Namastic Art Collecive

Irresistible District

2009-07-24T00:15:00.001-07:00

Namastic Art Collective is organising IRRESISTIBLE DISTRICT, an event that will take place in the Building Number 5 of Suvilahti area. The event, like others already organized by Namastic Art Collective, is a mixture of high art, underground culture, and conversations around contemporary art and the conception of a new world based on the research and use of new energy sources, on openness, and on a healthy relation between individual and society. Art disciplines: photography, drawings, video, music, installation, performance, DJ and VJ.

21st, 22nd, 23rd of August 2009 Building Number 5 of Suvilahti area
Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Helsinki.
(Metro stop Kalasatama)

Opening times:
Friday and Saturday from 18:00 to 03:00
Sunday from 16:00 to 22:00.

Free entrance.

More info: http://irresistibledistrict.com/

Artists invited:

Roi Vaara
Petri Kuljuntausta
Adel Abidin
Hannu Karjalainen
David O’Reilly
Hyoghi
Hannu Häkkinen
Rikard Lassenius
Ima Pico
Random Doctors
Adrian Blackwell
Ossi Kajas
Stefan Canham
Rufina Wu
Juhana Moisander
Shinji Kanki
Andrew Bentley
Helsinki Rooftop Ninjas
Nu Transit
Esa Ruoho aka Lackluster
Juho Hietala aka Blamstrain
Aleksi Perälä aka Ovuca
Thommy Öhman aka Tomplex
Pauliina Jokela
Egle Oddo
Oliver Whitehead
Delacrew
Dhanya Pilo
Gillian McIver
Tom G Adriani
Luna Nera
DJ Bunuel
Oravainen
Aleksi Jalonen
and many others …

Sponsors:

London-Helsinki-Berlin Moving Images

2009-05-29T00:22:00.000-07:00

London-Helsinki-Berlin Moving Images brings together three artist collectives working with moving images (film and video) in a show in three cities. The show will showcase firstly the diversity of approaches taken by each artistic collective, and at the same time highlight concerns shared by the current generation of contemporary moving-image artists. The showcase is planed for October 2009.

Curators:
Gillian McIver
Egle Oddo
Virva Sointu
Ima Picó
Julian Ronnefeldt
Matthew Fahey
Adrian Shephard

Organizations:

Luna Nera. London

Namastic Art Collective. Helsinki

Loophole. Berlin

More Info: London-Helsinki-Berlin Moving Images

Participation in CeC '09-India

2009-01-23T09:25:00.000-08:00

The Namastic Art Collective participates in CeC '09, The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity. The festival is scheduled to be held February 27 to March 1, 2009, in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.

PROGRAM:

THE NAMASTIC ART COLLECTIVE (Helsinki, Finland)
Realised in Cooperation with AV-ARKKI, Finland
(120 minutes)
Digital and media art are one of the strongest and most innovative fields of art in Finland. This is due to many reasons, including the fact that Finland is a high-tech country and artists have always been interested in experimenting with the new possibilities of new media. Sometimes there is also interaction between art and enterprises who are directly interested in the discovery of new tools or new ways to use old devices. There is innovation everyday in this field; it evolves very quickly with technique as well as with aesthetic. And it reflects on society, on our way of living, on our identity.
In this investigation, some of the artists play with technology as a tool to reach something beyond the Human, the Mental Projection of a Digital Self. Sometimes in a playful and joyful way, sometimes in a more introspective and demanding As Finland does not have a very long tradition of art and there is a sense of freedom among the artists when they create. The same goes for the public too. Most people, especially the younger generations, are rather open minded and tech-savvy and can appreciate the convergence of art and technology very well. This kind of “mental climate” combined with accessible technology and good venues is fertile ground for interesting digital art. This has also attracted many foreign artists to come to live and work in Finland, enriching the art scene with their knowledge and energy. The Namastic Art Collective has set out to take Finnish digital art to international festivals also to share the products of this unique culture with the wider world.

X-Rayed ~ by Juha Mäki-Jussila
Love Song ~ Adel Abidin
Beat Box – Alternate Take ~ by Jani Rusica
Pulse + ~ by Pink Twins
Neon ~ by Egle Oddo
Elle ~ by Rikard Lassenius
Bewegung ~ by Kristina Frei & Marko Timlin
Blue Giraffe ~ by Mikko Maasalo
Seven ~ Pekka Sassi
The Egg ~ by Maurice Blok
The Burden ~ by Oirjetta Brander
The Elicopter ~ Markus Renvall
For Better, For Worse ~ Heta Kuchka
Caustically Happy ~ Tjader Knight
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In the Forest There Is a Path of Martin Heidegger ~ by Jaana Kokko