Archive for the 'Discussions' Category

Wikipedia.org presentation on Saturday morning

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Presentation on Saturday 16th, 10:00-11:00, in Kiasma ground floor seminar room.

Wikipedia is a Web-based free content encyclopedia that is openly edited and freely readable. It has 187 independent language editions sponsored by the non-profit WikimediaFoundation. Entries on traditional encyclopedic topics exist alongside those on almanac, gazetteer and current events topics. Its goal is to create [...]


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Digitalopenandfree.org

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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 [...]


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VJ Culture

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

The term VJ was popularised in the beginning and mid-‘80s by television broadcaster MTV. A few years before, the end of the 70s, the term was introduced by the crew of the Peppermint Lounge, a popular dance club in New York. The performers wanted to distance themselves from the stuffy video artists that were part [...]


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WebCamTalk 1.0 - Guest Speaker Series and Conference on New Media Art Education

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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 [...]


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Used in India

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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 [...]


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Dodo.org - Visual Environmental Argumentation

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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 [...]


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PixelACHE 2005 is now!

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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 [...]


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Streamtime.org

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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 [...]


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Interactivity is the new pink

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

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 [...]


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Share, Share Widely

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Technologies for Distributed Creativity

Interview with Axel Bruns
(adjusted by Trebor Scholz)
[3 pages]

Trebor Scholz:
On the one hand weblogs are often criticized as being somewhat narcissistic public diaries, often authored by individual teenagers. But at the same time the blogosphere is increasingly important in political campaigning, education, research, and content management.

Blogs became an outlet for new media research [...]


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Franco ”Bifo” Berardi

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Participating in discussion on Friday 15.4, 13:00-17:00
Nifca Project space #1
Presentation on Sunday 17.4, 12:00-14:00
Kiasma Seminar Room, free admission

Franco Berardi an italian philosopher, political activist, writer, mediatheorist, media-activist… has been known as “Bifo” since he began to sign his abstract paintings at school with the name. He later became a left-wing activist, joining the group [...]


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