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 [...]

PixelACHE + Particle/Wave Closing Party @ mbar
dot.org BOOM goes out with a Bang!

Sun 17th April 20hr
mbar klo.20-late
20:00 Shadowcasting (remote networked performance, Steve Bradley USA)
22:00 August Black & Bo Bell
22:30 Basso Radio Mc Mute Open Content
23:00 Pixelache DJ & VJs

Shadow Casting is a live networked performance and broadcast event for
ääniradio at pixelACHE via Baltimore, Maryland. Three [...]

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.

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 [...]

Performance on Thursday 14.4., 17:00-18:00
Kiasma Theatre

randomseed.org/tempest

The audiovisual performance TEMPEST is based on the surveillance technology known as Van Eck Phreaking - computer screen content can be reconstructed remotely by picking up the emitted EM-field of the screen. TEMPEST utilizes this technique to transform purely generative graphic into a tight and intense composition of noise which [...]

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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