by: RYBN / EOL [Fr] www.rybn.org

Kiasma Theatre, Sat 16th at 17:00
RYBN will release a real-time performance system, where projection of pictures, odours spreading and sound diffusions enter in interaction. Multisensory databases constitute the raw material of a plastic experiment, the common vocabulary of performers from which they establish a dialectic link. From a principle [...]

Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Bytes

By Naeem Mohaiemen

Fifteen years ago, I came to the sleepy campus of Oberlin College. On this first arrival in America, I was entranced not by McDonalds, Cadillacs or split-level housing, but with an odd object called “the Internet.” Everything else that the US had to [...]

Concert at Kiasma Theatre on Sunday 17.4. at 15:00
Organized in collaboration with Charm of Sound

Florian Hecker was born in 1975 in Augsburg. He currently lives and works in Kissing. Hecker has been working with computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Russell Haswell, Carsten Höller, Florian Pumhösl, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler, [...]

Concert at Kiasma Theatre on Sunday 17.4. at 15:00
Organized in collaboration with Charm of Sound

Blutleuchte and Cloama are two Finnish independent artists specialized in crafting surreal industrial and psychoacoustic noise soundscapes. Cloama has been in existence since 1997 and made seven live performances, five in Finland and two in UK. His discography includes music in [...]

Videos of Jenni Valorinta aka VJ *jen often relate to nature and joyful moments in life. She has worked with several music artists and bands in different clubs and events both in Finland and abroad and she has coordinated visuals in events like Koneisto and Flow. *jen has been part of Pixelache 2005 VJ team. [...]

Concert at PixelACHE Club on Saturday 16.4.
Umo Jazz House

Memnon is an experimental music duo of kantele player Eva Alkula and sound designer Ville Hyvönen.

Memnon examines interfaces and collisions between traditional instrument and modern design, classical training and modern electronics, academic and experimental music, compositions and sound design.
The Finnish kantele playing and sound tradition is taken [...]

XPLOITEC is a visual collaboration of VJ PHOQ and VJ 304.
“Visualizations are based on live triggering and creating narrative compositions using prefixed video material. XPLOITEC is working on club events and at art scene by xploiting visual information surrounded us.”
XPLOITEC operates in Helsinki, Vienna and Budapest.
“It´s a digital spit on your screen”
www.xploitec.org

VJing at PixelACHE satellite [...]

PixelACHE Club at Umo Jazz House on Saturday 16.4.

Paris-based, French - Finnish duo Peerspex‘s music could make one think of an imaginary collaboration between Aphex Twin and the Destiny’s child. Their electronica-orientated music combines acid breakbeats with dreamy ritournelles, turning them into a strange, though melodic post-r’n’b.

Presentation in Kiasma seminar room on Saturday 16th, at 11:00

Digitalopenandfree.org is a collaborative paper exploring the means and modes of digital open and free systems. Code or content are not the only things that can be free or open. What do you think about open search, open store, open communication, or open network? What if [...]

Performance at Kiasma Theatre, on Saturday 16th 16.00

Yasuko Tadokoro aka VJ Mademoiselle (Japan),
Thien Vu Dang aka VJ Pillow (Canada),
Christelle Franca (Canada),
Patrick Watson (Canada)

Resume
What makes us what we are? In this performance, 2 individuals from 2 different locations on Earth express how their surrounding environment is shaping an important part of their identity.

Description
With progress in technology [...]

Kiasma Theatre, Saturday 16th, 12.00- PixelTANGO demo + Ben Bogart performance
Nifca project space #2, Friday 15th, 14.00-17:00 PixelTANGO workshop

by: Ben Bogart
www.ekran.org/ben

Vector
Vector is another performance in process along side “Volume Curvature.” There is a similar emphasis on form in space, but the main focalpoint for “vector” is a strong sense of line whereas Volume Curvature often [...]

The Intermundos website is to be our main window to the world.

It was created in a region which is completely removed from anything to do with contemporary art, technology and communication. This region is the Caribbean coast of Colombia, which, because of its geographical position, has historically always been an important point of communication and [...]

Muslim Activists rewire the Net

Contribution to Friday, Nifca project space #1: (on the island of Suomenlinna)
13.00 – 17.00 Dot Org Boom – Activist afternoon

www.disappearedinamerica.org
www.shobak.org
www.muslimsorheretics.org

The Internet is emerging as an essential tool for Muslim activists, both working in Muslim-majority nations and in the western diaspora. By creating digital networks and mobilizing against Islamophobia, dot-org Muslims have [...]

Find a series of 20 interviews on these issues at:
http://newmediaeducation.org
Webcamtalk in Kiasma seminar room on Saturday 16th, at 16:00

Over the past ten years new-media art programs have been started at universities. Departments are shaped, many positions in this field open up and student interest is massive. In China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand enormous developments [...]

Media Practices from the 20th Century

Presentation at Dot Org Boom introduction, Thursday 14th at 15:00-
Kiasma ground floor seminar room

Used in India is a multimedia installation, which showcases both media devices and narratives of their use, to illumine the nature of street innovation, technology production and social exchange in India. Used in India has been [...]

Presentation in Kiasma seminar room, Thursday 14th, 15:00-

Many important environmental decisions are made at home or work by each and every one of us, every day: Do I buy Finnish dairy cream or Indonesian coconut milk? Is it better for the environment of Helsinki if I ride a bike or take a tram? Should I [...]

PixelACHE 2005 : Dot Org Boom (suomeksi »)

The festival starts on Thursday afternoon 14th of April and closes on Sunday evening 17th of April.

The main theme for PixelACHE 2005 is Dot Org Boom. Dot Org Boom is the non-profit version of the Dot Com Boom (RIP). The essential ingredients of this rapidly growing phenomenon are [...]

An international crew of journalists, poets, artists and software developers
streamtime.org

Presentation at the Dot Org Boom - Activist afternoon on Suomenlinna, Friday 15th 13:00-17:00
Audiovisual performance at PixelACHE Club in Umo Jazz House on Saturday 16th

Streamtime is a loose network of media activists dedicated to assist local media to get connected. Streamtime uses old and new media [...]

Improvised Interactive and Participatory Cinema event tonight at 8 pm! (Wednesday 13th of April)
Experimental karaoke and film screening at Bar City / Hämeentie 153 B / Toukola / 00560 Helsinki. Entrance from Kaanaankadun / Phone (09) 724 2862 (Next to UIAH in Arabianranta, Bus 71 from Railwaystation)
Program will continue until 11 pm, Bar City will [...]

by Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson, Unsworn
The hosts of Interactivity is the new pink - discussion at experimental interaction day in Nifca, Suomenlinna island, on Saturday 16th, at 16:00-18:00

A year back, we did a lecture at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York. We talked about interaction design - as we tend to do. To [...]