Category: Exhibitions

Photosynth Social Club summer offering

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‘Photosynth Social Club: Summer Beat Camp & Sound Bathhouse (Helsinki)’
Pixelache Festival ‘Glitchez’

Day One: Thursday 8 June, 13:00 – 16:00 | Puristamo, Kaapelitehdas/Cable Factory
Day Two (Tarvo Island expedition): Friday 9 June, 13:00 – 16:00 | Kitchen Lab Tarvo *drop ins welcome!
Sound Bathhouse: Saturday 10 June, 18:00 | Puristamo, Kaapelitehdas/Cable Factory

The T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society returns to the Octo-Biozone in 2091 for a rejuvenating Summer Beat Camp & Sound Bathhouse on the site of the former Kaapelitehdas (with special expedition to Tarvo island!). This year our Photosynth Social Club offers an exploration of the area’s unique post-industrial-techno-nature-cultural surrounds, inviting local lichen-kin into a program of convivial sonic and somatic experimentation. Participants will snap symbio-selfies to process or synthesise into samples, discovering together how to play these using free/libre open-source software while seeking interesting correspondences, patterns and rhythms.

The camp culminates in a breakbeat science sound bathhouse ‘soak session’, where campers will perform the results on a nice sound system and video projector, hopefully in a geodesic dome.

More info on Pixelache here

* Participants are requested to register (email welikelichen@protonmail.com) as spaces are limited. Camping is not permitted on site, please contact us for an alternative option.

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW

We are generously hosted on Tarvo island by Kitchen Lab Tarvo – kiitos paljon!

 

 

Have you seen this fish?

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This year the Amateur Lichenologists Society was invited to have a presence in Vilnius, with the opportunity to show some work alongside Žilvinas Landzbergas in the Vilnius Academy of Arts Glass Pavilion, as part of the exhibition Teleport to Nida.

That’s our life-size baltic sturgeon on the glass (long ago extinct in the wild), the exact length of the last one caught in the Baltic Sea. Here also is the text that went along with the display:

“Did you know that the iconic Baltic Sturgeon is considered a ‘living fossil’ that was for a short time extinct here in Lithuania? The Sturgeon’s ancestors survived ‘the Great Dying’ (the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event) some 200 million years ago, in which 96% of marine life disappeared. In 1996 the last wild specimen of this prehistoric fish to be found in the Baltic Sea was hauled out at a remote island in Estonia, 2.9 metres long and weighing 136 kg. In 2057, after decades of a committed reintroduction program, healthy adults born in captivity and released into the Neman River were once again observed at the Curonian Spit, leaping from the water in what some believe is a kind of communion with their oddly kindred space lichen.”