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?

New audio works from students of the Estonian Academy of Arts curated by John Grzinich. The New Media department of the Estonian Academy of Arts encourages all forms of sonic exploration and it shows in the diversity of engaging works developed by the students. Included here are works created for a Masters Thesis, live stage performance, interactive installation and electronic music composition.

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.

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.

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.

#Burn_Slow Online Program will include 16 young Nordic-Baltic sound artist audio works – contest winners and honorable mentions as well as #Burn_Slow mentor – experienced sound artists and composers works – Mantautas Krukauskas (LT), John Grzinich (US/EE), Jacob Remin (DK), Ieva Vīksne (LV) and Krista Dintere (LV).
Inspired by #Burn_Slow artist talks and workshops and personal experiences young artist audio works touch such subjects as listening experience, extended time, being present, revisiting memories with the help of field recordings, acoustic ecology, analog vs. digital radio and other themes.

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.