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For those unfortunated who missed Kick Ass Kung-Fu show on sunday, the happy fellows of animaatiokone industries have just updated pixelache ‘05 photos and great videos on their site gallery: http://www.kickasskungfu.net

Fylkingen and The Nursery presents:

PixelVÄRK

Fylkingen, Saturday 23 april 19.30
Münchenbryggeriet, Torkel Knutssonsgata 2. T- Mariatorget
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 84 54 43
Tickets: 80 SEK.

Live:
Differnet (SE) with VJ Måns Nyman
Shogun Kunitoki (FI)
Johan Skugge (SE) with VJ Guffe Funck

DJ Mali-k from Sister STHLM

Game-installations by Robert Brecevic (SE)

PixelVÄRK will gather together audiovisual artists from Sweden, focusing on the visual side of the experimental music scene. The festival will present a broad spectrum of artists who all represent different aspects of this scene.

PixelVÄRK is organised in collaboration with PixelACHE Helsinki.

More info:

Differnet (SE) is the big stars of the Swedish glitch-pop scene. They recently released their second record “The Title is the Text Printed on the Cover, or Nothing at All”. Their music lies between acoustic and electronic, pop and noise, vocal and instrumental.

Shogun Kunitoki (FI) A Helsinki-based trio that has been playing together since 2000, Shogun Kunitoki is an attempt to help electronic music regress back to a more human state, the time of the electric organ and the ring modulator, the spring reverb and the test oscillator. Sleepy sweet organs and squiggly analog synths, Daniel Johnston beats and Terry Riley drones.

Johan Skugge (SE) is a well known Swedish musician. His last album “Volume” moves in the borderlands of tech-house and flirts with disco sounds, resulting in an astonishing, well produced, and coherent album, full of curious turns and unexpected creative elements. “Volume” connects to classic genre experiments such as Thomas Brinkmann’s “Soul Center” and Vladislav Delay’s “Luomo”. Yet, with its healthy unfaithfulness towards traditional club music, “Volume” produces its own original sound. This lack of restraints and respect is utterly sustained by Laura’s peculiar and beautiful voice.

Robert Brececiv (SE) is an artist and film maker that also has done some computer game development. He is the initiator of ”Banananose Computer Movies” which is a try to make film/video with the logic and interaction of computer games.

Måns Nyman (SE) focuses on the detail in the big picture, the moment within the moment always crisp and never hiding behind filters or presets. Working with raw material that are put together live during the set using selfmade tools to put the motion to work with the audio, Måns adds new interpretations of the music and at the same time leaving so much untold that the final cut is made in the eyes of the audience. Collaborations with amongs others, Moder Jords Massiva, Pavan, Ola Bergman, emmon and many more.

Guffe Funck (SE) VJ.

Mali-k (fr) started to play records in France in 1995 and got involved in the electronic scene of her little town : Clermont.Ferrand. Then she kept on moving, first to Lyon, then to Brighton, and then settled 3 years in Barcelona, before moving to Stockholm.
All that time long, playin records and organizing parties. In the beginning, really into the independant electronic/techno scene (Subhead, Fix,Scandinavia, Warp Rephlex….and artists like Cristian Vogel, Jamie Lidell and so on….), she s been turning into more hip-hopish stuff of a particular kind through the label Anticon.

Contact:
Carita Ottosson, +46 735-061704, +46 8 845443
carita ((at)) fylkingen.se

www.nursery.a.se
www.fylkingen.se

RESPAM, the platform for database performance utilizing a growing collection of spam email, was featured in Neural.it, the Italian net art magazine.

The link is here, and describes the RESPAM project as a type of ‘collective memory’ for the digital era.

The Suomenlina gang (that is Robert, Cecilia, Eleonora, Karthik, etc.) were talking about our favorite moments at P05. So we made a ballot to find out what everyone’s favorites are. Send your vote+other nominations to info(at)disappearedinamerica.org

I will compile the votes in a non-scientific process (which may bear some similarities to the ‘04 US Presidential elections) and send back the results by weekend.

Best of Pixelache ‘05

Best Pixelache organizer:

Best Pixelache organizer whose last name is not Huuskonen
(Aura Seikkula, Antti Ahonen, Petri Lievonen, Jenni Valorinta, Pete Ruikka, Ville Hyvönen, Teijo Pellinen, Petri Kola, Ari Nykänen, Perttu Hämäläinen, Mikko Lindholm, etc.)

Best DJ

Best VJ session

Best projection

Best political discussion

Best installation

Best hands-on workshop

Strangest Helsinki street trend
(Palestinian kufiyahs as fashion statements, aged punk rockers, white tux wearing teens blocks away from Kiasma, Takatukka, etc)

Best art piece at Kiasma
(Heli Rekula’s bouncing wool, Peter Forgacs multi-screen video, Otto Zitko, etc.)

Best new technology

Best “old” new technology (cell phones, laptops, etc.)

Best analog technology (ummm..paper? pencil…?)

Most overused phrase/jargon

Best new phrase/jargon

Best use of Bluetooth technology (loca, etc)

Best open-source software

Best use of PD

Best evidence of non-European trends

Best use of analog technology

Best prediction for “what will the future look like?” (”we will all be older” is disqualified)

Best blog

Best accent

Best thing about being on Suomenlina island (the post office-cum-video store-cum-grocery store, walk from the ferry,museum, japanese tourists, free laundry, etc.)

Best thing about being in a hotel in city (not dealing with ferry, etc.)

Best thing about crashing on somebody’s couch in city
(Hotel-Hacking, etc.)

Best bar (M-bar, Hotel bars, Loud & Clear, Bundolo, Uniq,etc.)

Best performance venue ( Umo Jazz, Sibelius, etc.)

Best spontaneous hanging-out venue (hostel kitchen, etc)

Best late night food joint

Most widespread food (bread , cheese, and beer are really the only nominee

Best drink (absinthe, campari, etc.)

Best reminder that Helsinki is world’s 3d most expensive city

Best tech troubleshooter

Best URL (katastro.fi, etc.)

Best snack during Pixelache break (you can have 2 separate

Most likely accident waiting to happen when 10 laptops are side-by-side at Kiasma cafe

Best thing about Kiasma venue

Best thing about Nifca venue

Most often mispronounced name (Suomenlina, etc.)

Best info table giveaway/sale item (Used In india poster, tiny-shirts, Machinista DVD, DJ Spooky cd, etc.)

Best anti-corporate rant (Cecilia’s Nokia blog, etc…)

Best response to surveillance state

Best synergies between Europe and America

Best “Nokia guy”

Best supporter (Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Arts Council of Finland, AVEK, NIFCA, Goethe, Centre Culturel Français, British Council, Mondriaan Foundation, UCSD Visual Arts Department, CRCA, Experimental Game Lab (UCSD), etc.)

Thing you’ll miss most about P05 (wireless everywhere, etc.)

Thing you’ll miss the least about P05 (getting 2 hours of sleep a night, getting lost on island, etc.)

Best Jim Jarmusch moment
(drunk guys giving directions to ferry)

Pixelache organizer asked to setup most powerbooks (Ville Hyvonen, etc.)

Various photos from some of the events:

Various photos from (just some of) the Saturday events:

Sunday 17 April :: [calendar] [posts]

Kiasma seminar room:
12.00-14.00 Knowledge, Media, Self-Organization* (Franco “Bifo” Berard, Italy)
       - Free admission - organised in collaboration with Tutkijaliitto
14.00 Loca: grass roots, pervasive surveillance.* presentation
14.00-15.30 Dot Org Boom seminar closing session and future directions:
PixelACHE 2006 - le boom .org
(Mathieu Marguerin, Juha Huuskonen) + RIXC presentation (Latvia)
17.00-18.00 Interactive and Participatory Cinema discussion
(Petri Kola, Teijo Pellinen, Chris Hales, Mariina Bakic, Jean-Michel Géridan, Robert Brecevic + more)
Program enquiries: seminar05@pixelache.ac

Kiasma Theatre:
10.00-12.00 Kick Ass Kung-Fu warm-up* (Animaatiokone Industries, Finland)
12.00 Kick Ass Kung-Fu session* (Animaatiokone Industries, Finland)
14.00 Streaps (streaps.org)
15.00 Hecker* performance (Germany), Blutleuchte* performance (Finland)
18.00 Malfunctionalism dance performance demo* (Finland)
19.00 The World of PIKU* performance (Finland)
Program enquiries: theatre05@pixelache.ac

Nifca project spaces #1,#2,#3: (on the island of Suomenlinna)
09.00-18.00 Open programming
       - PixelACHE participants can book slots for presentations etc.
12:00 - 15:00 Bluetooth/mobile phone workshop* (Jürgen Scheible / Finland)
Program enquiries: island05@pixelache.ac

mbar:
20.00 BANG PixelACHE Closing Party* (until 02.00)
Program enquiries: particlewave@aaniradio.org

By popular demand by the Wikipedia community, Steve Rapaport reported the DotOrgBoom event in Stockholm (with pictures):

romlin.com/worldtour/sweden/FinnishEmbassy/index.html

Steve additional comment :

It is extremely POV, because otherwise it would just be boring.

-
\Steve

Imagine…

Imagine you have to explain to your mother, or your new girl friend, or just a potential sponsor… what a VJ is ? What does the term mean ? What does a VJ do ? Which technologies are used ? What do the terms Wallpaper VJ, club VJ etc… intend to convey ? Which are the most famous VJ’s ? Is it art ? Could you cite important festivals on the topic ? Specific contests ?

In short, imagine you have in front of you someone who knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the topic… you have 10 mn to give a good overview… offer directions… propose links… give references, could you do it ?

If so, please go to the Wikipedia entry on the topic : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vj
To be fair, the current entry totally fails to describe the wonderful performances I saw in the past days.

I would love that some of you use words to describe their passion; make the article your very own article; Upload photos; upload small pieces of performance… just to make it so that words succeed to describe your art. You are the experts there.

If you are not an artist with words, do not worry, others will take care of fixing your spelling mistakes and style.

Hope you come and help.

Anthere / Florence Devouard