There are many wonders in jungles of Internet, and among these are various revolutionary and mind-blowing things, claiming to make our life better.

Recently I stumbled upon in blogosphere on number of articles about Reinvention Summit and come across www.reinventionsummit.com site. After some reading, I haven’t figured out is it the really working thing or some kind of one season phenomena.

I will let you judge by yourself if it’s worth to spend your valuable time or not.

What does they claim:

“If you’re an innovator, change-maker, or entrepreneur, we can help you get others to believe in your story. Do you need to create buy-in and acceptance for your change story? We can help you frame a bigger story that reduces the need to persuade, convince, or sell people on anything. Founded in 2009, Get Storied’s mission is to bring storytelling into business consciousness and popular culture. Get Storied works at the frontiers of brand positioning, change marketing, tribal engagement, and social media storytelling. Our clients include world-class institutions like Audubon, Omnicom, and Zappos.com. After a decade pioneering new methods of business storytelling, Get Storied now develops curriculum, consult, and build a variety of media brands that promote the role of narrative at the heart of everything. Our Expertise Includes Education: We create curriculum and deliver narrative training for business application Consulting: We consult to select clients who are driving systemic change and impact Publishing: We build social media brands and collaborative platforms for storytelling We’ve created an ecosystem of content that evangelize the concepts of storytelling: Get Storied, Story University, The New Storytellers, and now, the Reinvention Summit. We serve a global audience of creatives, change-makers, and social entrepreneurs.”

Whant to know more? visit their site: http://www.reinventionsummit.com/

 

“The City of Ottawa, Artengine and the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation are pleased to present Firmament – a digital art exhibition featuring James Acres, Eric Chan, Nichola Feldman-Kiss and Adrian Gollner.

Ottawa is a creative city and recognizes that collaborative thinking and dialogue are powerful. They can lead to many great things. Creative and digital collaboration can touch everything from youth engagement, media arts, education, health to meaningful dialogue.

This exhibition accompany’s a digital media trade mission and will bring together creative digital and cultural digital thinkers from Canada and Finland. Opening reception at ArtShortCut’s ArtSpace on Malminkatu 36, Helsinki.

www.artengine.ca

www.artshortcut.com

 

MAJOR EXHIBITION CURATED BY SNØHETTA ARCHITECTS PRESENTS NEW NORDIC ART AND DESIGN INCLUDING BOTH EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED TALENT

_ Press Preview: October 28, 2010, 9:30–11 am The American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavia House presents Nordic Models + Common Ground: Art and Design Unfolded, an exhibition organized by Norsk Form in collaboration with The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF). The exhibition is curated by the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, which also designed the installation, in collaboration with Situ Studio. The first in a series of programs marking the ASF’s centennial, Nordic Models + Common Ground offers a visionary look at contemporary Nordic art and design, examining nascent trends and their impact on the global art and design communities. All of the Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are represented.

The exhibition examines architecture, product design, fine art, graphic design, fashion, and photography by thirty-five artists and designers. This diverse, boundary-crossing body of work demonstrates the many ways in which contemporary Nordic designers are embracing socially responsible design that reflects the egalitarianism inherent to their societies. Moreover, with projects ranging from a violin to textiles, from a public outdoor shelter to lamps made from dried codfish skin, the exhibition demonstrates not only functionality, craftsmanship, and the use of natural materials, but also humor, cultural commentary, and a focus on new technologies.

 

This is an open call for two Pixelache Helsinki 2011 programme sections: map me if you will and Computational Photography.

The deadline for proposals is Monday 8 November 2010.

More information at: http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2011/

Open Call: map me if you will Pixelache Festival 2011 looks for works that collect, transform, and make use of the data of everyday life in unseen artistic ways.

By the mere fact of living an ordinary modern urban life, we produce a huge amount of information about ourselves that we are hardly aware of, nor we usually see or make use of. Through this data we become traceable, accessible, predictable – and clearly enough – ideal clients of information-based capitalism. So if we cannot prevent the production and the corporate or governmental use of this data without changing our lifestyle completely, how can we at least benefit from it ourselves? How can we share this information with the society at large or the community we live in to our common advantage? And how could we even build systems ourselves that collect data for our own purposes?

Concurrently, the complexity of human actions and interactions increases with the accumulation and growing capacity of the digital tools we are using. We may therefore better understand what’s going on around us if we find ways to visualise and interpret the data which we produce. How can our processes and the correlations of our actions be represented in meaningful and inspiring ways? Are there inventive ways to visualise/represent data that go beyond the pure digital and turn abstract data into concrete entities/objects?

‘map me if you will’ is a programme devised by guest curator Susanne Jaschko. One or two new artworks will be created by invited artists. This open call is for works which will either be presented individually or as a part of a the ‘map me if you will’ seminar. You can also propose workshops, performances and other related programmes.

Open Call: Computational Photography – the return of the unexpected In computational photography, camera and picture-taking are perceived as concepts that can be modified in do-it-yourself spirit and are therefore open to discussion, redefinition, and hacking. This artistic approach to the field differs from how the term is understood in the photographic industry where the focus is on features that serve typical photographic purposes.

The digital camera has become increasingly a tool for programming instead of merely recording images. Cameras are also equipped with sensors that retrieve location and position data thus giving rise to expanding the visual realm to location-aware, multisensory and embodied expression. It is still possible to just ‘take pictures’ but the means of visual expression go beyond what is commonly understood as photography.

The work of an artist takes place in close connection to the digital medium and algorithms that are usually not as well-controlled as conventional photographer’s tools, leaving plenty of room for playful and unexpected results. The partly artificial or manipulated nature of the resulting images is in many cases visible – a seemingly faithful representation of reality is abandoned and our aesthetic preconceptions are challenged. The Internet can be seen both as a giant repository of source images, and a platform for shared projects and shared code.

This open call is for artworks of computational photography in the broad meaning of the term. They can be still or moving images, installations, online projects; or devices or social processes used to create new visual languages. The programme section is organised by guest curator Markku Nousiainen and in collaboration with Aalto University Media Factory. The advisory board for this programme sections consists of Antti Huittinen, Jussi Ängeslevä and Miska Knapek.

 

The theme of this spring´s DesignBoost in Stockholm at Arkitekturmuseet was Design for Life. Now the question is once again being posed, how to make design economical, ecological and fair when DesignBoost collaborates with City of Arnhem, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten and Premsela in Arnhem Holland.

At this DesignBoost people of worldwide reputation such as Satyendra Pakhale, Ineke Hans, Brent Richards, Richard Hutten, Flora Bowden, Roelof Mulder, David Shah, Joost Alferink, Joffrey Walonker, Sean Pillot de Chenecey and Rudy Stroink will participate. Additional participants will be announced.

Design for Life is about how we shall shape our way of life. How we plan, produce, deliver and consume everything from cities, transportation and infrastructure as well as food, entertainment, products and brands. Over the years design unfortunately has developed more and more into an exceedingly contributing source of pollution and over consumption. Therefor some interesting names in the world of design will once again meet, to show how design and architecture may be used to create better conditions for people as well as for the environment.

One of the speakers is Ineke Hans, known for her furniture and products that come as one-offs, small series, or as mass-produced items. Next to that the studio works on exhibitions and architectural projects. We need to redefine design and focus on people´s needs, rather than just surface. When design is put in a humanistic perspective one understands the tremendous ability it has to make change happen, socially as well as economically and ecologically. With knowledge of design, we can solve and improve everyday life of people both in Sweden and globally, says Peer Eriksson.

DesignBoost – Made in [Arnhem] in Arnhem Holland will take place on the 6-7 September with around seventy five especially invited participants. During two days BoostChats (workshops) and BoostTalks (lectures) on the theme Design for Life will be held. BoostChat on the 6th is exclusively open to those especially invited guests while the BoostTalks on the 7th will be open to the public. Entrance is free!

DesignBoost invites the most pioneering thinkers. Ineke Hans is established as one of the worlds greatest designers but other brilliant talents will also attend, such as Richard Hutten, among other things involved in Droog design since 1993, David Carlson tells us. He, along with Peer Eriksson is the initiative behind DesignBoost.

Further info at http://www.designboost.se

Regarding questions, please contact: David Carlson, david@designboost.se, +46 70-798 28 97 Peer Eriksson, peer@designboost.se, +46 70-5336631

WHERE: The BoostTalk (lectures) is open for public and takes place at Auditorium ArtEZ, Oude Kraan 26, Arnhem Holland September 7th between 10am and 4pm. Free entrance.

 

French atmosphere, art workshops and open doors!

On the stage: chanson duo Ottilie and juggling double act Compagnie DeFracto from France. Painting event. French short films. France through the senses workshop and pin workshop, Restaurant French workshop, Parkour workshops around the Kaapelitehdas area, Media art workshops, Karkkitehtuuri workshop, Kuvarupattelu photo collage workshop, cartoon drawing lessons, ceramics workshops, Elfing School circus workshop, Kurkistuksia event, upcycling crafts workshop…

Friday 27/08 at 17 – 21 Free entry

 

Rammstein
When: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:00 PM
Where: Hartwall Areena / Helsinki Halli Oy, Helsinki
View details

_
_

Depeche Mode
When: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 8:00 PM
Where: Hartwall Areena / Helsinki Halli Oy, Helsinki

View details

 

Aug. 11 Mary Poppins
Aug. 13 Kraftwerk
Aug. 14 Vampire Weekend
Aug. 14 Flow Festival
Aug. 14 Ladyhawke
Aug. 14 The 69 Eyes
Aug. 14 Maj Karma
Aug. 15 Helsinki International Air Show, Leningrad Cowboys & The Red Army Air Force Ensemble
Aug. 15 Helsinki City Marathon
Aug. 15 Singles Haunted Ghost Tour & Pub Night
Aug. 15 The Juan MacLean
Aug. 16 ALLEN, LILY
Aug. 16 Fever Ray
Aug. 17 The Spyro live @ On The Rocks
Aug. 18 Band of Horses (USA)
Aug. 18 Iconcrash
Sep. 04 Amoral

Link: Eventful

 

From mydeco.com:

Award-winning designer Harri Koskinen will curate an exhibition taking place in London at CHELSEA Space this September and October.

Due to run alongside the London Design Festival, Into the Woods will show off designer homewares made by Finnish design company iittala.

Famed for its glass products in particular, the century-old Scandinavian group has given full control to Koskinen to create the exhibition, which will run from September 16th to October 17th.

‘He has a sure appreciation of Scandinavian design – understanding the quiet, simple, subtle and traditional techniques used to create some of the most interesting and lasting designs,’ iittalia said of the designer.

Over the course of his career, Koskinen has created iconic products for a number of leading manufacturers and has worked with the likes of Altia, Arabia, Design House Stockholm, Panasonic and Swarovski.

In 2004, he received the Compasso d’Oro Award – a highly regarded Italian design prize – for his Muu chair, which was designed for Montina.

Link: mydeco.com

 

A collection of photographs, paintings, videos and mixed media, this exhibition will celebrate the works of nine provocative contemporary artists (four American, five Norwegian) all of whom are American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) Fellowship recipients: Eric Aho, Marion Belanger, Lene Berg, Sandra Binion, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Ole Martin Lund Bø, Unn Fahlstrøm, Nina Katchadourian and Are Mokkelbost.

http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/