Helsinki, 30 March - 2 April
PIXELACHE 2006 HELSINKI PROGRAM OVERVIEW
VJ culture & audiovisual performances section features MiniMovies, a brand new project by AGF & Sue Costabile (US + Germany). AGF and Sue Costabile are both young multi-disciplinary creators with their activities extending from conceptual art to establishing independent record labels. MiniMovies is their first large scale collaboration, ‘a collection of mini-lives in an urban and political context’. Everybody is a disaster. Let’s make our own movies.
www.minimoviemovement.com
To celebrate our French connection with Mal au Pixel Paris, we present two projects from France: a abstract audiovisual performance ChDh (Cyrille Henry & Nicolas Montgermont) and Grenze (Patrick Fontana & Pierre-Yves Fave & Emeric Aelters), an audiovisual journey through the book ‘Das Kapital’ by Karl Marx. Pixelache 2006 also premieres Peurakaira vs. Päätehakkuu by Kangastus collective (Finland), commenting the current struggle between the forest industry and reindeer herding co-operatives in Northern Finland.
www.chdh.net
www.grenze.org
www.peurakaira.fi
Pixelache 2006 is very happy to present a concert by Vladislav Delay, a rare performance in his home country. Other music acts this year include Aelters (France), Forss (Sweden) and several others… Full Pixelache club/music program will be announced soon!
www.vladislavdelay.com
www.ski-pp.com/aelters.html
forss.to
Experimental mobile / locative projects are presented in the context of Locative media workshop: Rautatieasema returns, organised by Andrew Paterson (Finland) & Meiju Niskala (Finland). The workshop brings together a group of performance artists and artist/researchers interested in mobile/locative media. The group will spend one week at the Helsinki Railway station, beginning with ’something’ which are placed in the station lockers. The workshop process/results are summarised in public events, featuring presentations by Ben Russell (www.headmap.org, UK), Angela Piccini (University of Bristol, UK), Richard Widerberg (IMPROVe project, University of Art and Design Helsinki) and many more…
www.pixelache.ac/locative
Pixelache 2006 is also collaborating with Nokia Connect to Art and Sulake Ltd. Nokia Connect to Art is an initiative by Nokia to explore the possibilities to present art on mobile devices and Sulake is the company behind the popular Habbo Hotel online chat environment. Pixelache presents new work commissioned by Connect to Art (Jollaskoti project and a new piece by Sari Kaasinen) and organises a special seminar on experimental mobile projects. More information coming soon!
www.nokia.com/art
www.sulake.com
www.jollaskoti.com
www.sarikaasinen.com
www.habbohotel.com
Dot Org Boom, the grassroot non-profit new media ‘boom’ has been the main theme for Pixelache 2005 & 2006. Dot Org Boom theme is expored in Dot Org Tournament organised by Kai Kuikkaniemi (HIIT, Finland) and Petri Lievonen (Pixelache, Finland). Dot Org Tournament invites local multi-disciplinary teams to participate in a competition where the task is to come up with an innovative community concept within a 24-hour timeframe. The winner of the Dot Org Tournament will be presented on the last day of the Pixelache festival.
Open products and hardware concepts are explored in both Pixelache Helsinki and Mal au Pixel Paris. Pixelache Helsinki features open game platform TileToy (Daniel Blackburn & Tuomo Tammenpää, UK + Finland), open product code initiative ThingLinks (Jyri Engeström & Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Finland) and a presentation of Orgsmobile showroom (Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson, Sweden). Orgsmobile is a project to build an ‘open source vehicle’ which will be realised at Mal au Pixel in Paris.
www.tiletoy.org
www.thinglinks.com
www.unsworn.org/om
Protolab is a presentation/discussion forum for new and on-going projects, chosen from the annual Pixelache Call for Projects. The projects featured in Protolab 2006 are: loopArena (Jens Wunderling, Germany), Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser (Markus Kison, Germany), Follow Machine 1.2 (Ruben Coen Cagli, Italy) and Midipoet (Eugenio Tisselli, Mexico/Spain). More to be confirmed!
Pixelache 2006 Helsinki warm-up event: Pixelache 2006 Helsinki kicks off with the opening of an exhibition by Kristian Simolin (Finland), organised in collaboration with MUU artist association. Opening at 7 pm on Thursday 2 March at MUU Gallery!
www.muu.fi/simolin
More details about Pixelache program will be updated at www.pixelache.ac during the next weeks, meanwhile if you have any questions please send an e-mail to hel06crew {{at}} pixelache.ac.
Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki at Pixelache 2006! (and at Mal au Pixel in Paris!)
PIXELACHE 2006 AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES
AGF.3 + SUE.C : MINIMOVIES
“The liberation of the still image. A break away of recorded music.
A collection of mini-lives in an urban and political context.
Memories were traditionally captured as singular moments of time, but the availability of miniature movie-making machines now animates our memories on the screen. AGF and SUE.C slip their own observations of life and audio-visual memories into the pre-established user interface and industry distribution network.
Everybody is a disaster. Let’s make our own movies.”
www.minimoviemovement.com
AGF
“she works mainly as a vocalist. musician. producer. artist. since 1996 permanently based in berlin she was born and raised in east germany. and developed an early interest for music and poetry and philosophy. recently. she is been exploring speech and spoken word into electronic music. sound installations. pop songs. calligraphy and in the world wide web.”
www.poemproducer.com
Sue Costabile
“I am a video artist and photographer working mainly in live improvisational settings. My set up usually inlcudes a small camera, a light pad and various drawings, watercolors, photos and found objects which I animate using my hands and a computer program called Jitter. I am currently collaborating mainly with Antye Greie, a musician from Berlin who performs as AGF, but have also performed with Joshua Kit Clayton, Wobbly, Sutekh, Luc Ferrari, Morton Subotnick, Vladislav Delay, Naut Humon and many other nice people.”
www.orthlorng.com/sue
PEURAKAIRA vs. PÄÄTEHAKKUU?
PEURAKAIRA vs. PÄÄTEHAKKUU is an audiovisual performance, a work-in-progress which will have its first show for the audience at Pikseliähky 2006. The performance is based on photographic material from the Peurakaira region in Northern Finland.
www.peurakaira.fi
“Peurakaira is an unique treasure of northern nature– a large area of ancient forests, fjells, mires, small ponds and streams in Northern Finland. Some parts of the area have been protected, but most of the area has been classified as “commercial forest” by Finnish state forestry enterprise Metsähallitus - which means that the area is threatened by industrial forestry.
In the core areas of Peurakaira logging has in past three years been suspended by a legal dispute between Metsähallitus and the Lapin Paliskunta* (Lappi reindeer herding co-operative). However, the agreement between the parties came into an end in the end of year 2003 and the destiny of the area is now uncertain.”
GRENZE
Grenze is journey through the book ‘Das Kapital’ by Karl Marx. The concepts presented in the book have been captured into drawings and 3D animations. Pikseliähky will premiere the Finnish version of Grenze, with voice samples of people reading excerpts from the book in Finnish.
www.grenze.org
Grenze has been created by artist/theatre director Patrick Fontana together with musician Emeric Aelters (who will also have a solo gig at Pikseliähky club) and 3D animator Pierre-Yves Fave.
ABOUT PIXELACHE FESTIVAL
Pixelache is a festival of electronic art and subcultures. It is an annual gathering of young artists, designers, engineers, architects, hackers and researchers who have created experimental audiovisual projects. Many of the projects are still under development and are presented for the audience for the very first time. Workshops and discussions are an important part of the festival program, our goal is to create an environment where fruitful connections and collisions between various disciplines and communities can take place.
The homebase of Pixelache is in Helsinki but the event has traveled to other locations as well (Stockholm, New York, Montreal). This spring the festival will also take place in Paris under the name Mal au Pixel.
ORGANISERS AND SUPPORTERS
Pixelache Helsinki is organised by non-profit organisation Piknik Frequency in collaboration with Kiasma Theatre. Additional venues/collaborators of Pixelache 2006 Helsinki are UMO Jazz House, Helsinki Club, Bassoradio, Koko-teatteri and MUU gallery / Artists’ Association MUU.
Pixelache Helsinki supporters include Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Arts Council of Finland, AVEK, British Council, French Cultural Institute, Goethe-Institut, Nokia Connect to Art and Sulake. Full list of supporters will be announced later.
Mal au Pixel in Paris is organised by Ars Longa, Confluences and Mains d’Œuvres, with additional events organised by l’Institut Finlandais and Project IOI.
CONTACT INFORMATION
PixelACHE
Laivurinrinne 1
00120 Helsinki
Finland
mail: contact {{ at }} pixelache.ac