I'm up for Helsinski on May 16 and 17, Rob

On 28 Nov 2012, at 20:02, Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???> wrote:

> Facing north / facing south sounds like something we've been positively doing in this list... how about organising a brico-hop in helsinki? I think I'll be that side of atlantic by then...
>
> efe
>
> On 08-11-2012 14:59, Vanessa Gocksch wrote:
>> /// Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival
>>
>> Pixelache Festival 2013 is entitled ‘Facing North – Facing South’ and
>> is organized as a dual-city event, both in Helsinki and Tallinn during
>> 16-19 May 2013. If every North as its South and every South its North,
>> this is an invitation to alternately face North and South from
>> multiple points of views.
>>
>> With this theme, Pixelache expands it’s on-going 'Signals from the
>> South' programme, that has focused on presenting media, art and
>> technology projects from Africa, South America and Asia since 2009. It
>> explores further the relationships between South and North, looking at
>> these notions from various perspectives, including geo-political,
>> cultural, economical, both on global, regional and local levels.
>>
>> From a regional point of view, organizing part of the festival in
>> Tallinn poses the question of what it means to bring these cultural
>> actions across the water. Indeed, not only geographically, but also
>> economically, Tallinn is still in the South of Helsinki. The term
>> 'Talsinki' has in the past often been used by Estonians "to imply that
>> the commercial centre of Tallinn has become the ‘Helsinkians’ living
>> room" (Wikipedia). On the other hand the biggest group of immigrants
>> to Finland is Estonians, especially construction workers. There is an
>> economical benefit from relocating South. Shall we and how, deal with
>> this dissimmetry as a festival? Can we build something meaningful
>> between both capitals, that would contribute realizing the
>> Talsinki/Hellina twin city ambition as envisioned by the think-tank
>> Demos Helsinki and the two cities themselves?
>>
>> From a global point of view, relations between commonly understood
>> North and South are even more complex and the problematics raised by
>> cooperation issues are multifaceted. Various non-western initiatives
>> have been encountered through the Pixelache Network during the past
>> years and also contributed to disseminating approaches strongly
>> relying on the potential of open source, D.I.W.O. and peer-learning
>> practices. In that context, both individuals and Pixelache Network
>> nodes have been exploring two-way exchanges and on-going processes. At
>> the time when many countries in Europe today are also starting to face
>> the same water, energy and food dependency crisis than in the South,
>> more than ever we should explore the ideas and initiatives emerging in
>> the South and imagine new ways to tackle together these common issues.
>>
>>
>> /// Call for Programme Planner
>>
>> We are looking for organisations, groups or individuals who would like
>> to organise a seminar and an exhibition for the 'Facing North – Facing
>> South' programme of Pixelache in Helsinki in 2013, with the hope that
>> the programme will bring interesting insights and points of views to
>> the question of North-South relationships.
>>
>> The selected organisation, group or individual will be given a
>> production budget and a fee for the realization of the 'Facing North –
>> Facing South' seminar and exhibition.
>>
>> Applications will be reviewed in early December by a committee
>> consisting of Marion Louisgrand (Kër Thiossane, Dakar, Senegal),
>> Raquel Renno (Catholic University of Sao Paolo, Brasil), Peter Kuria
>> Githinji (Shalin, Helsinki, Finland), Mathieu Marguerin (Mal au Pixel,
>> Paris, France), Vanessa Gocksch (Intermundos, Santa Marta, Colombia),
>> Reet Aus (Trash to Trend, Tallinn, Estonia). Facilitation and
>> production of the selected proposal will be carried out with support
>> of the Pixelache Helsinki office, beginning in mid-December 2012.
>>
>> Application deadline: 5.12.2012
>>
>>
>> MORE INFO & APPLICATION FORM
>> http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2013/
>>
>>
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