- was the outreach & education programme of Pixelache Helsinki scene around the year (2010-2014)
PIXELVERSITY = PIXELACHE + DIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY
- on Pixelache-festivaalin toimintakenttää laajentava ympärivuotinen koulutusohjelma
- är Pixelache-festivalens året runt-aktiva, utåtriktade och uppsökande utbildningsverksamhet
- on Pixelache Helsinki raames kogu aasta vältel aset leidev teavitus- ja haridusprogramm
- это круглогодичная программа Pixelache в Хельсинки по образованию и распространению знаний
Pixelache Helsinki is a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism. Amongst our fields of interest are: experimental interaction and electronics; renewable energy production/use; bioarts and art-science culture; grassroot organising and networks; politics and economics of media/technology; alternative economy cultures; VJ culture and audiovisual performances; media literacy and engaging environmental issues.
Related pedagogy on the above topics aims to support the regional grassroots scene(s), and is based upon learning from experience and from peers: Learning by doing, and doing it together. The programme variably consists of presentations, workshops, camps, expeditions and other events: Some share and sustain ongoing local practice; others benefit from serendipity and specialists visiting Helsinki; or support activity that happens outside the usual locations, including the nearby regions.
Pixelversity aims to be a ‘learning bridge’ between practitioners, cultural and non-profit organisations, interested individuals and larger institutions, and an outreach programme extending beyond Helsinki. Consideration is given to the relationships between the different activities, and how they may build up accumulative knowledge and skills towards future Pixelache events. Click to read more.
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PAST ARCHIVE OF EVENTS 2013-2010
Links and much documentation of events can be found via this page: Pixelversity Programme 2013.
Download slides showing Pixelversity Overview 2011-2012 [16.2mb pdf]
(presented in Mal Au Pixel Festival in Paris, 28.10.2012) NB: Slideshow including 2013 images to be developed.
The 2011 programme was composed of proposals from artists, makers, organisers and researchers who are Pixelache association members, and invited guest contributors. The events also offered a meeting point for the local Pixelache scene outside the festival period, and an opportunity to check out partner activity in Kemiönsaari/Kimitoön, Tampere and Tallinn. Going further back, read more details about Pixelversity Programme 2010.
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CONTACT
The programme was coordinated and facilitated by local artist-organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson.
Information about programme was shared in English, but also, when possible, in other local languages.
andrew [-at-] pixelache .ac
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BACKGROUND
From the beginning, Pixelache Helsinki Festival has featured workshops and skill-sharing as a core part of its production. Since 2006, educational events have also taken place at other times outside the Festival week. In particular during 2008, a ‘Pixelache University’ theme informed that year’s festival activity and events which stretched over the year. Hence onwards, the ongoing programme took on the portmanteau name ‘Pixelversity’, with an inclusive and adaptive approach thoughout the year.
In 2009 there was an experimental ‘curated pedagogy’ event called PixelIST that took place in Istanbul as part of the Pixelache Network development, coordinated by Finnish curator Aura Seikkula and artist-organiser Andrew Gryf Paterson, in collaboration with the then artist-lecturer Ahmet Atif Akin, Visual Communications Department of Bilgi University, Turkey.
PEER PRODUCTION LICENSE
All text, digital materials and media shared from the context of Pixelversity are shared with the aims of the Peer Production License.
Molly Scott Catopresents and debates on the topic of Green Economics with a local audience of researchers and activists on Tuesday 23rd August from 1730-1930.
"The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalisation - all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic system. The globalised marketplace is the prevailing force in our lives, undermining the real important of our human communities and our planet.". This is the context and motivation in which Cato presents her vision of Green Economics. She...
This unconference event during the summer, from 28-31st July, was a meeting of local, regional or international practitioners and organisers in the Estonian countryside (35km from Tallinn), to address the pressing topic of art & energy sustainability in cultural production.
In the art, festival and theatre worlds in general, the environmental impact and energy use of various technologies is rarely talked about. Although many artists do address environmental themes in their work, there is very little discussion about the environmental effects of the process itself. Theatre performance...
This expedition/workshop led by artistOtto Karvonenand artist-curatorJon Irigoyen, focused on Kallio, a neighbourhood that is undergoing a process of change, from a traditional working class neighbourhood into a new centre of creative culture. The Helsinki city urban development plan for the areas of Sörnäistenranta and Hermanninranta is the starting point for the process.
The expedition/workshop explored the positive and negative effects of this change and how they are visible in the everyday reality. The expedition/workshop language was in English.
Documentation and ongoing discussion can...
Following on from April's Kuebiko seminar, the next Pixelversity event brought together two of Southern Finland's collectives which experiment with electronics and new approaches to physical technology and hardware, namelyAssociation of Experimental Electronics(Koelse)andKodinkonemusiikin ystävät(Kokomys).
While theArtist in the Archipalego Networkorganised a workshop weekend for selected artists to make their own Kuebiko (see description below), Koelse & Kokomys joined together on their own agenda, set by their own projects. They created a temporary outdoor electronics lab, exploring...
As part of this year'sKuebiko2011 programme, organised byArtists in the Archipalego, a seminar titled 'Kuebiko- linnunpelättimiä ja muita suojelijoita' (Scarecrows & other ways of care-taking) will take place on the 9th of April, that brings together rural cultural heritage, participatory actions & bio-ecosystem awareness with self-organised art practices.
Kuebiko refers to the scarecrow and weather vane (suomeksi: linnunpelätin ja tuuliviiri) builtlast yearby Artists in the Archipalego collective. They borrowed its name from Japanese Shinto culture and it stands for a spirit of...
Edward Shankenlectures on hiscurrent research, which attempts to bridge the gap between the discourses of mainstream contemporary art and new media art.
On this subject, Shanken organised a panel discussion at Art Basel 2010 with Nicolas Bourriaud, Peter Weibel and Michael Grey, gave a conference paper at ISEA2010 Dortmund, and chaired a panel discussion at the 2011 Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America in New York. This topic has been a hot topic of debate on listserves but is only now beginning to attract substantial scholarly attention, as in Graham and Cook's...
Welcome to Pixelversity Open Circle discussion event during Pixelache Festival 2011!
Pixelversityaims to be a ‘learning bridge’ between practitioners, cultural and non-profit organisations, interested individuals and larger institutions, and an outreach programme extending beyond Helsinki. As a ‘curated pedagogy’ consideration is given to the relationships between the different activities, and how they may build up accumulative knowledge and skills towards the next year’s Pixelache Helsinki Festival.
What role do festivals and cultural organisations have in education? How can organised...