manSEDANse Play!

Tuesday 05.10. 14-18 | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

This year's manSEDANse Play! is all about indie (as in independent) computer games. In indie development, a fresh take on gameplay design is often more important than graphics or special effects. Thus, new ways of gaming have made independent games into a very interesting forum for computer game design, and the DIY approach has produced many innovative game design concepts and ideas. Many indie games have become successful both critically and commercially.

Erik Svedäng is the creator of Blueberry Garden, the winner of the price for Best Independent Game at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. Other games by Svedäng include Shot Shot Shoot, developed for the iPad, and a collaboration with Niklas Åkerblad called Kometen, which was released for the iPad and the iPhone. He will be talking about his three finished commercial projects and pointing out interesting details in them, related to them being indie games and their relation to their view on game design. Erik Svedäng lives in Göteborg, Sweden.

Petri Purho is an independent game developer and rapid game prototyper. Game development has been a hobby of his for at least ten years. Purho's gaming interests don't just limit themselves to video games, but also include pen and paper roleplaying games, strategy games, board games and card games. An early version of Purho's game Crayon Physics Deluxe won the grand prize at the prestigious Independent Games Festival in 2008. The game has since become a bestseller amongst indie games.

The session culminates with a panel discussion led by game researcher Olli Sotamaa.

In addition to our interesting speakers, manSEDANse Play! also features some very intriguing indie games that have come out recently. The games are on display at a special gaming lounge in the TR1 exhibition space.

manSEDANse Play! will be held in English.

14-15	Game Development Club Score
15-16	Erik Svedäng: Successful indie game design
16-17	Petri Purho: The significance of indie games in game development
16-17	Summary / panel discussion (Olli Sotamaa)

Artworks

Monday 04.10. - Sunday 10.10. | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Jari Suominen & Niklas Roy: Laser: Back in (2010)

Jari Suominen is a postgraduate student at the department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and the Aalto University Media Lab. Suominen is also known for his work in the bands Shogun Kunitoki and Kiila. Niklas Roy is a German musician and media artist with engineering skills, a quirky sense of humor and an interest in robotics.

Niklas Roy and Jari Suominen formed Laser in June 2010. Back in is the duo's debute, which consists of eight infinite tracks. The tracks have been "recorded" with the help of a vector graphic drawing software. The record is burnt on plexiglas with a laser cutter.

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony

New York-based Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his work in acoustic and electronic music, and physical and digital art. Perich received the Prix Ars Electronica in 2009 and was a featured artist at Sonar 2010 in Barcelona. He has spoken about his work and taught workshops around the world. He studied music, math and computer science at Columbia University, and electronic art at ITP/Tisch.

Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit - programmed by the artist and assembled by hand - plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

Mirka Kinnula and Matti Sampela: Work in Process

Paint congregates on the wall, layer for layer. Colours change and accumulate only to dissappear again. Artists Mirka Kinnula and Matti Sampela study at the School of Art and Media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences. In their animation Work in Process movement meets staticness, the complete the unfinished and painting moving images. The finished work is done together by two different artists, both with their own style of painting. The animation features music by Marko Vierimaa.

Halldór Úlfarsson: Motet for unspecified composer

Iceland-born Halldór Úlfarsson is an artist working with installation, video, performance and other mediums. Úlfarsson is interested in the meaning of making art and how this act stands in relation to other human endeavours. His works often observe motives and intent underlying the given artwork. Úlfarsson was educated at the Finnish Academy of Fine Art and the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. He has exhibited widely in Finland and internationally, and also hosted several workshops.

The installation explores the acoustic phenomena of noise cancellation, it's designed to give the audience a spatial feel of what noise cancellation can be like. The installation also proposes that noise cancellation can be used as a component in composition, a way to color a musical experience.

The idea is to invite a new composer to supply a soundtrack each time the work is exhibited, so as to gradually aquire a handful of compositions that factor noise cancellation into the music.

The first composer to write for the installation is Páll Ívan Pálsson, Icelandic / Croatian, obsessive / compulsive, repulsed by the mundane / in awe of the strange, barely graduated from the Icelandic University of The Arts / up and coming, firebrand of an avantgardist.

Gregoire Rousseau: Screens & Visual Waves

Gregoire Rousseau is an originally French artist who migrated to Finland in 2000. He is currently researching and working actively in the field of electronic design, especially related to visual art. He has been involved in the Tuulanauhat auviosivual label since 2001 to release records from artists Gym in the Box, Dubbing Mixers and Ponytail, as well as videos Super8mm in digital format. Rousseau has worked as a technician at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, time and space department.

Screens, shot on Super 8mm film, is an experiment with visual loops on three screens. The loops, providing a repetitive visual theme, are projected on three layers of screens. The result of the cropped images mixed together appears on the middle screen. Screens is directed by Gregoire Rousseau, with assistance by Markus Koistinen and Samuli Tanner and sound design by Lassi Nikko.

Visual waves' video is based on the "what you hear is what you see" concept. Sound waves, through a TN LAB device, will be displayed on the screen in black and white. From sine waves to a polyphonic melody, the video presents audio waves shaped as visual media. The visuals are made by Gregoire Rousseau and the music by Samuli Tanner.

Tiina Lehikoinen: Motorkids

Tiina Lehikoinen studies at the School of Art and Media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Her installation Motorkids combines poetry read by a computer generated speech generator to a sculpture built from old toys. The poetry is based on internet texts and search engine generated material. Motorkids studies tensions between an inorganic organ (a machine) and organic speech (poetry).

Heikki Salo: In The Mind Of The Beholder, a study in Victor Vasarrely's 'Alphabet Plastique'

Heikki Salo: Whatta Hell Happened, an epic poem in rongorongo and in real time

Heikki Salo: Music video retrospective

A retrospective of Heikki Salo's (aka cj hekxsa) music videos. The videos are organized into three different themes: politicals, somatics and esthetics.

1) Intro I: NumberTV

Politicals,
Music and lyrics by Rauhantekijä.

2) Gramo-Fööni
3) Insanity
4) Luovuta aseesi
5) Osta
6) Intro II: Bonfire of memes, trad. Arabic

Somatics
Music by dj:s Sami Saari and Timo Juuti

7) Backlash (özgür can remix), Sami Saari
8) Lower Please (Summer 2008 Edit), Sami Saari
9) Crankshaft Boogie (original mix), Timo Juuti
10) Hypoactive (Matt Smallwood Remix), Timo Juuti
11) Intro III: Tension, music by Jussi Kantola

Esthetics
Music by Anssi Laiho

12) billows undulate
13) palkeet
14) prevrat
15) routa
16) arpeggio 2
17) kanadan lankut

Heikki Salo: Hypernovel Codex B

KoKoMYS: Electronic devices

Four port NAND synthesizer
Design: Olegtron
Realisation: Otto Urpelainen

Slimpak
Design (original circuit): Forrest M. Mims III
Design (altered circuit) and realisation: Otto Urpelainen

Pilleripurkki
Design: Michel Waisvisz
Realisation: Otto Urpelainen

Äänenkatselukone
Design and realisation: Otto Urpelainen

Kari Yli-Annala: A short history of Finnish media art

Saturday 09.10. 16-17 | Werstas auditorium | Free admission

Kari Yli-Annala, born in 1965, is an artist and researcher, as well as a teacher on the history and theory of moving images. Yli-Annala has written extensively on video art, video installations and experimental cinema. Yli-Annala?s work has been exhibited at the Helsinki Photography Festival, MUU Studio, Kettupäivät, Kiasma, Tampere Film Festival and numerous media art festivals around the world (Germany, China, Hungary).

Yli-Annala's lecture in manSEDANse will focus on the history of Finnish media art, with focus on the early stages from the 1930s to the 1970s.

The lecture will be held in Finnish.

Susanna Paasonen: Evil Internet - threats and webs of desire

Wednesday 06.10. 18-19 | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Susanna Paasonen is a researcher of Internet culture, who has lectured and published widely on topics such as internet phenomena, porn, popular culture and feminist theory. Paasonen is acting professor of Digital Culture at the University of Jyväskylä and an internationally recognized internet researcher.

Paasonen's lecture at the manSEDANse festival will focus on different hopes and threats attached to the net and its users. The Internet has been described as an ocean of information, the mother of all libraries and a forum for social change, but it has also been seen as causing addiction, being full of hooligans and infesting computers with viruses and porn. Focusing on this "Evil Internet" the lecture reflects on the appeal of these threats and the shadow regions of Internet history.

The lecture will be held in Finnish.

Gaming lounge

Monday 04.10. - Sunday 10.10. | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Below you can find a list of games on display at the manSEDANse gaming lounge. The gaming lounge is open at the TR1 Taidehalli exhibition space 4th - 10th October.

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Petri Purho (Windows PC), 2009

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

http://www.crayonphysics.com/

Blueberry Garden

Erik Svedäng (Windows PC), 2009

Blueberry Garden is a short experimental game about curiosity and exploration. You take on the role of a creature investigating a mysterious world to find out what is going on there. It's probably not very much like anything you've played before but I hope you will find it enjoyable!

http://eriksvedang.com/blueberrygarden/

Shot Shot Shoot

Erik Svedäng (iPad), 2010

Shot Shot Shoot represents a new way of playing games with your friends, combining the magic of computers with the special interactions made possible by board games.

The goal of the game is simple: destroy the five squares on the opponent's side of the board. Maneuver single shots with high precision or overwhelm the other player with massive attack waves - a mixture of fast-paced gameplay and deep strategy that everyone seems to love.

http://eriksvedang.com/shoot/

Continuity

Elias Holmlid, Dmitri Kurteanu, Guy Lima Jr. and Stefan Mikaelsson (Flash), 2009

A platformer drawn onto cards and then shuffled. Players must navigate mazes by controlling the character and the structure of the world itself.

http://www.continuitygame.com/

Today I Die

Daniel Benmergui (Flash), 2009

A game poem about the prison of worldviews, and salvation in playfulness.

http://www.ludomancy.com/games/today.php

OverTower

Game Development Club Score (Xbox 360), 2009

OverTower is a highly intense 2 - 4 player game on Xbox 360. The concept is simple: just push all the other players off the screen or be the first one on the ground!

http://score.igda.fi/overtower

5D2

Game Development Club Score (Flash), 2009

5D2 was a student game project in summer 2010. The goal was to create five games in five weeks with five students, working five days a week and five hours a day. What sort of games can be created in 25 hours? Come and find out!

The 5D2 games are Poltergeist!, RRR, The Hammered Fists of the Ninja, Elder Strolls: Dungeons of Dementia and Frankensteam.

http://score.igda.fi/5d2

Dave Griffiths: Puredyne and livecoding

Friday 08.10.| TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Dave Griffiths was raised on an early education in weaving, bell ringing and 8bit computers, and is now dedicated to changing the world with free software, live animation and noise. He works as a self employed artist/programmer, mainly working with the FoAM art laboratory and performs as part of slub - a livecoding band. He creates installations, open source software and teaches workshops around the themes of games, music and the lisp programming language. Past work includes computer graphics for games, feature film special effects and machine vision research for Sony's EyeToy group. He's currently residing in Helsinki, Finland.

Griffiths will be lecturing about puredyne, a Linux distribution dedicated to live audio-and-visual processing and streaming, as well as livecoding, that is the process of writing software in realtime, as a form of improvised time-based art.

Halldór Úlfarsson: The Halldorophone and instrument building as art

Saturday 09.10. 15-16 | The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas auditorium | Free admission

Iceland-born Halldór Úlfarsson is an artist working with installation, video, performance and other mediums. Úlfarsson is interested in the meaning of making art and how this act stands in relation to other human endeavours. His works often observe motives and intent underlying the given artwork. Úlfarsson was educated at the Finnish Academy of Fine Art and the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. He has exhibited widely in Finland and internationally, and also hosted several workshops.

In his manSEDANse lecture Úlfarsson will be focusing on the electro-acoustic instrument Halldorophone and its origins. The Halldorophone is continuing art project that can be heard on recordings by The Knife and Sunn O))) frontman Stephen O'Malleyn. The sound of Halldorophones is achieved by inducing feedback in a string instrument in a controlled way.

The lecture will be held in English.

Olli-Poika Parviainen: Internet and the dream of democratization

Wednesday 06.10. 17-18 | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Olli-Poika Parviainen is a Finnish freelancer, activist and member of the Tampere city council. Parviainen is studying at the Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media (INFIM) at the University of Tampere. He is an expert on information society democracy and the social aspects of interactive media.

The Internet has been seen as enabling a new kind of democracy and as a bastion of freedom of speech. In his lecture Parviainen addresses topics like the free flow of information, freedom of speech on the Internet and different kinds of initiatives and threats that can be seen as endangering them.

The lecture will be held in Finnish

Heikki Salo: Nicely shaped pixels, quantum colours and the essence :) of computer art

Saturday 09.10. 13-15 | Werstas auditorium | Free admission

Heikki Salo on vaikuttanut aktiivisesti eri taiteenaloilla ja 1960-luvulta lähtien. Näyttelijänä, ohjaajana, dramaturgina ja dj:nä alun perin kunnostautunut Salo siirtyi myöhemmin tietotekniikan pariin. Salo on tehnyt tietokonetaidetta vuodesta 1987, osana tietojenkäsittelytieteen ja kirjallisuustieteen opintojaan. Niihin liittyen julkaistiin Hyperromaani CODEX B vuonna 1991. Myöhemmin tietotekniikan konsulttina ja luennoitsijana toiminut Salo on tehnyt myös jatkuvasti aktiivisesti töitä elektronisen taiteen parissa, keskittyen muun muassa mosaiikkitekniikoiden, laskennallisten värimallien ja parvianimaatioiden kehittelyyn. Salon töitä on ollut esillä paitsi näyttelytiloissa, myös suurina projisointeina festivaaleilla ja klubiympäristöissä.

Salon työt ovat useimmat niin sanottuja "eläviä tauluja", joissa yhdistyvät tietokoneiden keskeiset vahvuudet, kuten muuttuminen/muokkautuminen, vuorovaikutus ja kyky havainnollistaa muutoin aistiemme ulottumattomissa olevaa.

Salon manSEDANse-luento valottaa hänen taidehallissa esillä olevia teoksia teknisestä näkökulmasta - mitä tietokone mahdollistaa, mikä on tietokoneelle luontevaa ja mikä sille ominaista. Aluksi Salo esittää, miten lähti ratkomaan kuvan parantamisen ja suurentamisen ongelmia Vasarelyn plastisen aakkoston avulla, sekä sitä mihin lopputulokseen se johti. Seuraavaksi pohditaan miten värit, näkeminen ja kvanttimekaniikkaan tutustuminen yhdistyivät ja kiteytyivät kvanttivärikokeiluina.

Loppuhuipennukseksi Salo esittelee virtuaalisen teoksen - virtuaaliveistoksen - nimeltään "extrusionsmith" ja heittää ilmaan kysymyksen (tai pari).

Luento järjestetään suomeksi.

Goodiepal

Saturday 09.10. | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Goodiepal is the enfant terrible of electronic culture. Born in the Fareo Islands, Goodiepal (whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester) is an eccentric artist as well as a teacher of electronic culture, whose controversial views on computer and media art and modern music have made him an icon. On behalf of his controversial views Goodiepal has declared intellectual war against the stupidity in modern computer music and media art. His controversial views have gotten him fired from his day job at the the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus as well as getting him wanted by the police.

In manSEDANse Goodiepal will exhibit media art as well as lecture and teach workshops on related subjects. Stay tuned for more info.

John Fail: Patterns, bumps and pulses - readings on rhythm

Friday 08.10. - Sunday 10.10., 2 hours a day | Free, registration required

Rhythm is not a language, but a language-form - as a method for perception and organisation, it is dominant throughout culture and society. We live inside of rhythm when enjoying music; it connects our physical being to what we hear, expressed as we move. Rhythm exists in other arts, though in way that may be less obvious - such as cinema or architecture - in a non-musical combination of repetition, time and/or space. And everyday life conforms to its own rhythms - economics, culture, speech and society (as well as other factors).

We enjoy rhythm - our hearts beat regularly even when we aren't dancing. But can rhythm become a straitjacket? Why do we sometimes like intentionally disruptive, arrhythmic things? How can we study the presence of rhythm in our surroundings and apply these disruptions into a transformation of society and everyday life?

This 3-day seminar will analyse rhythm across art and society, using several short readings each day to provide starting points and questions. Each day we will meet in a different location (somewhere in Tampere) and discuss the texts along with some brief music and film samples. All texts will be freely available online (or made available) and each meeting will last approximately two hours.

Day 1: Music, sound and spirit
Readings:

• Milford Graves interview in Perfect Sound Forever
• Joe Carducci on the rock drummer from Rock and the Pop Narcotic
• Stravinsky The Poetics of Music
• The Fall/Mark E. Smith lyrics to Repetition

Day 2: Rhythm and time in other art forms
Readings:

• Gaston Bachelard Dialectic of Duration chapter 8: Rhythmanalysis
• Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time
• Robert Venturi Complexity and contradiction in Architecture
• Hollis Frampton On Plasticity and Consecutive Matters
• James Joyce The Lestrygonians' chapter of 'Ulysses

Day 3: The rhythm of everyday life and what to do about it
Readings:

• Henri Lefebvre essay The Rhythmanalytical Project
• Deleuze and Guattari A Thousand Plateaus chapter 11: Of the Refrain

Advance registration: alex.j.regan [at] gmail.com

The seminar will be held in English.

KoKoMYS: Arduino workshop

Wednesday 06.10. 14-17 and Thursday 07.10 12-15, 6h total | TR1 Taidehalli | 10EUR

Electronics hobbyist group Kodinkonemusiikin Ystävät (KoKoMYS) from Turku will organize a workshop on the Arduino single-board microcontroller and the software suite for programming it.

Participation fee is 10 euros.

You can find more info about the workshop from the Finnish language version of this page.

Advance registration: alex.j.regan [a] gmail.com

The workshop will be held in Finnish.

www.kokomys.org
www.arduino.cc

Erik Svedäng: Inventing card games for the 21st century

Wednesday 06.10. 09:15-13:00 | Donner, TAMK | Free, registration required

Erik Svedäng is the creator of Blueberry Garden, the winner of the price for Best Independent Game at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. Other games by Svedäng include Shot Shot Shoot, developed for the iPad, and a collaboration with Niklas Åkerblad called Kometen, which was released for the iPad and the iPhone. He will be talking about his three finished commercial projects and pointing out interesting details in them, related to them being indie games and their relation to their view on game design. Erik Svedäng lives in Göteborg, Sweden.

Svedäng's workshop in manSEDANse is organized in collaboration with Game Development Club Score and the School of Art and Media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

Advance registration: eevi.korhonen [at] score.igda.fi

The workshop will be held in English.

Open workshops on electronic music for kids

Sunday 10.10. 12-16 | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Workshops on electronic music for kids hosted by musician and light artist Alpo Nummelin.

You can find more info about the workshop from the Finnish language version of this page.

The workshops will be held in Finnish.

Koululaisten musiikki- ja animaatiotyöpajat

Sunday 10.10. 12-16 | TR1 Taidehalli and Mediakoulu | FULL

Primary school children in Tampere have a chance to take part in the manSEDANse festival by attending workshops on electronic music and animation.

You can find more info about the workshops from the Finnish language version of this page.

The workshops will be held in Finnish.

Audiohackers' Workshop

Thursday 07.10.'07, 15-19 | TR1 Taidehalli | Free admission

Audiohackers' Workshop showcases the history of DIY electronic instruments, with interesting examples from contemporary circuit benders. In its fourth instalment, Audiohackers's Workshop features an active electronics hobbyist group Kodinkonemusiikin Ystävät (KoKoMYS) from Turku, host of legendary radio programme Avaruusromua, Jukka Mikkola, and electronics builder Jari Suominen from the bands Shogun Kunitoki and Kiila.

You are welcome to bring your own projects to the event.

Audiohackers' Workshop will be held in Finnish.

15-16	Jukka Mikkola: Avaruusromua - The history and present state of Finnish electronic music
16-17	Jari Suominen: DIY - Erkki Kurenniemi's instruments
17-18	KoKoMYS: A demonstration of experimental electronic instruments
18-19	Project presentations and summary

TR1 Taidehalli

Väinö Linnan aukio
33100 Tampere

Venue info & map

The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas auditorium

Väinö Linnan aukio
33100 Tampere