New node to the Pixelache Network, Pixelini will be held for the first time in Bamako, Mali during 5-7 October 2011. The festival is organised as part of the international cooperation project "Rose des vents numériques' intiated by Ker Thiossane in Dakar,...

Deadline October 14th 2011Art&HENVI is organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with the Helsinki University Centre For Environmental Research (HENVI) in the context of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.We are looking for three...

Furtherfield.org collective have recently curated and published on P2P Foundation wiki an excellent collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet."Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and...

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi/ Lapland/ Finland.26. September – 2. October 2011Organized by the Finnish Bioart Society in the context of the Ars Bioarctica project together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.“ Field_Notes – Cultivating...

Welcome to join the process designed by Massimo Menichinelli (Italy), founder of openp2pdesign.org, in Pixelache office, Kaapelitehdas/Cable Factory (Door C, 4th floor). There are public lectures that all are welcome to attend: The upcoming Friday lecture...

Discussions about setting up an alternative to Helsinki WDC are going on at the moment... If you want to participate in the discussions, please drop an email to juhuu ((at)) juhuu.nu.(see previous discussion about Helsinki WDC here)UPDATE ON SEPT 14: So far...

TICKLING TONGUES worklab by Bartaku"Temporary photoElectric Digestopians" #6 WorklabSalo Art MuseumSaturday 10th September, 201111.30 - 17.00A co-creation worklab with research based experimentations on the transformation of light energy into electric...

The Pixelache crew is heading for Tallinn next week on Tuesday 13.9, to attend Plektrum Festival and other events. Come along! Most of us will leave with the Tallink at 10.30 from Länsisatama and stay overnight, going back to Helsinki on Wednesday during...

(This posting continues the discussion related to my Helsinki WDC critique last week).Helsingin Sanomat newspaper featured Helsinki WDC critique as their main story in the culture section yesterday (unfortunately you need to be a registered subscriber to...

Christian Nold (UK) has been invited to realise a new art project in Helsinki during 2011-2012. This new project called 'Suomenlinna Money Lab' will take place on Suomenlinna island. Christian is visiting Helsinki 7-12 September and will lead two workshops...

This upcoming trans-disciplinary weekend of events aims to connect the practice of informal cultural cooperation and formal cooperatives (kulttuuriosuuskunta) in Pirkkanmaa and wider Finland. Including the network cultural scenes of Pispala...

When Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 announced its theme to be 'Open Helsinki - embedding design in life', my first reaction was - excitement! Choosing openness as a theme seemed like a bold move from the Helsinki WDC organisers - a commitment to try out...