#LightHackSculptures by Pia MYrvolD
at Piksel Studio 207

Official opening
26th of May at 18:00 – 22:00
Exhibition dates: 26th of May – 24th of June
Opening hours: 15:00 – 18:00
https://studio.piksel.no/

Piksel Studio 207
Strandgaten 207
5004 BERGEN
piksel18@piksel.no

Festspillutstilling Bergen 25 Mai – 24 June 2018
The #LightHackSculptures use of every day “over the counter” electronics as well as cast away digital gadgets that reflect the overproduction of cheap and meaningless products geared toward consumer society.

With the scribbles of electric cables, extention cords, a new kind of anti-aesetics emerge where we usually associate these materials as something we want to hide, but cannot, we surround ourself with them out of necessity.

The sculptures serve as “projectors” both in terms of lighting, lamps, videos and machines that cast light and contrast shadows into the surroundings and as a metaphor, projecting a contemporary reality of global behaviour in production, consumption and electronic waste, here transformed into objects of beauty.

About Piksel
Piksel is a network of artists and an annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies.

Piksel is focusing on the Free/Libre and Open Source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy.

Piksel Studio 207 is Piksel’s new project in Bergen. A space for experimental media to expose innovative methods for expanding artistic opportunities and new creative tools based on free technologies. Piksel Studio 207 is established in a 130 m2 room where we create an annual program for artists, children and young people, cultural institutions and the general public.

Piksel presents a double exhibition program in Bergen this spring. Piksel Studio 207 will host the work of the artist Pia MyrvolD, #LightHackSculptures, light sculptural installations made by “cast away” electronics, digital gadgets and found material. Under the umbrella of Bergen Now, Piksel is presenting PikselSavers, a group of selected works which deal with different aspects of our digital realities, social media, game hacks, digital poetry and more, all from Piksel artists at Byarkitekten.

#LightHackSculptures by Pia MYrvolD

at Piksel Studio 207
Official opening
26th of May at 18:00 – 22:00
Exhibition dates: 26th of May – 24th of June
Opening hours: 15:00 18:00.-
https://studio.piksel.no/

Piksel Studio 207
Strandgaten 207
5004 BERGEN
piksel18(AT)piksel(DOT)no

Pikselsavers @ Byarkitekten

Official opening 25th of May at 19:00 – 21:00
Exhibition dates: 26th of May – 6th of June
Opening hours: 1 2:00 – 1 5:00 inside, 24/7 windows
Commissioned by Bergen Now
(https://bergenna.no/)

Byarkitektens kontor (former Robot Shop)
Domkirkegaten 4
Bergen, Hordaland

About Pia MYrvoLD

MYrvoLD use projectors, over the counter electronics, electronic household gadgets and waste materials to create site specific installations, together with signature cut outs and 3D printed acrylics.
The object of her work is the travel of light using mirrors and perforations, shadows and video projections creating a spatial work that projects on surfaces around. Sometimes with interactive elements, the work is a study of beauty created with chromatic light variations,
as a new kind of projector.
The #LightHackSculptures series was started in Miami in 201 6, and has since been set up in various galleries and museums, including Gallery Lelia Mordoch, Miami, Lelia Mordoch Galerie, Paris, Pixel Blanc, Paris, Marbella Designfair and currently in the Nordic Museum in Seattle, in the group show Nordic Exposure. Being site specific in nature, these installations are an ongoing, evolving series.

About Piksel

Piksel is a network of artists and an annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies.

Piksel is focusing on the Free/Libre and Open Source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy.

Piksel Studio 207 is Piksel’s new project in Bergen. A space for experimental media to expose innovative methods for expanding artistic opportunities and new creative tools based on free technologies. Piksel Studio 207 is established in a 130 m2 room where we create an annual program for artists, children and young people, cultural institutions and the general public.