TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, August 20, 2004

12:32 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Andrew and Manu at the Olympia Terminali Bar before the ferry left. Manu was at dinner last night and Andrew is presenting the Rengo workshop today.

Blue sunny skies and light breeze this morning, Helsinki is beautiful and summery. I am in luxury at the media lab, with a room full of computers at my disposal - sadly can only use one at a time, unlike my last weekend in Sydney when i had four going simultaneously at the ABC, finalising all the stuff for my program and trip - and finally have some time to try and change my photos to 100 mb and upload them.
The opening last night at Kiasma was crazy, so many people milling around and everyone is a little shattered from the boat trip, estonia and non-stop conference and 'other fun' activities (that is really one of the categories on the program!)
It is fantastic being able to meet so many people doing all kinds of interesting media work, and make new connections. Adam (from Aether architecture) has just moved back to Budapest, and he tells me there is an artists residency at the new media centre there. Also Pall told me about the Icelandic Artists Union who also have a residency, and then of course there is everything on www.transartists.nl which is well worth checking out for anyone else who has the yen to travel and make art in different locations.
Juha gathered together a bunch of us for dinner at the Sea Horse restaurant last night - traditional finnish meatballs a speciality, also baltic herrings - and we had another great evening there, although no performance poetry this time! Manu and Mukul and I have been invited to become Pixelache Ambassadors - we are hoping for an extensive training week in a 5 star icelandic spa resort!!
Tonight is the opening for Peter and Adam's exhibition at gallery U, then the Northern Lights concert which I have to attend, to hear the variation in how someone else uses this material, and finally the electronic music celebrity laserzone deathmatch, which everyone is very excited about!