[spectre] Camp Pixelache 2013: Call for presentations & workshops on Naissaar island, Estonia, 17-19 May

[andrew paterson]

Pixelache is organizing a new edition of Camp Pixelache on 17-19 May 2013
as part of the Pixelache Festival 2013 programme.

This year the festival is organised as a dual-city event (16-19 May 2013)
in Helsinki-Tallinn, around the overarching theme of Facing North – Facing
South..

http://pixelache.ac/festival-2013

'Camp Pixelache' will be held in Estonia, on Naissaar island, near to
Tallinn, from 18-19 May. Typically like at unconferences, the agenda will
be created by the attendees at the beginning of the event. Anyone who wants
to initiate a discussion on a given topic can claim a time and a space. Our
curated themes for the Festival are emerging as Creative Development
(North-South, Tallinn-Helsinki & other relations), Virtuality, Resonance,
Anti-disciplinarity, Waste, Techno-ecologies, and Control. Welcome to be
inspired by these or introduce other topics into the Camp!

The main venue for Camp Pixelache will be Naissaar (formerly Nargen,
Nargö), an island located near Tallinn, 10 km away from the Estonian coast.
The island was rumoured to be "Terra Feminarum" (the island’s Estonian name
literally translates as 'island of women') but had until WWII a historic
Estonian-Swedish fishing community. The island’s military history still
leaves its traces in tangible and intangible forms: military buildings,
sea-mine relics, heavy minerals, and a vague 3-month period following the
October Revolution when it was declared an anarcho-syndicalist autonomous
republic. Closed as a military island during the Soviet period, the island
has a few dozen permanent residents, boosted in summer time with many
visitors, a classical music festival, and is a place to respect as an
Estonian nature conservation area.

The venue area/buildings we use have their limitations, including slow
internet (limited 3G), only about 3kw of electricity (via solar panels),
and access only by ferry, but thats is also what makes it so charming, and
a perfect place for a Camp. The event itself will take place in the concert
hall built by the well-known Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste, right on the
spot where Bernhard Schmidt, inventor of the Schmidt telescope was born.
Within the concert hall and related buildings open workshops can also be
organised. It takes about 40 min to reach the hall from the harbour on
foot. The infrastructure on the island allows for about 100 people to
participate.

In addition to facilitating the unconference, we have invited Mary Mellor
to give a keynote presentation on Naissaar. Mary Mellor is a Social Science
Professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), who has a
long-standing interest in alternative, green and feminist economics:
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/socscience/deptstaff/mellor/

** We are calling out for presentations and workshops! **

See more info here & link for proposals..

http://www.pixelache.ac/festival-2013/camp-2013/

Presentations can still be proposed by confirmed participants until the
Camp Pixelache day, but because of the infrastructure on Naissaar and the
fact that there is a limited amount of places and spaces, we need to
confirm all the participants, as well as workshops & demos well in advance.

** The call is open until 19.4 **

TRAVEL, SUPPORT & OTHER INQUIRIES

Departure from Helsinki will be on Friday 17.5. in the evening and the
return to Helsinki on Sunday 19.5 in the evening. It is also possible to
join from Tallinn on 18.5. in the early morning.

Pixelache will be able to offer some support to cover boat and land travel
from: Sweden, Northern/Central Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus
& North-West Russia. If you are interested, please contact office [-at-]
pixelache.ac

For other inquiries, please contact office [-at-] pixelache.ac
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