All posts by John W. Fail:

Photos by Antti Ahonen The nights proceedings commenced with Program Facilitator, Andrew Paterson, reading from his freshly penned #Burn____ Open Call, this was followed by a preview of the 2020 programing by producer Steve Maher. First act of the night -...
#PixelacheFestival2021
A creative text written by Andrew Gryf Paterson, expanding upon the theme #Burn____ which connects our Pixelache programme 2020, towards the next Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival. Paterson is the initiator and lead facilitator of the festival, scheduled to...
#PixelacheFestival2021
##Burn____
News / Recommended events
The subtle changes happening over the course of long periods of time can be understood via persistent work, trial and error, and through broad observation and thought combining various disciplines. Forest-Climate-Time gives the floor to the explorers of...
Misc / Recommended events
Tartu University Centre for the Information Society and UT IdeaLab invite you to join in a search for solutions to various post-truth problems during a 24h hacking session, focusing on data journalism and innovation of digital media infrastructure. Since...
We've had a few questions about what we intend with this year's Empathy as Resistance project, so we're writing this post in an attempt to clarify matters. Structure: Empathy as Resistance will meet 4 or 5 times, roughly every two months, throughout 2017....
#EmpathyasResistance
News / Open calls / Pixelache Projects
Pixelache announces a new project for 2017, Empathy as Resistance, which will explore how empathy can be employed as a tool for political and social change. The project will take the form of a series of activities, each with a different focus and...
#EmpathyasResistance
Pixelache Festival
Pixelache visits Rovaniemi and Jyväskylä in May and November! Pixelache Festival reaches out in 2016 with four satellite events to Rovaniemi and Jyväskylä. The two main events will happen in November and will explore the thematics of this year's festival...
#PixelacheFestival2015
Pixeache Festival 2016 - 'Interfaces for Empathy' has an open call for performances, interventions, installations, talks, workshops, actions, processes, etc. in any field. The call is open until 1st of May 2016. Go to more information about the call and...
#PixelacheFestival2016
Recommended events
Are you an artist who wants to cooperate with non-art organizations? You are welcome to participate in Meeting in the Middle – a professional forum on artistic collaborations with public institutions on Wednesday May 11th 2016 in Cultural Centre Caisa,...
Open calls
The Ecology and Society journal is open for submissions on the theme of 'Reconciling Art and Science for Sustainability' until July. This issue is a work in progress and can be found at www.ecologyandsociety.org; current submissions include topics on...
News / Pixelache Projects
Pixelache launched it's 2016 Trashlab programme with an afternoon session in the sculpture department of Kuvataideakateemia's kitchen. Hosted by Pixelache's Justin Tyle Tate, the session found a variety of participants fixing clothes, electronics, toys, and...
TRASHLAB FEB 2016
#Trashlab
Recommended events
The Finnish Urban Studies Days 2016 conference has been announced: The theme of the multidisciplinary Urban Studies Days focuses on the City of Actors. The conference will take place at the House of Sciences and Letters on the 28th-29th April 2016. The...