Archive for the 'Venues' Category

Friday 15.4.05 - One Day Video

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Pixelache artists & co. are challenged to make ONE DAY VIDEOS on the same day, on the same theme. These videos will be collected on Saturday morning and screened at KIASMA theatre at 6pm on Saturday!!

Bring your video to Anttu in Kiasma by 12 noon on Saturday, or leave it in the Kiasma reception [...]


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IIS:006

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

by: RYBN / EOL [Fr] www.rybn.org

Kiasma Theatre, Sat 16th at 17:00
RYBN will release a real-time performance system, where projection of pictures, odours spreading and sound diffusions enter in interaction. Multisensory databases constitute the raw material of a plastic experiment, the common vocabulary of performers from which they establish a dialectic link. From a principle [...]


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Generation Wired

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Bytes

By Naeem Mohaiemen

Fifteen years ago, I came to the sleepy campus of Oberlin College. On this first arrival in America, I was entranced not by McDonalds, Cadillacs or split-level housing, but with an odd object called “the Internet.” Everything else that the US had to [...]


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Florian Hecker

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Concert at Kiasma Theatre on Sunday 17.4. at 15:00
Organized in collaboration with Charm of Sound

Florian Hecker was born in 1975 in Augsburg. He currently lives and works in Kissing. Hecker has been working with computer music, independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Russell Haswell, Carsten Höller, Florian Pumhösl, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler, [...]


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Cloama + Blutleuchte Live at Kiasma Theatre on Sunday

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Concert at Kiasma Theatre on Sunday 17.4. at 15:00
Organized in collaboration with Charm of Sound

Blutleuchte and Cloama are two Finnish independent artists specialized in crafting surreal industrial and psychoacoustic noise soundscapes. Cloama has been in existence since 1997 and made seven live performances, five in Finland and two in UK. His discography includes music in [...]


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Jenni Valorinta aka VJ *jen

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Videos of Jenni Valorinta aka VJ *jen often relate to nature and joyful moments in life. She has worked with several music artists and bands in different clubs and events both in Finland and abroad and she has coordinated visuals in events like Koneisto and Flow. *jen has been part of Pixelache 2005 VJ team. [...]


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Memnon

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Concert at PixelACHE Club on Saturday 16.4.
Umo Jazz House

Memnon is an experimental music duo of kantele player Eva Alkula and sound designer Ville Hyvönen.

Memnon examines interfaces and collisions between traditional instrument and modern design, classical training and modern electronics, academic and experimental music, compositions and sound design.
The Finnish kantele playing and sound tradition is taken [...]


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XPLOITEC

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

XPLOITEC is a visual collaboration of VJ PHOQ and VJ 304.
“Visualizations are based on live triggering and creating narrative compositions using prefixed video material. XPLOITEC is working on club events and at art scene by xploiting visual information surrounded us.”
XPLOITEC operates in Helsinki, Vienna and Budapest.
“It´s a digital spit on your screen”
www.xploitec.org

VJing at PixelACHE satellite [...]


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Peerspex

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

PixelACHE Club at Umo Jazz House on Saturday 16.4.

Paris-based, French - Finnish duo Peerspex‘s music could make one think of an imaginary collaboration between Aphex Twin and the Destiny’s child. Their electronica-orientated music combines acid breakbeats with dreamy ritournelles, turning them into a strange, though melodic post-r’n’b.


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PixelACHE satellite event at Club Bundolo

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Club Bundolo, Friday 15.04., 22:00 - 04:00
entrance 5€ (not included in passes)

  • DJs Sampsa (Leftside Ensemble) & Kasio (Nuspirit HKI / Giant Robot)
  • VJ PatadePerro (Intermundos, Colombia)
  • SF&L - Visual Sensations VJ competition winner (The Netherlands)
  • “The Finnish All-Stars VJ Jam”:
  • VJ *jen (Amfibio)
  • VJ 304 (Xploitec)
  • VJ’s Hahmo & Naïve (Visual Systeemi)

www.bundolo.info
www.uniq.fi


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Wikipedia.org presentation on Saturday morning

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Presentation on Saturday 16th, 10:00-11:00, in Kiasma ground floor seminar room.

Wikipedia is a Web-based free content encyclopedia that is openly edited and freely readable. It has 187 independent language editions sponsored by the non-profit WikimediaFoundation. Entries on traditional encyclopedic topics exist alongside those on almanac, gazetteer and current events topics. Its goal is to create [...]


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Digitalopenandfree.org

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Presentation in Kiasma seminar room on Saturday 16th, at 11:00

Digitalopenandfree.org is a collaborative paper exploring the means and modes of digital open and free systems. Code or content are not the only things that can be free or open. What do you think about open search, open store, open communication, or open network? What if [...]


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VJ Culture

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

The term VJ was popularised in the beginning and mid-‘80s by television broadcaster MTV. A few years before, the end of the 70s, the term was introduced by the crew of the Peppermint Lounge, a popular dance club in New York. The performers wanted to distance themselves from the stuffy video artists that were part [...]


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A Day on Earth - What time is it?

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Performance at Kiasma Theatre, on Saturday 16th 16.00

Yasuko Tadokoro aka VJ Mademoiselle (Japan),
Thien Vu Dang aka VJ Pillow (Canada),
Christelle Franca (Canada),
Patrick Watson (Canada)

Resume
What makes us what we are? In this performance, 2 individuals from 2 different locations on Earth express how their surrounding environment is shaping an important part of their identity.

Description
With progress in technology [...]


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PixelTANGO demo

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Kiasma Theatre, Saturday 16th, 12.00- PixelTANGO demo + Ben Bogart performance
Nifca project space #2, Friday 15th, 14.00-17:00 PixelTANGO workshop

by: Ben Bogart
www.ekran.org/ben

Vector
Vector is another performance in process along side “Volume Curvature.” There is a similar emphasis on form in space, but the main focalpoint for “vector” is a strong sense of line whereas Volume Curvature often [...]


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Intermundos.org, from Colombia

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

The Intermundos website is to be our main window to the world.

It was created in a region which is completely removed from anything to do with contemporary art, technology and communication. This region is the Caribbean coast of Colombia, which, because of its geographical position, has historically always been an important point of communication and [...]


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Disappeared In America

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Muslim Activists rewire the Net

Contribution to Friday, Nifca project space #1: (on the island of Suomenlinna)
13.00 – 17.00 Dot Org Boom – Activist afternoon

www.disappearedinamerica.org
www.shobak.org
www.muslimsorheretics.org

The Internet is emerging as an essential tool for Muslim activists, both working in Muslim-majority nations and in the western diaspora. By creating digital networks and mobilizing against Islamophobia, dot-org Muslims have [...]


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WebCamTalk 1.0 - Guest Speaker Series and Conference on New Media Art Education

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Find a series of 20 interviews on these issues at:
http://newmediaeducation.org
Webcamtalk in Kiasma seminar room on Saturday 16th, at 16:00

Over the past ten years new-media art programs have been started at universities. Departments are shaped, many positions in this field open up and student interest is massive. In China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand enormous developments [...]


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P.O.P. Particle/Wave - Pixelache Opening Party

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Thursday 14.04.
mbar 20:00 - 03:00
20:00-22:00 DJ Samy Kramer
22:00 audio_z (Lithuania)
22:30 NoisiV (Berlin)
23:00 DJ Mesak + DJ Samy Kramer

Decangular Vibes
Tautvydas Bajarkevicius will present Decangular Vibes, an open-structured audio mix of spoken concepts, essayistic-poetic interferences, and experimental sound objects which is the result of continuous collaboration with Lithuanian sound artists.
jenty.ghost.lt/surfaces/srfc007frame.htm

noisiV
noisiV is a berlin based indepedent group who [...]


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Used in India

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Media Practices from the 20th Century

Presentation at Dot Org Boom introduction, Thursday 14th at 15:00-
Kiasma ground floor seminar room

Used in India is a multimedia installation, which showcases both media devices and narratives of their use, to illumine the nature of street innovation, technology production and social exchange in India. Used in India has been [...]


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