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PIXELACHE HELSINKI NEWSLETTER 1 / 2014
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Camp Pixelache 2014: Vartiosaari, 6-8. June
Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2014 will be an international 2-day trans-disciplinary event focusing on the theme of “The Commons”, including bio-, urban culture and knowledge commons topics. Adding a new island to its logbook after Suomenlinna (2011) and Naissaar (2013), Camp Pixelache will take up residence in Vartiosaari, a nature island surrounded by eastern suburbs of Helsinki, during 6-8th June 2014.
Based on previous Camp Pixelache experiments, the event is designed around two main unconference days. Except for keynote lectures planned in advance, typically at unconferences the agenda will be shaped and confirmed by the attendees at the beginning of the event. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a commons-related topic can claim a time and a space. The event is free of charge. Several events will be organized around the main Camp Pixelache days, including a programme of participatory workshops.
According to Michel Bauwens, “the Commons consist of any common resource that is available to all, and as such there are many type of Commons but basically two: physical resources or man-made. The Commons is also a series of specific institutional formats used to manage such common resources.” On the local Commons.fi web-presence, the following examples of Commons are also given: Shared natural resources, free software, open data, p2p networks, co-operatives, co-cultures, talkoots, street art, as well as many other commonly-known past, present and future manifestations.”
Pixelache already has a long history of engaging with collaborative digital media and particularly with knowledge-sharing and Free/Libre Open Source culture. Early in Pixelache Helsinki's development, a social science paper by Katri Halonen, correctly identified the strong co-relations between open-source ideology, and the influencing thematic and organizational structure of the festival. Pixelache Festival 2014 engages further in Commons issues, specifically from the angle of educational and cultural production strategies and sustainability. As a trans-disciplinary cultural festival, we believe in the necessity to develop trans-disciplinary capacities to tackle together issues of the Commons, such as environmental protection and sustainable nature-resource utilization/management, as well as resisting privatizing forces on all aspects of life.
Camp Pixelache's main venue Vartiosaari demonstrates many aspects of the Commons as an undeveloped nature and recreation island in the middle of suburban city sprawl, which hosts numerous social and association-run wooden summer-villa retreats and special features. The island is currently under-threat of full-scale residential development by Helsinki City Planning Department, and there is a grassroots campaign to protect it's particular qualities, in which artists & cultural practitioners are involved. We are hoping that the occasion of Camp Pixelache can also provide a discussion forum around Helsinki-Commons issues. If you would like to get involved, please contact office [-at-] pixelache.ac
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Pixelversity 2014 Programme In 2014, Pixelversity outreach & education programme continues consolidating previous themes, and introducing a few new ones: InfoWork, Trashlab, AV-Culture, Ruins, and other things not yet become.
Special attention will be given to the 'InfoWork' that is done in the organisation, including documention and archiving. There will be ongoing Amok events (Photo-tagging & Data-entry) on our photo-archive, several media streaming workshops focused on open source software/hardware solutions, aswell as interview and research initiatives related to, for example, Maaland initiative. With our 'Narratives' project, we will endeavour use some time and resources later in the year to record the narratives of those involved in Pixelache. These activities are supported by a grant from the Ministry of Culture for cultural knowledge-sharing in digital forms. The InfoWork theme also gives experience for revealing the social-organisational processes events involved in open-plan event production, via our EU Grundtvig-supported Open Learning Steps and Open-sourcing Festivals (OLSOF) network project, which will be announced publically in February.
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New Micro-Residencies' season!
Since the year 2012, Pixelache has offered 3-4 micro-residencies positions per year, concentrated on 3 to 7 days periods.
They are based on invitation for professionals of Pixelache’s extended network. They are not oriented towards new productions as such but rather function as spaces for informal knowledge exchange and inspiration, between the resident and the host organisation, and to some extent between the resident & the local scene. Micro-residencies set out to be micro-laboratories where different tools, approaches, ideas can be tested, to re-invent cultural production models in general, and consequently, our organisations themselves. Most of them include a public event where our guests present their practice and projects.
We have the pleasure to welcome our first 2014 resident during 24-31 January. Evelyn Müürsepp-Grzinich is a visual artist and cultural coordinator, based in South-east Estonia. We also like to invite people very near us to be micro-residents at Pixelache office, and we are thus delighted to host Helsinki-based curator, producer and researcher Hanna Harris around mid-February. Our last micro-resident this winter is Moroccan cultural producer Salah Malouli, visiting during 4-11 March.
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Join The Next Photo Tagging Amok!
As the continuation of an archiving process that started a couple of years ago, and as an exploration of peer-production tools, Pixelache is organizing a series of open sessions focusing on how to archive Pixelache's ~30,000 photos from the past 12 years. These sessions are called Photo Tagging Amoks and are led by Pixelache's all time photographer Antti Ahonen. Have a look at our progress so far.
Next month's Photo Tagging Amok event, featuring a pot of Antti's soup, will take place on Wednesday 12.2 at Pixelache office. The two first Amoks have focused on 2013 pictures, and the series on each occasion endeavours to go further back in time. For example, the November event will focus on the tagging of 2012 photo material. Read More
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Open-Sourcing Festivals
How does an organisation open-source their cultural festival? Can we share the process for organising a festival, so that other groups can use it themselves?
How do organisations support activities and events throughout the year? Can we share the process for sustaining ongoing programs, so that other groups can do this too?
These are the questions that five experimental art, design and technology organisations from the Pixelache Network are asking themselves and others, and exploring, through a mobile circuit of workshops and seminars organized across Europe during 2013-2015. In the process, Piksel (NO), Pikslaverk (IS), Mal au Pixel (FR) and Pixelache (FI) will gradually be working towards 'open-sourcing' their festival skills and tools to provide them to their UK partner Access Space Network, who will test and utilise them in organising their first major digital culture festival, the closing event of this process.
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Trashlab at Kaupunkiverstas (1st Tuesday eve each month in 2014)
Trashlab (formerly known as Trashlab Repair Cafe) events are social occasions to gather and try to fix the things you have that are broken, and meet others who care about tinkering, fixing, hacking, and the problem of waste and obsolescence in society. For each event we have at least two expert-hosts, who will try to identify the problems or diagnose the broken item.
We encourage people also to share their skills, learn from peer to peer and develop their own methods. While Trashlab cannot guarantee that all items are fixed (some might get diagnosed, some even more broken) - we can guarantee that participants will get more information on how to proceed with their broken item. Trashlab provides basic tools and materials for fixing, but if you have very specific items, you´d like to fix, please notify us in advance: paivi.raivio [-at-] gmail.com
Kaupunkiverstas is the city library´s makerspace which has been opened in Lasipalatsi (former Kohtaamispaikka). The makerspace is open for all and is equipped with: 3D-printers, 3D-milling machine, Vinyl cut labels and for packages, dedicated cartoon work-station where you can make your own comics, workshop spaces...
Participation to Trashlab is free but we happily accept small donations, which will go towards the tools and materials. Read More..
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Come & Develop Ideas with us for Foodycle 2014!
Foodycle, a trans-disciplinary food festival was organised for the first time in Helsinki during 12-13.9, as a collaboration between Ruoan Tulevaisuus and Pixelache. Foodycle Festival #2 is planned to take place in September again this year. We hope that many of last year's participants as well as newcomers take part in developing ideas for the 2014 edition of the festival, and help Foodycle become more of a community of people eager to improve our food system!
You are mostly welcome to join our open Foodycle '14 open planning meeting next Tuesday 28.1 from 18-20 at Pixelache office in Suvilahti (Building 7, A-entrance, on the Kalasatama side). We have a special guest attending, Evelyn Müürsepp from MoKS (Southeast Estonia), who is the founder the Mooste Food Club, and currently our micro-resident at Pixelache.
Foodycle Festival #2 will take place in September again this year. You are mostly welcome to join our open Foodycle 14′ open planning meeting next Tuesday 28.1 from 6 to 8 pm at Pixelache office in Suvilahti (Building 7, A-entrance, on the kalasatama side). We have a special guest from Moks in Estonia attending the meeting, who is currently a micro-resident at Pixelache. Her name is Evelyn Müürsepp and she is the founder the Mooste Food Club - See more at: http://www.pixelache.ac/blog/2014/foodycle-14-open-planning-meeting-28-1-klo-18-20-00/#sthash.NcXpfIKj.dpu
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