Pixelache Festival 2002

I am running a LAB in beijing and the eARTS festival in shanghai

running the foraguing network stuff - we did an event in Ptarmigan. Now we do stuff at Pixelache too!!!

Michael Smyth is a Reader in the Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has worked in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design since 1987 and during that period has published over 50 academic papers in refereed journals, books and conferences. In addition he has had interactive installations exhibited at both UK and international conferences and arts & design festivals. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book entitled Digital Blur: creative practice at the boundaries of architecture, design and art.

Please send my an e mail the official letter of invitation with your signatures scanned. Please include name of my wife,Mrs. Purnima Pal in youtr letter. This will certainly help us to get the entry permit. Thanks for your courtesy and cooperation.

Designer in branding and graphic design.

Looking for partners to Participatory Baltic Sea Network and Event “Inter-format” (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Am presenting piece on Saturday

research supervisor

I am a researcher at Kitchen Budapest, and I am in charge for the project called Poem Bean.

Taiteen uusiin medioihin ja digitaalisen taiteen edistämiseen keskittyvä Espoon Taide- ja Tietotekniikkakeskus Cartes esittää ja tuottaa ääni- ja kuvamaisemia sekä niihin liittyviä interaktiivisia elementtejä kutsuen kaikenikäistä yleisöä näkemään ja kokemaan. Espoon kaupunki, Sibelius- Akatemia ja Teknillinen korkeakoulu perustivat Cartesia ylläpitävän säätiön vuonna 1989.

Currently attending the C:Art:Media Master Program, of the Valand School of Fine Arts and IT University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Graduate student of the Fine Arts and Art Sciences department of the University of Ioannina. Interested in photography, video, installations, electronics and new media in general.

C:Art:Media 2nd year master student.

Curator of 176 Zabludowicz Collection, a contemporary art collection and non-commerical exhibition space currently based in London, UK.

sound artist; member of collective Resonator Helsinki, the group behind the soundscapes of Finland\'s Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010.

Paul Scerri works in robotic and multirobot systems, primarily for disaster response.

Project FocusPocus participant.

born 1981 / Germany, BA in cultural/social/gender studies, currently 1st year Masterprogramme C:ART:MEDIA at Valand, Göteborg / Sweden. Frequent collector and user of typewriters, stories, answering machines and noisy toy keyboards.

Member of katastro.fi, ran lento.katastro.fi-campaign. Works as new media professional and teacher. Spoke with Juha Huuskonen about possibility of participating Pixelache this year...

I will take part in in the Self-sustainable Party Container.

Architect (M.Arch), City Planner (M.C.P. and Ph.D.), Construction and Project Management, Community Organizer, Art Connoisseur. CCo-Founder and C.E.O. of Armenian CEnter for Contemporary Experimental Art ACCEA (Npak in Armenain acronym, in Yerevan, Armenia).

Vladimir Todorovic is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at NTU, Singapore. He co-founded the art collective - SYNTFARM based in Singapore and the Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies \'NAPON\' in Novi Sad, Serbia. His work explores synthetic languages that can express various phenomena from nature. His projects were exhibited at events including: Rencontres Internationales 09, ICA Singapore, ISEA09, ISEA08, Enter3, Wired NextFest, Dislocate07, ISEA06, Siggraph 06, Transmediale 05, File 2004, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Machinista, Entermutlimediale 2, WRO 05, Museum of Contemporary Arts Belgrade, etc; and reviewed at: Wired, New Scientist, Gamasutra, Futures-labs, Neural.it, Selectparks.net, Turbulence, Artmagazine, Remont, Danas, etc. Recently, he served as the chair of Ludic Interfaces theme at ISEA08.

born Buenos Aires, 1978. He studied with Mónica Girón and Miguel Harte in Buenos Aires and was a visiting student in Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki. He holds a bachelor degree in Art History from Universidad de Buenos Aires. He took part in the Le Pavillon program at Palais de Tokyo in 2008/9. He showed individually in Galería Dabbah Torrejón, Buenos Aires in 2006 ( Los Proyectos Medley Taller Boceto), in MAA-TILA, Helsinki in 2007 (Camera), in the Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki) at the Galerie Xippas (Paris) and at the Salon Light/SP (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo) in 2009 (Opening). He took part in the following group shows (selection): Territorios Ocupados (Fundación Telefónica , 2004), Urban Pedestals (Copenhagen, 2007), Todella Siistiä (Rauma Taidemuseo, 2008), Le Plan Méthodique de F. le Play (Palais de Tokyo, 2009). In 2005 he was awarded the first prize in arteBA-Petrobras Visual Arts Prize. He is currently a fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University. He lives and works in Helsinki.

Garth Zeglin is an artist and roboticist living in Pittsburgh, PA in the USA. His robotics research centers on minimalist robot mechanisms which utilize natural dynamics for walking, hopping, or compliant manipulation. His personal art practice is focussed on kinetic fabric sculpture incorporating sensors and digital control to create portable contemplative installations. For the collaboration to be presented at Pixelache he has brought together both sides of his career to turn his research work into kinetic sculpture.

Juergen Neumann started working with information technology in 1984, and since then has been looking for ways to deploy ICT in useful ways for organizations and society. As a consultant for ICT strategy and implementation, he has worked for major German and international companies, as well as on many non-profit projects. Besides his professional engagement, in 2002 he co-founded http://www.freifunk.net, a non-profit campaign to spread knowledge and social networking about "free and open wireless networks” — a campaign globally regarded as one of the most successful grassroots community projects in this field. Then, frustrated from reflashing hundreds of wireless access points over the past years, in 2007 Neumann initiated the Open Hardware Initiative — an alliance of activists lobbying for open source hardware at the sidelines of both eastern and western hardware industries. In 2008, he co-organized the first Open Technology Summit in Taiwan. Besides his job as CEO of a private consultancy company, his recent activities include digging deeper into the possibilities of manufacturing open source(d) chip designs and lobbying for new and more open licensing models for the radio spectrum.

Sue Ann Hong is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current research work involves solving planning problems under uncertainty using machine learning algorithms. Prior to graduate school, she received her B.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2005.

Dave was raised on an early education in weaving, bell ringing and 8bit computers, and is now dedicated to changing the world with free software, live animation and noise. He works as a self employed artist/programmer, mainly working with the FoAM art laboratory and performs as part of slub - a livecoding band. He creates installations, open source software and teaches workshops around the themes of games, music and the lisp programming language. Past work includes computer graphics for games, feature film special effects and machine vision research for Sony\'s EyeToy group.

Dave was raised on an early education in weaving, bell ringing and 8bit computers, and is now dedicated to changing the world with free software, live animation and noise. He works as a self employed artist/programmer, mainly working with the FoAM art laboratory and performs as part of slub - a livecoding band. He creates installations, open source software and teaches workshops around the themes of games, music and the lisp programming language. Past work includes computer graphics for games, feature film special effects and machine vision research for Sony\'s EyeToy group.

Marek Michalowski is a roboticist who develops socially interactive robotic characters for entertainment, therapy, and research. His research with the robot Keepon focuses on rhythmic and nonverbal interaction. Michalowski holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and B.A. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Psychology from Yale University. He has held visiting researcher positions at institutions in Japan (ATR, NICT), Korea (KAIST), and France (CNRS).

Mikko Laajola is an artist-gardener and maker based in Turku and Helsinki. In the last years he has been organising electronic workshops within the collective KoKoMYs, and is a member of Piknik Frequency ry (organisers of Pixelache Festival). He interested in open-source practices and exploring open-hardware technologies. In the previous year, Laajola has been actively working with current lo-tech gardening systems, including hydroponics, and hacking household appliances to create more sustainable solutions. He is working towards social change and the development of self-organised education.

Céline Coutrix was born in 1982 in Rouen, France. Her professional orientation is shaped by the need to work in both art and science. In 2004, she spent several months at the Media Lab Europe - the european research partner of MIT Media Lab - in Dublin as part of the Human Connectedness research group: she worked on the art piece \\"Passages\\" with the artist Joëlle Bitton. She graduated in 2005 with highest honors from ENSIMAG, a top French educational institution in computer science. At ENSAD, a top French art school in Paris, she has been taking part to the research and creation program (EnsadLab) as an art student. She also defended in may 2009 her PhD in computer science at the University of Grenoble in France, in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Engineering research group of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG). Now, she lives in Helsinki and works at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology as a post-doc researcher and still contributes to EnsadLab, the research and creation program at ENSAD. Her current research in HCI is in the design and prototyping of interactive systems merging physical and digital worlds. She is the author of the Mixed Interaction Model and the OP toolkit. She has already developed a dozen of systems. She thus concurrently focuses on her scientific and her artistic goals.

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=504452 David Muth is a London based artist, musician and programmer. Having grown up in Salzburg, Austria, he relocated to the UK to study at Middlesex University, where he received an MA in Digital Arts. His artistic practice combines conceptual and experimental approaches and is informed by his background in architecture. His projects range from installations and responsive environments, through video and experimental documentary, to composition and performance of music. David’s work has been shown on numerous occasions internationally, with venues and events including the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal, the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Ars Electronica in Linz, ISEA2006 in San Jose, Le Cube in Paris, Montevideo in Amsterdam, Laboral in Gijón and SIGGRAPH2009 in New Orleans. He also teaches at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art.

Christina Stadlbauer is an artist and chemist from Austria. She is especially interested in the complexity of nature-processes and health. Obtained a phD in Natural Sciences, and has been practicing and teaching Shiatsu (Japanese Acu-Massage). Currently occupied with urban environments, their transformation and potential. Works with honeybees, primarily in the city and with water in a context of health and healing. She is currently active in Brussels, occasionally in Austria. Within the context of the Herbologies and Foraging Networks seminar, we would like to invite her to present her project “The Bee Observatory”, and bring in the perspective of honey foraging in urban environments

Maia Gusberti.born in Bern, Switzerland 1971. Currently lives and works in Berne, Cairo, Vienna. 1993 graphic design diploma - school for applied Arts, Biel (CH) 2000 founding member of re-p.org 2002 MA media arts, Univ. for applied Arts, Vienna 2003-09 independent designer and artist

Martin John Callanan is an artist and researcher exploring notions of citizenship within the globally connected world. Concerns include information, data, and knowledge. Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous mediums and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work has included translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years.

Ben Brown is a Project Scientist in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University with over 25 years of experience in the robotics field. He is interested in the analysis and design of robots and electro-mechanical systems, and specializes in the development of high-performance structures and devices, dynamically stabilized robots in particular. He has worked on a wide variety of robotics projects, including wheeled, tracked and legged vehicles, as well as snake-like devices, for space and terrestrial applications. Mr. Brown has three patents and has authored or coauthored approximately 50 conference and journal papers, mainly in the field of mobile robotics.

Marko Alastalo (performance artist, music theorist) - conceptual idea, programming, music Marko Ahokangas (sound designer) - sound design, music Jenni Kääriäinen (light designer) - light design, visuals Maija Mustonen (performance artist, dancer) - body interactions Lauri Nurminen (psychologist, neuroscientist) - system expert, programming Miika Pihlaja (mathematician) - system expert, programming, website programming and maintenance Timo Säämänen (psychologist) - system expert, programming, website design

Please see in attached files for project proposal.

2009 Created project Mesa Juliana in Lima, Peru. Create project Creativity Point at the Divu*Ciencia conference in Barcelona Created project Sound Walk for Sonar Festival in Barcelona Created BOB AI for surveillance Robots 2008 Instructor for workshop Interactivos in Mexico DF. Created installation Luna Tímida for the exhibition Las Noches de Luna Llena in Segovia, Spain. 2007-2008 Research Scholarship awarded by the National research center of Brazil to develop the X-Motion system. Exhibited at Siggraph 2008. 2007 Created project Fluctuaciones at MediaLab Madrid Created interactive multimedia installation Cymatics. Created an installations for the Coordenadas y Apariciones exhibition by Brazilian artist José Damascena, exhibited on the façade of the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid. 2006 Awarded scholarship by AVAM to develop Zapatos Sonoros a pair of shoes equipped with sensors and speakers. 2003-2005 Software engineering: First year in the course on engineering systems at UNED university in Madrid. 2002-2003 Course on installations at Parque Lage, taught by Iole de Freitas at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro. 1991-1998 5-year degree in Applied Physics, with a specialization in Electronics, Microelectronics and Semiconductors at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Further samples of his work and projects can be found at www.juliolucio.com

Brandy Alexander project are Bassik, audio producer and Pz: live video editing and mixing. They are an audio video collective based in London. The live performance aims to be an audio visual interpretation of the continuous transformation of sound and visual landscapes that can be seen around Europe. The collective participates in many international festivals, amongst them: Le Placard (Headphone Festival) 2006 - Milan (IT) (leplacard) LPM (Live Performers meeting) 2006 – 2008 - Rome (IT) (LPM) Kaleidoscope3 Festival 2008 - Naples (IT) (Kaleidoscope Festival) Le Placard (Headphone Festival) 2008 - London (UK) (leplacard) Netaudio 2008 - London (UK) (Netaudio) London Poetry System 2008 - London (UK) (LPS) Electrovision 2009 - London (UK) (Electrovision) Blanca Regina (Blanca website) BIO (Blanca BIO) Laps ( laps\' myspace ) Laps started producing music in the 1998, since then he had the opportunity to collaborate with various Italian and international artists (Andrea Tamburrino, Masta, Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Nicodemo). He has produced four records and has worked as audio consultant for two marketing company. Discography. 2003 Mushroom collective & Nicodemo - 2° Tendenza. Nicodemo\'s space 2007 Nicodemo - Pillole. Label: La Fabbrica Nicodemo\'s space 2008 nicodemo - Stringimi a te ep. Label: La Fabbrica Nicodemo\'s space 2009 Laps, Andrea Tamburrino, Ramtzu - Il Signor Lui. Label: Ammontone Prod. Il Signor Lui\'s space

Ben Sheppee founded Lightrhythm Visuals 5 years ago to publish the visual works of artists in San Francisco. The project has since developed 10 DVD titles and worked with artists internationally. Sheppee has spent the last 4 years in Japan working on a Visuals TV show and is currently the curator for a new online visuals TV channel. Besides running the label he is also an active visual artist and has produced much work for iTunes, Sony Music and niche design companies such as "You Work For Them". He has recently moved to France to manage three new releases on the label and to be closer to family.

Currently building a body of work at the RCA in an attempt to position myself between the design and science communities. I utilises both products and services as mechanisms to discus issues of socioeconomic and cultural importance. Through this process of emersion and debate I aim to evoke considered implementation of technology in tomorrow\'s technosocial society.

Doctoral candidate, multimedia artist

Giuseppe Guariniello (a.k.a Mutech) web/graphic designer, live visual performer and blogger. Since 2001 Mutech has been working within the live visuals performance field, he has been invited by Nokia Trends Lab as a special guest vj to perform at their internation 2007 and 2008 tour. Since 2008 he has been touring the major Italian festivals with his new work Mutations , among them he performed at AUDIOVISIVA (Milano) / Homework (Bologna) / LPM (Roma) / Elettrowave Challenge (Roma) / Gemma (Roma) / Dancity (Foligno) / L-ektrica DeluxeSummerFestival (Roma). In October 2008 he performed at Netaudio08 (Shunt - London UK) with The Brandy Alexander Project. In December 2008 he curated the visuals for Kaleidoscope Festival 04 (Naples) together with Vj Albert and Pz where he also premiered "Complexity" a visual work created for the live set of electronic musician POLE. In 2009 he participated in Romaeuropa Webfactory performing with musician Phooka (Closing Party - Opificio Telecom Italia / Sensoralia - Brancaleone / Pan Sonic - Brancaleone). He made live visuals for artisits Howie B, Apparat, autoKratz, Shameboy, Pole, Barbara Preisinger, Tiga, Anja Schneider, Luomo, Barbara Morgenstern, Dj Rush, Pet Duo, Eric Sneo, Sasha Funke, Kabale und Liebe, Jay Haze and many other international artists. _____________ Phooka, also known as Francesco Maddalena, born in 1978, is the official father of Homework, one of the main electronic netlabels in Italy. Charmed by sounds and edgy rhythms, at first he approached electronic music with IDM and experimental productions, then he became interested in techno/minimal techno productions, but without entirely departing from his first interest. He was focused on developing a techno/electronic scene with a Roman flavor, however he became more and more detached from this concept to embrace productions influenced by north American and German sounds, such as Akufen, Twerk, Sleeparchive, Mathew Jonson, directing his outlook towards a thorough research in sound (mostly with pads and bass tones) and towards a more modern rhythm with less of a 90\'s or acid influence. He produced several music releases for the most popular italian and European netlabels. He dreams Berlin but in the meantime he shares his place with his unreliable, noisy and useless PC, powerbook and audio/video machines.

CV I\'m a visual artist and a teacher of arts and media. I have been mainly working with sculpture installations and net art. In my art I scrutinize broadly the life of contemporary people in urban environment. I am interested in the relations of human, animal and technology, and have been working with science fiction related themes for some years.

A family of Finnish sculptor and media artist husband, and a Lithuanian artist and animation director wife. Both with a life full of art projects; Fine arts, Theater, Media, Electronic. Ask us, and we\'ll tell you more.

Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist, performer, researcher and art theorist. A former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he recently founded VASTAL: The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. which focuses on legal, ethical and social implications of some of the newer biotechnological materials and methods: Molecular Biology, ART [Assisted Reproductive Technology], genomics, developmental biology and Transgenic Protocols. Vastal Public labs aid people in their own exploration of the intersections between art and life: Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Live Art and Gastronomy.

Michael Smyth is a Reader in the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has worked in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design since 1987. During that period he has published over 50 academic papers in refereed journals, books and conferences and has worked on several UK and EU multi-disciplinary research projects. In addition he has had interactive installations exhibited at both UK and international conferences and arts & design festivals. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book entitled digital blur: creative practice at the boundaries of architecture, design and art. Ingi Helgason is a researcher and part-time lecturer in Interaction Design at Napier University, Edinburgh UK. She is studying for a PhD in interaction design, studying the nature of user experience in publicly sited interactive installations. She has an MSc in Multimedia and Interactive Systems, which investigated attitudes towards the adoption of mobile technologies. Her background is in visual communication, including photography and digital design, and she worked for several years as an outreach officer for the Edinburgh International Festival, the largest annual cultural celebration in the world.

André Knörig is an interaction designer with a distinct interest in physical, embodied interactions. André holds degrees in computer science and design. His creative research has been published at conferences such as TEI and CHI, and been exhibited at Ars Electronica and NIME. Currently, André is working as a research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, where he is project lead of Fritzing, an ambitious open source hardware initiative. He is also managing the Berlin-based IxDS Interaction Design Studios, a design research firm that creates innovative interactive products and services.

Niko Punin is a designer based in Kemiö. He has a background in new media, development of digitally enhanced spaces and digital communities. Since moving to the island of Kemiö in 2007, he has been researching possibilities and developing systems for self-sufficiency, off-the-grid living and alternative models for small-scale communities. He is in the process of starting an open distributed horticultural research community, that combines the use of low-cost DIY LED plant lights and the power of the distributed research model to accelerate the progress of plant research.

Born in 1971 in Oulu Finland Lives and works in Tampere Finland Studies: 2004-2007 Professional specialization studies in video and sound art. Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media. 1997 Architect MSc. Tampere University of Technology. Solo exhibitions: 2009 The Rooms. Sound and video installation. Bukra Gallery, Tampere and Poriginal Gallery, Pori. 2005 Gallery Galhalla, Tampere. Group exhibitions: 2006 The 3rd Pirkanmaa Triennial. Tampere. Happenings and screenings: 2009 The Night of the Museums. Pori Art Museum. 2009 Finland in Full Colour. Verdens Kultur Centret. Koebenhavn, DK. 2006 AVO urban art happening, Tampere. 2005 Saunavuoro video art evening. Tampereen ylioppilasteatteri, Tampere. 2003 Video art screening of The Video Women. Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere. 2001 360° mini film festival. Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere. Radio programmes: 2006 Prague Suite. YLE Radio 1.

Born in 1971 in Oulu Finland Lives and works in Tampere Finland Studies: 2004-2007 Professional specialization studies in video and sound art. Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media. 1997 Architect MSc. Tampere University of Technology. Solo exhibitions: 2009 The Rooms. Sound and video installation. Bukra Gallery, Tampere and Poriginal Gallery, Pori. 2005 Gallery Galhalla, Tampere. Group exhibitions: 2006 The 3rd Pirkanmaa Triennial. Tampere. Happenings and screenings: 2009 The Night of the Museums. Pori Art Museum. 2009 Finland in Full Colour. Verdens Kultur Centret. Koebenhavn, DK. 2006 AVO urban art happening, Tampere. 2005 Saunavuoro video art evening. Tampereen ylioppilasteatteri, Tampere. 2003 Video art screening of The Video Women. Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere. 2001 360° mini film festival. Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere. Radio programmes: 2006 Prague Suite. YLE Radio 1.

Until two years ago I was a traditional artist in the US and the Netherlands specializing in oil painting. I also worked at the time in music, activism, and web design, including moderate programming skills. Upon acceptance into the c:art:media program at Valand I began merging the different parts of my life together - fusing them as projects n digital representation. Consisting of mainly light sculptures, my work has been shown in several exhibitions including a recent solo exhibition, and presented at Perspectives.09, an international conference at UNR in the US. I contribute toward open source software whenever possible.

Claude Heiland-Allen (aka ClaudiusMaximus) is a digital artist from London, UK. Since 2004, Free/Libre Open Source Software has provided him with the instruments he needs to make art, without being chained to convenient but inflexible and ephemeral proprietary tools. He has a fascination with higher-than-three dimensional space, cubes of cubes, and their possibilities for danceable audio/visualization.

J.P. Sipilä (b. 1981) is a Finnish videopoet & poet. He has released several videopoems over the internet since 2006. On October 2009 his largest videopoem so far, called ”see when it seems I am ok”, was released on a dvd in Finland on poEsia poetry series by Nihil Interit & Kirja kerrallaan publisher. His videopoems has been screened and seen around the world in poetry festivals like VideoBardo in Argentina, See The Voice in Canada, BIPVAL in France and International Mediapoetry Festival in Russia. At the moment Sipilä is working to create a meter system for videopoetry by using The Kalevala meter as an example. Besides videopoetry J.P. Sipilä has made two poetry books: ”Puhun hänestä joka puhuu olen yksin” (Privatenotes, 2006) & ”Näin eksyneen valmiiksi tehdyille kartoille” (ntamo, 2008). More videopoems and info at www.ohikulkevaa.org Videopoem "katso kun silloin olen kunnossa" & "see when it seems I am ok": http://www.ohikulkevaa.org/?cat=166 http://www.ohikulkevaa.org/?cat=167 List of selected screenings: http://www.ohikulkevaa.org/?p=1893

Amichi Amar is a PhD candidate in the Media Arts & Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Being a media artist and technologist, Amichi has participated in international arts festivals, exhibitions, technical conferences and workshops in both roles of artist and educator. His PhD work focuses on bridging the gap between advanced technology for developing electronic products that has existed for decades and the creative individuals yearning to realize their ideas while lacking sufficient technical skills to do so. Prior to starting his PhD, Amichi graduated from NYU\'s Interactive Telecommunications Program and now lives in Santa Barbara, California.

work as a Horticulturist and landscape designer interested in eco themes offered by Pixelache

study: interfacedesign in stuttgart artist in music, film, screendesign and installations --------------------------------------- awards Bronze Art prix diy* 2008 HappyReal installation Silver Engneering prix diy* 2008 HappyReal installation Reddot Design Award 2009 Porsche Panamera webspecial „The 4th dimension.“ IF Communication Award 2009 Porsche Panamera webspecial „The 4th dimension.“ Gold Summit Creative Award 2009 Porsche Panamera webspecial „The 4th dimension.“ Silver Communicator Award 2009 porsche Panamera webspecial „The 4th dimension.“ Gold Communicator Award 2008 Porsche Boxster webspecial „Power. Play." exhebitions 15.Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival unabhängiger Autoren berlin2009 0630 shortfilm 5. Berliner FilmFenster grenzenlos berlin2009 0630 shortfilm 3. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Oberschöneweide berlin2009 0630 shortfilm DIY* NEW MEDIA Festival zürich2008 Happyreal installation 25. Video/Film Tage gera2008 0630 shortfilm B.I.F.F. Filmfestival biberach2008 0630 shortfilm 4. International Short Film Festival detmold2008 0630 shortfilm Digital Media City Seoul seoul2006 Tometaxy installation electrofringe festival of electronic arts and culture newcastle2006 Tometaxy installation european media art festival osnabrück2006 mycube installation talks “violence and computerentertainment“ human machine transferprocess DIY* Festival 2008 organisations chairman of the organisation „desoku e.v. - eine initiative zum erhalt der softwarekultur“

Three Poems in Water. Recordings of three poems, max/msp, arduino, glass container, air pump, water. 30x30x70cm 2010

Pascal Battus started out in music as a teenage rock guitarist, then studied percussion (ENM Le Mans et Noisiel) and finally focused on experimental music and improvisation, shaping his instruments to match his own gestures. He now presents a wide range of sound possibilities and experiences, including the surrounded guitar, 
acoustic and amplified percussion, acoustic walkman, saz and pick-ups of guitar. He performed all over Europe, Middle-East, Japan, Canada with musicians as diverse as Thierry Madiot, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Thomas Lehn, Martin TÈtreault, Michel Doneda…but also with dancers, visual artists, notably in his duet EYEAR with Kamel Maad (video) and with light artist Christophe Cardoen. He is developing what he calls Graphones, in which he produces sound and drawing on paper with the same gesture and the Sound Massages : low acoustic sounds sourced in everyday objects and tools are produced close to or directly into the listener’s ears.

Daniel Seda is a writer and visual artist with a multimedia approach. Writes and publishes on the

Nina Nordström on 24 vuotias dokumenttielokuvaohjaaja Helsingistä. Ennen elokuvaopintojaan hän teki pätkätöitä kokkina. Hänen viime projektissaan hän soluttautui kommuuniin pariksi viikoksi ja oppi sieltä käsin roskisdyykkaamaan. Hän teki samalla aiheesta dokumentin nimeltä “fregaani huuma tai elämäni vihreällä sohvalla”. Se näytettiin joulukuussa YLEn FST5:lla ja on ollut mukana erilaisissa ympäristöaiheisissa tapahtumissa, kuten Ympäristötoimintapäivillä Orivedellä. Nina innostui dyykkaamisesta toden teolla dokumenttia tehdessään ja on siitä lähtien elänyt fregaanin elämää. Hän on myös osallistunut aihetta käsitteleviin tapahtumiin, kuten Äiti, minulla on nälkä -näyttelyyn Sanomatalossa sekä puhunut kouluissa ja radiossa aiheesta.

Shawn Pinchbeck has been active since 1984 as an electroacoustic composer, sound artist, video artist, performer, installation artist, teacher, curator, sound engineer, and consultant. His current works centre around computer vision, real-time and studio based acousmatic composition, interactivity, video, multi-channel sound, and live performance. He currently splits his time between his native Edmonton, Canada and Tallinn, Estonia where he teaches at Tallinn University. At first self-taught, Shawn later studied electroacoustics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (1991); computer interactive art with George Lewis and Thecla Shiphorst at the "Computed Art Intensive" at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (1993, 1994); and acquired a Master of Music degree in electroacoustic composition from the University of Birmingham, UK (2004). He is currently a Ph.D. research student at the Unviersity of Birmingham, UK studying with Jonty Harrison. Shawn has five solo releases: Wildcats!! (1987), Tonepleromas (1989), Penetration (1991), Resonance (1995) and Sonic Waking (2006); and has appeared on numerous compilations. His music has been used in numerous films, most notably in the award winning documentary The Corporation (2004). His work with interactivity and dance recently won 2008 Best Dance Performance in Estonia. Shawn’s music and installations have been performed and presented at numerous festivals in Canada and abroad. Shawn currently sits on the board of directors of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society of which he was a founding member.

Alice Miceli creates conceptual visualizations for extreme, often socio-political, issues, dealing with subjects such as time, memory and death. With an interest in the meanings inherent to media and documental production, she seeks to re-signify facts and stories, creating a poetics that lies in the realm of the “unportrayable”, rethinking strategies of perception. Alice was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated in 2001 from the Ecole Supérieure d´Etudes Cinématographiques, in Paris, and has since then created and exhibited projects widely, in venues such as TRANSITIO_MX festival, Mexico City, 2009; transmediale.09 festival, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art-Bahia, 2008; Sydney Film Festival, 2008; Place@Space exhibition, Hasselt, 2008; 2008 Images Festival, Toronto, among others. Alice is currently based in Berlin, working on the final stages of the Chernobyl Project, developed between Germany and Belarus. The completed project will be displayed at the upcoming São Paulo Biennial this year.

Artists Benjamin Maus, Torsten Posselt and Frederic Gmeiner met while studying at the University of Arts Berlin. Drawing on their respective individual backgrounds (graphic design, street art, photography, film and music), their experimental and practice-based research approach combines these forms with skills in algorithm-based graphics, interactive environ- ments and hacking techniques. To date, their individual and collective works have been shown at several festivals or ex- hibitions including Ars Electronica, Kiasma – Museum of Modern Art Helsinki, Seeder Festival Rotterdam and DesignMai Berlin.

I\'m currently in Copenhagen for an Interaction Design programme at CIID. I graduated with an MA in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona). During my studies I worked in the R&D department of Hewlett-Packard. Aiming to fulfill both my technical background and creative thinking, I entered Node, an innovation consultancy. I developed products and services for multiple sectors, working with international and multi-disciplinary teams. I also managed projects and teams while working with Loop, a strategy and design company. In parallel, I dedicate my time to photography, music and other artistic-related projects. I\'m interested in the convergence of technology and art, and captivated by the beauty of simple things. I love to travel for inspiration and to learn from different cultures. I\'m passionate about creating products and services that understand real human needs and simply fulfill them through a pleasurable experience.

Tom Verbruggen (toktek), NL Originally, I trained as a fine artist, specialising in painting, so I have no formal training in electronics. However from early on, my work explored the communicative and non-communicative relations between humans and machines. I use computers and handmade electronic devises to explore these relations, by developing unusual techniques that lead to unexpected ideas and results. Specifically, I have been making work that aims at expressing human gesture and emotions with and through machines. For the most, machines are created to make consistent, repetitive and perfect gestures but humans are naturally, much more random and so act very differently. By physically connecting human gestures to a machine, the machine becomes more human and I in turn become more machine-like. I play with this human-machine, dichotomy and tension within my work and also within my live performances, by creating situations which allow for direct physical manipulation between the human and machine, in a playful, tactile and tangible way.

Hi, We would like to propose ourselves to perform as Vj-s at Pixelache 2010, if it is still possible. Our website shows who we are and where we have perfomed and in our vimeo accounts you can have a preview of our work and style. Waiting for your reply, Taavi Kybar

Short Bio: An architect and a researcher of energy efficient building. Interested in location aware social media and its\' influence on the experience of a city and on how we make space.

Tom Verbruggen (toktek), NL Originally, I trained as a fine artist, specialising in painting, so I have no formal training in electronics. However from early on, my work explored the communicative and non-communicative relations between humans and machines. I use computers and handmade electronic devises to explore these relations, by developing unusual techniques that lead to unexpected ideas and results. Specifically, I have been making work that aims at expressing human gesture and emotions with and through machines. For the most, machines are created to make consistent, repetitive and perfect gestures but humans are naturally, much more random and so act very differently. By physically connecting human gestures to a machine, the machine becomes more human and I in turn become more machine-like. I play with this human-machine, dichotomy and tension within my work and also within my live performances, by creating situations which allow for direct physical manipulation between the human and machine, in a playful, tactile and tangible way.

Signe Pucena is executive director and programme curator of The Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts SERDE in Aizpute, Latvia, founded in 2001. She has gained her higher education at the Latvian Academy of Culture in Folklore and Traditional Culture, aswell as a MA in Cultural Management. Between 2000-2008 Pucena was project manager at RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, producing various new media events, festivals and workshops. Since 2005 she has been participating in the expeditions and fieldwork research in the Latvian countryside, learning about the traditional cultural forms still existing in the contemporary age. Her creative and innovative approach to cultural heritage work with SERDE was recognised with the Latvian Folklore Grand Prize in 2007.

Currently an Assistant Professor developing an electronic art program at Union College in Schenectady, NY, Fernando Orellana uses new and traditional media as a way of transmitting concepts that range from generative art to social-political commentary. He has recently exhibited at the Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, NY, Exit Art, New York, New York, LABoral, Gijon, Spain, The Tang Museum of Art, Saratoga Springs, NY, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL, The Ark, Dublin, Ireland, and The Biennial of Electronic Art, Perth, Australia. His work is part of several art collections including the Richard and Ellen Sandor family collection Chicago, IL., Leslie Lerner Collection Kansas City, KS, The Ohio State University Student Union Collection, and The Western Michigan University Collection. He has been reviewed in a variety of publications and catalogs including ARTnews, Digital by Design, EMERGENTES, Art in America, Art Review, Slashdot, We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Todayʼs Machining World, MAKE: Technology on your Time, Technikart Futur, Wired Online, CNN, and NPR, WBEZ. He was recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (NYFA) in Digital/Electronic Arts and the Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT He received a Master of Fine Art from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was born in El Salvador, San Salvador in 1973. For a complete CV and recent artwork see: www.fernandoorellana.com

Mar Canet is a computer game engineer, designer and media artist interested in data visualization, computer games and new media art installations. He is part of the art collective Derivart and cofounder of Lummo, a small studio of interactive architecture . Jayme Cochrane is an interaction designer and new media artist. He has worked as an Interaction Designer for both the Ars Electronica Futurelab and SAP, and is currently a master student of Interface Culture at the Kunstuniversität Linz. Travis Kirton is a media artist specializing in the production of interactive artworks, with a focus on surface and tangible interaction. In the past he has worked as an Interaction Designer at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, Researcher for the Banff New Media Institute, and is currently at Tangible Interaction Design Inc., as a Creative Engineer and consultant.

JARKKO RÄSÄNEN (b. 1984 Heinola) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland EDUCATION > Music technology, Stadia University of Applied Sciences 2004-5 > MFA Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, 2005- SOLO EXHIBITIONS > Out of Body Experience (with Kyösti Pärkinen), Kuvataideakatemian galleria Helsinki 2007 > Bar 9 Helsinki 2008 > Stereo Einfühlung (with Kyösti Pärkinen), Galleria FAFA Helsinki 2009 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS > Utopia of Free City Space, Gallery Mania Tampere 2006 > Utopia of Free City Space, Gallery Maa-tila Helsinki 2006 > Lose With Me, Galleria FAFA Helsinki 2007 > Rantakasarmi ja 8 kokelasta, Galleria Rantakasarmi Helsinki 2008 > (V)aiheita, Kaiku galleria Helsinki 2009 > Re: Helsinki, Galleria FAFA (Lens Politica festival) Helsinki 2009 > New International School, Elevator Gallery London 2010 (February) PROJECTS > Make yourself at home, St Petersburg Russia 2008 --- A collaborative workshop between Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Smolny Institute lead by Liisa Roberts. > Unknown Society, Prishtina Kosovo 2008 --- A collaborative workshop between Finnish, Norwegian, Kosovean artists and Stacion Centre for Contemporary Art lead by Milica Tomic. > Demoscene Seminar, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Cable Factory Helsinki 2008 --- A collaborative seminar between Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Alternative Party organization on demoscene and contemporary art. > Treignac Projet, Treignac France 2009 --- A collaborative workshop lead by Shahin Afrassiabi. PUBLIC ART > You can\'t wash it away because it\'s not dirt, Helsinki 2005-6 --- Mobile video installation on public walls of Helsinki centre. > Careful Whispers, Rikhardinkatu Library (Unknown City festival) Helsinki 2007 --- 14-channel sound installation inside and outside the library building. > Dfacer.net, Lasipalatsi Meeting Point (Lens Politica festival) Helsinki 2009 --- Interactive net art piece installed on the public computers of Lasipalatsi Meeting Point of Library 10. SELECTED PERFORMANCES > Interpretation of “Indeterminacy” (John Cage) with laptop at Cartes Flux 2-festival, Espoo Museum of Modern Art 2007 > Live sound with electronics in Unknown City festival, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki 2006 > Live sound with laptop in Studio Là-bas, Cable Factory Helsinki 2004 > Live sound with laptop in Alternative Party, Gloria Helsinki 2004 > Live sound with laptop in Muu Monday: Yacht Club, Muu Gallery Helsinki 2003 BIBLIOGRAPHY > Article "Real-time Sonic Texture", Media and Urban Space (Frank-Timme Scientific Publishers, Berlin 2008) --- Article in the Bauhaus Univärsität Weimar\'s Mediacity conference book about a net art concept "Real-time Sonic Texture". > Article "Miksi demoscene?", Mustekala.info 2008 --- Article about demoscene and media art. This was also quoted in > Helsinki (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, AESD, Helsinki 2009) --- Collaborative book project organized by Agency of Economy and Space Developement. CRITIQUES AND ARTICLES > Critique of "Stereo Einfühlung" exhibition, Pirkko Holmberg Mustekala.info 5.10.2009 > Critique of "Out of Body Experience" exhibtion, Leena Kuumola Huvudstadsbladet 16.6.2007 > Article about the work "You can\'t wash it away because it\'s not dirt", Vesa Sisättö Aamulehti Valo 24.3.-30.3.2006 > Article about the work "You can\'t wash it away because it\'s not dirt", Mikael Brunila NytTid 10.3.2006 > Article about the work "You can\'t wash it away because it\'s not dirt", Jussi Pullinen Ylioppilaslehti 10.3.2006 > Article about the work "You can\'t wash it away because it\'s not dirt", Kansan Uutiset December 2005 > Article about the work "You can\'t wash it away because it\'s not dirt", Katri Talaskivi Metro-lehti 21.11.2005 PRIZES AND GRANTS > Travel grant of Art Council of Finland for the "Unknown Society" workshop in Pristina, Kosovo 2008 > Travel grant of Art Council of Finland for participating "Mediacity" conference in Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany 2006 > 1st prize in "Utopia of Free City Space" art competition with the work "You Can\'t Wash It Away Because It\'s Not Dirt" 2005

A good topic for conversation would be the the influence of monetary system in the ever globalizing cultural memes. As skilled and talented artists are hired for promotional (commercial) industry, will the credibility of art be diminished?

Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer and independent researcher, based in Helsinki, Finland. His work involves variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary processes. Andrew works across the fields of media/ network/ environmental activism, pursuing a participatory arts practice through workshops, performative events, and storytelling. Selected curatorial/organisational projects include recently ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ programme of Pixelache Helsinki Festival (2009), ‘Clip Kino’ in Kirjasto10 Helsinki library and other locations (2008-2009), ‘Add+PF+?’ in the Pedagogical Factory programme at Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago (2007), ‘Locative Media Workshop: Rautatieasema’ for Pixelache Helsinki Festival (2004). This activity has been characterised by the bringing together of unexpected elements and components around a ‘boundary object’ which each participant interprets differently, producing new imaginations and potential. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University School of Art and Design, consolidating under the thesis title of “Artivistic Fieldwork”

Artist, born in Oroumieh in Iran (1981), lives and works in Göteborg in Sweden, Neda Zarfsaz is an ambitious artist and curator. She showed up interest in Design and Art since she was nine by trying out various fields in art such as painting, calligraphy, design, and photography. Having an imaginative mind and noble creativity she has her own style in her ideas and in the way of coming up with them. Majored in Visual communication design she is now studying Masters in C:Art:Media at Valand School of fine arts in Gothenburg. Beside her academic studies she has extreme researches in philosophy of art, art history and photography. Curating art projects and having works accepted in exhibitions throughout the world.

Last year student at the c:art:media master program. Valand, school of fine arts.

Please see bios of the Æther9 team members at http://1904.cc/aether/community/

Kärt Ojavee has studied textile design, focusing on smart materials, active and interactive textiles since 2004. Now continuing her research at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Centre for Biorobotics. She has had solo-exhibitions involving interactive textiles and has been participating from different group exhibitions in Estonia and abroad. Eszter Ozsvald studied Industrial Design Engineering and Mechatronics in Hungary. She joined Kitchen Budapest media lab in 2008 and worked there for a year. Now she holds a job at Center for Biorobotics in Tallinn, Estonia. Her research focuses on developing robotic fish as well as exploring the field of electronic art. Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald have been working on interactive textiles since autumn 2009.

artist, working internationally in areas of interactive multimedia installations and immersive audiovisual performance. Current artistic interest is in moving stereoscopic imagery and 3D/surround audio, designed for various contexts, including museum galleries as well as stage and live concerts.

Mene.cc is a collective of young curators, artists and researchers who explores new media and new forms of cultural collaboration in Lithuania and neighbourhood countries. Mene.cc is usually exploring the politics of new media and its interaction with local culture. Most of the collective members are doing their PhD‘s, however they don‘t treat their activities as boring academic work and involve themselves into various experimental practices. Mene.cc has produced a number of seminars (including on grassroots new media in Belorussia), exhibitions and books on old and new media. Vytautas Michelkevicius is curator, educator and experimenter with collaborative practices for writing and acting. In 2005 he has started e-magazine on media culture www.balsas.cc and has been editor-in-chief since then. In 2006 he started a collective weblog for public curatorship www.3xpozicija.lt and moderated it till he succeeded in „hijacking“ a gallery and exporting the weblog into the exhibition (catalogue is available online). After finding out the conclusions of politics of new media in Lithuanian old-media-saturated art scene, he turned his interest into media ecology and published a newspaper “Asteroid voice 2007” (with Valentinas Klimasauskas) which was followed by another newspaper “Media Ecology” (2008) and a magazine on collaborative and artist run spaces/practices in Vilnius “Gallery Log” (2008). Lina Michelkevice is currently writing PhD in Vilnius Academy of Arts on participatory and collaborative aspects of contemporary art. She is constantly translating technical documentation and fiction books from Lithuanian to Finnish because she did her BA in Lithuanian-Finnish language. Since 2005 she was contributing to Balsas.cc, journal on media culture; she is also member of 3xpozicija.lt, community for art and communication, in framework of which she has co-organized several art projects (Photo/carto/historio/graphies 2007; The Gallery Academy workshop 2009). Her current interests lie in search for new formats of art and communication; participation and collectivity; cultural strategies and politics. Julijonas Urbonas is a designer, artist, engineer and PhD student in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. More at www.julijonasurbonas.lt Tautvydas Bajakervicius (aka audio_z) – is a sound artist, curator and critic. More at http://www.nmartproject.net/artists/?p=327

Artemis Papageorgiou is an architect who works in the intersection between landscape and interaction design. She likes to design spatial installations, using metaphors and ideas across these domains. Her research so far encompasses the contextualisation of landscape in visual arts, urban theory and computational media. Her professional practice includes architectural studios in Athens, Madrid and London. Her main interest revolves around landscape, approached through experience economy and machinic design. Artemis is a recent graduate from the MFA in Computational Studio Arts, at Goldsmiths College, where she explored spatiality through computation. Her work has been exhibited in shows such as the Locus Solus (Byzantine Museum, Athens 2009), Passing Through (James Taylor Gallery 2009), Kinetica Art Fair (P3 Exhibition Space 2009), Double Take(Eyebeam 2008)among other. She has been commissioned by Knowledge East (2008) to build Y-FASMA, a responsive textiles space (on-going project). She is currently enjoying nature and getting inspired by assisting other designers. On her free time she designs her new project.

Vygandas Simbelis is a media artist, works with video and media installations. Started his career as premier VJ in Lithuania Vygandas went further for creation of video art films. Vygandas has presented his works worldwide in galleries, radio broadcasts, festivals, teathers, corporate projects with musicians, multimedia cd release, public spaces and so on. After finishing his master degree studies he was directing at INTRO cultural centre in Vilnius, where curatory work in a gallery was done as well. Graduater of Kaunas Art College, Vilnius Art Academy and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2006 he is started his studies for practical PhD at media art and photography department in Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuania. CURRICULUM VITAE Born in Lithuania, Europe. Lives and works in Vilnius. Education: 2006-2009 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, media art and photography department; practical PhD, Lic Arts degree. 1999-2000 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, media art school. 1998-2001 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, video art and photography department; Master degree. 1994-1997 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, graphic art department; Bachelor degree. 1993-1994 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, design department. 1989-1993 Kaunas Art College, design department; Higher college diploma. Selected exhibitions and art projects: 2009 V.D.A., video DVD release, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2009 V.D.A., Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2009 Piksel 09, electronic art festival, Bergen, Norway; 2009 Clubtransmediale, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; 2008 Piksel 08, electronic art festival, Bergen, Norway; 2008 Net’as-Ne’tas, gallery Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2007-2008 Ctrl_Alt_Del Sound Art Festival, radio broadcasting worldwide in New York (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center), Athens (1st Athens Biennial), Montreal, Ghent, Berlin, Zagreb, Basel, Graz, Zurich, Istanbul (10th International Istanbul Biennial); 2007 Oslo Sound, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2007 Pluxus, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2007 Klusa Daba, Baltā Nakts, Riga, Latvia; 2007 Pravda 1 min festival, Vingis, Skalvija, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2006 Balticoco, electronic art festival, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2005 Smog 02, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2004 Abflug Rec, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2004 Rotari club, Offenbach am Main, Germany; 2004 Karl-Marx-Allee 36, Berlin, Germany; 2004 Automaten bar, Berlin, Germany; 2004 Art gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland; 2003 Am I Happy, performance with jazz musician Liudas Mockunas, Concious Club, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2003 Impro sessions: Uncontrolled Normality, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2003 Abflug Rec (FI) multimedia CD release with French musician Verhaverbeke Krzyzosiak; 2002 PHAT2, VEF factory, Riga, Latvia; 2002 On-line art project “Seeking for” at www.intro.lt; 2002 København-Copenhagen, Copkop 2002, Asbæk gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2002 Wellen project, Shwellenmatteli, Bern, Switzerland; 2001 East Impact, Yubileiny Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia; 2001 Never Skip Intro, Pravda ex-printhouse, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2001 Toys and games, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2000 Media school exhibition, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; 1999 Espresso Virtualis, Arka gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1999 Projekt Moments, Zimski Salon 1999, University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 1999 Lithuanian Art 1989-1999, Ten years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1998 International video forum, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1998 French-Baltic-Nordic video and new media festival “Offline@online”, E-media center, Tallinn, Estonia; 1998 Video Art Review, Mykolas Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania; 1998 Ore Launch, Kablys, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1997 Autumn, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania; 1997 Posters, gallery Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania 1997 Video Art Review, Siauliai Art Gallery, Siauliai, Lithuania; 1996 Franco-Balt video art festival, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Selected curatory projects: 2008 Net’as-Ne’tas, gallery Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2007 Oslo Sound, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2007 Pluxus, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2006 Balticoco – electronic art festival, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2004 Press Jazz, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2003 Welcome! Project, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2002 København-Copenhagen, Copkop 2002, Asbæk gallery, Hovedbiblioteket, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2001 Never Skip Intro, Pravda ex-printhouse, Vilnius, Lithuania; Artists residence: 2002 Wellen project, Shwellenmatteli, Bern, Switzerland; Workshops, conferences: 2009 Piksel 09, electronic art festival, Bergen, Norway; 2009 Transmediale / Clubtransmediale, Mechanic Sound Workout, Berlin, Germany; 2008 Piksel 08, Code Dreams, festival for free / libre & open source software, hardware & art, Bergen, Norway; 2008 Article|08 biennial for electronic and unstable art, Perfusion – Pollution – Pervasion, Stavanger, Norway; 2008 Art+Communication: Spectropia. Tempest: decoding that which is, RIXC, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia; 2007 Maxwell City - artistic investigation into electromagnetic substance, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway; 2006 Balticoco – electronic art festival, Intro, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2005 Hands on Deck! Reloaded, Harlingen, Holland; 2004 RAM5 / Re-approaching new media – Open Source Media Architecture, RIXC, Riga, Latvia; 2003 RAM2 / Re-approaching new media – A Joker in a Global Bunker, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway; 2000 Staging of Virtual Inhabited 3D Spaces, VR Media Lab, Aalborg, Denmark; find bio: http://simbelis.com/bio

I´ll be presenting a paper on "Signals from the South" meeting.

Currently attending the C:Art:Media Master Program, of the Valand School of Fine Arts and IT University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Graduate student of the Fine Arts and Art Sciences department of the University of Ioannina. Since 2003 I have been experimenting in various fields of art (painting, sculpture, etching and photography), growing a higher interest in the field of photography in which I realised my thesis project with subject “The part and the whole in photographic representation”. The body of work of my thesis project is mainly digital photo montage. Digital photographs are placed one next to the other and create new forms, shapes and meanings. I mostly deal with the dynamic of the part and how it completes and changes the whole image. My first contact with art and technology was in 2005 at the Brera School of Fine Arts in Milan, as an exchange student of the Socrates/Erasmus Program. I am particularly interested in arts and technology, new media, interactivity, internet, digital photography and video.

Oliver Farshi is a composer and sound artist. Oliver’s sound art explores the shifting boundaries between the physical and the digital, examining notions of digital ownership, virtual and real space, and electronically-mediated intimacy. He has previously exhibited and performed at a variety of International festivals and galleries, including The Victoria & Albert Museum, Resfest Austria, Design Museum London, Greece’s Media Terra, New Interfaces In Musical Expression (NIME), Foldback Sound Festival, Futuresonic and Milan’s Salone Internazionale Del Mobile.

Artist and doctoral student/researcher, Crucible Studio, Media Lab, Aalto University School of Art and Design

body music

SOUND + TEXT + CONCEPTS

Ulla Taipale / CAPSULA (FI/ES) is an independent curator, cultural producer and photographer. Lives in Barcelona and in Finland. Taipale holds a B.Sc. in environmental engineering and communications and a postgraduate degree in Curating and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media. Since 2005 she works in Capsula, that is a curatorial research group whose interests focus on the meeting point between art, science and nature. Capsula collaborates with cultural institutions internationally and has curated and produced events for CCCB (Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona), El Matadero/Cultural Centre of Madrid City, El Laboral/ Centre for Art and Industrial Creation in Spain, Pixelache Festival and Kiasma Mediateekki in Finland, among others.

Professori Sinikka Piippo on koulutukseltaan kasvitieteilijä. Hän on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi vuonna 1981 ja lisensiaatiksi 1984, sekä väitellyt tohtoriksi 1986 Helsingin yliopistossa. Hän on toiminut Helsingin yliopiston luonnontieteellisen keskusmuseon kasvimuseon itiökasviosaston johtajana vuodesta 1995 lähtien. Piipon tutkimustyö on suurimmalta osin keskittynyt Kaakkois-Aasian, erityisesti Papua-Uuden-Guinean ja Kiinan, maksasammalten systematiikkaan ja kasvimaantieteeseen. Hän on julkaissut alalta lähes parisataa tieteellistä ja yleistajuista artikkelia. Jo varhain Sinikka Piipon mielenkiinto suuntautui myös lääke- ja yrttikasveihin, joiden käyttöä hän alkoi opettaa jo 1980-luvun loppupuolella. Matkat eri puolilla maailmaa kartuttivat omalta osaltaan tietämystä alalta ja synnyttivät monia artikkeleita kasvilääkinnästä. Piippo on opettanut luonnonkasvien hyötykäyttöä 1980-luvun lopulta alkaen ja kirjoittanut lukuisten artikkelien lisäksi kirjasarjan Luonnon lääkeyrtit 1–4, Rakkauden ja Mielen Kasvit (2006) ja Kasvien salaiset voimat (2009). Hänet on palkittu 2006 Suomen tietokirjailijoiden Tietokirjailijapalkinnolla.

Ossi Kakko (b. 1979) has been devoted to forager-gardener way of life since 1997. As an artist he has utilized video and networking courses f.e. to campaign against GMOs/biopiracy and for promotion of eco-forestry, minor forest produce, subsistence farming and ecological housing. He refused finnish military conscription and related civil service including the prison sentence of 195 days. Recently he\'s been cooperating with tribal adivasis in India.

KULTIVATOR is an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice situated in rural village Dyestad, on the island Öland on the southeast coast of Sweden. By installing certain functions in abandoned farm facilities (including a white cube made of cow dung, for exhibition and gatherings) near to the active agriculture community, Kultivator provide a meeting and working space that points out the parallels between provision production and art practice, between concrete and abstract processes for survival. Founded in 2005 by Mathieu Vrijman, Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Marlene Lindmark, artists, and Henric Stigeborn and Maria Lindmark , farmers. With support from Swedish governmental Foundation for future culture, Agricultural ministery of Sweden and Provincial funds. Kultivator has under 4 years of activity hosted around 30 visual artists from more than 10 different countries for longer or shorter periods, and as an artist farmer collective set up projects, exhibitions and screening on site on Öland or internationally. Kultivators organic farm has 30 milking cows, 30 mother sheep and production of vegetables, forestry and rape seed oil, running since 1995.

KULTIVATOR is an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice situated in rural village Dyestad, on the island Öland on the southeast coast of Sweden. By installing certain functions in abandoned farm facilities (including a white cube made of cow dung, for exhibition and gatherings) near to the active agriculture community, Kultivator provide a meeting and working space that points out the parallels between provision production and art practice, between concrete and abstract processes for survival. Founded in 2005 by Mathieu Vrijman, Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Marlene Lindmark, artists, and Henric Stigeborn and Maria Lindmark , farmers. With support from Swedish governmental Foundation for future culture, Agricultural ministery of Sweden and Provincial funds. Kultivator has under 4 years of activity hosted around 30 visual artists from more than 10 different countries for longer or shorter periods, and as an artist farmer collective set up projects, exhibitions and screening on site on Öland or internationally. Kultivators organic farm has 30 milking cows, 30 mother sheep and production of vegetables, forestry and rape seed oil, running since 1995.

Jodi Rose is a Berlin-based artist, writer and creator of Singing Bridges, an urban sonic sculpture using the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Originally from Australia, Rose has traversed the globe from Helsinki to the Mekong Delta, New York to Lisbon in an endless quest for bridge music. Made with field-recordings, on-site interventions and improvisations, her fascination with sonic bridges has led to diverse collaborations with artists and works exhibited, broadcast and published in Australia, Scandinavia, UK, Asia, Europe and America. Rose explores the philosophical and musical aspects of cable vibrations through global transmissions and installations; is developing a musical interface for model bridge instruments; hosting on-site sonic interventions, and linking bridges all over the world through new meta-nation Bridgeland (every bridge everywhere) and the Global Bridge Symphony. Pixelache is still her favourite festival and she is very excited to be returning - looking forward to sparks ideas connecting flow. Singing Bridges: http://www.singingbridges.net

I am attending the art&tech seminar 23-24th march

Born in Bochum Germany, studied in Enschede Aki, Netherlands and Emily Carr Institude Vancouver BC Canada, lives and works since 2001 in Helsinki. Works often deal with sports as well as other recreational activities and their impact on culture and society.

Programme Manager, Research and Development

producer Tramuntana festival (Cadaqués, ES) + LEM festival, Experimental Music Meeting (Barcelona, ES)

Dragana Lukic is first year student of C:Art:Media program at University of Gothenburg. She graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade 2008, Serbia and had exhibitions in country and abroad.

Media artist, production consultant

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