[spectre] Pixelache Helsinki 2011: Professional workshops

[Juha Huuskonen]

PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2011 / PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/professional-workshops/
Pixelache Helsinki 2011 will feature several workshops for  
professionals:

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M.A.R.I.N. Workshop: Environmental Sensors and Sensor Networks in  
Media Art

The Pixelache workshop with M.A.R.I.N. brings together artists and  
developers working with environmental sensors which are either  
connected as a network or log their data. During the workshop we will  
set up two sensor setups on Suomenlinna island: SenseStage and API  
Tatsipaa sensor node. The main focus will be on Xbee networking, data  
retrieval and storage. How does context of media art impact these  
designs vs. sensor data management in scientific environmental  
monitoring?

Workshop leaders: Marije Baalman (NL), Matthew Biederman (US/CAN),  
Tapio Mäkelä (FI), Tuomo Tammenpää (FI).

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Hackteria: Bioelectronix for Artists workshop

The workshop is an experimental maker-workshop with multilayered  
outcome for people interested in DIY-biology, microscopy and simple  
technological interaction with living microorganisms for example  
through sound. Participants will become involved in sourcing and  
isolating microorganisms from the environment and develop open  
hardware and software environments with which these organisms can be  
both viewed and become the subjects for simple interactions. A primary  
aim of the activity is to demonstrate that scientific/artistic  
experimentation can take place within the DIY and open source domains,  
and that biology and custom made electronics and software can be  
friends.

The workshop is lead by Marc R. Dusseiller and Andy Gracie. It is  
organised in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society

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Mapping in Progress

An open think-tank on concrete mapping projects in progress. It offers  
an opportunity to learn about different approaches to mapping ranging  
from social mapping and geographical mapping to mapping economy.

Esther Polak/Ivar van Bekkum, Wouter Van den Broeck and Christian Nold  
will introduce their artistic practice and put their current mapping  
projects up to discussion. At the same time, the workshop invites you  
to test you own ideas and concepts. It aims at generating ideas for  
new projects as much as improving existing concepts and may result in  
new collaborations.

Mapping in Progress is a part of 'map me if you will' programme  
devised by Susanne Jaschko.

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Edible Solar Cell workshop

The workshop will consist in building ‘Temporary photoElectric  
Digestopians’ using the Aronia berry as a sustainable power source.

The workshop will be lead by Bartaku. Bartaku is a member of FoAM, a  
transdisciplinary laboratory and a research group committed to  
developing a holistic culture, by actively propagating resilient  
cultural forms. FoAM’s members include artists, gardeners, cooks,  
technologists, designers, writers and scientists from all walks of life.

Edible Solar Cell workshop is a part of 'Groworld Bazaar' programme.

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The registration system for the workshops will open in early January  
2011 and there will be 2 weeks time to sign up.

In the meantime, you can go and check the detailed information about  
the workshops from Pixelache website:

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/professional-workshops/