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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

RESPAM will be premiering their performance entitled Inbox, using custom made VJ tools that query and retrieve messages, images, and text from a database that contains over 50,000 spam messages.

They will perform at the Kiasma Theatre on Thursday 14.4 after 18:00 and Umo Jazz Club on Saturday 16.4 night

RESPAM is a project started in [...]

Mixing video with realtime fluids and sheets with frame-by-frame typography animations, realtime motion graphics.