Media Facades Festival Helsinki is a series of festivals presenting media and electronic art projects in public space. The festival focuses on artistic interventions which open up the spatial and social experience of the city, by an innovative use of the visual, interactive and participatory potentials of media and architecture. The objective is to present new insights into the urban environment and to encourage a debate about the uses of public / media space.
The first edition of the festival was organized in Helsinki 2010, and it presented over 30 media art projects within a network of 7 European cities. In 2012-15, Media Facades Helsinki is organised within the European Urban Media Network for Connecting Cities, a 4-year initiative of 11 cities to create a common infrastructure for co-production and presentation of art projects in urban space.
The 2012 festival presents a set of participatory media art projects (August 23-26, Lasipalatsi Square), an international seminar co-organized with Aalto University's City Sets project (August 23-24, Lume Media Centre), live events during the Night of the Arts (August 23, Lasipalatsi Square, mbar) well as workshops, guided tours and a poster campaign.
Media Facades Festival Helsinki 2012 is an independent part of the Helsinki Festival programme.
The festival is produced by m-cult in cooperation with Helsinki Festival, Aalto University / City Sets, and Lasipalatsi Media Centre, and realized with support from the EU Culture programme, Helsinki Cultural Office and AVEK.
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