What role does music play in our lives? Can music teach us something about how to live? Dr Tom Cochrane and Faisal Gill discuss how musical improvisation gives us a model of freedom that we can recreate in everyday life. Of particular importance is the idea of working with what we have to hand, rather than imposing a sense of how things are supposed to be. This idea is applied to the use of one’s emotions in a generative way.

Thanks to the ASEF Mobility First! Grant, tune in for a Creativity and Well-being Series across 3 Continents: Finland, Pakistan and Australia. This will be a recorded talk.

Ūmėdė*: x⬳disciplinary symposium for emerging art & related matters. What happened after the meteorite of the anthropocene has hit contemporary art, and bioactivists together with AI and XR* have exploded the discourse formerly known as media?

An audio introduction to Coven Intelligence Program's installation at Pixelache, visual and interactive materials that speak to the entangled STAKES of climate change, racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism, and conceptions of intelligence.

Silvia Hosseini is a writer, critic and teacher based in Tampere. As an ”essayist in residence” she’ll be discussing works, topics and themes of the festival on Radio Helsinki together with Laura Gustafsson. A new conversation will be broadcast every day during the festival.

Aether Milieu (3 episodes only: I, II, III) Podcast, en español & in english.

Real time translation of Russian presentation: Фрукты Врукты / Frukty Vrukty will tell and show what street art is for them, about their experience in creating street art and how they talk with the city and its inhabitants.

Real-time translation of discussion in Russian about SciHub and free access to scientific knowledge.

I’ll take care of you is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson.

Silvia Hosseini is a writer, critic and teacher based in Tampere. As an ”essayist in residence” she’ll be discussing works, topics and themes of the festival on Radio Helsinki together with Laura Gustafsson. A new conversation will be broadcast every day during the festival.

Ääniaalto has curated a selection of work to broadcast on Pixelache Festival Radio.

On hACathon, Justin Tyler Tate will demonstrate how to modify your air conditioning unit into a fully functioning carbon capture device, complete with snacks.