[spectre] Open Call for Pixelache Helsinki 2016 Festival – Interfaces for Empathy

[andrew paterson]

Festival dates: 22. - 25.9.2016

Deadline to apply: 1.5.2016


For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and doers + everything
in between also groups and collectives.

For what: performances, interventions, installations, talks, workshops,
actions, processes, in any field.

The perspective that Pixelache’s 2016 festival Interfaces for Empathy explores
is one of empathy. The festival sets out to engage with the question and
proposal that maybe empathy could be learned, found or especially re-found
through bodily experience and presence or experimental communication that
is not limited only in between humans. The festival embraces embodied and
alternate visions of perception that distance us from the perceptual
machines that we might be in danger of becoming due to sense-altering
medias and augmented realities. Is it possible, through this very basic
ability to sense or identify, to change the narrative of the human-kind
towards being a more balanced part of the ecosystems we live within? The
dimension of empathy we are especially exploring in this years festival is
on microlevel; individual experience, identity and on personal relations.

The festival’s main venue is Lapinlahti former psychiatric hospital in
central Helsinki, Finland. Despite of the hospital area’s central location
in the city, it is situated close to the sea and surrounded by big park &
cemetery. There are several indoor and outdoor spaces in the environment
that used to be part of the first psychiatric institution of Finland. The
festival also reaches out to other places in the city through collaboration
with Kiasma - the Museum of Contemporary Art and MUU galleries.

Some projects from the festival will be chosen to tour in two other towns
in Finland, Jyväskylä and Rovaniemi, in November 2016.

Read also
http://pixelache.ac/posts/pixelache-festival-2016-interfaces-for-empathy-22-25-9

Please send your proposal through the online form at www.pixelache.ac
website. The information about the call results will be sent in May 2016.
The festival program is planned through collaborative process by festival
co-directors Mari Keski-Korsu and Petri Ruikka, Pixelache member & artist
Egle Oddo, researchers Katri Saarikivi and Valtteri Wikström from NEMO
research group and Helsinki University, artist and professor from IT
University of Copenhagen Laura Beloff and other Pixelache members.


If you have any questions, please contact festival at pixelache.ac
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