This project will prototype the combination podcast production, research and reflection residency which focuses on Wikimedia and cultural organisational practices, including archiving.

It will discuss and reflect upon the long parallel history -20 years- of Pixelache Helsinki Festival and transdisciplinary platform, which has promoted open culture, and Wikimedia methodologies. Where have these overlapped, gone hand-in-hand and then diverged. We wish to reconcile in ambitions with both the Wikimedia and Creative Commons anniversaries.

Pixelache Helsinki, in the year 2022, will work on their archival process and reflections, this project will give updated skills and understanding within our membership, interested Finnish and regional peers, as well as an international example for other similar cultural associations involved in network culture.

We will prepare and produce collaboratively 3 podcasts and organize their publishing and launch events, together with texts to elaborate and connect them to related wikidata.

We will invite the following persons to be involved as 'Wikimedians-in-residence' with Pixelache, undertaking the following roles:
Wikimedia Podcasters: Rebecca O'Neill and Toni Sant
Wikimedia Content and Data creation: User:Yupik, User: Zblace, User: Agryfp
Wikimedia and Helsinki Pixelache invitees: Florence Devouard, Sumugan Sivanesan

Topics of the podcasts will range from democratization of media, sustainability of non-profit infrastructure, but also participation issues and audience engagement, especially in relation to Wikimedia and independent cultural associations.

Each show will be uploaded on Commons (Wikimedia and Archive.org) with data entered in Wikidata and referenced and embedded in different Wikipedia articles.

This project is supported by a Wikimedia Rapid Grant.

For more information see Pixelache's Wikimedia.org Rapid project application
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pixelache_Wikimedians-in-residence>

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Completed podcasts

This new Wikimedian process of renewed connections has taken place in the context of the long-term model of Wikimedians-in-residence that has been developed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Our conversational process began in January 2022, and this particular stage of the project ends in March 2023 with the publication of 3 podcasts: One longer conversation in 4 parts (A, B, C, D), and 2 interview-based conversations which focus on particular aspects of being a Wikimedian-in-residence, or emergent cultural organisations engaging with the Wikimedia universe.

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In the following podcast collection Andrew Gryf Paterson, long term member of Pixelache Festival converses in 4-parts with Florence Devouard, Wikimedian in Residence with the World Intellectual Property Organization, former chair of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, and involved in numerous collaborations in Africa. She tells of her experience as an invited guest of Pixelache in 2005, and her wider Wikimedia work then and now. We offer ideas about how creative organisations can develop their Wikipedia presence.

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In the following podcast Rebecca O’Neill of Wikimedia Community Ireland spoke with Toni Sant of Wikimedia Community Malta, a curator, academic, and podcaster, about his experience in documenting creative practices using Wikimedia projects. We explore how emerging documentation projects of contemporary art collections are formulated to ensure they are interoperable with platforms such as Wikidata.

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In the following podcast Nikki Zeuner of Wiki Move podcast, and Z. Blace, Wikimedian in Residence at Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, spoke about contemporary culture, civil society organisations, not-for-profit infrastructures, as well as resources and innovation in 2030 Wikimedia strategy. We look into challenges and opportunities for working in global networked media through publishing and participation in the Wikimedia ecosystem. 

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In summary, our process discusses and reflect upon the long parallel history -20 years- of Pixelache Helsinki Festival and transdisciplinary platform, which in the first decade has promoted open culture, alongside the time when Wikimedia methodologies were developing. Where have these approaches overlapped, gone hand-in-hand and then diverged. We wish to reconcile in ambitions with both the Wikimedia and Creative Commons anniversaries.

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Pixelache Helsinki over the year 2022 has worked on their archival process and reflections, and this Wikimedia Foundation rapid grant-supported project updates skills and understanding within our membership, interested Finnish and regional peers, as well as an international example for other similar cultural associations involved in network culture.

These podcasts are released with open licenses in a series feature Florence Devouard, Toni Sant, Rebecca O’Neill, Nikki Zeuner, Z. Blace and Andrew Gryf Paterson, recorded between November 2022 and January 2023. 

These residencies are a follow on from the initial conversation between Z. Blace and Rebecca O’Neill on open archiving practices as part of Pixelache Helsinki Festival #Burn____ in June 2021, and began with #OpenMICwithPixelache Vorspiel event of CTM/Transmediale festivals in February 2022.

The process was funded by the rapid grant of the Wikimedia Foundation, and with inkind support of Pixelache Helsinki Festival. The Wikimedians-in-residence process is part of Pixelache’s cultural programme reflecting upon 20 years of activity.

Pixelache is annually supported by TAIKE (Arts Promotion Centre Finland), and Helsinki City.

** Production credits ** 

Project initiator: Z. Blace.

Audio identity design: Sumugan Sivanesan.

Audio post production: Miia Laine.

Text translations into Finnish and Sámi language: Yupik. 

Project and visual design: Z. Blace. Support & January 2022 graphic by Andrew Gryf Paterson.

Lead producer: Andrew Gryf Paterson.

Financial administrative support: Mathilde Palenius, Raisa Veikkola.

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Wikimedians-in-residence event #1

OpenMICwithPixelACHE - research consultation on open archiving practices

Saturday 5.2.2022 (16.30-17.30 CET  / 17.30-18.30 EET)
*Zoom link with waiting room*

This event is the first open and public recording session in the form of a consultancy for a research+reflection project on the long parallel histories -20 years- of Wikimedia, Creative Commons, and Pixelache Helsinki Festival as a transdisciplinary platform. It is hosted by a network of Pixelache members and Wikimedians for Vorspiel.Berlin guests. 

At times the ambitions of Open Cultures, Codes and Knowledge, with Wikimedia and the culture of Sharing and Remix have overlapped with media arts festivals like Pixelache, which has promoted open culture, and Wiki methodologies in it's early years. However, since then there has been much pragmatism as (not)social (but)algorithmic media and online platforms have abducted, obfuscated, and taken over media festivals in the past decades, in the way that knowledge has accumulated and been shared.

How do we reconcile and learn from tensions, each others' movements and hybrid practices?
We plan to produce 3 discursive podcasts this year, to be presented at the end of 2022. 

This first gathering is an open mic session, inviting open culture and digital arts professionals and enthusiasts to join us in a semi structured conversation for cca 60 minutes.

Participating in discussion:
Florence Devouard (User:Anthere), Z. Blace (User:Zblace), Rebecca O'Neill (User:Smirkybec), Andrew Gryf Paterson, Sumugan Sivanesan