3_opportunities_-_RAM_workshop,_NIFCA_MEDIA_AiR_residenc y_program,_pikseliAHKY_2004_festival

Three opportunities in Helsinki, Nordic/Baltic region
and beyond for media artists, researchers and practioners!

Deadlines are already in September!

- - - -

RAM - Re-Approaching New Media workshop
www.olento.fi/ram4
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2003

NIFCA MEDIA Air residency program
www.nifca.org
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2003

pikseliAHKY 2004 - festival of DIY electronic art
www.pixelache.ac
Call for proposals deadline: 30 September 2003

Basic information of all these can be found
in this mail, more detailed information
available at web addresses above.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

RAM 4 | Survival Kit

www.olento.fi/ram4

3-8 November 2003
Suomenlinna island, Helsinki

A survival kit must contain the essential tools
appropriate to your own environment: an arctic kit
is unlikely to help you in the jungle.

RAM4: Survival Kit is part of the "Re-Approaching
New Media" series of workshops and events being
held across 6 Nordic and Baltic countries. Olento
invites applications from artists, media practitioners
and researchers who would like to propose the
contents of a communications technology "survival kit".
We ask the question: what do we need to survive in
today's media and technology environment?

At the workshop we will learn and discuss about
each others environment, skills, communities and
strategies, and share our knowledge and insights.
Our goal is to enable participants to create,
develop and reflect new concepts, partnerships
and projects that address the needs of their
communities.

Participants are invited to Helsinki for 1 week
(3-8 November), or for a shorter period (5-8 November).
Accommodation for living and working will be on
the historic fortress island, Suomenlinna, 15 minutes
ferry ride from Helsinki. The weeks activities
will be a mixture of timetabled, structured workshops
on particular themes, discussions toward developing
"survival kits", and workshops involving local
practitioners and communities in Helsinki.

To apply, send an e-mail to address [email protected].

Please enclose:

- full contact information (name, e-mail, phonenumber,
address + nationality)
- CV
- Short (up to 500 words) statement of your interest
in the theme and what you might like to bring and take
back from the workshop

Applications must be received by 15 September 2003!

More information available at www.olento.fi/ram4

RAM - Re-approaching new media is a project with
the support of the Culture 2000 Programme of the
European Union and financial assistance of the
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science,
and Technology.

RAM4 workshop is organised by Olento in collaboration
with NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
with the support of Nordiska Kulturfondet.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

NIFCA MEDIA AiR 2004

www.nifca.org

NIFCA MEDIA AiR 2004 is a residency program dedicated
for media artists. The program provides possibilities
for artists to develop diverse media art projects.
Each residency is realised in collaboration with
a local organisation with expertise in certain
areas of media art. The organisations provide the
technical facilities for the artist and help the
artist's work with their local contacts and know-how.

The deadline for applications is 30 September 2003!

Residencies in the Nordic-Baltic region:

Estonia: Tallinn - E-Media Centre + Artists' Union
Finland: Helsinki - Sibelius Academy CM&T / Piknik Frequency + NIFCA
Latvia: Riga - RIXC + Artists' Union
Norway: Bergen - BEK + Hordaland Kunstsenter
Sweden: Stockholm - Splintermind + Studio House Malongen
Russia: St. Petersburg - PRO ARTE Institute

Residency exchange countries:

Canada: Montreal - SAT
United Kingdom: Huddersfield - The Media Centre
Hungary: Budapest - C