Rhode Island Nexus

PIXILERATIONS [v.7] is 11 days of exhibitions and performances using new media including interactive electronics, web technology and the moving image. This year’s fringe festival sweeps to the far reaches of the global frontier with provocative installations by Taiwanese artist Dar-Kuen Wu, Rhode Island’s Megan and Murray McMillan, and REDUX (Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell). Pixilerations extends its reach to new venues with performances at Firehouse 13 (Providence’s West Side), and Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket).

Part of the annual FirstWorks Festival, Pixilerations is a new media showcase curated by leading experts in the field. Local, national and international artists, selected from over 350 applicants, investigate issues ranging from the controversy around surveillance technologies to private space as commodity to the richness of digital technology as an artistic tool. Pixilerations is co-sponsored by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Brown University, and produced by FirstWorks.

A Better World by Design is a three-day internationally acclaimed conference in Providence, RI that connects students, professionals, and individuals from a variety of disciplines in order to build a global community of socially conscious and passionate innovators. Presenters share engaging stories, workshops teach creative skills, and discussions reframe perspectives. A Better World by Design is an immersive experience, one that deepens our understanding of the power of design, technology, and enterprise to reshape our communities and sustain our environment.

Why is our conference different? A Better World by Design is completely student organized and places innovation over individual success. We encourage the free sharing of ideas among engineers, designers, policy makers, professors and students and create a collaborative platform to produce tangible change, locally and globally. The conference will expose you to different perspectives—both theoretical and practical—on many relevant issues. How does an architect build for the poor? In 2008, we heard from Architecture for Humanity Founder Cameron Sinclair and learned to build with bamboo from RISD Professor of Architecture Miya Buxton. How can an enterprise be both profitable and empowering? Last year, we heard from Project H Founder Emily Pilloton on community perspectives in product design. Dozens of pertinent questions like these are addressed in presentations, panels, workshops, tours, and projects. And you’ll meet hundreds of inspiring professionals and students at social events. Any casual conversation could spark opportunities for collaboration.