....Media arts curator Anne Roquigny (fr) will give her presentation at Pixelache's new office in Kaapelitehdas (Tallberginkatu 1 C, 4th floor), on september 7 from 18.00 onwards. Welcome!More info here

If I was going to Ars Electronica this year then I would spend most of my time hanging out at the TELE-INTERNET venue, a 'Hackerspace, (Un-)Conference, Exhibition, Performance and Social Installation' during 2-6 September. Aram Bartholl has invited an...

Media arts curator Anne Roquigny (fr) will be visiting Helsinki and giving a presentation on her work on september 7 from 18.00 onwards at Pixelache's new office in Kaapelitehdas (Tallberginkatu 1 C, 4th floor)« Internet as a space of creation »Anne...

The 10th edition of Pixelache Helsinki festival will take place between 10-13 March 2011.As a sneak preview, we are happy to reveal information about three guest curators and programme themes they have proposed. These were selected from the open call which...

Upcoming, in advance of Helsinki Design Week, the Windowfarms Finland collective and the New York-based initiators Britta Riley and Ted Ullrich meet for first time.The events they have scheduled at Hub Helsinki take place as a manifestation of...

Photo: Giants of the HoodsMedia Facades Festival will take place during 27 August - 2 September in seven cities: Berlin, Brussels, Helsinki, Liverpool, Budapest, Linz, Madrid.The festival features works which are displayed on big screens in public space,...

A special Pixelache Feature will be presented at ISEA2010 RUHR. It consists of projects which explore our relationship with nature (Herbologies/Foraging Networks initiative + Terike Haapoja's installations) and a consumer electronics hacking workshop by...

Inspired by an urban street painting intervention in Berlin, the Helsinki based collective Länsiväylä asked people to join a guerilla operation to paint a bike lane on Hämeentie, one of the main roads leading through the Northern part of central Helsinki....

The Plektrum Festival, which runs in Tallinn from 25 August to 5 September, will feature robots and a chance to see the giant steps made by robotic technology in the form of lectures, films, exhibitions and music. Both this year’s Plektrum and next year’s...

AFROPIXEL 2010 * JEAN KATAMBAYI MUKENDI * MAKER FAIRE AFRICA- - -The Afropixel 2010 festival began with an event called 'Le Laboratoire de Prospectives Singuleires Dakar' (organised in collaboration with Les Ateliers de Rennes) which featured philosophers,...

AFROPIXEL 2010 * VIYE DIBA* * *I cannot claim to know much more about Africa after spending just one week in the city of Dakar in Senegal, but even this short visit forced me to reconsider what I imagine the African identity to be today. It was a...

Coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a rogue industry that produces financial profit for the various factions of the on-going civil war. This issue has been discussed in artist/activist circles for some years already, but there...