[spectre] Pixelache 2006 Helsinki - preliminary program info!

[Juha Huuskonen]

Here is some preliminary program information
about Pixelache Helsinki... More details
will be announced soon!

Also check out www.malaupixel.org for info
about the Mal au Pixel Paris...

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PixelACHE 2006
30 March - 2 April, Helsinki
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art
www.pixelache.ac

Mal au Pixel 2006
19 - 29 Avril, Paris
Ars Longa, Confluences, Mains d'Ouvres
www.malaupixel.org

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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
www.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 contact {{at}} pixelache.ac.

Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki at Pixelache 2006! (and at Mal au
Pixel in Paris!)

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