OPEN CALL: CAMP PIXELACHE 2012

We are organising a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival
called 'Camp Pixelache' during on 11-13 May 2012, based on previous Camp
Pixelache experiments. The main venue for the event is Arbis, the
Swedish-language adult education centre located close to the Finnish
National Museum, in central Helsinki.

Camp Pixelache 2012 is designed around one main unconference day on
Saturday 12.5, with an overarching 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? Within
the Arbis venue there will also be demo stalls of various maker, open
design, trashlab and hacklab projects.

Several other events will be organised around this main
presentation/seminar day: On the Friday evening before confirmed keynote by
Vinay Gupta (Bucky-Ghandi Design Institute, IE/UK); Saturday night club
event at Dubrovnik organised by Kimmo Modig; Plus several workshops before
and after (including for example 'Hexayurt Sauna Talkoot' construction
work-party, and 'The Art of Gathering Environmental Data'
discussion-workshop); Lastly there will also be learner-in-residence
Melinda Sipos (Kitchen Budapest, HU) for a 1 week period around the
festival.

Although the Camp day of 12.5. will be organised around the main D.I.W.O.
theme, there are also several pre-determined sub-themes, listed below. Each
has a plenary presentation; of which the speaker will also be the
facilitator of other participants' contributions to the theme.

Static INFO: http://pixelache.ac/helsinki/camp-pixelache-2012

Dynamic info about 11-13.5. SCHEDULE: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-schedule

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KEYNOTE ON FRIDAY EVENING 11.5. 18.00-20.00

// Vinay Gupta, Bucky-Ghandi Design Institute, Cloghjordan/London:
http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/about | http://hexayurt.com/

One of the world's leading thinkers on infrastructure theory, state failure
solutions, and managing global system risks including poverty/development
and the environmental crisis. Gupta works at both the theoretical level,
building models and mapping tools like Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps
(used by US DOD) and at the completely practical level, where I am best
known as the designer of the hexayurt, an award-winning replacement for the
disaster relief tent which provides shelter at 20% the cost of a tent.

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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS FOR SATURDAY 12.5. 11.00-20.00

We are calling out for further short presentations (5-15mins) on the main
and sub-themes; as well as for demos to join the Open Design stalls:
http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open

MAIN THEME & SUBTHEMES

// Main theme: Do-It-With-Others (D.I.W.O.)
// Plenary speakers & facilitators: Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow,
Furtherfield, London: http://www.furtherfield.org/

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? This main
theme ranges across sustainable, low-carbon, renewable, and decentralised
use or production of 'do-it-together' energy; as well as alternative social
and bio- energy towards human sustenance in our cultural production models
or everyday actions, which considers necessary change holistically.

Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share?
Place your info into open plan for this theme:
http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-diwo


// Sub-theme 1: Suomenlinna Money Lab & Creative Neighbourhood Skills
// Plenary speaker & facilitator: Pedro Soler, LABoral, Gijon:
http://root.ps | http://www.plataformacero.cc/

How to do facilitation, organisational and participatory practices,
engaging in one’s own (or indeed another’s) neighbourhood, and explore
different economies involved. This sub-theme covers citizen, volunteer,
artistic and activist strategies as well as grassroots community
development from different examples locally and internationally. It also
covers presentations on alternative currency experiments and around the
future of money.

Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share?
Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme:
http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-neighbourhood


// Sub-theme 2: The Art of Gathering Environmental Data
// Plenary speaker & facilitator: Jennifer Gabrys, Goldsmiths University,
London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/staff/gabrys/

This sub-theme covers ecosystem theory, environmental monitoring, and
citizen/ participatory science, in the context of open data. How can we
support and develop the activities that are already going on in
institutions at a more grassroot level, 'producing reliable citizen science
data'. This sub-theme is designed in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart
Society.

Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share?
Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme:
http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-environment


// Sub-theme 3: Virtuality, Social Identity and Augmented Reality
// Plenary speaker & facilitator: Owen Kelly, Arcada University of Applied
Sciences, Helsinki: http://www.owenkelly.net/

How are aspects of everyday life and social identity affected by virtual
environments and social network platforms? This sub-theme creates space for
discussion on the practices, projects, and communities that constitute
digital identity and digital behaviour, as well as the interfaces between
public/private, personal/social, and real/virtual.

Do you want to propose a presentation? Comments or opinions to share?
Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme:
http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-virtuality


// Demo Stalls: Open Design, Crafts and Manufacturing
// Invited attendees: Kulturlabor Trial & Error, Berlin:
http://www.trial-error.org/

Do you want to propose a demo? Self-install your exhibit at a stall/table?
Place your info into open plan for this sub-theme:
http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-design

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DEADLINES

The call for presentations is open until the Camp day (12.5):

- Main theme (D.I.W.O.): http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-diwo
- Sub-theme 1: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-neighbourhood
- Sub-theme 2: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-environment
- Sub-theme 3: http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-virtuality

The call for demos is open until 27.4.2012:

http://tinyurl.com/pa12-camp-open-design

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TRAVEL SUPPORT & OTHER INQUIRIES

Pixelache will be able to offer some support to cover boat and road trips
from: Germany, Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus &
North-West Russia.
Please write sooner than later if you wish to confirm and benefit from this
scheme as there are limited funds.

For any inquiries, please contact office [-at-] pixelache.ac

http://www.pixelache.ac