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The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Workshop and Summit at The Banff Centre serves to bring together the many and disparate makers, producers, theorizers and promoters of physical objects that come to life under open and distributed models, and to facilitate the emerging dialogue on both artist-driven and socially conscious open source hardware.

The Workshop and Summit offer a unique opportunity to bring “down to earth” the normally virtual and on-line networks of open source hardware collaboration. Bringing together these cultural producers in one place for an extended period of collaboration, exchange and dialogue, GOSH! will place a critical focus on the possibilities for social transformation and the expansive cultural and artistic possibilities of open source hardware practice.

You can read more about the GOSH! events here, or else visit the Workshop and Summit schedules.

Pixelache 2009 continues in it’s 2nd day with exhibition openings, presentations, seminars and performances.

Images from the events are available in the gallery and on flickr.

pixelache 2009 av hacking container

Piksel sister festival and long time collaborator Pixelache are hosting their 2009 edition in Helsinki this weekend.

Piksel are following the activities which this year has no official theme but loosely gravitates around issues of alternative economies and environmental sustainability.

Pictured above is the audiovisual hacking container on exhibit outside the Kiasma centre. It features works resulting from the audiovisual hacking workshop featuring piksellites Koelse and Gijs Gieskes. Gijs will also do a club performance showing some of his latest instruments during the festival.