All posts by John W. Fail:

Ambassador Report
I (Mikko Laajola) was invited to visit and explore Sicily by Egle Oddo, a sicilian artist currently residing in Helsinki, for further collaborations regarding Maaland and other related Pixelache topics. Egle is currently working on Nuppu-project, which is a...
Open calls / Recommended events
In a time when global food technology companies are trying to replace most of our natural choices with their own products, Nuppu is an art project to preserve local plant seeds inside a public artwork. You can participate in the project on multiple levels:...
Open calls / Uncategorized
Loyal to its calling to reveal, highlight and support the work of emerging artists in the digital art scene, Le Cube launched in 2013 the first edition of an international award for a digital artwork created by an artist under 36 years old, which tackles...
Pixelversity / Recommended events
Update: Sorry to say there is a delay again at Cape Canaveral.. New Zealand based artist-hacker Julian Priest's latest project is an orbital artwork called The Weight of Information, based on a pico-satellite was scheduled for launch via SpaceX on March...
News / Pixelversity
After a nomadic year 2013 of Trashlab repair workshops touring different studios and maker spaces in Helsinki, the activity in 2014 has now settled into Kaupunkiverstas, the city librarys maker space in Lasipalatsi. The maker space is a recent initative by...
#Trashlab
Open calls / Recommended events
The P2P Lab (Ioannina, NW Greece) proudly opens the doors of its new facility to potential collaborators, scholars, activists, geeks and friends. The open call for visiting scholars & collaborators has just been announced! The visiting scholars program...
Misc / Recommended events
Ars Lieke 2014 tarjoaa ensimmäistä kertaa koko Kymenlaaksossa suomalaisen elektronisen taiteen katselmuksen 8.2.–13.4.2014. Rollaattorirobotteja, muuntuvia kuva- ja äänimaisemia, sinkkunaisen partnerinhoukutus- ja karkotuspäähineitä - Ars Lieke tarjoaa...
Open calls / Recommended events
May 22–25, 2014, Nida, Lithuania Deadline for proposals February 15th, 2014 The Inter-format symposium is a main yearly Nida Art Colony event which is a merge between academic conference, art festival and cosy performative meeting of interdisciplinary...
News / Open calls / Pixelversity
We are inviting audiovisual media artists, designers and coders to participate in 3-day long Raspberry Pi + openFrameworks and Raspberry Pi + Pure Data workshops which will result in a collaborative audiovisual jam session. These Pixelversity supported...
#AV-Culture
Misc / Open calls
Our associates at Ptarmigan in Tallinn are seeking proposals for summer activities between the months of April and September 2014. In October, the space will be closing its doors after 3 1/2 years in Tallinn (and 5 since the collective started in Helsinki)...
News / Pixelache Festival
Pixelache Helsinki 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...
#CampPixelache2014
Pixelversity
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....
Photo Tagging Amok February 2014
#Infowork