Pixelache | Projects

Active projects

Free Translation

Free Translation is a multi-disciplinary project showcasing international works by currently and formerly incarcerated people as well as anyone affected by imprisonment.

Free Translation Session: Return, Release, Renew, Place On Hold. (09 June 2021)

2021 — present

Nature as Magic: AV Bridges

Nature as Magic - AV Bridges between Helsinki, Tallinn & New York

New project!

Collective Intelligence

Deep dive sessions to discover how collective intelligence works.

Performative Habitats: book launch + concert + party (20 April 2022)
Pixelache network: Vishnu Vardhani Rajan and Egle Oddo at BAM - Mediterranean Archipelago Biennial (26 October 2019)
Pixelache enters new networks thanks to Collective Intelligence (22 December 2018)

2018 — present

Wikimedians-in-residence

Combining podcast production, research and reflection residency which focuses on Wikimedia and cultural organisational practices

OpenMICwithPixelACHE (05 February 2022)

2022 — present

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion

Pixelache members respond to CALL FOR ACTION for Art Institutions in Finland

New project!

Pixelache contribution to CreaTures EU project, exploring associational transformation, (un-)sustainability and memory

Pixelache Helsinki at the CreaTures Festival (29 June 2022)

2022 — present

Past projects

#Burn____ thematic stretches across 2020-2021, aims to connect together psychological, social and environmental collapse, how we can survive it, developing resilience.

The Rain Theatre by Mandarina Collective (12 September 2021)

4 events 1 news item

Alternative mobility research triangle: a network

Wabad päevad (08 May 2015)

2 events

Re-invigorating audio-visual and VJ experiments

Creative Coding for Live Audio and Visuals events in Riga (29.9-5.10) (26 September 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

2 events 4 news items 1 subproject

Evolved into AV-Culture in 2014

Creative coding and audiovisual performances

Raspberry Pi, Pure Data, openFrameworks workshops (06 April 2014)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

2 events 1 news item

BioSignals project is a series of site-specific sound art, narrations and nature-based data streams by human and non-human cultural producers.

BioSignals: End of Process 2018-2020: Press Release (13 January 2020)

3 events 2 news items 1 subproject

Artistic reflections on nuclear influence

Case Pyhäjoki: Energy in the era of climate change -discussion event 5.12. (21 November 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Techno-ecologies

4 news items

Control and Surveillance: The Modern Panopticon

The machine of sharing secrets

Communication as Noise (16 May 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Knowledge & Experience Sharing

3 events 1 news item

Convivial Mechanics

We explore our current digital tools in order to see if, and how, we can rethink them as tools to help people “make the most of the energy and imagination each has”.

Social Tools Training Circle No. 3 (25 March 2019)

9 events

Connection cooperatives in Finland and beyond

Coop Camp Keynote (16 August 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

3 events 5 news items

Creative Coding for Live Visuals

Digital artwork created with open-source tools

Creative Coding for Live Audio and Visuals events in Riga (29.9-5.10) (26 September 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : AV Research

5 events 5 news items

Creative Neighbourhood Skills

Walk, round-table and lecture about DIY culture in urban environment, St. Petersburg, 15-17.10. (27 September 2012)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

2 events 3 news items

Ecosystem and Environmental monitoring

Ecosystem theory, sensors and environmental monitoring

Hybrid Sensor Network workshop (30 November 2012)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

4 events 1 news item

Education Engineering Days

Unconference on supplementary education

EEdays day 2 (29 October 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

3 events 1 news item

Empathetic Futures

How can we build structures to increase empathy?

Empathy as Resistance: self & other & care & who (06 January 2018)

2 subprojects

Empathy as Resistance

How can empathy can be employed for constructive, direct political and social action?

Empathy as Resistance: self & other & care & who (06 January 2018)

Subproject of: Empathetic Futures

4 news items

Empathy in Movement(s)

Scaling empathy from the micro- to macro- level

Subproject of: Empathetic Futures

Community fermentation centre

Helsinki Bacterial Swap Shop (17 April 2018)

7 events 1 news item

The future of food

FOOD MINUTES: 5 min to share your ideas on food! Register! (01 September 2014)

9 events 9 news items

Herbologies/Foraging Networks

Herbs, edible and medicinal plants in the context of online networks and open information-sharing

Kiasma preserves hybrid DNA-extract new media "mashup" for over 6 years! (14 April 2016)

8 events 1 news item

Knowledge sharing, archiving and documentation

Living Chatter (25 September 2015)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

2 events 3 news items 4 subprojects

Knowledge & Experience Sharing

Digital tools, communication infrastructures, streaming media learning, archiving and documentation strategies

Cryptography for Postcards Workshop (05 December 2013)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

1 event 2 subprojects

Evolved into Infowork in 2014

Light is History

Energy consumption in daily living

'Light is History' Community Art Space at Hakaniementori (25 November 2012)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Trashlab / Renewable Festivals

1 event 2 news items

Renewable worklab

Explorations on sustainable culture in Sicily (14 April 2014)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Techno-ecologies

1 event 2 news items

Evolved into Maaland (2014) in 2014

Who are we, and what are we doing?

Living Chatter (25 September 2015)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Infowork

1 event

Nuage Vert / Vihreä Pilvi (22 February 2008)

1 event

Open Design, Crafts and Manufacturing

Open Workshop (13 October 2012)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

3 events 2 news items

Open Sourcing Festivals

Can we share the process of organising a festival?

The main outcomes of the Open Sourcing Festivals project published! (26 August 2015)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Infowork

15 events 17 news items

Politics and Poiesis in Telematic Participation (02 April 2018)

Subproject of: BioSignals

1 event 1 news item

Pixelache Space Program

Remaking the office as a space station

Pixelache University

Pixelache Summerschool (07 August 2008)

9 events

Evolved into Pixelversity in 2009

Pixelache year-round activities 2008-2014

Remote TrashLab (24 June 2020)

11 events 6 news items 14 subprojects

Post Maker Camp

Where to go after technology?

Post Maker Organism (20 October 2018)

1 event

Signals from the South

The south is (almost) everywhere but here

Twin City of Talsinki/Hellinn - Between Borders, Visions and Reality (18 May 2013)

6 events 1 news item

Evolved into Parasite Radio in 2017

Suomenlinna Money Lab

Experimental local currency

'Autopsy of an Island Currency' Book Launch #2 (21 November 2014)

7 events 11 news items

Techno-ecologies

Alternative energy, ecological & participatory science

Explorations on sustainable culture in Sicily (14 April 2014)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

1 event 7 news items 2 subprojects

Re/up-cycling material and electronic waste

TrashLab (17 May 2018)

Subproject of: Pixelversity : Waste/d

28 events 13 news items

Trashlab / Renewable Festivals

Sustainable, low-carbon, renewable use

Remote TrashLab (24 June 2020)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

21 events 14 news items 1 subproject

Evolved into Trashlab in 2013

Virtuality, Social Identity and Augmented Reality

7th Stop on Virtuality Grand Tour: G+ Hangout (02 May 2012)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

9 events 7 news items

Evolved into Knowledge & Experience Sharing in 2013

Creative material sustainability

TrashLab (17 May 2018)

Subproject of: Pixelversity

5 events 4 news items 1 subproject