ABOUT/MOTIVATIONS
Istanbul, 29th April – 1st May 2009
New node in the Pixelache network, PixelIST focuses on knowledge production for its first edition. Collaboration between Pixelache Helsinki and Bilgi University Visual Communication Design Department.
Pixelache festival agında yeni bir nokta, PixelIST ilk yılında bilgi üretimine odaklanıyor. Pixelache ve Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Görsel Iletisim Tasarım Bolümü isbirligi ile.
This node in the Pixelache Network, manifests as a pedagogical 3-4 day plaform, which we call a 'curated pedagogy' project, involving participants from the Pixelache Network and friends (Helsinki, Malmö, Budapest, Berlin, London), plus performances from local cultural practitioners from Ankara & Istanbul, including up 30-40 VCD students as participants.
We will focus our activity on the transfer, exchange of knowledge in the process, the localisation of imported knowledge and the value of locally-produced vs. network-produced knowledge. It is our hope to produce a self-reflective encounter, asking ourselves “how do we produce and share knowledge?”.
Programme coordinators: Aura Seikkula, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Ahmet Atif Akin
Support from: Pixelache Helsinki Office, Bilgi University Visual Communication Design Department, AVEK Audiovisual International Production (Helsinki) grant, University of Art and Design Helsinki.
For more information contact:
Aura Seikkula: aura [-at-] pixelache .ac
Andrew Paterson: agryfp [-at-] gmail .com
Ahmet Atif Akin: atifakin [-at-] gmail .com
Webpages
VCD: http://www.pixelist.cc/
Pixelache: http://www.pixelist.ac/
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PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Opening & Pixelache Network Presentations
Wednesday 29.04 11.00-14.00 (location: E1/301)
Aura Seikkula (FI): Introductions (Local knowledge production)
Nathalie Aubret (FR/FI): Pixelache Network
Andrew Gryf Paterson (SCO/FI): Organised networks of Boxwars
Erik Sandelin + Åsa Ståhl (SE): How to drive in Istanbul?
Koelse (FI): Experimental Electronics
Andras Sly Szalai (HU): Kitchen Budapest overview & Kulti-fix
Dash McDonald (UK): In Your Hands
Sebastian Neitsch (DE): vvvv
Onur Sönmez (TR): Computer-to-computer interaction
BoDIG (TR): Interactive Play with Movement
Ahmet Atif Akin (TR): Introductions
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Open Sessions
Koray Tahiroğlu (TR/FI): Open Session
Wednesday 29.04 at 15.00-17.00 (location: E1/302)
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Performances
Dash McDonald (UK): In Your Hands
Wednesday 29.04 at 18.00 (location: E1)
Thursday 30.04 at 20.00 (location: Santral)
From remote control roller-skates, which place the artist’s fate in the hands of the audience, to a scaled podium that forms the centre for a workshop teaching primary-school children political spin and the art of successful persuasion, my work attacks behavioural norms and established ideas of decency and morals, creating social experiments in which objects serve as the catalyst.
http://www.show2008.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=501707&GroupID=501053
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ2Il-ukwGs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzIqMgeG-3I
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Boxwars Istanbul
Friday 01.05 at 18.00 (location: E1/Main Entrance)
Read about workshop process below for imagination of performance.
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Koelse: Experimental Electronics
Friday 01.05 at 19.00 (location: E1/Main Entrance)
Read about workshop process below for imagination of performance.
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PROGRAMME ONLY FOR VCD-BILGI STUDENTS
Workshops
Koelse Association of experimental electronics (FI)
Association of experimental electronics is a group of people turning old consumer electronics into soundproducing devices. We play gigs, build installations and teach workshops. Our aim is to show that with very simple tools and an open mind you can craft more interesting things from electronic waste, than you could buy anywhere. For the Pixelist festival, we will be teaching a workshop for the students of Bilgi University, and there will be performance after the workshop.
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More info about faciliitators: http://koelse.org/
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Erik Sandelin + Åsa Ståhl (SE): How to drive in Istanbul?
The workshop “How to drive in Istanbul” deals with the potentials and problems with translations of local knowledge into digital packages. A number of examples will be presented and a short exercises will be carried out before the students start working with the main brief. Through audio recordings of voices the participants will be asked to translate their record of local embodied knowledge into a format that fits the digital channels of communication. The workshop ends with a reflective discussion where everybody is expected to contribute with experiences and ideas of how these recorded learnings could be distributed via the Internet. What format is appropriate? Do we need a new format? What would it look like? What gets lost in the translations from oral, embodied story of local knowledge into edited sound clip – and from local sound clip to global knol?
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More info about faciliitators: http://unsworn.org/ | http://misplay.se/
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Andrew Gryf Paterson (SCO/FI) + Andras Sly Szalai (HU): Boxwars Istanbul
This workshop will use the example of international 'Boxwars' social and perfomance events, to consider how to communicate and encourage participation in 'marginal' subcultural events in Istanbul. 'Boxwars' is a concept-event involving cardboard-clad 'warriors' who engage in gladiator-style fight-performances, in music-club and outdoor contexts. Created by cardboard enthusiasts in Melbourne, Australia, in 2001, it has spread to Scotland, United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, and Estonia (www.boxwars.net). Boxwars has a low-cost 'do-it-yourself' aesthetic and uses popular (corporate) online platforms such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook, to publicise and document fight-events, as well as gather enthusiasts. In the workshop we will extend the aesthetics to include innovative animation software and low-tech electronics techniques from Kitchen Budapest Lab (www.kibu.hu), and very quickly organise, publicise and participate in the first Turkish Boxwars event. Be an animateur, cardboard-armour builder, LED-hacker and/or a boxwarrior!
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More info about faciliitators: http://agryfp.info/ | http://szalaiandras.com/
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Sebastian Neitsch (DE): physical interaction with VVVV
Installations using camera-tracking to use the participators body as interfaces became quite popular during the last years. In this Workshop we will realize several small examples and create little interactive installation prototypes. We will use the visual programming software vvvv and will see that it is not very difficult to make interesting stuff in a very short time. On the last day we will try to get an arduino working in vvvv so we can connect sensors and some electronic devices.
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More info about facilitators: please send me a mail if you have questions: heischneitsch@gmx.net
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