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 Workshop Open for public: Saturday, 31 March 2007 Public / Live / Online event MUU gallery & Media Base, Lönnrotinkatu 33 Presented by John Hopkins http://neoscenes.net/teach/pixel/event.html The public event both in MUU gallery and on the internet! |
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Participants were chosen from a selection of international applicants with a wide spectrum of cross-disciplinary energies. Alex Berry (Colorado, USA) Christiaan Cruz (California, USA) http://spielerstadt.blogspot.com Mats Eriksson (Helsinki, Finland) Michael Glen (Melbourne, Australia) Sabrina Harri (Helsinki, Finland) http://www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi Gun Holmström (Helsinki, Finland) http://www.gnuh.net Tomi Humalisto (Helsinki, Finland) Sirpa Jokinen (Helsinki, Finland) http://www.artists.fi Petri Kaverma (Helsinki, Finland) http://www.kaverma.fi Mari Keski-Korsu (Helsinki, Finland) http://www.artsufartsu.net Eija Mäkivuoti (Helsinki, Finland) http://www.eijamakivuoti.net Andrew Paterson (Helsinki, Finland) http://mlab.uiah.fi/~apaterso Riikkaliina Turkki (Helsinki, Finland) along with numerous remote global nodes. |
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two week workshop deals with conceptual and practical issues around
creative engagement. Exploring collaboration within the space of networks,
it brings participants to a new state of awareness, resulting in the
hands-on production of a live, online streaming-media public event with
global participation.
The final day of the workshop will be a multi-channel, multi-screen collaborative happening with live/local and online/remote global performance components -- a coming-together in a relaxed and experimental atmosphere on Saturday March 31 at MUU gallery, free of charge. John Hopkins is a techno-nomadic-networker-artist-educator who divides his time exhibiting, working, and teaching in Europe and the United States. As a network-facilitator, Hopkins practices a nomadic form of performative art bringing a background in engineering, hard science, and the arts to his workshops. He was recently artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy's Center for Music and Technology in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop is a collaboration between: Artists' Association MUU, neoscenes. and Pixelache 2007. MUU is an artist run, interdisciplinary artist association. The main function of MUU is to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art i.e. media art, performance, video, environmental, spatial and conceptual art, sound and any other experimental modes of cultural production. www.muu.fi Neoscenes is a pseudonym, brand, art-name, label, Hopkins has been using since 1983, it provides an idiosyncratic surfing haven for gigabits of nomadic visual, textual, and sonic data. http://neoscenes.net Pixelache is a festival for electronic art and subcultures, which acts as a bridge between the traditional creative disciplines and rapidly developing electronic subcultures. www.pixelache.ac Pixelache 2007 festival takes place in Helsinki 29.3. -1.4. |
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maximum of 15 participants will be chosen from applicants with the idea
to bring together a wide spectrum of cross-disciplinary energies.
Workshop Date: March 21-23 & 26-30 Open for public: Live / Online event March 31 Location: MUU gallery & Media Base, Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki Daily hours: 10.30 to 16.30 Language: English The workshop is free of charge. Those interested will need to send their Name, location and email, along with reason for interest in workshop with a brief background (studies, creative work, and activities) to neopixel@pixelache.ac DEADLINE for Applications 5 March 2007. For Detailed information, participant profile visit the webpage: http://www.neoscenes.net/teach/pixel/index.php This workshop is a collaboration between: Artists' Association MUU, pixelache 2007 and neoscenes. |
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