European Youth Creates Future using Internet, Mobiles and Social Networks for a live-able future!
Young people around the globe and in Europe use new media to inform about diseases, fight hunger and poverty and promote gender equality and contribute to development and social change.

European Youth Award (EYA) open until July 15
For European youth under 30
Categories: Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease! | Education for All! | Power 2 Women! | Create your Culture! | Go Green! | Pursue Truth!

If you have a project fitting in one of the categories above go to the EYA web site and register before deadline. You and your team mates might be among the young talents invited to the European Youth Award Festival in Graz November 28-30. And that is not all - EYA registration is also a World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) submission, so you could also get the ticket to WSYA Winners Events in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 24-26.

Important Information about EYA:
EYA is a Partner Award of the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA).
EYA is open to young people under 30 (born after 1.01. 1983) coming from the European Union members and most other European countries. WSYA is open for people from any of the UN member states.
The registration process for the EYA and WSYA is common, you only need to register your project once!

European Youth Award:
http://eu-youthaward.org/

World Summit Youth Award:
http://www.youthaward.org/

Story and photographs by Laura Laukkanen
The celebrated Himona fine art degree show ended in May.  Some of the degree works are on display again already in summer 2013.

Gelatine balls in sweet harmony with Lasse Ursin's work

Laura Laukkanen's installation Aineisto (Matter) and Ismo Torvinen's Fogbass are both in Pyhtää in Stockfors Art Fair as well in Padasjoki in Ars Auttoinen summer exhibition.

Fogbass in a container in Ars Auttoinen in Padasjoki

The artists behind the works have been busy recreating the installations just after the graduation. In order to execute the installations Laukkanen used the recycled material from degree exhibition as well some newly cast gelatine sculptures. Both version are site specific and unique.

Aineisto installation oozing oddness in Stockfors Art Fair

The summer has been  artwise recompensing for Ismo Torvinen. Torvinen's fogbass project was never fully completed during the degree show. The optical fire alarms in the degree show galleries reacted to the fog. As a result Torvinen diplayed in the degree show a video work called "How to Make a Fogbass".

Fogbass in Stockfors looks almost like from Tarkovsky film

A genuine artistic tribute to the world of tutorials. The smoke rings created by the machine were only seen on screen.
Now the fogbass works. Check the smoke rings in real life in Pyhtää and the whole Do it Yourself Spectacle in full swing in Padasjoki in Ars Auttoinen.


Stockfors Art Fair
14.6.-31.8.2013 tue-sun 11-17
Harjuntie 111, Pyhtää
http://www.facebook.com/events/367715200004021/

Ars Auttoinen
9.6.-8.8.2010 tue-sun 11-18
Keinuhongantie 17, Auttoinen,
www.auttoinen.fi

Read more:
Degree show Himona
The previous post about Stockfors Art Fair

Viika Sankila's animation "As I remember it" has been selected in the international NEU/NOW online festival.

The animation is a visualization of a spontaneous moment where the creator Sankila returns to her past to find a story. The memory deals with a child's imagination, role play, jealously, as well as the admiration of entertainment and film industry.

NEU/NOW is an online festival and a live event that promotes cutting edge and multidisciplinary presentations. It is a platform for graduating artists or recent graduates - emerging from Higher Arts Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond - to present themselves to international audiences.

The fifth NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2013 takes place 22-26 June in Amsterdam. The Online Festival and Sankila's animation are to be found on the website . NEU/NOW is organized by the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA).

The introduction of As I remember it on the NEU/NOW web site
Neu/NOW festival 
European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA)

Viika Sankila is one of our Fine Art graduates this spring.
Please find her profile on the web site of Degree Show Himona

"An innovative platform for talented graduating artists or recent graduates - emerging from Higher Arts Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond - to present themselves to international audiences within professional contexts."

By Laura Laukkanen
Stockfors Art Fair
Stockfors, Harjuntie 111, Pyhtää
Open:  June 14 - August 31 Tue-Sun 11 am to 5 pm (Closed June 21 - 23)

Stockfors Art Fair will again showcase young art in the coarse historic ground wood mill environment in  Pyhtää!

The Smoke Bass by Ismo Torvinen. Photo: Laura Laukkanen

The unique collaboration which started last year will continue this year broader. This year also Lahti UAS and Tartu Art College fine art students join.

Stockfors factory area offers a versatile and inspiring environment for the large team of students. What is the impact of the frothy rapids, ferns growing through the floor or the factory halls on  the experience of the art works?

This year's theme, "converters" refers to the chameleon way art participates in the society.   Art converts, but does not get transparent.
Tampere fine art students were praised last year for showing video art at the Stockfors Art Fair.  This year the setting will be broader.  The exhibition team will travelled to Pyhtää for the joint installation on June 6. The vernissage is tonight and the exhibition open as of tomorrow, Friday..
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