Pixelache is a multi-disciplinary laboratory which presents experimental art, design and research projects, most of which have not been previously shown to audience. In addition to the programme in the main venue Kiasma, there are numerous exhibitions, club events, workshops and seminars held in various venues around Helsinki. Pixelache festival themes also deal with current social and political issues.

Two music pieces that explore internal sounds and rhythms of human body are presented in Kiasma Theatre. The Heart Chamber Orchestra is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and Austrian artist duo Terminalbeach (Erich Berger & Peter Votava). The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them. Pixeache also premieres Elektromys by Ona Kamu, a music performance based on the electric signals generated by human muscles which were registered during a medical measurement of a human nervous system.

The exhibition in Kiasma Mediatheque presents interactive artworks by Golan Levin for the first time in Finland. Levin's artworks are playful, visual worlds which react to voices, movements and facial expressions of audience. Golan Levin is currently working as the Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art in Carnegie Mellon University. Several reseachers from the Robotics Institute of CMU will also be participating Pixelache Helsinki 2010, they have been collaborating with Axel Straschnoy to realise the artwork New Artist. The work consists of two robots: One that can make performance art and another one that can watch it. The New Artist is a central part of How to make a dishwasher -exhibition in Kerava Art Museum.

In Kiasma Takaikkuna will be shown the Window Farms -project, a hydroponic window garden designed by Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray, and realised using local recycled & specialised materials by Mikko Laajola, Andrew Paterson, Niko Punin and Ulla Taipale. This installation forms part of Herbologies / Foraging Networks -programme, exploring the encounter of cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants, with online networks, open information-sharing and technology.

Pixelache has initiated an international network of electronic art festivals. Members of Pixelache Network are Pixelvärk (Stockholm), Piksel (Bergen), Pikslaverk (Reykjavik), Mal au Pixel (Paris), PixelIST (Istanbul), Pixelazo (Santa Marta, Colombia) and Afropixel (Dakar, Senegal).

More information at network.pixelache.ac and http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/pixelversity/feb-20-21-participate-in-windowfarms-finland/