Pixelache09 videos + photos
Written by Juhuu on April 3, 2009.Olli Farshi videoblogging: http://www.vimeo.com/pixelachehel
More Pixelache videos here: http://www.vimeo.com/pixelache
Photos in Flickr with tags pixelache + pixelache09
Comments (0)Kitchen Budapest afternoon
Written by Juhuu on .Photo: macsEk travel mate
Kitchen Budapest people will be demonstrating some of their new projects in Kiasma lobby tomorrow afternoon (Sat 4 April), including Animata animation software, macsEk travel mate and QR code t-shirt messenger.
Bring your laptop and a mouse if you want to get an introduction to Animata! You can also sew your own macsEk or get your own t-shirt printed. More information here.
Comments (0)Setting up Digital Craftsmanship / UdK exhibition
Written by Juhuu on April 2, 2009.Photos from Thursday 1 April afternoon… The opening of the exhibition is today at 18:00!
Comments (0)Sofia Oliveira/Jared Hawkey presentation on Friday 3 April / Live Video Lab presentations
Written by Juhuu on .One change in schedule: ‘TODAY’, a piece of generative design for mobile phones (Idea and Design: Sofia Oliveira/Jared Hawkey, Symbian Programming: Heitor Ferreira) will be presented tomorrow on Friday 3 April as a part of Live Video Lab presentations (instead of Open Forum on Sat 4 April).
Comments (0)Audiovisual hacking - Day2
Written by tuomo on .Day 2 of AV hacking started with upgrading The Kontti with mandatory Owls. That out of the way, synth-building, reprogramming of it and toy-hacking continued in Koelse HQ. Today the Pulse-Width-Modulating congregation invades the container. Don’t miss the opening tomorrow at 17:00, nor Gijs’ performance at Dubrovnik later.
Comments (0)Earth Hour in Helsinki / collaboration with Helsingin Energia
Written by Juhuu on April 1, 2009.The Earth Hour last Saturday had a noticable effect on the energy consumption in Helsinki area, saving electricity an amount equal to power generated by 5 windmills.
Some of the press articles were saying that this was a ‘weak’ result for this campaign. Maybe they missunderstood the point of the event (a symbolic, collective ritual rather than a concrete solution to our energy issues) or perhaps they are wishing for an event with more impact - such as ‘Turn of Your Heating Day’. In Helsinki area, heating takes 3/4 of all energy consumption and electricity 1/4. Out of electricity consumption, lighting is usually only 15-17%. So saving 5 windmills of power is perhaps not that bad result after all.
Pixelache09 is this year collaborating with Helsingin Energia, the largest energy company in Helsinki, and third largest electricity provider in Finland. We are looking for artists and designers to propose artworks that would utilize the real-time data provided by Helsingin Energia, or would address the energy consumption issue in some other way. We would like to help in realising an artwork that would be permanently (or semi-permanently) visible in public space in Helsinki and/or as an online project…. Or would have some other form, we are completely open for suggestions. The Pachube workshop tomorrow on Thursday can provide some useful tools for this.
You can come and meet our collaborator Martti Hyvönen (environmental director of Helsingin Energia) on Friday 3 April (the opening event in Lasipalatsi, 17-19) or in the Art, Science & Ecology seminar on Saturday 4 April afternoon.
Comments (0)Audiovisual Hacking workshop kicked off
Written by tuomo on .Bunch of hackers and benders gathered in Koelse HQ in Vallila for some warranty voiding action yesterday afternoon. We had hardly settled down when happy sawing and drilling sound and the smell of burning plastic filled the air. While one old TV-set was repurposed as visual-synth in the hands of couple workshoppers, the rest of us started to solder fantastic “Hard Soft Synth 2″ -kits prepared by Gijs Gieskes. The quest continues today in Vallila but we will travel soon to the hacking container in Kiasma front yard. See you all there later this week!
Comments (0)Chiptune Marching Band workshop
Written by Juhuu on .Chiptune Marching Band is a workshop and performance. Its involves people from all walks of life making electronic sounds with one another, out in the world and in the open air. Armed with the tools and know-how for hacking together alternative-power systems and square wave sensor circuits, we take to the streets.
The workshop hosted by Jamie Allen (CA/UK) & Kazuhiro Jo (JP/UK) of Culture Lab, Newcastle University (UK).
The plan is to meet in Kiasma lobby at 12:00 (after the Alternative Economy Cultures morning session) and walk to Railwaystation and take bus 71 at 12:15, arriving in Taik approx 12:30. You have a possibility to have lunch in Taik before the workshop starts at 13:00. We will start the workshop with a 30 min introduction session between Taik Media Lab / UdK Berlin / Newcastle Culture Lab people.
Comments (0)Still room in Alternative Economy Cultures seminar
Written by Juhuu on .Currently approx 130 people have signed up to Alternative Economy Cultures seminar. Therefore there is still room in the first two sessions (10-12, 13-16) which take place in Kiasma Theatre, please let us know if you want to participate.
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