Planet Piksel

We’ve been with the curator for the Argentinian Pavilion, Rodrigo Alonso, commenting on this monumental site-specific work from artist Adrián Villar Rojas for “La Biennale” 2011.

Camera: Ulli Armbrüster

Interview: Karina Fernández

Edition: Karina Fernandez

 

Geoff Robinson is presenting 2 projects and a sound performance next week 3-5 February on Suomenlinna. His work is based on  research and documentation of Suomenlinna during his HIAP residency  November 2011 -February 2012.

Below is information on the projects, feel free to email or phone me if you have any questions or need further directions for finding the works on the island. Attached are the location details and a map. I recommend for the Friday night sound performance at Gallery Augusta catching the 6pm Suomenlinna ferry from Market Square.

Suomenlinna Sound/Duration Map
by Geoff Robinson

3-5 February 2012, Suomenlinna, Helsinki.

Location 1- Rantavarustus (the shore work), Kustaanmiekka, Suomenlinna. Outdoor installation viewing during daylight hours, 3-5 February 2012.

Location 2 – Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna.  Installation viewing 1-4 pm, 3-5 February. Sound performance Friday 3 February 6.30 pm.

HIAP Suomenlinna artist-in-residence, Geoff Robinson (b. 1973) from Australia, will present two mapping installation works on Suomenlinna based on sound and sunlight documentation on the island.

Robinson has documented the movement of the sun at Rantavarustus (the shore work) between November 2011 and February 2012.  The movement of the sunlight, cast through a fortress window on to the landscape, will be marked and a spatial diagram will be constructed on site.

During the residency Robinson has collected sounds on the island, at Gallery Augusta he will create a mapped diagram of the sound recording locations and perform the recorded sounds on Friday 3 February 6.30 pm.

For further information contact:

E-mail: geoff.robinson73@gmail.com
Mobile: 0403 238 390

The Analog Hard Disc is a synth a i made for the PP77 exhibition.

The Pixelversity cluster theme ‘Virtuality, Social Identity & Augmented Reality’ begins its activity on Thursday 26.1. (today!) with the first stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour. A ‘grand tour’ was, in the tradition of classical learning, a travel around cultural landmarks. In this theme we revive the practice online.

Each stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour (VGT) explores different online platform(s) and tools, and is hosted by a particular persons. Pixelversity facilitator Andrew Paterson starts with exploring some online organisational tools, including Twitvisio (Twitter video-hangout), Doodle (event/poll scheduler) and Etherpad (collaborative writing). The event begins at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT by signing in with a Twitter account to Twitvisio #pixelversity channel.

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How do you experience space? Kaiku-gallery at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts turns into a process-space during the final weeks of January. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to modify and change the space according to their own tastes with materials available at the gallery. The process does not have a defined objective, neither does the outcome need to be called a work of art. The aim is to investigate organic spontaneous ways of expression and different ways to approach space. Signification, meaning and sense will be constructed as the space transforms. This will be achieved through presence in the space, via participation and as a result of how we think about the space.

The space and the process is open for all visitors. Over a period of ten days the process of the space will be documented with a time-lapse video, which will be viewable as a collage of the process at Kaiku-gallery during 28.-29.1.2012.

Workshops as part of Space is the Place will be organized for students of the Fine Art Academy in the process-space. A series of public lectures will be held in the auditorium 25.-26.1. The lectures will, among other themes, address various aspects in connection to spatial experience.

The lecture programme:

Wednesday 25/01, 17:15–17:45 – Kaiku Galleria

Pre-lecture artist presentation about “How ta tawk & dans rite” by Rhys Turner, Anna Rouhu & Guadalupe López

Wednesday 25/01, 18–21 – Auditorium – discussion facilitator Sari Kivinen

Eero Yli-Vakkuri & Oksasenkatu11 representatives – “Presenting views about artists as organisers, a few perspectives specific to Helsinki and Tampere”, 19:45–20:45 (in English)

Thursday 26/01, 18–21 – Auditorium – discussion facilitator Christine Langinauer

Christine Langinauer – “Taiteen uudet tilat”/”New spaces of art”, 18:00–18:40 (in Finnish)

Harri Hämäläinen (Helsinki Hacklab) – “Yhteisölliset työpajat”/”Communal workshops”, 18:40–19:20 (in Finnish)

Anna Pakarinen & Liisa Jokinen (Riemu) – “Riemu-projekti & taidebloggaus”/“Riemu project & art blogging”, 19:40–20:20 (in Finnish)

Toni Ledentsa & John W. Fail – “Strengthening autonomous culture”, 20:20–21:00 (in English)

4 lecture evenings, 9 international speakers discussing the future of the human! Mondays 5-7pm at Aalto Media factory, Arabia. Starting on the 23rd of January and continuing on the subsequent 3 mondays.

Body enhancement, body modification, prosthetics, wearable and embedded technologies, mind uploading, memory-upgrades, biotechnologies and other nano-scale technologies are keywords in contemporary societys answers to the demands projected onto the human body. What is the future human like?

It is evident that our perception and attitudes toward the body are changing. This is visible in the general acceptance of ever more radical modifications and enhancements in the functions and appearance of the body, many of which are evidenced e.g. in media, in art & design, and in theoretical articulations concerning the future of the human species. Design for a future human has become an emerging area (in the art & design), which is tightly related to advancements in science and technology. This area is not only researching future potentialities of humans, including the development and design of a human body; it also addresses important ethical issues concerning such development. The lecture series asks what is, or could be, the role of an artist and a designer in this field?

There is no better way to use the winter monday evenings than discussing the future of the human. The 4 lecture-evenings offer 9 unique perspectives in investigating the human and the biological body as the material and subject of art, design, science and technology.

23.1.2012  Andy Miah, Laura Beloff, commentator: Sam Inkinen
30.1.2012  Natasha Vita-More, J. Auger & J. Loizeau, commentator: TBA
6.2.2012  Fiona Raby, Sissel Tolaas, commentator: TBA
13.2.2012  Riitta Hari, Stelarc, commentator: Marita Liulia
Moderated by Laura Beloff and the visiting commentators.

http://humandesign.mlog.taik.fi/

Please register your attendance; there is a limited amount of places: http://www.doodle.com/izbx38h3af4ex8n9

The lecture series is curated, organized and produced by Laura Beloff. It is a collaboration between Department of Design / Textile, Department of Art and Aalto Media Factory. Contact: laura.beloff[x]aalto.fi

I’m showing a new piece Bit Shifter and a reworking and scaled down version of Kosmos at the Contemporary Gallery at the Center for Art & Theatre at Georgia Southern University. The show also features the work of Roger Chamieh and Nathan Ethier. Runs from January 17th through February 26th. Reception and talks by Roger [...]

LiVES 1.6.0 has been released.

This spring, 11-12 May,  we make a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called ‘Camp Pixelache’, at Arbis adult education centre, with the the 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? Other sub-themes are ’Creative Neighbourhood Skills’, ’The Art of Gathering Environmental Data’ also ‘Virtuality/Social Identity’. We are CALLING OUT proposals for presentations as well as demos for Open Design, Crafts & Manufacturing.

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