27.4.2009 01:00 - Working group No Comments »
As a regional artist Live Herring wants to enforce collaboration and co-operation at the field of film and media culture and for that we have decided to invite regularly media and film artists and actors of the field to a meet each other at informal get together. Artists have also possibility to present their projects.
Second get together will be organized in Jyväskylä at The Writer’s House of Central Finland (Seminaarinkatu 26) at Thursday May 14th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Welcome!
In case You have a project that You would like to present, please contact:
Soile Ollikainen
info@liveherring.org
tel. +358 50 3053 540
Tags: meetings
16.4.2009 14:10 - Working group No Comments »
Levels-gamehappening will be arranged this year for the second time. Levels takes place at JAMK University of applied sciences´s IT-Dynamo in Lutakko. Two-day seminar- and fairhappening will encapture five floors and offers lots of game related action for all age groups.
In gamepoints there are dozens of games with different themes ready to be played. You can for example play playstation 3-games, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings or different kinds of role- or strategic games in Levels. For young kids there are for example Aladdin and Donald Duck who adventure in the world of board games. In every gamepoint there is a personal adviser who helps and gives hints on how to get started with the particular game.
A bunch of first line finish game researchers and experts will give a lecture in the seminar. This years themes for Levels are social playing and media education. In Saturday You can for example listen to Eero Tuominen´s aspects about the ethics of game industry (10.40 am) or get familiar with Marko Ahonen´s thoughts of revolutional game console playstation-2 (1.00 pm). In Sunday Terhi Luukkanen gives lecture which subject is Digital games advancing children´s and youth´s wellbeing (1.40 pm). An interesting perspective for the day´s media education theme is also represented by the Jyväskylä University´s researchers Tuula Nousiainen (10.10 am) and Jukka Varsaluoma (2.30 pm).
Gamepoints will be open through all the happening. You can choose those parts of the seminar You are interested in and get to know the gamepoints and other activity the Levels has to offer.
There is a free admission for Levels-gamehappening.
Happening is open: Saturday 25.4. 10-19 and Sunday 26.4 10-17
Tags: games, happenings, media education, social playing
9.4.2009 15:59 - Working group 1 Comment »
Alternative Party invites artists and collectors to offer their art, technology and workshops to the art and technology exhibition at the Alternative Party 2009. The event will take place at the Cable Factory in Helsinki from 23th to 25th of October 2009.
The submission deadline is on 16th August!
Submit your work before 4th of August if you want a possibility that your work will be approved and released in the press release on 21th of August. The rest of the approved works will be announced on 1st of October.
For more information visit: www.altparty.org/
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Tags: Alternative Party, open call for submission
