, live audiovisual
breakbeat session by Sick Lincoln
vs /f0and visuals by Naive, Under Control, Kurssa Sarcastik and VJ Anyone (Vectors, London)!
www.umo.fi/jumo
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Interactive Cinema
15:00 - Screening / Theatre / FREE
pixelACHE festival presens experimental movies from the interactive cinema
makers in Helsinki. These movies make the audience a group of performers.
They give audience a possibility for cheerful behavior and improvization. We
present three movies - three different ways to give the viewers an active
role in narratives.
The screening is organised by Petri Kola, Minna Nurminen and Juhana Kokkonen.
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VJ future directions
16:00 - Presentations & Discussions / Theatre / FREE
What next? PikseliÄHKY 2003 artists gather
together to search for new and interesting directions for VJ culture.
Creators present on-line streaming projects and video improvisation
as a part of theatre/dance performances.
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Not so Lonely Planet - screening
18:00 - Screening / Theatre / 3 €
Not So Lonely Planet contains fresh and adventurous
work from audiovisual groups, collectives and labels around the
world. Work from Tomi Knuutila (Die Alpen / KINO Helsinki), 242.pilots,
Sergei Teterin, av_dv (Jon Gillie and Jim Boxall), Samuli Alapuranen
(Apinavideo / Abflug), Shadazz Label and more!
Duration approx 45 min.
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SOLU & dj mortenson + Kalvo & mesq
20:00 - Live performances / Theatre / 8 €
pikseliÄHKY 2003 closing event consists of two live performances: a tactile-audio-video spectacle
by Kalvo and mesq from Helsinki and a duo act by SOLU and dj mortenson
from Barcelona.
The two fellows of Kalvo (Lasse Kaikkonen and Mikko Heikkilä) are known for their musically
challenging and psycho-physically straining soundscapes. Recently they have driven it to the max by
inviting Mesq (media artist Mika Meskanen) to enhance the experience with a custom-made video show.
Mesq's live manipulation of theme footage in dialogue with the soundscape creates an intense
journey into whatever they happen to aim at on the day of the performance, be it a celebration of
early film experimenters or a tribute to the brave explorers, as it was in their recent performance.
Barcelona lends us the unconventional av-act of SOLU (Mia Mäkelä) and dj mortenson
(Heidi Mortenson, DK). They stretch their audiovisual performance set from laptops, mixers and a DV camera
to children's musical toys and even other gear such as telephone receiver to experiment with. Show's
visual style is minimal, graphical, "low tech", pixel art. Essential energies!
Kalvo &
mesq
SOLU &
dj mortenson
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