The Time of Distance - 10 days of simultaneous precisely synchronized events taking place in both Helsinki and Berlin. These events, which comprise of a visual art exhibition, one-off dance and performance pieces, short film screenings and related gallery talks are scheduled to run like clock-work.

The participating artists exhibit work in both cities concurrently or will make work as a development on the curatorial theme. Examples of the type of work we are hosting are: performances which are live-streamed to the other city, double installations, radio broadcasts, photo’s which only make sense when they are coupled together…

Program Schedule: 18th April 08: Exhibition opening with performances by Arne De Boever and Julia Prezewowsky Berlin(GMT+1) 18:00 FIELD Live / Web-stream Helsinki (GMT+2) 19:00 Maa-tila Live / Web stream Jaakko Eino Kalevi Berlin (GMT+1) 20:00 FIELD Live Helsinki (GMT+2) 21:00 Myymälä2 Web-stream

19th April 08: Exhibition opening with karaoke performance with Patrick Jambon, performance by Linda Franke Berlin (GMT+1) 19:00 Hope&Glory Web-stream Helsinki (GMT+2) 20:00 Myymälä2 / Maa-tila Live

19th- 27th April 08: Mulholland Dr. - Marathon / live performance by Sanni Priha Berlin (GMT+1) ongoing, Hope&Glory Live Helsinki (GMT+2) ongoing, Maa-tila Web-stream

20th April 08: Gallery discussion with Arne De Boever and James Thompson & Guest Berlin (GMT+1) 14:00 FIELD Live Helsinki (GMT+2) 15:00 Maa-tila Web-stream

23rd April 08: Synchronized Gallery Discourse, Residency artist: Mari Keski-Korsu Berlin (GMT+1) 19:00 FIELD Live Helsinki (GMT+2) 20:00 Maa-tila Web-stream Supported by the Arts Council of Finland

25th April 08: Transidency & Future Shorts - Short film evening with Q&A Berlin (GMT+1) ACUD 19:00 Helsinki (GMT+2) Kino Andorra 20:00 Tickets 5 E

26th April 08: Discourse Lab @ FIELD with Christine Nippe, Morton Dysgaard & Guest Speaker (to be announced) Berlin (GMT+1) 19:00 FIELD Live / Web-stream Helsinki (GMT+2) 20:00 Maa-tila Live / Web-stream

27th April 08: Exhibition Finnisage * Berlin (GMT+1) 17:00 Hope&Glory Helsinki (GMT+2) 18:00 Maa-tila *FIELD project space exhibition runs till 10th May

This exhibition is initiated and curated by Kym Ward & Elina Vainio and co-curated by FIELD project space & Transidency

/////ARTISTS Morten Dysgaard, Linda Franke, Christiane Frey, Ailsa Ferrier, Laura Horelli&Anu Pennanen, Patrick Jambon, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Mari Keski-Korsu, Robert Mathy, Tea Mäkipää, Julia Prezewowsky, Sonya Schönberger, Sanni Priha, Henna&Elina Vainio

/////TICKETS All the events are free unless otherwise stated

/////VENUES Berlin: FIELD, Augustr. 65, 10117 Hope&Glory, Emserstr. 126, 12051 ACUD Kunstverein, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119

Helsinki Maa-Tila, Albertinkatu 19, 00100 Myymälä2, Uudenmaankatu 23, 00100 Andorra Kino, Eerikinkatu 11, 00100

Calls for Urban Screens Melbourne 08 – film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 Conference “mobile publics” 3 – 5 October 2008 Multimedia exhibition 3 – 8 October 2008 www.urbanscreens08.net

Deadline for submission (poster presentations): 24. May 2008 Deadline for submission (fim&video/projects): 31. May 2008

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen.

CALL FOR FILM&VIDEO and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS ********************

The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for Artists, Urban Poets, Filmmakers and Multimedia and Interaction Designers to submit film and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based projects. A large diverse urban screens infrastructure is available at Federation Square.

Criteria

We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects that interrogate screen media as a medium| content and tackle the festival’s key themes of issues of building community and sustainability in relation to water. These two complex themes aim to provoke discussion and spark questions such as: What is community in times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? How can we explore the diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on earth?

For a detailed description of the event and curatorial framework see www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events For a detailed description of Fed Squares infrastructure see www.urbanscreens08.net/technical

The projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed existing infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should consider and adapt to the special circumstances of outdoor public spaces, transforming urban spaces to foster dialogue and community engagement. We are looking for:

A) Film and video such as

• Video art, text art, animation, animated slideshows, or fictional advertisements and community information (under 3 min.)
• Silent works especially for the joint broadcasting or daily screenings in-between (under 3 min.)
• Short experimental films, documentary and journalistic content (under 15 min.)
• Small curated programs of the mentioned type of works

B) Interactive, performance based or participatory projects such as

• Interactive software applications for urban screens
• Participatory community projects using creative digital practices
• Live media art merging performance and new media
• Community displays for education and exchange
• Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content
• Real-time generated content
• Screen related sound experiments
• Digital storytelling projects
• Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground
• Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens

CALL FOR POSTERS ********************

To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition, we are looking for posters about the latest development of Urban Screens. They will be displayed in a public exhibition in the Atrium next to the conference venue. Conference will be encouraged to get in exchange with the authors during the breaks. Eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These are equiped with an integrated screen, which offer the possibility to present remotely via scheduled skype sessions, while the audience gathers in groups around them.

Criteria

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects, drawing important conclusions from practical experiments, for giving an introduction to innovative art works or new practical design applications, reports on cutting edge technologies and content management systems under development.

Posters will be reviewed by the Poster Committee, soon to be announced. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication in the conference proceedings. Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association website.

APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL ********************

Please have a look at the detailed calls and the official online forms for application, available at: http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

CONTACT

exhibition@urbanscreens.net
(please use the subject “USM08 - question concerning the CALL”)

MAJOR EXHIBITION SPONSORS

International Urban Screens Association - www.urbanscreens.net Fed Square Pty Ltd - www.federationsquare.com Barco ‘visibly yours’ - www.barco.com Circus - www.circusexp.com Pinnacle ‘Production Services’ - www.pinnacleps.com.

Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future.

In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

On May 10, 2008 – Pangea Day – sites in Cairo, Dharamsala, Kigali, London, New York City, Ramallah, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv will be videoconferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.

The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.

Of course, movies alone can’t change the world. But the people who watch them can. So following May 10, 2008, Pangea Day organizers will facilitate community-building activities around the world by connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations which are already doing groundbreaking work.

www.pangeaday.org

NDB is out for vacation, and will be back 2.1.08. Merry Christmas!

Nordic Design blog (http://www.nordicdesignblog.com) is your source to fresh trends and events related to design and life in Nordic Countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Finland)

Want some visibility for your design? Let us know. We’re always interested in anything related to Nordic Design.

Your Product on Nordic Design Blog!

Nordic Design Blog is always showing cutting edge designs from Nordic Countries. Want to see your creation among other trendy and most influential masterpieces? Then submit your product and we will represent it to our thousands of design-lovers. To do that just follow the following instructions:

STEP 1:
create the image of your product by dimensions 520 x 321. Save your image as a .JPG file and name the file with the name of your design. The file size must not exceed over 60 kb.

STEP 2:
Email it to design@nordicdesignblog.com

Please include your:

1. your full name,
2. e-mail,
3. the name of product,
4. product description,
5. name of designer or company,
6. your country,
7. your site’s URL

Make sure your design doesn’t infringing any copyright!

STEP 3:
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Please note:
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If accepted, Nordic Design Blog reserves the right to edit submitted material for length and clarity without prior notification of authors.

Design Finland: Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize to Julia Lundsten and Janne Kyttänen

Our friendly Finnish blog Design Finland posted recently an article about winners of Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize. They are Shoe designer Julia Lundsten and designer Janne Kyttänen.

Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 is very influenting and remarkable in Finland, and we congratulate the winners!

From Design Finland:

The awarded designers have both received their design training abroad – Julia Lundsten in London and Janne Kyttänen in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Lundsten established her shoe-design company FINSK in London, and Kyttänen the Freedom of Creation company in Amsterdam. Based on the designers’ strong personal conception of design and intelligent insight into design and methods of manufacturing, these companies display international promise in both content and business skills.

Read the rest of article on Design Finland

Designboost is a novel concept at the Swedish design arena with its combination of workshops, lectures and exhibitions. The theme for 2007 is sustainable design and it will be discussed and questioned by the 25 speakers at the lecture date Thursday October 18. Today we release the names of the last 10 speakers.

Quite often only the environmental issues are brought forward in the discussion about sustainable design. At this years Designboost event we would like to broaden the view. We think it is important to turn things upside down. Sometimes left is actually right, says David Carlson, one of the founders behind Designboost.

We believe in knowledge exchange. The more you give, the more you get. Our goal is that Designboost will be characterised by new insight, new thoughts and preferably laughter, or as we put it; right, aha, haha, says Peer Eriksson, one of the Designboost founders.

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Megapolis2022 festival is going to be opened in Vanha ylioppilastalo in the heart of Helsinki, Saturday 13.10. This time the main subject of this event particularly about consumption. People guing to discuss global environmental issues, about the role of consumer and urban development. For a day Vanha ylioppilastalo will be filled with seminars, urban art installations and documentaries.

“Whatever the choices we make on a daily basis have a big cumulative effect, either negative or positive. While mass consumerism still dominates, new trends with quality products and experiences and different values are developing and growing. How will the new urban consumerism change the world?”

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Talent on www.talicious.com

Originally uploaded by talicious dot com.

TALICIOUS is a talent community website that allows talented people to share their talents, communicate with other interesting people and be discovered by scouts or agencies who can easily search the site.
TALICIOUS was born out of the idea to give talented people the chance to show the world their talents and if they want to, be discovered. We have tried to make this as easy as possible; both for the talents to upload their profile and for their friends, family and people with the same interest as well as scouts to find them.

Basically, TALICIOUS is a community for talented people and those that work with them.

Link: TALICIOUS

Home Rejuvenation

Stan from Home Rejuvenation Blog informed me today that they are conducting a survey to find out who the 10 influential bloggers (blogs) in our design community are. The purpose is to find out the best in design blogging.

They wrote:

Let’s face it - there are too many design bloggers out there, each with their own distinctive style and voice. But we never know who, in most bloggers’ and readers’ hearts, the movers and shakers of the design blogging world are. Simply because nobody has ever bothered about finding out?

You can read more about this initiative on their blog: Home Rejuvenation

Or you can vote directly by this email.