Finnish Burners' newsletter August 2025
FOMO SUGGESTS:
- Helsinki Recompression @ The Old Morgue
Burner party at the Old Morgue at Dallapenpuisto, Aleksis Kiven katu 3, Helsinki On Sat 27.9.2025 at 22pm-06am
Move your body, lift your spirit – welcome to Recompression!
Helsinki Recompression @ The Old Morgue is a night where beats, movement, and community collide. Set in the atmospheric old morgue at Dallapenpuisto, this intimate party invites you to let go, dance freely, and reconnect with the joy of shared experience.
The event income is fun(d)raising for Eldis ry to support year-round running costs and organizing Helsinki Decompression. In burner spirit, everyone buys a ticket. (PS: Over half of the tickets were already sold during the first day...)
There's definitely more amazing things happening and under construction than mentioned here - if you wish your event to be introduced on this newsletter, please contact! (via email atm, the address is at the bottom of this newsletter)
ON FIRE NOW:
Scienceart installation Burner AI travels to Burning Man 2025’s Man Pavilion
Burner AI, created by the science-art collective Burning Stories originating from Aalto University, has been selected as part of the Burning Man 2025 Man Pavilion art program. The Pavilion is a curated, invitation-only exhibition showcasing works that explore the future through the lenses of art, science, and imagination.
Responding to the invitation, Burning Stories collective led by Dr. Jukka-Pekka “Dr Snuggles” Heikkilä will bring a work to the heart of Black Rock City where an AI shares wisdoms and converses the collective wisdom of burners in the middle of the desert.
Burner AI is an interactive physical installation powered by solar energy and designed to run entirely offline in Black Rock City. It is grounded on years of fieldwork collecting hundreds of stories at festivals and hundreds of research articles studying community transformation. The installation offers participants the chance to both hear and share experiences of transformation, radical self-expression, and communal living. It merges technology, research, and art, in deep alignment with the principles of Burning Man.
An online version of the project is available at burning-stories.gopf.com, where you can browse hundreds of stories, explore past Burning Man art projects, or use the material as a source for research or creative inspiration. Burner AI is also part of an ongoing visual human-AI-human art series, with artworks available at burning-stories.com and upcoming Helsinki Decompression events.
If you're working on a thesis related to Burning Man or are interested in data collection across different burns, feel free to contact Finland’s Burning Man Nerdy Corner at: jukka-pekkax@protonmail.com
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