[spectre] Pixelache Helsinki 2011 - Preliminary programme announcement

[Juha Huuskonen]

PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2011 - PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT

The 10th edition of Pixelache Helsinki festival will take place  
between 10-13 March 2011.

As a sneak preview, we are happy to reveal information about three
guest curators and programme themes they have proposed. These were
selected from the open call which was sent out in spring 2010.

* MAPPING LIFE / SUSANNE JASCHKO

Dr Susanne Jaschko is a Berlin based independent curator of  
contemporary art with a focus on public and experimental art and  
digital culture. Her most recent project was the Process as Paradigm  
exhibition in Laboral Centro del Arte in Gijon, curated in  
collaboration with Lucas Evers. In addition to her independent work,  
she has previously worked at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in  
Amsterdam and as a curator/deputy director of transmediale festival  
for art and digital culture in Berlin. The working title for Susanne's  
contribution to Pixelache 2011 is 'Mapping life' and it brings  
together a number of projects and protagonists who have found  
intriguing methods to map life in dynamic and physical ways.
 >> www.sujaschko.de

* COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY / MARKKU NOUSIAINEN

Pixelache 2011 will feature a programme section dedicated to  
computational photography. This new area brings media artists,  
photographers and engineers together. The true expressive  
possibilities of today's digital cameras can be unleashed once the  
conventional truths of how to use them are abandoned and they are  
programmed to create images in alternative and often surprising ways.  
This opens the concepts of photography and camera to discussion and  
redefinition, and gives rise to possible hacker cultures. The  
programme section consists of featured artists and works, and possibly  
a seminar and a workshop. More details will follow in an open call  
which will be announced in early autumn 2010. This programme section  
has been proposed by Markku Nousiainen, a producer employed by Aalto  
University Media Factory, and a media artist currently working on a  
collective and participatory street art project.
 >> www.aaltomediafactory.fi
 >> www.giantsofthehoods.com

* GROWORLD BAZAAR / FoAM

GroWorld Bazaar is a collection of projects exploring connections  
between plants and people. The Groworld initiative brings together  
three ‘forces’ capable of transforming the world on human and  
ecological scales: culture, gardening and technology. These three  
strands of inquiry inform and support each other, aiming to forge new  
symbiotic relationships between the post-industrial human societies  
and the rest of the Earth. This programme is drawn from the works of  
FoAM and will be presented by Lina Kusaite, an artist and character  
designer who grows plants and builds patabotanical worlds, and Dave  
Griffiths, who makes computer games about plants, and performs as part  
of slub - a livecoding band. Lina and Dave are both part of FoAM.
 >> fo.am/groworld
 >> www.pawfal.org/dave
 >> www.cocooncharacters.com