Eclipse Happening on June 4th
Written by nathalie on May 20, 2009.
Welcome to the “Eclipse Happening“, “finissage” event of the “Expedition to the Total Eclipse” exhibition on view at Kiasma Mediatheque until June 7th, and of the Pixelache season before the summer break. It consists of presentations and a workshop in Kiasma Theatre, and of an urban expedition, culminating in the evening with an event in Kaivopuisto around the URSA observatory.
Key words: Siberia, astronomy, eclipses, space traveling, geese, moon walk, weightlessness.
Preliminary programme:
- 15.00 - 16.00: Presentations focusing on eclipses & space traveling, by Professor Tapio Markkanen (Observatory of the University of Helsinki) & artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE) / Kiasma Theatre
- 16.00 - 17.00: Moon Walk workshop for humans & moon geese with leading moon walker Milla Koistinen / Kiasma Theatre
- 17.00 - 18.30: Urban Expedition / from Kiasma to URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto
- 18.30 - 22.00: Happy Eclipse gathering with Russian snacks and music, moonwalking, telescope observations (only until 21.00), video projections in URSA’s portable planetarium / URSA observatory in Kaivopuisto
All the events of the Eclipse Happening are free of charge.
The number of places for the moon walk workshop is limited. If you want to participate, please send an email before June 2 to moonwalk@pixelache.ac.
The Eclipse Happening is organised by Capsula and Pixelache
With kind support of : Opetusministeriö, Goethe Institut, HIAP, URSA, Kiasma Theatre.
MoA09
Written by Juhuu on May 15, 2009.I was invited to be the curator for this year’s MoA09 - Masters of Arts exhibition of University of Art and Design Helsinki. Below you can find some photos from the exhibition that opened a couple of days ago.
MoA09 also features plenty of events, Pixelache crowd might want to check out at least the Emperor’s New Clothes theme day (Saturday 16 May) featuring John Thackara / Doors of Perception and MoA PLAY theme day (Wednesday 20 May).
Peer-to-Peer and Parecon Debate on ZNet
Written by agryfp on May 10, 2009.Following their first meeting in the ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ seminar at Pixelache Helsinki festival, Michel Bauwens and Michael Albert have engaged in an online exchange/debate, hosted on ZNet.
Read more here: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/zdebatealbbauwens.htm
The debate is text-based, has been ongoing since last month, until the end of May.
Some of the debate has also filtered onto [p2research] mailing list, where other P2P researchers are likewise exposed to Albert’s Parecon theories.
Comments (0)Digital Craftsmanship / New Criteria for New Media
Written by Juhuu on May 7, 2009.Here are some notes from Digital Craftsmanship discussion that took place at Pixelache09:
- thinking with your hands
- digital media cookbooks and recipies
- how to get different people to share same focus, taking steps in the areas where they are not comfortable
- contributing back to the community of teachers
- cross-over artists and designers, enough skills to 99% of things needed
- allow non-specialists to enter, make technology itself culturally diverse
- building spaces for learning that reflect the culture that we have online
The discussion involved people from UdK Berlin, Culture Lab Newcastle, Taik Media Lab, Konstfack Stockholm, Kitchen Budapest and others. It was evident that digital craftsmanship is difficult to compare with traditional master-apprentice relationship. It seems to be more about a specific approach (or one could even say attitude) to working with digital media. All the basic building blocks (physical parts, hardware, software) are kept open for modifying and one should have enough skills and confidence to work on all different aspects of the project. A key for successful learning and developement is to be connected to a network of peers and knowledge / resources that can be shared.
MIT’s Leonardo Journal recently published an article that is very relevant for this discussion. I quote here an email from Jon Ippolito, one of the authors of the paper:
MIT Publishes U-Me’s “New Criteria for New Media”
Academia’s goal may be the free exchange of ideas, but up to now many universities have been wary-if not downright dismissive-of their professors using the Internet and other digital media to supercharge that exchange, especially in the arts and humanities. Peer review committees are supposed to assess a researcher’s standing in the field, but to date most have ignored reputations established by blogging, publishing DVDs, or contributing to email lists.
In a signal that some universities are warming to digital scholarship, however, the winter 2009 issue of MIT’s Leonardo magazine-itself a traditional peer review journal, though known for experimenting with networked media-has published a feature on the changing criteria for excellence in the Internet age. To make its point as concretely as possible, the feature includes the recently approved promotion and tenure guidelines of the University of Maine’s New Media Department, together with an argument for expanding recognition entitled “New Criteria for New Media.”
Rather than throw time-honored benchmarks for excellence out the window, “New Criteria for New Media” tries to extend them into the 21st century. To supplement the “closed” peer review process familiar from traditional journals, U-Me’s criteria recognize the value of the “open peer review” employed in recognition metrics such as ThoughtMesh and The Pool. As the name suggests, open peer review allows contributions from any community member rather than a group of experts, and all reviews are public; when combined with an appropriate recognition metric, the result is much faster evaluations than possible via the customary approach. “New Criteria for New Media” also urges academic reviews to reward collaboration in new media research; valuable roles include conceptual architect, designer, engineer, or even matchmaker (e.g., introducing two other researchers whose collaboration results in a publication).
Because the University of Maine hopes other institutions will adopt these criteria and adapt them to their own needs, it is releasing them under a Creative Commons (CC-by) license. (Due to a misprint by MIT Press, the Leonardo article highlights the authors’ copyrights rather than the CC license; it’s surprisingly hard to give things away in a print economy!) The new criteria have already been sought after by individual tenure candidates and cited in the Chronicle of Higher Education. You can find them in Leonardo’s winter 2009 issue (vol. 42 no. 1) or online at these links:
“New Criteria for New Media” (white paper)
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/new_criteria_for_new_media.html
“Promotion and Tenure Guidelines” (sample redefined criteria)
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/promotion_tenure_redefinitions.html
For more information, please email me or the Still Water lab at the
University of Maine (http://newmedia.umaine.edu/stillwater/)
The Pirate Google
Written by Juhuu on May 2, 2009.
http://www.thepirategoogle.com
Comments (0)Grandma, help them as they do not know what they are doing
Written by Juhuu on April 30, 2009.Do NOT Touch The Internet
Citizens Ready For A Fight Across The European Union
The privatization of the Internet could be decided in the next few weeks. On May 5th, the European Parliament will vote on a package of measures which will affect the national laws of all EU countries.
The European Parliament is about to give up our rights to an open access to the Internet to protect the interests of Entertainment and Communications multinationals. A civil campaign by organizations of the whole European Community will be simultaneously launched tonight in order to prevent the privatization of the Internet and to defend the democratic right to access to information and digital tools.
This campaign includes:
1 - An informative website explaining what the so called ”
Telecommunications Package “, which is about to be voted on in the European Parliament, is, why it is so dangerous for the future of citizens. the impact on their daily economy, as well as useful information and tools created by citizens for citizens, including open letters, press releases, a blog and video material:
http: // www.blackouteurope.eu/
2 - A letter to members of the European Parliament that it is being sent by hundreds of organizations and citizens (one Euro Parliamentarian recognized that they are receiving as many as 200 letters a day):
http://www.blackouteurope.eu/act/letter_to_meps.html
3 - An automatic system that allows citizens to send the letter directly to all the Members of the European Parliament:
http://blackouteu.wordpress.com/directly-send-to-parlamentarians/
4 - A system to monitor their vote in the matter:
http://blackouteu.wordpress.com/follow-their-vote/
And
5 - A Europe wide casting for grandmothers to create an inter-European viral video:
Fortheinternet.wordpress.com
Take Part!
“Grandma, help them as they do not know what they are doing”. On the occasion of the vote in the European parliament of the Telecoms package on May 5, a video contest has been launched on YouTube. This is to remind members of the European Parliament that they need our vote in June. The Internet still provides us with the tools to watch and judge their actions. And we need this to continue.
Find out:
Do not allow the European Parliament to privatize the Internet! Act now!
Tomorrow it is too late!
We Still Can Put Pressure On Them - We Gave Them Our Vote - We Vote Again
In June. Remind Members Of The European Parliament! ”
Spread the info
Many more Pixelache09 videos online
Written by Juhuu on April 18, 2009.
pixelache - Valentina Vuksic: Tripping Through Runtime from pixelACHE festival on Vimeo.
Pixelache 2009: Pink Twins live - first 10 min from pixelACHE festival on Vimeo.
Pixelache Video Podcast: Bengt Sjölén + Adam Somlai-Fischer - Wifi Camera from pixelACHE festival on Vimeo.
Alternative Economy Cultures PART 2 from pixelACHE festival on Vimeo.
….and many more here and here.
Comments (0)Artkillart show in Myymälä2 until 12 April
Written by Juhuu on April 6, 2009.Pixelache09 festival is over, but you still have a chance to check out the Artkillart show in Myymälä2 (until 12 April) or the Expedition to the Total Eclipse exhibition in Kiasma Mediatheque (until 7 June).
Pixelache Video Podcast: Valentina Vuksic - Harddisko from pixelACHE festival on Vimeo.
Please give us feedback!
Written by Juhuu on .Thank you very much for all the Pixelache09 participants! All the organisers are very exhausted but very happy, we hope to see many of you again next year!
We would appreciate it a lot if you would send us feedback. This information is important for the reports we will send to our supporters, as well as for the future development of the festival.
Please cut and paste these questions to email and send it to feedback09 ((at)) pixelache.ac
- - - -
Name, country, email (optional):
1. How much of Pixelache09 programme did you follow (approximately)?
(A - 100%, B - 80%, C - 60%, D - 40%, E - 20%, F - 10% or less)
2. How would you rate your experience of Pixelache09?
(A - excellent, B - good, C - average, D - below average, E - poor)
3. Your professional benefit of Pixelache09?
(A - excellent, B - good, C - average, D - below average, E - poor)
4. Did you make useful contacts for work / future collaborations?
(D - none, C - 1 or 2, B - a few (3 to 6), A - many)
Pixelache 2009 programme:
5. The three best things in Pixelache 2009 programme?
6. The least interesting things in Pixelache 2009 programme?
Pixelache 2009 practical arrangements:
7. What worked well?
8. What could be improved?
9. Wishlist: what themes and topics would you propose for Pixelache 2010?
10. Other general comments?
Comments (0)mikroPaliskunta shares two welcomings
Written by mkk on April 4, 2009.
Joyful buss driver at Las Palmas airport.
Overheard discussion on the way from the airport to Playa del Ingles (mp3)
Translation
Daughter: Is there any way we could change the hotel? We don’t want that hotel anymore! Especially because I have the biggest party in the room EVERY DAY!
Guide: The welcoming packet I gave you contains a map of Cran Canaria. The map has also Play del Ingles included.
Daughter (on the phone): We just drop our bags there and we take a taxi from hotel…
Guide: …there is also our holiday library; you can borrow reading for holiday.
Daughter: Yeah, mom has the address…
Guide: …nordic walking…
Daughter (on the phone): We are a little drunk… no that’s a joke…
Guide: …souvenirs…
Daughter (on the phone): We couldn’t get any alcohol on the plane, HORRIBLE place – really horrible place… Okay, we’ll come there then… but hey then let’s not stay in the hotel room, let’s go for swimming and sun bathing… yeah yeah, but then let’s go to the beach right away, I need to test my new swimming balls. Okay, good, ciao! Ah yeah, some amazons… oh fuck, where the fucking brothel you live. We’ll come there. Okay ciao!
Guide: The beach is long in Playa del Ingles and worth visiting – at least the dynes of Maspalomas…
Daughter: What! Mom!
Mom: Well, hear me, I wouldn’t want to wait so fucking long.
Daughter: Why not sit in the buss for the whole life. It feels like a terrorist. Like someone has kidnapped us and soon there will be some towel head coming trough the bus door speaking Latin. Hey, but let’s have the adventurous attitude, let’s be just like tourists… We are so terrible, we sure won’t get out of this bus live… and if we do, we can’t get into the hotel…
Mom: And we don’t even want to get into the hotel!
Daughter: No we don’t! We are on holiday! Fuck! Finally!
Mom: Yeah, holiday begins… but there something fucking wrong…
Daughter: It doesn’t matter.
Mom: Fuck it does!
Daughter: This is the first holiday ever that is a good holiday.
Mom: My friends are waiting for me.
Daughter: Yeah and we’ll make it there. And for once it’s just us women! No men!
Mom: But the bus is not moving…
View other expedition findings at mikropaliskunta.net
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