haunting futures, cyborgs and test subjects is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
This playlist goes under my skin. For me, Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė’s work speaks of the horrors of in vivo testing, or vivisection – regardless of the species of the test subject. Swan Meat (whose concert I wish to witness live someday!) takes Donna Haraway’s ideas of Chthulucene and grotesques as a framework for her elegantly layered sonic essay. From mythological views we bump into Boris Getaz’s essayistic collage that carries on with questioning human belief in technology. The work mixes various time layers, not in an anachronistic way but so that it comes clear that even though our gadgets have changed a bit, we, as a species, haven’t really evolved that much. In her experimental sound work Ida Nerbø mixes organic sounds, such as wind, with the unnatural. I recognize and identify with the words in the description she sent: “the sense of facing something alien and intruding, yet intriguing”.
-- Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of audio works:
Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė: Medmachine for Biomass. Cost. Teardrops. 6:42
Swan Meat: String Figures and Grotesques 20:35
Boris Getaz: May vegetables grow with electricity 31:29
Ida Nerbø: Creep 6:00
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac
Live coverage from Pixelache Festival, Helsinki
Highlights include:
Marketa Dolejsova & Annukka Svanda: Bring Your Own Kitchen,
Dasha Ilina: Centre for Technological Pain workshop,
humming performance by Eero Yli-Vakkuri,
and more!
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Ferment Radio - I wish I had superpowers to see microbes & Fermenting our way out of trouble (conversations with Maya Hey)
Ferment Radio is a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation.
During Pixelache Festival Radio, Ferment Radio is thrilled to present a conversation with Maya Hey; a two-part episode which originally aired at the end of 2020.
Maya Hey is a scholar and PhD candidate at Concordia University doing research on fermentation and feminist theory. From chemistry labs to culinary kitchens, organic farms, and food markets, her work is a constant search to answer questions around embodied knowledge, collective ethics, and interspecies thriving.
In this conversation, we discuss the bigger picture of fermentation: fermentation as a selfless practice, and the impossibility of understanding the microbial part of ourselves. We also reflect on the impossibility of controlling something that is inseparable from us, fermentation as a feminist practice, and the cultural appropriation of food recipes.
Host: Aga Pokrywka
Guest: Maya Hey
Produced by Super Eclectic
Supported by Culture of Cultures, a Research project studying the social aspects of human-microbe relations.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
hACkathon is a multifaceted project, produced for and executed during Pixelache Festival 2021 (2021/06/06-13).
The project encourages individuals to dissemble, examine, hack and repurpose discarded or functional air-conditioning units for the purpose of giving them the added passive functionality of extracting carbon from the atmosphere. Through research conducted for hACkathon, a methodology was discovered that can be applied to all types of AC units. This method is explained in detail during the 30 minute long hACkathon radio program, where the host - Justin Tyler Tate - walks participants through a process of designing and building their own parasitic passive carbon capture devices to augment their air conditioning units using readily available materials and processes. As Individuals cool their spaces in the increasingly hotter summer months, they will also be passively capturing carbon and offsetting their ecological footprint.
Audio material will be supplemented by visual material at the website: http://hackyourac.weebly.com/
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Ferment Radio - I wish I had superpowers to see microbes & Fermenting our way out of trouble (conversations with Maya Hey)
Ferment Radio is a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation.
During Pixelache Festival Radio, Ferment Radio is thrilled to present a conversation with Maya Hey; a two-part episode which originally aired at the end of 2020.
Maya Hey is a scholar and PhD candidate at Concordia University doing research on fermentation and feminist theory. From chemistry labs to culinary kitchens, organic farms, and food markets, her work is a constant search to answer questions around embodied knowledge, collective ethics, and interspecies thriving.
In this conversation, we discuss the bigger picture of fermentation: fermentation as a selfless practice, and the impossibility of understanding the microbial part of ourselves. We also reflect on the impossibility of controlling something that is inseparable from us, fermentation as a feminist practice, and the cultural appropriation of food recipes.
Host: Aga Pokrywka
Guest: Maya Hey
Produced by Super Eclectic
Supported by Culture of Cultures, a Research project studying the social aspects of human-microbe relations.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Ferment Radio - I wish I had superpowers to see microbes & Fermenting our way out of trouble (conversations with Maya Hey)
Ferment Radio is a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation.
During Pixelache Festival Radio, Ferment Radio is thrilled to present a conversation with Maya Hey; a two-part episode which originally aired at the end of 2020.
Maya Hey is a scholar and PhD candidate at Concordia University doing research on fermentation and feminist theory. From chemistry labs to culinary kitchens, organic farms, and food markets, her work is a constant search to answer questions around embodied knowledge, collective ethics, and interspecies thriving.
In this conversation, we discuss the bigger picture of fermentation: fermentation as a selfless practice, and the impossibility of understanding the microbial part of ourselves. We also reflect on the impossibility of controlling something that is inseparable from us, fermentation as a feminist practice, and the cultural appropriation of food recipes.
Host: Aga Pokrywka
Guest: Maya Hey
Produced by Super Eclectic
Supported by Culture of Cultures, a Research project studying the social aspects of human-microbe relations.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Ferment Radio - I wish I had superpowers to see microbes & Fermenting our way out of trouble (conversations with Maya Hey)
Ferment Radio is a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation.
During Pixelache Festival Radio, Ferment Radio is thrilled to present a conversation with Maya Hey; a two-part episode which originally aired at the end of 2020.
Maya Hey is a scholar and PhD candidate at Concordia University doing research on fermentation and feminist theory. From chemistry labs to culinary kitchens, organic farms, and food markets, her work is a constant search to answer questions around embodied knowledge, collective ethics, and interspecies thriving.
In this conversation, we discuss the bigger picture of fermentation: fermentation as a selfless practice, and the impossibility of understanding the microbial part of ourselves. We also reflect on the impossibility of controlling something that is inseparable from us, fermentation as a feminist practice, and the cultural appropriation of food recipes.
Host: Aga Pokrywka
Guest: Maya Hey
Produced by Super Eclectic
Supported by Culture of Cultures, a Research project studying the social aspects of human-microbe relations.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
Pixelache festival radio is featuring podcasts by members of the pixelache collective:
Ferment Radio - I wish I had superpowers to see microbes & Fermenting our way out of trouble (conversations with Maya Hey)
Ferment Radio is a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation.
During Pixelache Festival Radio, Ferment Radio is thrilled to present a conversation with Maya Hey; a two-part episode which originally aired at the end of 2020.
Maya Hey is a scholar and PhD candidate at Concordia University doing research on fermentation and feminist theory. From chemistry labs to culinary kitchens, organic farms, and food markets, her work is a constant search to answer questions around embodied knowledge, collective ethics, and interspecies thriving.
In this conversation, we discuss the bigger picture of fermentation: fermentation as a selfless practice, and the impossibility of understanding the microbial part of ourselves. We also reflect on the impossibility of controlling something that is inseparable from us, fermentation as a feminist practice, and the cultural appropriation of food recipes.
Host: Aga Pokrywka
Guest: Maya Hey
Produced by Super Eclectic
Supported by Culture of Cultures, a Research project studying the social aspects of human-microbe relations.
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast 6-13 June on {openradio} in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. Festival programme at http://burn.pixelache.ac
haunting futures, cyborgs and test subjects is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
This playlist goes under my skin. For me, Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė’s work speaks of the horrors of in vivo testing, or vivisection – regardless of the species of the test subject. Swan Meat (whose concert I wish to witness live someday!) takes Donna Haraway’s ideas of Chthulucene and grotesques as a framework for her elegantly layered sonic essay. From mythological views we bump into Boris Getaz’s essayistic collage that carries on with questioning human belief in technology. The work mixes various time layers, not in an anachronistic way but so that it comes clear that even though our gadgets have changed a bit, we, as a species, haven’t really evolved that much. In her experimental sound work Ida Nerbø mixes organic sounds, such as wind, with the unnatural. I recognize and identify with the words in the description she sent: “the sense of facing something alien and intruding, yet intriguing”.
-- Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of audio works:
Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė: Medmachine for Biomass. Cost. Teardrops. 6:42
Swan Meat: String Figures and Grotesques 20:35
Boris Getaz: May vegetables grow with electricity 31:29
Ida Nerbø: Creep 6:00
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac
haunting futures, cyborgs and test subjects is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:
This playlist goes under my skin. For me, Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė’s work speaks of the horrors of in vivo testing, or vivisection – regardless of the species of the test subject. Swan Meat (whose concert I wish to witness live someday!) takes Donna Haraway’s ideas of Chthulucene and grotesques as a framework for her elegantly layered sonic essay. From mythological views we bump into Boris Getaz’s essayistic collage that carries on with questioning human belief in technology. The work mixes various time layers, not in an anachronistic way but so that it comes clear that even though our gadgets have changed a bit, we, as a species, haven’t really evolved that much. In her experimental sound work Ida Nerbø mixes organic sounds, such as wind, with the unnatural. I recognize and identify with the words in the description she sent: “the sense of facing something alien and intruding, yet intriguing”.
-- Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director
List of audio works:
Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė: Medmachine for Biomass. Cost. Teardrops. 6:42
Swan Meat: String Figures and Grotesques 20:35
Boris Getaz: May vegetables grow with electricity 31:29
Ida Nerbø: Creep 6:00
Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac