HARDCORE exhibition is organized by Design Forum Finland, the Consulate General of Finland in New York and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, and presented in collaboration with the Meatpacking District Initiative and Abe NYC, Inc. HARDCORE is supported by Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Digital Society, the Greater Helsinki Promotion, Finlandia Vodka, the Finnish Tourist Board, Genelec, IcelandAir, Helsinki City Tourist and Convention Bureau, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Ministry of Education in Finland, and The National Council for Design.
New York Magazine is the official media sponsor
www.hardcoredesign.net

“Hardcore is used to refer to an extreme dedication to a specific activity or to something more intense than the regular mainstream. It can also be understood as the most authentic part or the essential core of something. As such, it can be used to characterize Finnish design.”
– Curator, Ilkka suppanen

The exhibition showcases projects by
Noa Bembibre
Fokus Fabrik
Jaana and Päivi Haaksiluoto
Kokoro & Moi
koneHelsinki
Harri Koskinen
Yrjö Kukkapuro and Henrik Enbom
Janne Kyttänen
Hannu Kähönen
Mikko Laakkonen
Kristiina Lassus
Arihiro Miyake
Mikko Paakkanen
Pentagon Design
Provoke Design
Anne Kyyrö Quinn
Anna Ruohonen
Stepan Sarpaneva
Tonfisk Design
HARDCORE lounge is hosted by major Finnish design companies Iittala, Artek and Marimekko

Hardcore new finnish design
may 17–19, 2008
413–415 West 14th Street,
New York, NY 10014
(Between 9th Ave and Washington St)
Hours Saturday, May 17 12–5 pm, Sunday, May 18 12–8 pm, Monday, May 19 12–6 pm

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.

Marimekko and Artek proudly present

THE MILKBAR 16–21 April 2008

Welcome to the opening Wednesday, 16 April, 2–5 pm

SPAZIOCRISPITRE (internal courtyard) Viale Francesco Crispi, 3 20121 Milan, Italy

As we already wrote in one of previous posts, these days the vapour emissions of the Salmisaari power plant in Helsinki are illuminated to show the current levels of electricity consumption by local residents. A laser ray traces the cloud during the night time and turn it into a city scale neon sign.

Authors inviting everybody to selebrate closing of the show at the last day (Friday 29.02.08 / 19:00 - 20:00):

UNPLUG!
Calling residents of Ruoholahti & Lauttasaari Warm drinks outside tram stop 8 at Salmisaari Come and see the green cloud grow

Link: VIHREÄ PILVI

Folks from core77 blog just published fresh updates on Stockholm Design Week 2008, this Photo Gallery shows the most important persons and events of the show.

Stockholm Design Week 2008: Photo Gallery Preview: “Stockholm Design Week 2008: Photo Gallery Preview”

They say:

This weekend the Stockholm Design Week 2008 came to its peak. With over 40,000 visitors this is the biggest Nordic design event anchored by the annual Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair. We say “Nordic” since next to Swedish design, also works from Finland, Norway and Denmark are on show - a perfect occasion to see what design means up the cold north.

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

Within 3 years, WIF (Webdesign International Festival) stood out as the main event for Webdesign enthusiasts; whether they are professionals or amateurs.

This international festival is an occasion for revealing talents. Not less than 40 teams made up of the best webdesigners in the world brought together in the heart of Limousin to have a 24hours of non-stop competition.

The online preselections are taking place in less than a month, on January 18, 2008, before the great finale in Limoges from 17 to 19 April. Hurry up!

Link: WIF

Renewed Diana’s park was opened officially in Helsinki yesterday. This event was organizing by infamous Design District Helsinki and named after sculpture of Diana by Yrjö Liipola that decorating the park since 1928.

Helsingians were celebrated this event with music, performances and refreshments. Modern dance group Gruppen Fyra entertained the audience.

We have wrote about talented photographer Uzi Varon in our blog. His Double Exposure project was shown in Helsinki last January and is booked to Tampere for next fall and then to Helsinki again on March 2007.

Thanks to Uzi, he published today the project on his website, and we now able to enjoy it online.

The project contain 27 images made from two photographs taken in Israel and Finland. Compared together these pictures giving amazing and sometimes really moving effect. The music by Jason Carter adding dramatic effect to the show. Worth to take some time for looking.

Finland, Israel, Photography, Varon