Memnon duo of your second favorite PixelACHE organizer who’s name is not Huuskonen and that you enjoyed on PixelACHE club goes Tokyo spreadin the very elastic pixelnetwork.

Big gig involving local VJ activity on Sunday 15th of May, so all of you people hanging around Shibuya are invited!

more info & travel blog: www.memnon.fi

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Call for workshop participation

MAKING SENSE VII
Tangible Dreams

Monday 6th of June - Thursday 9th June at Atelier Nord, Oslo/Norway
by Erich Berger and Peter Votava

Free participation
Application deadline Friday Mai 27th

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MAKING SENSE PROJECT

Within a series of workshops “Making Sense” aims to
introduce basic and advanced techniques of how artists
can work with sensors and effectors, how to build custom
computer interfaces and how to interface them with
different software environments.

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Here’s pictures from a great PixelVärk night in Stockholm! Good music, vj:s and people. Wish it lasted longer. Pictures of Shogun Kunitoki and Johan Skugge with VJ Guffe Funk.

SF&L put together a short video about their PixelACHE 2005 trip for MTV Europe News… PixelACHE squeezed into 1 min 2 sec! The clip is available here (2.2 Mb), with music from Finnish electro act Mr Velcro Fastener (SF&L performed at PixelACHE together with dj Mesak from Mr Velcro Fastener duo).

The PixelACHE voyage continues in Paris! Check out the program for MiniPixel, an introduction event to Mal au Pixel 2006, the upcoming french edition of PixelACHE…

There is also a rumour that Jodi Rose, our favourite australian bridge sound composer, will perform at project 101 in Paris on 6th of May… And also check out the presentation from hehe tonight (see previous post from hehe) if you happen to be in town…

Dear Achers

We are sad to inform you, that Helen and I switched off the light on Suomenlinna last night. We could no longer defend ourselves from the hordes of international tourists, besides we had to go back to Paris. It was a long journey, as our bags are heavy from one too many bottles of Salmiakki flavoured vodka.

During our residency at NIFCA we had the chance to develop our project Nuage Vert (www.hehe.org/pollstream). We met with many people and institutions, most of who have voiced an open willingness to support the project and we are more than astonished that there might be a realistic chance for us to actually do the project here in Helsinki.

In short: many thanks to THE BRAIN (yes we are talking about HIM) and all the other Pixels and we hope to see many of you in the future.

For those of you who will be in Paris this week, Helen and I will present the work we have developed here in Helsinki @ www.confluences.net/avril - a sort of PixelAche in Paris (well, nothing like the real thing, of course), on the 28th of April at 18h30 – 19h30 : free entry.

wherever you are, whatever you do,

keep it burning

hehe

Workshop Call “Physical Computing” - Atelier Nord Oslo

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Call for workshop participation

MAKING SENSE VI
Introduction to Physical Computing

Wednesday 25th of Mai - Saturday 28th Mai 2005
at Atelier Nord, Oslo/Norway
by Erich Berger - http://randomseed.org

Free participation
Application deadline Friday 13th Mai
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A. BEST OF PIXELACHE ‘05 (THE RESULTS)
B. SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PIXELACHE (from various people)
C. 37 SIGNS YOU’VE BEEN IN FINLAND TOO LONG

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A. BEST OF PIXELACHE ‘05
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Thanks everyone for sending in your votes and humorous suggestions. For each category, there is the top vote-getter and the runner-up. When people used different language to describe something, I usually picked the simplest description. If you still want to submit a vote, you can send it to me, and maybe it will make it into the version that is posted online at pixelache.ac -Naeem

BEST PIXELACHE ORGANIZER:
Juha Huuskonen
RUNNER UP: Aura Seikkula

BEST PIXELACHE ORGANIZER WHOSE LAST NAME IS NOT HUUSKONEN
Mikko Laajola (…or Mikko Lindholm)
RUNNER UP: Ville Hyvönen

BEST DJ
Peerspex
RUNNER UP: Youth hostel cook on Suomenlinna

BEST VJ
Frank-en-Lisa (SF&L)
RUNNER UP: Peerspex+RESPAM, Robovision, Machinista
(there were many votes for this category)

BEST PROJECTION
A Day on Earth
RUNNER UP: “One with cube”, Malfunctionalism’s jigsaw, Chicken video by Osmo Puupera

BEST POLITICAL DISCUSSION
“Did we have one?”
RUNNER UP: “VJing is not wallpaper” debate

BEST INSTALLATION
Musicbox.
RUNNER UP: Suomenlinna Fortress

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The name of the PixelACHE Festival was originally found from an article which was trying to predict words which would emerge in future. The word ‘pixelache’ was supposed to describe an ‘overdose of digital media’. Interestingly enough, this is the way the word pikseliähky (the finnish word for pixelache) was used this week in an article in Helsingin Sanomat, the biggest newspaper in Finland. We have become an official part of Finnish language!

The word pixelache has been spreading quickly as well… The word produced zero hits in Google in 2002, before we started the festival… After the first event there were 28 hits in Google, earlier this year around 2800 and currently 45 500 (!)…

The performance by Mika Rintala & co. took place on Friday 15th of April.

via Matti L @ Flickr