(MORE INFO about film, tickets and workshop COMING SOON)

JUST ONE KISS- THE FALL OF NED KELLY

An expansive cinema work by Sami van Ingen: 35 mm film, 47+ minutes, with live sound.
In 1906 the Australian brothers John and Nevin Tait co-directed the first ever feature length narrative film The Story of the Kelly Gang. The film told a popular story of Ned Kelly, the last Australian bushranger, using the classical dramatic narrative formula, adapted from the theatre where the Taits had previously been working. Theirs was not the first narrative film, but the thought of a one storyline film taking place as the main attraction of the show, the feature, was unheard of at that time.

The Taits developed a way of adding footage to their film after its release, filming whole new scenes and gluing these to their screening print as a way to attract audiences to view the film more that one time, and as a way to gain publicity. When The Story of the Kelly Gang was released, the film reel was 4000 feet long and it expanded over the years to over 6000 feet. As the film was a great financial success, other people started soon to make films about the Kelly Gang and the Taits’ version started to disappear into historical oblivion. The last mention of a screening of it is from Warrangatta, Victoria in 1914. No print (or negative) survived at all, until in 1981 two boys playing in a landfill in Melbourne found a few shots of it, some badly decomposed.

Since then the Australian National Film and Sound Archive have been able to find a few more small fragments of the original film. With a surviving synopsis text, made for publicity by the Taits, we know something of how the original film looked like and what the storyline was in it.

When I first read about The Story of the Kelly Gang, I saw it as now being like a fossil – a casting of something that had been – but that has since disappeared. As an artist I could somehow re-cast it with the information that we have, like palaeontologists reconstruct creatures using a few crumbs of fossilised bone and other information gathered over the years.

One can say that every narrative feature film has been essentially the same since 1906 and the self-standardizing storyline has become a language in itself which we expect to read in any sequence of moving images. In Just One Kiss-The Fall Of Ned Kelly I have attempted to invoke our interpretive faculties to construct this meta story out of unrelated found footage images.

JUST ONE KISS- THE FALL OF NED KELLY is accompanied by live music – a different collaboration in each screening. After each screening a shot or scene is added to the original 4000 feet long 35mm screening print, as a way to follow the traces of the Taits film. Slowly the story gets more diverse and epic, with no final version of it, but a series of projection events with different interpretations and an ever-expanding cinematic narrative.

You can upload a 10 second flash clip for JumboArt-project on the net art Gallery Spirited Herring, by selecting the title menu “JumboArt”. All uploaded flash works will be shown in the 10s Gallery of the net art gallery Spirited Herring, from where one flash clip will be juried to be displayed in Jumboscreen each month. Jumboscreen starts to show the flash clips at the beginning of February. Selected works will be presented for one month. The creators of selected works are introduced on net art gallery Spirited Herring, and also Live Herring´s webpage.

It is free to participate to “JumboArt” project and there is neither a monetary compensation from copyrights. If the author gives permission, the JumboArt´s flash works can also use in the different VJ-activities organized by Live Herring. Or they can also be compiled for presentation packages elsewhere. The author’s name are always mentioned on the Flash clips.

To Get involved - do the following:
Technical specs of the flash works:

• Size 576 x 256 pix, resolution of 72 dpi

• Ready SWF movie

• In last frame (action script / stop)

Flashes can involve a voice, but in Jumboscreen a voice is not heard. (on Gallery Spirited Herring sounds are covered.)
Flashes can not be interactive and it must be done as an automatic linear presentation.
Flashes does not have any substantive restrictions (within the limits of good taste), but we hope strong visual vision.

Presentation may be proposed a 10-second flash or, for example, a work composed of 10s separated parts. However on Jumboscreen parts are presented at random order.

Participate in the Project at net art Gallery Spirited Herring through the database by selecting a work type on the menu “10s/JumboArt”. Before that you need to log in to Gallery as a user. Signing up is free.

Act fast, because the project JumboArt is expected to begin in early February!

The project is produced by Regional artist of film and media culture / Central Findland, Live Herring in cooperation with Jumboscreen.

More information:
Satu Viitala
jumboart10s@gmail.com

Call for Participation, Deadline Wednesday 20 January!

Pixelache Helsinki 2010 features:

HERBOLOGIES/FORAGING NETWORKS
- The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in
Helsinki (Finland) and Kurzeme region of Latvia, exploring the
cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal
plants, within the contemporary context of online networks, open
information-sharing, biological and hydroponic technologies.

HOW TO BUILD A DISHWASHER
- The first exhibition of a collaborative research project by Carnegie
Mellon University Robotics Institute researchers Garth Zeglin, Marek
Michalowski, Geoff Gordon, Ben Brown, Iheanyi Umez-Eronini, Sue Ann
Hong, Paul Scerri and artist Axel Straschnoy. The objective has been
to find out what kind of art robots make for other robots. It started
with a discussion within the team and with partners such as artists,
theater directors, philosophers and neurobiologists. Following these
conversations, two robots were designed and built: One that can make
performance art and another one that can watch it.

GOTO10
- GOTO10 is a collective of international artists and programmers,
dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital arts.
GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for
artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software
programming and art. GOTO10 collective has been invited to curate
parts of Pixelache Helsinki 2010 programme.

GOLAN LEVIN EXHIBITION IN KIASMA MEDIATHEQUE
- Golan Levin is an artist and engineer interested in exploring new
modes of reactive expression. Through performances, digital artifacts,
and virtual environments, Golan applies creative twists to digital
technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make
visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the
intersection of non-verbal communication and interactivity.

ART MEETS ENERGY CONSUMPTION
- Pixelache and Helsingin Energia are collaborating to produce
artworks related to collective energy consumption in Helsinki area.
The artworks will be located in public space in Helsinki and/or
presented as online projects. In the first round of the project,
following artists were invited to submit proposals for artworks: Miska
Knapek, Andy Best, Maria Duncker, Unsworn Industries (Erik Sandelin &
Magnus Torstensson) and 4um (Karthik Acharya, Arto Tommiska, Elina
Alatalo ja Jukka Hautamäki).

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE
- Open Source Hardware presents projects and communities that have
over the past few years been making knowledge about electronic
hardware more accessible. The OSH programme will include presentations
of case examples by 5-10 local and international participants, such as
the initiative Fritzing from Germany for documenting and manufacturing
pcbs for Arduino board and the meshing wireless access point project
for low-infra areas Mesh-Potato.

MEGAPHONEBOOTH HELSINKI
- Megaphonebooth Helsinki is a coin-operated megaphone to be located
in a public space somewhere in Helsinki. To use the megaphone you just
have to insert one euro per minute, speak into the attached handset
and have your voice instantly amplified and projected into the local
soundscape. Unsworn Industries (Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson)
is an interaction design and innovation studio based in Malmö, Sweden.
Unsworn will premiere their project Megaphonebooth in Helsinki
during March 2010.

THE INVISIBLE CITY
- The Invisible City project explores the city not just as formed by
physical space, but also as a collective construction, made up of the
memories, desires and experiences of its inhabitants. The city should
not be conceived as a unit but rather as the sum of its inhabitants’
multiple points of views which, all combined, create a multi-faceted
perspective. Thus, the city is an aggregation of public and private
spaces, from which emerges a shared identity allowing us to live in it.

ART AND SUSTAINABILITY
- This programme section is organised in connection with MIM goes
sustainable (working title) project by Maike Lond & Taavet Jansen. It
aims to provide alternatives to traditional thinking of how theaters
operate and prove that low-tech eco-thinking in theatre does not
automatically mean simply substandard production quality. The main
goal of the project is to create a staged theatrical performance that
brings the usage of fossil fuels and other resources to absolute
minimum.

SIGNALS FROM THE SOUTH
- Signals from the South is a programme section dedicated to art, media
and technology from the South (South America, Africa, Asia). The third
edition of Signals from the South features an exhibition by Shaina
Anand & Ashok Sukumaran (India).

ALSO IN PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2010:
- Performances by TERMINALBEACH (AT) and Ona Kamu (FI)
- Pixelache Software of the Year
- Club events
- MUU Artists’ Association interactive sound installation course results
- Sound workshop for kids in collaboration with IHME Days
- HELOW 2010 (Helsinki Low Frequency Weekend) electronic music festival

++ MORE PROGRAMME TO BE CONFIRMED

Live Herring will start Christmas holiday on mon December 21st. We will be back at work next year on January 7th.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year for all!

During the evening you will see some examples of the work of Live Herring done this year. We will also tell shortly some examples of what Live Herring is going to do in future.

As a regional artist Live Herring wants to enforce collaboration and co-operation in the field of film and media culture and for that we have decided to invite artists and actors of the field to a meet each other at informal get together meetings. Artists have also possibility to present their own projects. If you wish to present your project, please contact us.

With best regards
Live Herring
The Arts Council of Central Finland
info@liveherring.org
tel. +358 50 3053 540

Web Gallery Spirited Herring is renewing and will be opened again on Fri November the 20th 2009!

Live Herring and Arctic and Fabulous Film Festival organize Demoscene club on Fri November the 20th 2009 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bar Vakiopaine (Kauppakatu 6, Jyväskylä) to celebrate the re-opening of Web Gallery Spirited Herring. Gallery has been under construction but now it will be opened completely renewed!

Artist Pilvari Pirtola from Alternative Party organization from Helsinki has chosen the demos presented at the club. He will also present the show in Jyväskylä. On the program there will about 40 demos from Finnish and foreign artists, for example mfx, Inward, Kosmoplovci, Aspekt, Orange, Matt Current, SQNY, Kewlers, Flo and Byterapers.

Web Gallery Spirited Herring is the first Finnish web gallery. It was founded by member of Live Herring work group Päivi Hintsanen in the mid 1990’s. By organizing Demoscene club Web Gallery Spirited Herring returns to its origins, because demos were presented especially in the early years of the Web Gallery Spirited Herring. Web Gallery Spirited Herring is a project of the Arts Council of Central Finland.

Demoscene is computer art subculture born in the mid 1980’s. It concentrates in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer. Demos work well in club because music has an important role in them. Alternative Party ry is an association that organizes annually Alternative Party, the biggest demoscene party in Finland.

Welcome!
Club is organized as a part of Arctic and Fabulous Film Festival program.
Age limit 18+, tickets 3 €

contact:
Soile Ollikainen
Live Herring, Arts Council of Central Finland
info@liveherring.org
puh. +358 50 3053 540

From each participating country, 4 projects are selected into the European
programme of the festival. In addition there will be local programming in
each city.

There is special interest in projects which open up the spatial and
social experience of the city by an innovative use of the visual,
interactive and participatory potentials of media and architecture. The
objective of the event is to present new insights into the urban environment
and to encourage debate about the uses of public / media space.

The final selections will be made in the festival’s international organizing
group which also decides which projects will be presented in each city. In
the selections, special emphasis will be put on the idea and aesthetic form
of the project, as well as its technical feasibility. Artists are encouraged
to think outside the box of big screens and to propose temporary, mobile and
low-tech projects!

The selected artists will receive a fee and technical / production support
for realizing their projects. 1-2 artists will be offered a residency at
Liverpool’s FACT centre during Summer 2010.

*Media Facades 2010 organizers: *
Public Art Lab (Berlin), IMAL (Bryssel), m-cult (Helsinki), FACT (Liverpool)

* In collaboration with: *
Kitchen (Budapest), Ars Electronica Future lab (Linz) ja Media Lab Prado
(Madrid), Finnish Institute (London), FRAME (Helsinki)

The festival is realized with support from EU Culture 2007.

*Expressions of interest / first project ideas*
*working title and brief description of project idea
*presentation of artist / cv or link to home pages
*email by 12.11.09 to minna.tarkka@m-cult.org

*Contact & More information*
Minna Tarkka, m-cult
minna.tarkka@m-cult.org

*Media Facades 2010 timeline*

By *12.11.2009*  tentative proposals/project ideas are invited to be discussed
in the first meeting of the festival’s international organizing group. A
short expression of interest with a project description and cv/link to home
pages is sufficient at this stage (see below).

Final proposals are due on *15.12.2009. *You will receive more information
for making the proposal, including descriptions of venues in the
participating cities.

The selections will be made by *15.1.2010* after a process of evaluation and
negotiations. The project development is kicked off at the Media Facades
workshop for artists and organizers during transmediale.10 festival in
Berlin *3-5.2.2010.* Selections for the FACT residency will follow
immediately.

The period from February to August 2010 is reserved for developing,
producing and testing the projects. The FACT residency has a duration of 4-6
weeks during Summer 2010.

The Media Facades festival events take place during the last week of August
and first week of September. The festival’s main event is a 2-day-long joint
broadcasting event, during which the projects will premiere in 7 cities. In
each city, additional local programming, seminars, clubs, special screenings
will be organized.

Three days filled with digital art, technology, business and science: developer of ARM Sophie Wilson, the crazy Commodore girl Jeri Ellsworth, cyberpunk rock by Dope Stars Inc, the amazing Super computer demo and other competitions, digital art and technology at the exhibition, mind-blowing visual effects and more.

You can also view all dances in bambuser.com/channel/animoituliik (select tab broadcasts).

In this year’s program of the Jyväskylä based Time of Dance Festival there is a novel workshop that combines dance and media art: Live Herring work group organizes Animated Movement workshop in cooperation with Time of Dance Festival. The workshop is an open to all, walk-in workshop. It is connected to the theme of dance and technology which has been part of the festival program from the very first Time of Dance Festival.

In Animated Movement workshop participants create an animation character for example by drawing it by hand or by computer or by cutting it from cardboard. After choosing music and landscape to his/her animated dance, participant goes to make movements in a separated space. That movement is shown in an animated environment as a dance of the animated character which the participant has made!

Workshop takes place at The Jyväskylä City Library in the Small Lecture Room (Pieni luentosali):
Thursday September 24th from 11 am to 4 pm
Friday September 25th from 11 am to 6.30 pm
Saturday September 26th from 11 am to 3.30 pm

Welcome to participate!

Background information:

The Project is produced by the regional artist of film and media culture Live Herring (The Arts Council of Central Finland) in co-operation with Time of Dance Festival.
The project concept and visualization: Päivi Hintsanen
The functional concept and motion detection system: Matti Niinimäki
Developing of workshop has been supported by AVEK

contact:
Päivi Hintsanen
Live Herring work group
paivi.hintsanen@coloria.net