Pixelache Wikimedians-in-residence 2022: Podcasts about Wikimedia & grassroots cultural organisations meeting, conversing, and getting to know-each other again as long-lost friends


In this podcast Rebecca O'Neill of Wikimedia Community Ireland spoke with Toni Sant of Wikimedia Community Malta, a curator, academic, and podcaster, about his experience in documenting creative practices using Wikimedia projects. We explore how emerging documentation projects of contemporary art collections are formulated to ensure they are interoperable with platforms such as Wikidata.

Pixelache 2023 wikimedians-in-residence podcast rebecca-oneill toni-sant.ogg; 35 min 53 s; 35.75 MB
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pixelache_2023_wikimedians-in-residence_podcast_rebecca-oneill_toni-sant.ogg


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In summary, our process discusses and reflect upon the long parallel history -20 years- of Pixelache Helsinki Festival and transdisciplinary platform, which in the first decade has promoted open culture, alongside the time when Wikimedia methodologies were developing. Where have these approaches overlapped, gone hand-in-hand and then diverged. We wish to reconcile in ambitions with both the Wikimedia and Creative Commons anniversaries.

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Pixelache Helsinki over the year 2022 has worked on their archival process and reflections, and this Wikimedia Foundation rapid grant-supported project updates skills and understanding within our membership, interested Finnish and regional peers, as well as an international example for other similar cultural associations involved in network culture.

These podcasts are released with open licenses in a series feature Florence Devouard, Toni Sant, Rebecca O’Neill, Nikki Zeuner, Z. Blace and Andrew Gryf Paterson, recorded between November 2022 and January 2023. 

These residencies are a follow on from the initial conversation between Z. Blace and Rebecca O’Neill on open archiving practices as part of Pixelache Helsinki Festival #Burn____ in June 2021, and began with #OpenMICwithPixelache Vorspiel event of CTM/Transmediale festivals in February 2022.

The process was funded by the rapid grant of the Wikimedia Foundation, and with inkind support of Pixelache Helsinki Festival. The Wikimedians-in-residence process is part of Pixelache’s cultural programme reflecting upon 20 years of activity.

Pixelache is annually supported by TAIKE (Arts Promotion Centre Finland), and Helsinki City.


** Production credits ** 

Project initiator: Z. Blace.
Audio identity design by Sumugan Sivanesan.
Audio post production by Miia Laine.
Text translations into Finnish and Sámi language by Yupik. 
Project and visual design by Z. Blace. January 2022 graphic by Andrew Gryf Paterson.
Lead producer: Andrew Gryf Paterson.
Financial administrative support: Mathilde Palenius, Raisa Veikkola.

Wikimedians-in-residence 2022: Rebecca O'Neill & Toni Sant

Pixelache Helsinki is a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism.

Amongst our fields of interest are: experimental interaction and electronics; renewable energy production/use; bioarts and art-science culture; grassroot organising and networks; politics and economics of media/technology; alternative economic cultures; VJ culture and audiovisual performances; media literacy and engaging environmental issues.

The name of Pixelache was found in an article that predicted new words which we would need in future. The word ‘pixelache’ (similar to ‘headache’) was supposed to describe the feeling that results from an overdose of digital media content. This overdose can happen easily if the content is too monotonic – which is the case if standards, formats, tools and design principles converge to a narrow set of options. Later interpretations could be an ‘ache’ of digital influence in everyday life, and an ‘ache’ to re-engage with non-digital interfaces and systems.

Pixelache wants to challenge mainstream standards and conventions, not only related to media and technology, but in the contemporary society in general.

Pixelache Helsinki is coordinated by non-profit cultural association Piknik Frequency ry, and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

See more at: http://www.pixelache.ac/about

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