OPEN CALL: CAMP PIXELACHE 2012 We are organising a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called 'Camp Pixelache' during on 11-13 May 2012, based on previous Camp Pixelache experiments. The main venue for the event is Arbis, the Swedish-language adult education centre located close to the Finnish National Museum, in central Helsinki. Camp Pixelache 2012 is designed around one main unconference day on Saturday 12.5, with an overarching theme of 'Do It With Others' (D.I.W.O.). How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as the core goal? Within the Arbis venue there will also be demo stalls of various maker, open design, trashlab and hacklab projects. Several other events will be organised around this main presentation/seminar day: On the Friday evening before confirmed keynote by Vinay Gupta (Bucky-Ghandi Design Institute, IE/UK); Saturday night club event at Dubrovnik organised by Kimmo Modig; Plus several workshops before and after (including for example 'Hexayurt Sauna Talkoot' construction work-party, and 'The Art of Gathering Environmental Data' discussion-workshop); Lastly there will also be learner-in-residence Melinda Sipos (Kitchen Budapest, HU) for a 1 week period around the festival. Although the Camp day of 12.5. will be organised around the main D.I.W.O. theme, there are also several pre-determined sub-themes, listed below. Each has a plenary presentation; of which the speaker will also be the facilitator of other participants' contributions to the theme. Static INFO: http://pixelache.ac/helsinki/camp-pixelache-2012 Dynamic info about 11-13.5. SCHEDULE: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-schedule . KEYNOTE ON FRIDAY EVENING 11.5. 18.00-20.00 // Vinay Gupta, Bucky-Ghandi Design Institute, Cloghjordan/London: http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/about | http://hexayurt.com/ One of the world's leading thinkers on infrastructure theory, state failure solutions, and managing global system risks including poverty/development and the environmental crisis. Gupta works at both the theoretical level, building models and mapping tools like Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps (used by US DOD) and at the completely practical level, where I am best known as the designer of the hexayurt, an award-winning replacement for the disaster relief tent which provides shelter at 20% the cost of a tent. . CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS FOR SATURDAY 12.5. 11.00-20.00 We are calling out for further short presentations (5-15mins) on the main and sub-themes; as well as for demos to join the Open Design stalls: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open MAIN THEME & SUBTHEMES // Main theme: Do-It-With-Others (D.I.W.O.) // Plenary speakers & facilitators: Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield, London: http://www.furtherfield.org/ How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as the core goal? This main theme ranges across sustainable, low-carbon, renewable, and decentralised use or production of 'do-it-together' energy; as well as alternative social and bio- energy towards human sustenance in our cultural production models or everyday actions, which considers necessary change holistically. Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share? Place your info into open plan for this theme: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-diwo // Sub-theme 1: Suomenlinna Money Lab & Creative Neighbourhood Skills // Plenary speaker & facilitator: Pedro Soler, LABoral, Gijon: http://root.ps | http://www.plataformacero.cc/ How to do facilitation, organisational and participatory practices, engaging in one’s own (or indeed another’s) neighbourhood, and explore different economies involved. This sub-theme covers citizen, volunteer, artistic and activist strategies as well as grassroots community development from different examples locally and internationally. It also covers presentations on alternative currency experiments and around the future of money. Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share? Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-neighbourhood // Sub-theme 2: The Art of Gathering Environmental Data // Plenary speaker & facilitator: Jennifer Gabrys, Goldsmiths University, London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/staff/gabrys/ This sub-theme covers ecosystem theory, environmental monitoring, and citizen/ participatory science, in the context of open data. How can we support and develop the activities that are already going on in institutions at a more grassroot level, 'producing reliable citizen science data'. This sub-theme is designed in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society. Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share? Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-environment // Sub-theme 3: Virtuality, Social Identity and Augmented Reality // Plenary speaker & facilitator: Owen Kelly, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki: http://www.owenkelly.net/ How are aspects of everyday life and social identity affected by virtual environments and social network platforms? This sub-theme creates space for discussion on the practices, projects, and communities that constitute digital identity and digital behaviour, as well as the interfaces between public/private, personal/social, and real/virtual. Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share? Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-virtuality // Demo Stalls: Open Design, Crafts and Manufacturing // Invited attendees: Kulturlabor Trial & Error, Berlin: http://www.trial-error.org/ Do you want to propose a demo? Self-install your exhibit at a stall/table? Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-design . DEADLINES The call for presentations is open until the Camp day (12.5): - Main theme (D.I.W.O.): http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-diwo - Sub-theme 1: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-neighbourhood - Sub-theme 2: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-environment - Sub-theme 3: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-virtuality The call for demos is open until 27.4.2012: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-design . TRAVEL SUPPORT & OTHER INQUIRIES Pixelache will be able to offer some support to cover boat and road trips from: Germany, Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus & North-West Russia. Please write sooner than later if you wish to confirm and benefit from this scheme as there are limited funds. For any inquiries, please contact office [-at-] pixelache.ac http://www.pixelache.ac