Exhibition

Glittermouse's multimedia drawing installations are made by projecting digital images on to a large sheet of wall mounted paper and then using traditional drawing methods to interact with the projected images.

Glittermouse is a visual artist who works across a range of different disciplines but is especially interested in the relationships between humans and environment while questioning boundaries between new and traditional media.

You can find a video about Glittermouse here.

Glittermouse

identity 410 is a multimedia installation. It uses custom software to mix live video footage with prerecorded imagery to create different time layers. The result is a an interactive video montage. The work draws inspiration from digital communication and its effectson people's identities. Does a person have control over his identity?

(b)AR is an augmented reality game, an interactive music installation designed to be used in pubs, parties or public places. It is meant to be a social experiment, mixing cutting edge technology with entertainment, involving music and fun. With every drink visitors get a so called AR sticker sticked to the bottom of their glasses, bottles, mugs, etc. By lifting up, moving or rotating the glasses, visitors can make electronic music.

Smoquito is a simple game which is a specific fusion of our childhood self and the yearly repeating bad experience for the summer, when enjoying a romantic moment you suddenly have to face a cloud of mosquitoes, especially on a beach with sunset. In this situation a cigarette can be useful, which is a tool for getting in touch, and it really works though it is undesirable in general.

A mixed media piece combining watercolor with ASCII art, the oldest form of digital art. Inspired by cyberpunk, transhumanism, bicameralism and many other fascinating concepts and ideas.

A mixed media collage sculpture. combining various materials. This is a kind of a sequel to my previous work Acupunkture. Both works explore the juxtaposition of organic and nonorganic.

In the year X technology has advanced to the point where most people are effectively turning their selves into cyborgs. Thus the advances in technology are largely used to enhance the senses for hedonistic purposes. These enhancements are proven to be very straining to the human psyche, so a concept of an artificial "addon" to the human persona is developed. This was called Elias. Whether it's a flaw on the desing or intentional, "Elias" quickly develops a will of its own and starts to compete with human psyche for the control of the body.

Grid is an one channel looping video work. It's a 2D animation, which is influenced by William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. JSiren is a 26 year old art student from Helsinki, studying in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. He mainly works in the areas of moving image, sound and photography.

A wall clock resembling the classic Tennis/Pong TV-game and made out of recycled parts. Original idea by Sander Mulder (the Netherlands).

Vaikuta Alternative Party -specialin tekoon, lähetä kyberpunk-videopostikortti, opi avoimia työkaluja!

Kaupunkitelevisio M2HZ tuottaa Alternative Party -erikoisohjelman paikan päällä Kaapelitehtaalla avoimessa kenttästudiossa. Festivaalin osallistujat kutsutaan mukaan ohjelman tekoon videopostikorttien, haastattelujen tai muiden klippien muodossa. Kenttästudio pyörii 100% avoimen lähdekoodin ohjelmilla. Alternative Party Special julkaistaan M2HZ-ohjelmistossa tiistaina 27.10.

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Jazz trash robot is our attempt to build a machine that can play experimental music. It is a modular system built from old consumer electronics: tapedecks, clockradios, TVs, vacuum cleaners or whatever we can get our hands on.

More info: http://koti.kontu.la/aahonen/artbots

8-bit and not so 8-bit computers, custom software and custom hardware come together to present a free-flowing glitch aesthetic.

Valmet Children

Audiopoli is bringing 3D-theater to Alternative Party! It works with polarization technology and with two Full HD -videoprojectors. The 3D-theater compo will be presented only here. There will be 30 seats for the audience, be sure not to miss it!

Pelikonepeijoonit - The Arctic Computer & Console Museum are attending AltParty again this year. Loosely within the cyberpunk theme, they will present oddities and rarities from their collection - as well as
ever-popular arcade games. All games are available for visitors to play.

http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/

A collection of several home computers ranging from DOS PCs to Amiga 500 and gaming consoles ranging from NES to Playstation 2.

A collection of several Commodore systems with some old and new hardware and software including Vic-20, C64, C128 and more.

Group of MSX enthuasists keeping up the spirit of the old home computer standard. We will show a wide variety of different MSX models and hardware (which is though just a small fraction of models produced). Games which will be also playable for the public will be run on a real hardware. Games will be a combination of gems released through 80's up to the latest games released on this century.

MSX.fi

Clustered network of 80's and 90's workhorses running Unix and OpenVMS.

CSC and Cray Inc. are bringing supercomputing to Alternative Party! First time ever, Alternative Party is also organizing an compo using this piece of machinery. Cray CX1 is a desktop-class supercomputer.

In Alternative Party YLE has on display old but still functioning analogue technology. It will be available for public experimentation. For example you can hear how your own music would sound processed through an analogical production process. Bring your own sample or music on a memory stick or cd.

Open Fri 18-21, Sat 15-20 and Sun 11-13.