Live Herring

Animated Movement was organized September 24 - 26, 2009 in Jyväskylä (Time of Dance Festival). There were nearly 200 visitors and about one hundred dances made in an event planned by Matti Niinimäki and Päivi Hintsanen and produced by Live Herring. Please view the images (photos by Meri Tuomi, Sirja Moberg, Emilia Soikka ja Marika Nurmela ) and broadcasted dances!

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

Pimp My Passport workshop
- Craft a protective “Faraday cage” passport cover for your passport

Yläkaupungin Yö arts festival
May 16^th 2009, from 4 p.m. to 00.00 a.m.
Jyväskylä University Main Building lobby

Live Herring workgroup invited media artists Mari Keski-Korsu and Mika Meskanen to carry out Pimp My Passport workshop to Jyväskylä on May 16^th , 2009 as part of the program of Yläkaupungin Yö arts festival. Workshop will take a place in Jyväskylä University Main Building lobby from 4 p.m. to 00.00 a.m.

Pimp My Passport workshop examines DIY and hacking prospects as well as control and privacy issues of the RFID passports currently being rolled out throughout the European Union. It also plays around with the notion of nationality and its symbols - seeking new ways to signal identity by “pimping” personal travel documents. In workshop we are crafting protective “Faraday cage” passport covers for passports.

Although dealing with heavy subject matter like electronic privacy, big brother and nationality, Pimp My Passport is a playful, hands-on project that anyone can take part of. It is realized in Jyväskylä as non stop workshop so you are welcome to join when it’s good for you. If you wish, please take your passport with you for testing your passport cover.

Realization of Pimp My Passport workshop in Jyväskylä has been supported by AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture).

For more information:

media artist Mari Keski-Korsu
mkk[AT]katastro.fi
http://www.artsufartsu.net

or

Soile Ollikainen 1/3-regional artist, Live Herring
tel. +358 (0)50 3053 540
info[AT]liveherring.org
http://www.liveherring.org/

The Museums of Jyväskylä city are concentrating at this spring to the theme of flying. In all museums there are exhibitions looking at the theme of flying from different perspectives.

Live Herring working group wants to participate to this project by
organizing a media (art) workshop that is tied to the theme of The
Magic of Flight. Now we are looking for inspiring and feasible
workshop proposals.

We are primarily looking for media(art) workshop proposals and and we wish that using of new media / new technologies at the workshop

would be considered in the proposals with the theme. But workshop proposals based for example on animation, video, image processing or 3D-modeling techniques are also welcome! In workshop the outcome could be for example an art work that is executed in cooperation with artist and participants, or in the workshop there could be a possibility to make something concrete to take home.

Time: April-May
Duration: 1-2 days
Mode of the workshop: walk-in (open-to-all workshop, where you can
participate without registration)
Theme of the workshop: the Magic of Flight (interpretation freely!)

Write an application where You:
- Describe the idea of the workshop shortly: name, theme, realization
of the workshop, language
- What resources are needed to realize workshop: space, technical
devices, assistants..
- Your wage/compensation and traveling expenses
- other background information that you consider to be important

Add your CV or short description of your earlier action in the application.

Send your application by the end of the February 2009 to
info@liveherring.org with the subject “workshop for the Magic of Flight “.

More information about the project of Jyväskylä city museums (only in
Finnish unfortunately):
http://www.avoinmuseo.fi/lentamisenihme/

For more information contact:
Soile Ollikainen
info@liveherring.org
+358 50 3053 540