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Pixelache Festival 2016: ‘Interfaces for Empathy’

Stacco Troncoso — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:28:07 +0000

Originally published at Pixelache.ac:

Pixelache Festival 2016 will happen again in September. The festival, named ‘Interfaces for Empathy’ explores possibilities of the societal shift towards the understanding and consciousness of human species as a balanced part of the ecosystem we live at.

The profound technological changes are increasingly challenging the classical conception of perception and on the individual level the increase of information mostly tends to promote new modes of consumption. These changes in our perceptual processes push us further away from the embodied experience and alter our direct experience of the environment.

The perspective that the festival seeks is empathy. We set out to engage with the question and proposal that maybe empathy could be learned, found or especially re-found through eg. bodily presence, experimental communication and embodied and alternate visions of perception that distance us from the perceptual machines that we might be in danger of becoming. Is it possible, through this very basic ability to sense or identify, to change the narrative of the human-kind?

Pixelache Festival 2016 main venue is Lapinlahti former hospital with Lapinlahden Lähde as a partner. Other venues are Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and MUU Gallery. Other locations and paths will be confirmed later the year. The festival dates are 22.9. – 25.9.2016.

Please read more about the history of Pixelache Festival from here: http://www.pixelache.ac/festivals

‘Interfaces for Empathy’ 22.-25.9.

07 March 2016, Petri Ruikka

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Podcast of the Day: Remixing the Commons

Stacco Troncoso — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:48:43 +0000

Originally published on Commons.fi, here’s a conversation with Alain Ambrosi, from Remix the Commons.

From the shownotes to the Podcast:

Alain Ambrosi from Remix the commons collective discussing in Finnish autonomous radio program Totuusradio (“The Truth Radio”) on Monday, 9th June 2014, about the commons, cultural revolution, and revolution in culture.

The broadcast starts at 10 p.m. (UCT+2) in the evening and it is streamed online in internet inhttp://moreeni.uta.fi/Internetlahetys.

Ambrosi is a designer and producer of intercultural projects, independant researcher, author and videographer. He is presently producer of the Remix the commons and associate researcher at Communautique.

Ambrosi arrives to Totuusradio straight from Pixelache Festival held in Helsinki during the weekend, and the latest news will be discussed.

Totuusradio is a Tampere based media project that is produced by an autonomous Totuusradio collective.

The music for the evening introduced by Dj Dirty Andy!

Plug in on Monday, 9th June at 10 p.m. (UCT+2) in http://moreeni.uta.fi/Internetlahetys.

Pixelache Helsinki 2014

David Bollier — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:06:13 +0000

It’s probably too late for most of us to attend, but this Friday through Sunday, June 6-8,Pixelache Helsinki 2014 will host an international two-day trans-disciplinary event on “The Commons.”

Apart from keynote lectures planned in advance, the agenda of activities of activities at Camp Pixelache – especially the participatory workshops – will be an “unconference” — i.e., determined by the attendees themselves at the beginning of the event. Attendance is free of charge.

The event will be held on Vartiosaari, a nature island surrounded by eastern suburbs of Helsinki. The organizers note that the island “is currently under-threat of full-scale residential development by Helsinki City Planning Department, and there is a grassroots campaign to protect its 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.”

First of all, I love the logo for Camp Pixcelache (see below). Striking!

Pixelache organizers have suggested a few sub-themes for the event:

Open-Sourcing Festivals. How does an organization open-source their cultural festival? Can we share the process for organizing a festival, so that other groups can use it themselves? How do organizations support activities and events throughout the year? Can we share the process for sustaining ongoing programs, so that other groups can do this too? (The theme is raised in the context of the EU Grundtvig [lifelong learning) project, “Open Learning Steps & Open-sourcing Festivals.”

The Bio-Commons as a theme to explore how universal access and protection of “natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth” is jeopardized. This sub-theme, pursued in collaboration with Finnish Society of Bioart, will explore the biohacking scene as well as the DIY Biology movement, and how both are trying to keep biology and biotechnology in the commons.

Helsinki-Commons will explore the idea of commons and urban space and organizational design, in collaboration with the Aalto co-p2p SIG, Open cities working group (Open Knowledge Foundation Finland) and Pixelache.

I encourage anyone who attends this weekend to check in with a report on Pixelache.

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