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Autor: Felipe Fonseca
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Temat: Re: [Bricolabs] Pixelache Helsinki 2013 / Call for programme planner
nice, let's meet discuss it @IRC this weekend?

On 29-11-2012 13:52, victoria sinclair wrote:
> i think i am up for it as well! either f2f or to connect
> somehow....feels like its been quite a while since connecting with the
> brico family as have been even more nomadic than before....finding many
> similarly minded-souls and groups looking for networked solutions...and
> 2012 has been very much a year for them to consolidate their path and
> prepare for the end of the world etc...and the sense is that they want
> to branch out again in 2013, stronger, more sustainable and
> increasingly established....so, to map who, what, where etc with these
> many projects - many in the global south...i think would be timely....
> vx
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> 2012/11/29 Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???
> <mailto:kranenbu@xs4all.nl>>
>
>     I'm up for Helsinski on May 16 and 17, Rob

>
>     On 28 Nov 2012, at 20:02, Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???
>     <mailto:felipefonseca@riseup.net>> 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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