AFROPIXEL 2010 * VIYE DIBA* * *I cannot claim to know much more about Africa after spending just one week in the city of Dakar in Senegal, but even this short visit forced me to reconsider what I imagine the African identity to be today. It was a...

Coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a rogue industry that produces financial profit for the various factions of the on-going civil war. This issue has been discussed in artist/activist circles for some years already, but there...

Call for submissions deadline: 31st July 2010!The sixth edition of make art – in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art – will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 4th to the 7th of November 2010.make art is an international festival...

Deadline for applications: 31st July 2010!transmediale festival has initiated a new award in collaboration with Mozilla. The Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that:* are on the web and about the...

Yesterday, Finnish parliament granted the permission for building two more nuclear reactors, despite the fact that the currently on-going project to build the new Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant has overshot its budget and has been greatly delayed. In...

Bacarobo is a japanese competition for stupid robots initiated by Maywa Denki. Our friends in Budapest will arrange a European edition of this competition on 31 October 2010. Deadline for the open call is on 31 July!>> More information

For its fifth edition spread over 10 days, Mal au Pixel took over 5 galleries and various other spaces mostly located in the 11th arrondissement of North-East Paris. This year the festival continued exploring environmental issues, with a specific focus on...

These midsummer days an interdisciplinary and international group gathers in Kurzeme, Latvia, for the second part of Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme this year.Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE coordinates, hosts and builds upon their experience of...

Call for proposals deadline is 26 June!!!- - - -M.A.R.I.N. invites short proposals to attend Hacklab at the Sea, an informal workshop on an island in the Finnish archipelago combining tinkering and brainstorming of ideas. The workshop explores sensory...

(in English below)• MAL AU PIXEL 5 •Paris, du 20 au 27 juin 2010Depuis 2006, le festival Mal au Pixel explore la création numérique en développement (visuelle, sonore, spectaculaire…) et ses hybridations avec des pratiques connexes (game design,...

One more summercamp! This one is organised by our friends in Ghent, Belgium.Summercamp Electrified from 17th till 26th of June 2010From June 17 till 27 the second edition of Summercamp Electrified will take place in Ghent. Summercamp Electrified is a ten...

The weather looks ok for the picnic right now but a bit uncertain though. Let's keep our fingers crossed!If it starts raining we have an indoor plan B near by. Call this number if it's raining and you don't see us on the Kiasma lawn: 050 46 57 929 /...