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Here is some preliminary program information about Pixelache Helsinki... More details will be announced soon!

Also check out www.malaupixel.org for info about the Mal au Pixel Paris...

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PixelACHE 2006 30 March - 2 April, Helsinki Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art www.pixelache.ac

Mal au Pixel 2006 19 - 29 Avril, Paris Ars Longa, Confluences, Mains d'Ouvres www.malaupixel.org

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PIXELACHE 2006 HELSINKI PROGRAM OVERVIEW

VJ culture & audiovisual performances section features MiniMovies, a brand new project by AGF & Sue Costabile (US + Germany). AGF and Sue Costabile are both young multi-disciplinary creators with their activities extending from conceptual art to establishing independent record labels. MiniMovies is their first large scale collaboration, 'a collection of mini-lives in an urban and political context'. "Everybody is a disaster. Let's make our own movies." www.minimoviemovement.com

To celebrate our French connection with Mal au Pixel Paris, we present two projects from France: a abstract audiovisual performance ChDh (Cyrille Henry & Nicolas Montgermont) and Grenze (Patrick Fontana & Pierre-Yves Fave & Emeric Aelters), an audiovisual journey through the book 'Das Kapital' by Karl Marx. Pixelache 2006 also premieres Peurakaira vs. Päätehakkuu by Kangastus collective (Finland), commenting the current struggle between the forest industry and reindeer herding co-operatives in Northern Finland. www.chdh.net www.grenze.org www.peurakaira.fi

Pixelache 2006 is very happy to present a concert by Vladislav Delay, a rare performance in his home country. Other music acts this year include Aelters (France), Forss (Sweden) and several others. Full Pixelache club/music program will be announced soon! www.vladislavdelay.com www.ski-pp.com/aelters.html www.forss.to

Experimental mobile / locative projects are presented in the context of Locative media workshop: Rautatieasema returns, organised by Andrew Paterson (Finland) & Meiju Niskala (Finland). The workshop brings together a group of performance artists and ...

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Copyright-abusing-machine and creative intelligence instrument at the same time, sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!" is described by its creator Sven König, as a bastard between database and as a sensitive composer for radical plagiarism.

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! attempts to develop an artistic strategy that could shed some light on evident but confusing problems of intellectual property.

The mind music machine is a software which consists of a pre-analyzer, a database and a synthesizer. Using the pre-analyzer it is possible to automatically split up audio material into small musically and rhytmically meaningful snippets. The sonic properties of each snippet are extracted and saved in a database so that a soundpool of samples referenced by their sound signatures is available.

The synthesizer analyzes an audio input stream and again splits it up into small snippets and calculates their sound signatures. For everyone of the input snippets the best match out of all the snippets in the database is found and each input snippet is continuously replaced by the best matching (most similar-sounding) snippet from the database.
The audio input, which can be other music or as I use it, just human voice, is virtually describing music to be automatically constructed out of samples found in the database.

Video.

Performance during the ">VIPER festival, in Basel, Gare du Nord, 18 March 2006.

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Joan Fontcuberta uses Google to create large photo-mosaics that comment on the internet-era's liaisons between mass media and our collective consciousness. The artists lets the image search engine blindly cull images from the internet by controlling only the search engine criteria with the input of specific key words. The Google-selected images are then assembled into a larger image of Fontcuberta's choosing, displaying challenging relationships between words and pictures.

Homeless, 2005

Fontcuberta's concept focuses on the deft juxtaposition of search-engine criteria against the larger image those criteria comprise. Tiny portraits of the richest men and women in the world are pieced together into a mosaic depicting a homeless man; the iconic image of detainee tortured at Abu Ghraib is cobbled together out of images of public officials involved in the scandal.

As the artist notes, the internet itself is "the supreme expression of a culture which takes it for granted that recording, classifying, interpreting, archiving and narrating in images is something inherent in a whole range of human actions, from the most private and personal to the most overt and public."

Zabriskie Gallery in New York exhibits the photographic installation through March 11, 2006. Images.

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David Pescovitz: Installation artist Peter William Holden built a delightful machine consisting of eight umbrellas that "dance" to "Singin' In The Rain." The video of the mechanical performance is terrific. From Holden's description of the work:

Busby Berkeley choreographed dancers to mimic the motions of machines and modern inventions.

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In Valentina Vuksic's Harddisko, defective hard disks are collected from various PC shops, companies and institutions. Each of the 16 hard drive's casing is being removed and a special sound pickup is mounted on the drive's read head and connected to a sound mixer.

As soon as a drive recieves power, it conducts an initialization procedure with the heads moving in a specific pattern and generating sounds. These patterns vary throughout different manufactors, models, production series, firmware versions and the disk's history. The drives of the exhibit are placed within several individually controllable power circuits using interval switched power supplies.

Harddisko is exhibited at Aarau in Switzerland, through April 2.

Via neural.

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