Looking backwards >|< Looking forwards: 20 years of Pixelache Party

Let's celebrate Pixelache 20 year anniversary party with music, friends, audio visual art, djs and bands!

By Pixelache Helsinki

Date and time

Sat, 3 Dec 2022 18:00 - 23:30 EET

Location

Magito Oy

1 Kaasutehtaankatu #rakennus 7 00540 Helsinki Finland

About this event

Open to all Pixelache members + 1. Free entrance.

The Pixelache 20 year Anniversary party is an experiment on active participation that aims to transform voyeuristic engagement into a sense of agency. Through playful and facilitated experiences, partygoers are able to influence, interact with and impact the shared environments. In this sense, the participant has agency on how to interact and contribute to the space. The idea is to celebrate connections, community and cooperation that have been at the heart of Pixelache’s activities throughout its history and will be far into the future.

VJ culture has been an important part of the history and development of Pixelache. To experience and share VJing as a contemporary art form, artists Antti Ahonen and Jenna Jauhiainen are constructing an archive of visual material from the 20 years of Pixelache that partygoers can control and play with. The ideal is to create a wearable controller which takes VJing from behind the decks to the dancefloor, creating a participatory experience emphasizing sharing and caring.

Some snacks & beers will be provided at the event. It's a good idea to bring your own drinks to ensure that we have enough for everybody. At the nearest metro station Kalastama, there is a whole shopping centre and you will find plenty of supermarkets on level K1 (-1).

https://www.pixelache.ac/

FB invite: https://fb.me/e/22wjRU8mH

Email Arlene arlene@pixelache.ac with any questions. See you there!!

Thank you FAT LIZARD for sponsoring our event! https://www.fatlizard.beer/

Organised by

Pixelache Helsinki

Pixelache Helsinki is a transdisciplinary platform for emerging art, design, research and activism.

Pixelache is an association of artists, cultural producers, thinkers and activists involved in the creation of emerging cultural activities. Amongst our fields of interest are: experimental interaction and electronics, code-based art and culture, grassroot organising & networks, renewable energy production/use, participatory art, open-source cultures, bio arts and art-science culture, alternative economy cultures, politics and economics of media/technology, audiovisual culture, media literacy & ecology and engaging environmental issues.

The name of Pixelache was originally found in a Finnish article that predicted new words which we would need in the future. The word ‘pikseliähky' (translated into English as "pixelache") was supposed to describe the feeling that results from an overdose of digital media content. This overdose can happen easily if the content is too monotonous – which is the case if standards, formats, tools and design principles converge to a narrow set of options. Later interpretations focused more on the 'ache' of digital influence in everyday life, and an 'ache' to re-engage with non-digital interfaces and systems. Pixelache seeks to challenge mainstream standards and conventions, not only related to media and technology, but of contemporary society in general.

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