The postcards function as traditional postcards in that they are designed to be used as well as collected and they each contain a caption with some tie (however fanciful) to the geographic, atmospheric (head space), or artistic vision of Central Finland.

The Wildland Urban Interface is group of like-minded individuals who aim to make work considering the division between the natural world and the world that is natural to most of us.  Current members:  Jonathan Johnson (Ohio, USA), Jonathan Rattner (Tennessee, USA), John Engelbrecht (Iowa, USA) and Chris Mortenson (Illinois, USA).

Come and hear – free entrance.

The very next day, on Saturday  March 19, from 12 to 4pm, the Experimental electronics sound workshop will take place at the Jyväskylä Art Museum.

You can join the workshop day or just drop by and look around.

Bring anything that makes sound: radios, boom-boxes, sound-toys, keyboards or whatever you can find. Our team will guide you through the process of hacking and bending your thrash into something completely new. So browse your attic, check the flee-markets, dumpster-dive around or otherwise acquire sound-producing electronic devices and come to the museum.

Experimental electronics sound workshop
The Jyväskylä Art Museum, Saturday, March 19 at 12-4pm
Workshop is free!
Take your own trash with you :)

The workshop is organized by Koelse (www.koelse.org) together with Live Herring.

ps. Don’t bring computers or anything valuable.

Everyone is welcome  to knit for example game based pixel figures, crotchet video tape or make a pretty usb cable covers. You can also make new bags or purses for your own  electronic devices, such as laptops, mobile phones or mp3 players.

Bring your yarn, cables and yourself to this free and experimental workshop! Leave seriousness home.

The event is organized by Live Herring together KipAKAT an informal group of people interested in crafts (mainly knitters) who live in the Jyväskylä area in Finland.

Our guests are:
* Ernesto Estrella Cózar (New York)
* Vadim Kejlin (St. Petersburg)
* Virgins of Vladimir

Ernesto Estrella Cózar is a Spanish poet, performer and educator, living in New York since 2000 and teaching as Hispanic Poetry assistant professor at Yale University since 2007. His Opening the Poem performance includes poems belonging to the Hispanic tradition, live interaction with English, Spanish, Russian and Finnish contemporary texts, and a triptych on the idea of the poem as gift.

Vadim Kejlin is a Russian poet and sound artist. In his Inner Voices from Outer Space performance poetry is performed as if in duo with itself: Kejlin electronically processes voices of other poets in real-time, creating a second voice beside the original.

Virgins of Vladimir is a duo of Riikka Ala-Hakula and Sigri Sauna-aho, combining poetry, singing, music and performance.

Further information:
Marko Niemi
marniemi(a)gmail.com

The Future Roots will perform at the Jyväskylä Art Museum on Friday, March 11 from 6pm on. The concert is the combination of the Future Roots’ music and the visuals by VJ Månsteri.

The Future Roots is a curious and broad-minded electric pop band of Henri Lindström, who has performed and played with many different musicians including:  Elisabeth Underground, Aivolävistys and Purity. The Future Roots plays futuristic roots music, which is an organic combination of folk, ambient and chamber music.

The visuals of the evening are composed by VJ Månsteri (media artist Matti Niinimäki). The material is based on the Future Roots cd cover graphics by Minja Revonkorpi and Rita Vargas.

The Future Roots & VJ Månsteri

The Jyväskylä Art Museum, on Friday March 11 at 6pm
Free (but limited) entrance

For more information:

The Future Roots
http://www.myspace.com/henrikristian
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Future-Roots/136813153016851

VJ Månsteri
http://mansteri.com

The event also includes a short performance in which Niinimäki plays part of an improvised audiovisual piece. His instruments are an old iron and a blender. This performance provides a unique occasion to see and hear a short except of a larger work in progress.

Artist guest – Matti Niinimäki

The Art Museum of Jyväskylä,
Thursday March 10, 2011 at 16.30pm
Free entrance.

Timlin employs improvisation and non-linear digital sensor systems to create music in which a delicate balance exists between the world of the organic and the world of the machine. A music at once intuitive and outlandish. Explosive and subdued. Violent and meditative. Timlin’s concerts are like a magic carpet ride over wondrous soundscapes surrounded by lights, electronic sounds and sonic vibrations. Listen to electrons collide, creaking machines, organic digital entities, panicking technology and structured chaos.

He has developed an intuitive interaction with his custom made SENSOR-SOUNDMACHINE maintaining a subtle balance between order and chaos. His music happens in real-time, often surprising the artist as well as the audience.
His performances are effectively a dialog between man and machine.

As Timlin states: Let’s abuse technology, as the really interesting sounds linger in-between the ‘1s’ and ‘0s’!

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Marko Timlin performances at the Jyväskylä Art Museum on Thursday March 10 at 6pm.
Free (but limited) entrance.

Illustrator Pete Revonkorpi and musician Henri Lindström perform together to give birth to living paintings, wordless fairytales with sound. Revonkorpi and Lindström have  created bothlive performance animations and animations for net users to view online.

Pete Revonkorpi is a freelance illustrator whose works are published on several national newspapers and international net magazines.

Henri Lindström is a musician, who has played and recorded for example in a band Elisabeth Underground.

View their animations at YouTube:
Coffee (2010): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NImlP2_mExQ
Together (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wWx1s6Kq0

Maagi ja Kiintomielet live performance at Keuruu Museum at March 6, 2011 at 12 and 2 pm. Welcome!

More information:

Soile Ollikainen
info(a)liveherring.org
The event is organized by Live Herring / The Art Council of Central Finland together with the Keuruu Museum.

The project is accomplished with the help of abandoned envelopes in which there are fragments from the Live Herring ‘11 Text | Sound |Technology | Information exhibition at the Jyväskylä Art Museum from February 22^nd until March 6^th. The person who finds the envelope, is invited to make their own art from the fragments inside.

The finder is asked to participate by bringing their creation back to the Art Museum. In this way, something collective can become personal and something personal can become collective. Something from the everyday can become something special, and something special can become part of the everyday.

The goal of this project is to surprise various passersby. To inspire. To invite them into the (new)media-art exhibition, to encourage further surprise and inspiration.

The project For You! will take place in Jyväskylä during the 9th week of this year. Rosa Ahokas and Maiju Laitanen from the University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Art and Culture Studies will be conducting this project. This project is part of the New Media-Art, Art Education course directed by Päivi Hintsanen and Soile Ollikainen of the Live Herring workgroup.

This project is conducted in the Finnish language.

For more information:

Maiju Laitanen
maiju.laitanen(a)jyu.fi

Soile Ollikainen
info(a)liveherring.org
tel. 050-3053540