Transpiksel es una red de colectivos en arte y tecnología de España, México, Noruega y Perú, quienes junto a otras organizaciones y colectivos proponen anualmente un festival itinerante, sucedido desde el año 2016 en Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, México, Perú y República Dominicana.
En el 2021 propone una edición especial durante el verano austral, que presenta transmisiones de conciertos y performances audiovisuales desde Arequipa, Cusco, Huancayo, Lima y Ayacucho en Perú, Madrid en España y Ciudad de México, un programa de talleres virtuales y un espacio que reúne obras en VR y 3D, entre el 8 y el 26 febrero.
COMPILACIÓN DE ESCULTURAS 3D Y ESPACIOS DE REALIDAD VIRTUAL + PIKSEL QUARANTINE
Jueves 11 febrero19h [MX] | 20h [PE] | 02h (Fri 12) [Es/No]AV Performances Desde Arequipa [PE], con la colaboración de Monopelaor1ffm4nn [PE] DMTh5 [PE] Desde El Paradero, Lima [PE], con la colaboración de SumaGabriel Tanta Chavez [PE]
Lunes 15 Febrero15h [MX] | 16h [PE] | 22h [Es/No] Pure Data para la síntesis y procesamiento de audio | Abel Castro [PE] 3 sesiones | 10 participantes | Virtual | Participación sólo a través de becas, aplicaciones hasta el 7 de febrero. Más información y aplicaciones en https://asimtria.org/transpiksel/?p=30
Pure Data es un potente software libre para procesamiento de datos, audio y video. En este curso veremos procesamiento de audio y síntesis. Empezaremos de manera experimental reutilizando, conectando y modificando algoritmos ya producidos. En una segunda parte introduciremos la parte teórica de las síntesis de audio y el flujo de datos. 17h [MX] | 18h [PE] | 0h (Tue 16) [Es/No] Introducción a Hydra – Visuales en vivo con lenguajes de programación | SENSÁFONA [PE] 3 sesiones | 15 participantes | Virtual | Participación sólo a través de becas, aplicaciones hasta el 7 de febrero. Más información y aplicaciones en https://asimtria.org/transpiksel/?p=41
Taller introductorio de Hydra como una herramienta que genera vínculos entre la tecnología libre y las artes para generar visuales en vivo haciendo uso de lenguajes de programación y plataformas colaborativas interdisciplinarias.
Miércoles 17 Febrero13h [MX] | 14h [PE] | 20h [Es/No] Diseño y fabricación de circuitos electrónicos | Guillem Bayo [ES] 1 sesión | 10 participantes | Virtual Más información y aplicaciones en https://asimtria.org/transpiksel/?p=49
En el taller se analizarán proyectos de hardware libre de instrumentos autónomos, módulos eurorack y piezas de arte electrónico. Los participantes aprenderán a desarrollar sus propios proyectos e instrumentos partiendo de un núcleo de Arduino y a generar los Gerbers para encargar la fabricación de cualquier proyecto open source.
El taller está dirigido a cualquier persona interesada en el desarrollo y la fabricación de instrumentos o piezas electrónicas.
Los asistentes necesitarán un ordenador para seguir el taller y, a ser posible, tener instaladas las versiones gratuitas de KiCAD y EAGLE..
Lunes 22 Febrero15h [MX] | 16h [PE] | 22h [Es/No] Supercollider. Introducción a la programación textual para la ejecución musical | Jorge Luis Quispe Córdova [PE] 3 sesiones | 10 participantes | Virtual | Participación sólo a través de becas, aplicaciones hasta el 7 de febrero. Más información y aplicaciones en https://asimtria.org/transpiksel/?p=49
El taller permitirá conocer e interactuar con la plataforma Supercollider como herramienta para la generación de material musical e intervención en vivo. 17h [MX] | 18h [PE] | 0h (Tue 23) [Es/No] Paisaje sonoro: técnicas y usos para contar historias a distancia | Vanessa Valencia y Cinthya Robles [PE] 3 sesiones | 15 participantes | Virtual | Participación sólo a través de becas, aplicaciones hasta el 7 de febrero. Más información y aplicaciones en https://asimtria.org/transpiksel/?p=51
Este taller virtual va dirigido para las todas personas interesadas en introducirse en el paisaje sonoro y poner en práctica su escucha atenta a través dispositivos móviles, la web y en tiempo real. Entendemos que el paisaje sonoro tiene una relación transversal con los seres vivos, las máquinas y el sistema. Por ello, en esta oportunidad, nuestro objetivo es reconocer al paisaje sonoro que nos rodea desde nuestras casas, nuestras ventanas y cómo nos relacionamos con éste. Tendremos sesiones de escucha, exploraremos técnicas de registro del paisaje sonoro, sus tipologías y el cómo contar una historia con este elemento del lenguaje radiofónico, desde las experiencias de lxs participantes. Esta experiencia colectiva brindará herramientas para que sus participantes puedan retratar la sonoridad de sus lugares. Creando una memoria colectiva digital sonora ad portas del Bicentenario. Finalmente, el resultado del taller serán las producciones de estas piezas sonoras con una duración no mayor de 10’ cada una de ellas.
Miércoles 24 Febrero09h [MX] | 10h [PE] | 16h [Es/No] HTML SAMIZDAT | Agnès Pe [ES] 1 sesión | 10 participantes | Virtual Más información y aplicaciones en https://asimtria.org/transpiksel/?p=352
El término samizdat fue acuñado como un juego de palabras creado por el poeta ruso Nikolai Glazkov en la década de 1940, que mecanografiaba copias de sus poemas indicando en su primera página самсебяизда́т (samsebiaizdat, “auto-editorial”). HTML SAMIZDAT es una propuesta de creación web directamente desde el navegador, colectiva, abierta y visible al instante. A partir de la web como soporte y lienzo, se propone la realización de una página conjunta, un samizdat, a través de la apropiación del código html y de objetos multimedia. Para ello, trabajaremos a partir de la herramienta Hotglue, desarrollada por Gottfried Haider y Danja Vasiliev, y worm.org.
Solo necesitas un ordenador con Firefox instalado. No es necesario tener conocimientos de programación ni de código.
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Piksel KidZ – MICROmacro, a Do IT With Others Bio-ART workshop
9th-13h November – 10-13h | 16-19h Gratis verksted for barn/unge i alderen 8-18 år for påmelding: piksel20(at)piksel(dot)no
MICROmacro, a Do IT With Others Bio-ART workshop
The microscope is a crucial instrument in biology, since microscopy was invented that has made it possible for human eyes to take a look at the micro world and its complexity.
MICROmacro invites kids to an active and participative experience that merges art, electronics and nature. Using our imagination and creativity and learning about electronics, lens, robotics and hacking, we will construct our own low tech interfaces that will help us to approach and explore the microscopic scale .
In this workshop kids will assemble DIY microscopes reusing laser lenses extracted from laser pointers, DVD, CD-roms, led lights and cardboard. This DIY microscope achieves up to 40 times magnification through a mobile phone camera, enough to explore the micro world around us.
Once the microscope is buit, we will focus in the discovering of surrounding life forms (cells, bacteria, protozoos, fungi, virus), structures, forms, textures. The model is open source and inexpensive facilitating to make scientific experimentation by kids at home.
Duration: 5 day – 3 hours/day Age: 10-18 years old. Exhibition: Bergen City
Hamilton Mestizo (CDMX, Mexico)
Hamilton Mestizo work primarily explores the interfaces of arts, science and technology and their critical, ecological, and social-culturall implications. In the last decade, Mestizo has combined his artistic practice with education and research focused on open source hardware development, DIY-DIWO culture, new media and biotechnology.
From 2007 to 2014 he had taught hypermedia in Film’s Department at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2007), biotechnology and physical computing in Design and Architecture’s Department (2008-2012) and Art’s Department (2014) at Universidad Javeriana Bogota. Mestizo had worked at Parque Explora Medellín (2016-2017) where, with a multidisciplinary team, they designed and planned the program and activities at the “Exploratorio” (Public Experimentation Laboratory and Workshop). Moreover, Mestizo has involved with different private-public institutions developing strategies and counseling in pedagogy and education.
Mestizo has participated in several exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including: Siggraph Art Gallery (Los Angeles, 2017); GOSH – Gathering for Open Science Hardware (Santiago de Chile, 2017); Medialab-Prado (Madrid, 2016); Rural Scapes Exhibition (Brasil, 2015); Festival Internacional de la Imagen ( Manizales, 2015); Fundación Platohedro (Medellín, 2015); Centro de Cultura Digital CCD (México, 2014); ISEA sur-south – International Symposium of Electronic Arts (Sydney, 2013); Balance-Unbalance Conference (Noosa, 2013); Maker Fair London (London, 2013); Pixelache (Helsinki-Tallinn, 2013); Plataforma (Bogotá, 2012); Labsurlab ( Quito, 2012); Culturadigital (Rio De Janeiro, 2011); Deus Ex Media (Santiago, 2011); Interactivos?10:neigburhoodscience Medialab-Prado (Madrid, 2010); VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards (Spain, 2007), among others venues.
Piksel KidZ Lab is supported by the Norwegian Cultural Fund and Vestland Fylkeskommune.
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HackteriaLab & QWAS | Migrating Dialogue The Performance is based on an exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality threw online meeting tool like zoom, jitsi, skype, etc. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm threw media.
Worship is a dinner performance created by Maya Minder in collaboration with Almaty based artists Dana Iskakova and Takhir Yakyharov. The Performance is based on an exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality threw online meeting tool like zoom, jitsi, skype, etc. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm threw media. Elements of #asrm (autonomous sensory meridian response) the tickling sounds of whisper or crumbling paper, walking on snow or stroking hair combined with the elements of new media trend of #mukbang (Korean word for food space) the eating in front of audience recorded with detailed sounds, is probed and performed during an mutual dinner happening. The audience is invited to partake or just to relaxe and concentrate on chatter and talk during the food. People are served with umami rich food, so to give a physical layer of sensual perception emphasized threw food and audio-visual experience.
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Live coding Algorave performance Antonio Roberts, Alex McLean. Live coding is a performance practice that revolves around the creation and modification of code and algorithms in real-time. This kind of events are also named ALGORAVE, joining the words algorithm and rave. The 29th of May we welcome the artists Antonio Roberts and Alex McLean and their live audiovisual performance, taking place in parallel at the Studio 207 and at the Cyber Salon.
The venues
Piksel Cyber Salon. Piksel invites you to have a cyber experience and to join us at our hybrid activities. Piksel Cyber Salon will host part of the Copy Paste exhibition, workshops, performances and lectures. Join us!
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Studio 207, Strandgaten 207, BERGEN The new Piksel/Borealis space in town for electronic art, experimental music and adventurous listening.
Piksel Fest Spill is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway and ProHelvetia.
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All activities will take place at Studio 207 and Piksel Cyber Salon.
22nd of May – 19:00 COPY PASTE Exhibition Opening.
24th of May – 13:00 Curator’s tour. Antonio Roberts.
Every Sunday the Curator’s tour at 13:00 Antonio Roberts will guide us through each work of the exhibition, at the Studio 207 and at Piksel Cyber Salon.
29th of May – 23:00 – 24:00 Live coding Algorave performance Antonio Roberts, Alex McLean.
6th of June – 18:00 Lecture: Authors of the Future (BE). Re-imagining Copyleft. Constant(BE).
An online presentation of Authors of the Future, with a focus on the Cinemas Sauvage license. This license shows the pitfalls and fun (im)possibility of coming to an agreement with a bunch of anarchist people who do not want to agree on a rule.
7th of June – 16:00 – 18:00 Workshop: Duncan Poulton working process.
Duncan Poulton is a London-based artist working in an expanded form of collage, spanning digital video and image assemblage. To attend In Real Life (IRL) or online: send us an email to piksel20(at)piksel(dot)no
11th of June – 21:00- 22:00 Worship – Dinner Performance Hackteria & BadLab & QWAS.
The Performance is based on an exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality threw online meeting tool like zoom, jitsi, skype, etc. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm threw media.
13th of June – 11:00-17:00h Workshop DIY or die – Plant Printing Hackteria & BadLab & Kiyoshi Yamamoto.
To attend In Real Life (IRL) (5 people only) and online: send us an email to piksel20(at)piksel(dot)no DIY or DIE Is an transdisciplinary workshop on the topic of coloring fabrics with wild herbs. The toxic impact of the textile industry is the starting point of this workshop. Together we will learn the old technique of dyeing with natural dyes that we find in our neighborhood. The
21st of June – 18:00 – 22:00 COPY PASTEExhibition Finissage
The venues
Piksel Cyber Salon (https://hubs.mozilla) Piksel invites you to have a cyber experience and to join us at our hybrid activities. Piksel Cyber Salon will host part of the Copy Paste exhibition, workshops, performances and lectures. Join us!
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Studio 207, Strandgaten 207, BERGEN The new Piksel/Borealis space in town for electronic art, experimental music and adventurous listening.
Piksel Fest Spill is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway and ProHelvetia.
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Hackteria / BadLAB with the collaboration of Kiyoshi Yamamoto.
Engineering is also affecting to molecular biology, posing new ethical challenges that artists investigate through DIY bioart methods. International DIY bio networks and communities encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their expertise. Piksel is inviting the main artistic DIY bionetworks worldwide, to establish a collaborative interaction with local artists. Piksel Fest Spill invites the audience for interesting interactions through a DIY or die – Plant Printing Workshop and the Worship – Dinner Performance.
11th of June Worship – Dinner Performance HackteriaLab & QWAS | Migrating Dialogue The Performance is based on an exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality threw online meeting tool like zoom, jitsi, skype, etc. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm threw media.
Worship is a dinner performance created by Maya Minder in collaboration with Almaty based artists Dana Iskakova and Takhir Yakyharov. The Performance is based on an exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality threw online meeting tool like zoom, jitsi, skype, etc. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm threw media. Elements of #asrm (autonomous sensory meridian response) the tickling sounds of whisper or crumbling paper, walking on snow or stroking hair combined with the elements of new media trend of #mukbang (Korean word for food space) the eating in front of audience recorded with detailed sounds, is probed and performed during an mutual dinner happening. The audience is invited to partake or just to relaxe and concentrate on chatter and talk during the food. People are served with umami rich food, so to give a physical layer of sensual perception emphasized threw food and audio-visual experience.
13th of June Workshop DIY or die – Plant Printing HackteriaLab & BadLab & Kiyoshi Yamamoto. You can attend physically at Studio 207 in Bergen or online. Inscription is necessary. We will send you the instructions on equipment and materials you need to follow it online and how to join us. To attend please send us an email to: info(at)piksel(dot)no At the Studio only 5 persons.
DIY or DIE Is an transdisciplinary workshop on the topic of coloring fabrics with wild herbs. The toxic impact of the textile industry is the starting point of this workshop. Together we will learn the old technique of dyeing with natural dyes that we find in our neighborhood. The Workshop will be held mutually in Bergen, NW and Zurich, CH under the guidance of a local assistant and threw a virtual meeting with the BadLab project based in Zurich and working at the Theater house Gessneralle during the Naked Transition Project. We will dye fabrics of silk and cotton ourselves, go foraging for wild herbs and work with poisonous substances in small quantities – poisonousness is always a question of dose (Paracelsus) – investigating the toxic side effects of the textile industry.
This workshop is a lot about the playful approach of learning and unlearning, we will follow the art of dyeing by means of DIYbio methods and old knowledge about plant dye and natural coloring. We use plants to dye fabrics and create unpredictable design and patterns. In the framework of the theme of the exhibition „naked transition the aspect of empowerment by DIY and community based work is celebrated threw the moment of liberation – Just do it and Do it with Others. Embroidery hoops stand as a symbol of the time we save, which we take as free time by growing beyond the collective stick tradition of manual work, no longer embroidering the fabric with rules and slogans, but use nature itself, its signs leaves to create traces of stories.
Participants: Paloma Ayala, Lisa Biedlingmaier, Lucile Haute, Anne-Laure Franchette, Corinna Mattner, Maya Minder, Les Plants Sorcière.
Hackteria is a global network active since 2009 of people practicing DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIWO (do-it-with-others) biology, with a focus on art, design and interdisciplinary cooperation. Its goal is to allow artists, scientists, cooks, farmers, philosophers and hackers to collaborate and test various biohacking and bioart techniques, outside conventional settings such as academic laboratories and art institutions. http://hackteria.org
BAD LAB project is a collective laboratory of interdisciplinary ideas and practices around plants. BAD LAB deals with the politics of the invisible, plant migration, the resurgence of oppressed and marginalized feminine knowledge, the creation of solidarious ways in which to narrate space that include rural, indigenous beings, and biota, digging up lost and old recipes around healing and culinary, healthcare and colloquial practices.
QWAS – Migrating Dialogue The project QWAS – Migrating Dialogue is a transcultural collaboration between the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK) and the Eurasian Cultural Alliance (ECA) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.The project was launched in 2017 and has so far encompassed two student exchange programmes (for which participants travelled from Zurich to Almaty by train) and two e-learning seminars; with exhibitions taking place simultaneously in both cities.
QWAS was created by Rada Leu and Peter Tränkle. The project is kindly supported by the framework of the International Hub Arts for Change – Arts and Design in Social Processes of ZHdK. https://www.qwas.ch/
Participating artists from HackteriaLab 2020 in Bergen:
Maya Minder (CH/KR) *1983 Artist, Fermentista and Organizer. Lives and works in Zurich. Several exhibitions in local and global spheres. Pro Helvetia, Werkbeitrag 2018, nominated for the KADIST AWARD 2017, Part of the Klöntal Triennale 2017. Several grants and support from Migros Kulturprozent, Pro Helvetia and Gerbert Rüf Stiftung for projects she co-curated. She studied art history at the University of Zurich and helds a MA Fine Arts Degree from the Zurich University of Arts. Founder of Gasthaus: Fermentation & Bacteria Active member of the Hackteria – Open Source Biological Art Network https://www.hackteria.org/ Member of Gesellschaft für Mikrobiomik.org https://mikrobiomik.org
Piksel Fest Spill is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway and PROHELVETIA.
Exhibition: Copy / Paste Piksel Fest Spill 22nd May – 21st June
The exhibition features works byPeter Sunde (FI), Eric Schrijver (NL), Constant (BE), Lorna Mills (CA), Carol Breen (IR), Duncan Poulton (UK), LoVid (US)
22nd May – 21th June Opening hours (Monday closed): 14:00 – 18:00 Weekends: 13:00 – 18:00
At Studio 207:
Carol Breen (IR) – Still Stillness
Constant (BE) – Authors of the Future
Lorna Mills (CA) – Ethereal Imperial
Duncan Poulton (UK) – Pile (Circles), Adventures of the Black Square (Workstations), e-hoarder (Xerox), e-hoarder (The Fast & the Furious), e-hoarder (III)
Eric Schrijver (NL) – Copy This Book
Peter Sunde (FI) – Kopimashin
At Piksel Cyber Salon:
Carol Breen (IR) – Still Stillness
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez + Julien Deswaef – Shiv Integer
LoVid (US) – Young Antiquities
Duncan Poulton (UK) – Pile (Circles), Adventures of the Black Square (Workstations)
If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in collage, adopting the style of an artist, or simply being inspired by the work of an artist. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened by a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying within our practices. These don’t take into account exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world where artworks were scarce physical objects, and don’t translate well into a world where culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will.
Being an artist who copies is to be an artist working in this murky grey area of right and wrong.
For those artists, I have curated Copy Paste. This exhibition features the work of nine artists and art collectives who all incorporate copying as a core aspect of their work. Taking the form of a physical exhibition at Piksel in Norway, an online exhibition, and an event and lecture series, the exhibition aims to show that copying is natural.
The works of Duncan Poulton and Lorna Mills exemplify the creative potential of diving into long forgotten archives to uncover obscure works that can be presented in new contexts to give them new meaning. These archives include works housed in libraries and universities, but also forgotten media from long-abandoned websites and broadcast media.
Carol Breen’s practice takes a more inward-facing approach to copying which sees Breen copy, edit, remix, rework and re-edit her work ad nauseam using a variety of methods to reiterate her work.
Peter Sunde’s Kopimashin takes the argument that copying is harmful and turns it on its head, creating an automated machine which copies infinitely but produces nothing.
Both Eric Schrijver and Constant take a more critical and educational approach to copying, examining the current conditions under which we copy and theorising on how we can better create licenses which reflect the nuances of creativity.
LoVid and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Julien Deswaef both present works that use 3D objects as their material, creating new works from publicly available 3D models, and encouraging the public to creatively rework their own work.
Kolmisoppi, Kopimashin, Peter Sunde (FI) @Studio207
The Kopimashin creates an endless amount of copies of a specific audio track (gnarls barkley’s crazy). The audio track is copied to /dev/null, a unix data pipe for avoiding permanent storage. The Kopimashins lcd display consists of three rows of information, the serial number of the mashin, amount of copies created and the dollar value it represents in losses for the record labels (Downtown Records / Warner Music), currently represented by USD1,25 per copied piece. The goal of the kopimashin is to make the audio track the most copied in the world and by doing so bankrupting the record industry.
Peter Sunde (FI) I’m Peter. I’m of Finnish and Norwegian heritage, born in 1978. I like to travel and try to keep my home base in Berlin. I work mostly with projects that can change society and I have done so for a couple of years. And I deal a lot with questions regarding immaterial rights. I’ve done a lot of projects around it and the most known project I’ve participated in is probably The Pirate Bay. On spare time I play house/techno music and I enjoy learning new languages and traveling the globe.
Young Antiquities, LoVid (USA) @Piksel Cyber Salon
Young Antiquities, a series of media objects, embraces relationships between time and physical presence, a utopian post-material world and the reality of decomposition. Using an array of 3D capture devices we translated textile sculptures from our Video Taxidermy series into virtual form.
LoVid LoVid, the NY based artist duo comprised of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, LoVid’s work includes immersive installations, sculptural synthesizers, single channel videos, tapestries, stained glass, participatory projects, mobile media cinema, works on paper, and multimedia performance. Collaborating since 2001, LoVid’s work has been exhibited, performed, screened, and presented internationally among others at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, And/Or Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Real Art Ways, Good Children Gallery, BRIC, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Parrish Museum, Issue Project Room, Mixed Greens Gallery, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum, MoMA, Lampo (Chicago), Tectonics Festival TLV, The Kitchen, Moving Image Art Fair, Daejeon Museum (Korea), Smack Mellon, Netherland Media Art Institute (Netherlands), New Museum (NY), ICA (London), and International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands). LoVid’s projects have received support from organizations including:Wave Hill, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, UC Santa Barbara, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation.
Copy This Book, an artist’s guide to copyright, Eric Schrijver (NL) @Studio207
Copy This Book is an artist’s guide to copyright, written for makers. At once practical and critical, the book guides readers through the concepts underlying copyright and how they apply in practice. It does so within one compact, contemporary and readable volume, packed with striking examples and boasting attractive, intuitive design. Copy This Book provides answers to questions like: How do you obtain copyright? For what work? And for how long? How does copyright traverse mediums? And how do you go about integrating the work of others within your own? Copy This Book also details the concepts of authorship and original creation that determine today’s legal systems. It provides the conceptual tools to participate in the contemporary debate about intellectual property.
Eric Schrijver (NL) Eric Schrijver is a Dutch interaction designer, artist and author, born in Amsterdam in 1984. He now lives in Brussels, and works for the Belgian IT company ACSONE, designing and developing interfaces for clients in the public and private sector. Eric directs a group blog called I like tight pants and mathematics, that aims to motivate designers and artists to get more involved in the world of computer programmers. Next to that, beneficiary of a grant from the Cultural Industries Fund NL, Eric recently published his first book: “Copy This Book”, an artist’s guide to copyright.
Pile (Circles), Adventures of the Black Square (Workstations) @Piksel Cyber Salon
e-hoarder (Xerox), e-hoarder (The Fast & the Furious) and e-hoarder (III) @Studio207
e-hoarder series (2019 – ongoing) Each departing from a different online trope – from ‘dumpster diving’ YouTube videos to detailed 3D scans of mundane household objects – the e-hoarder series is an ongoing sequence of digital collage works exploring modern habits of consumption, storage and waste.
Pile (Circles) (2018) Pile (Circles) is an attempt to categorise and map out the artist’s archive of digital imagery; to treat it as a miniature internet to be searched and defined according to arbitrary terms. By layering all the circular images gathered in a single year in chronological order of their creation, Poulton creates an enormous yet invisible stack which traces his habits and rhythms of accumulation across the online and physical world.
Adventures of the Black Square (Workstations) (2019) The anonymous black square of the computer screen becomes the protagonist of this digital animation, in which hundreds of online images of workstations, offices, storerooms, gaming dens, libraries and internet cafes are cut together to create a quivering black shape in the centre of the frame.
Duncan Poulton (UK) Duncan Poulton is a London-based artist working in an expanded form of collage, spanning digital video and image assemblage. Itinerant in nature, his work is currently preoccupied with themes of simulation, copying and circulation, acting out an ongoing remediation of our increasingly virtual world. Working exclusively with found content, his digital works evoke a new visual culture of constant juxtaposition, ambivalence towards images and the collapsing down of history and meaning engendered by the internet. With productive misinterpretation, intuition and automatic technique as strategies of choice, he aims to produce a body of discrete works that make sense of our hyperconnected and oversaturated reality, one bit at a time.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include Coventry Biennial 2019; Art Licks Weekend, London; OUTPOST, Norwich; MIT Museum, Massachusetts; The Wallace Collection, London; Eastside Projects, Birmingham Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea; Tate Modern, London; QUAD, Derby; Transmediale, Berlin; Kochi-Muzeris Biennale, India; Flatpack Festival, Birmingham and Athens Digital Arts Festival.
Lorna Mills Canadian artist, Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990’s, both in Canada and Internationally. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work. Recent exhibitions include “Abrupt Diplomat” at the Marshal McLuhan Salon at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, for Transmediale, “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” at Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn NY, “DKRM” at DAM Gallery, Berlin, “Dreamlands” at the Whitney Museum, NY, “Yellowwhirlaway” at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY and “The Great Code” at Transfer Gallery, NY. For the month of March, 2016, her work “Mountain Time/Light was displayed on 45 Jumbo monitors in Times Square, NYC, every night as part of the Midnight Moment program curated by Times Square Arts.
She has also co-curated monthly group GIF projections, with Rea McNamara, for the “Sheroes” performance series in Toronto, a group GIF projection event “When Analog Was Periodical” in Berlin with Anthony Antonellis, and a four person GIF installation, “:::Zip The Bright:::” at Trinity Square Video in Toronto, with Sara Ludy, Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva. Lorna Mills’ most recent curation project, “Ways of Something” is a collaborative remake of the 1972 John Berger documentary “Ways of Seeing” episodes one through four, featuring over 115 networked artists.
Lorna Mills is represented by Transfer Gallery in New York & Los Angeles, Elephant in Montreal and DAM Gallery in Berlin.
Shiv Integer, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez + JulienDeswaef @Piksel Cyber Salon
Shiv Integer is a bot making assemblage art for 3D printers. Rummaging through Thingiverse, the biggest online 3D-Print community and a vast archive of user-made models – full of knick-knacks and engineering parts – the bot picks objects at random to conjoin into sculptures and gives them apt word-salad names such as “disc on top of an e-juice golf.” The process follows a lineage of Dadaist readymade and chance art, but also explores the authorship-inheritance of Creative Commons licensing, as well as performing an archiving of an Internet subculture, taking cross-database snapshots of 3D-Print culture.
The bot ran anonymously with only a vague FAQ explanation. Thingiverse users either love or hate the bot; it’s provoked hundreds of comments ranging from fan poetry to hate mail, and sparked a long debate over if it makes art or spam. User’s binding stake in authorship made them fiercely active, forming a key facet of Shiv Integer, which from the outset was an anagram of Thingiverse.
Matthew Plummer Fernández British/Colombian artist Matthew Plummer Fernández works across sculpture, print, software, and installation. After receiving an MA from London’s Royal College of Art in 2009, he completed his practice-based doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019. Plummer Fernández’s interests in copyleft culture, digital fabrication, and social-computational entanglements interrelate to form a varied body of work that is influenced by the artistic traditions of Generative Art, Critical Design, and Internet Art. Plummer Fernández’s work has been exhibited extensively, and commissioned by institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum and Somerset House in London, ZKM in Karlruhe, AND Festival in Manchester. His works Digital Natives and Disarming Corruptor are in the collection of Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in 2014 Disarming Corruptor received an award of distinction at Ars Electronica. Plummer Fernández is represented by Nome gallery, Berlin. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Arts, London, and a visiting researcher at Goldsmiths.
Julien Deswaef Born in Brussels, Julien Deswaef is a software artist, experience designer and interface developer based in Barcelona. Active both in visual arts as well as in free / libre and open source culture, he has the ability to transform ideas into digital realities. He regularly collaborates with artists in the world of entertainment, music and fine arts. His art practice usually questions copyright, authorship and the impact of technology on our society through generative graphics and social media bots. Deswaef’s work has been visible in multiple art and music festivals across Europe such as Pukkelpop in Belgium, Les hivernales in Switzerland, Les Nuits Blanches in France or Kurzfilmfestival Koeln in Germany. Some of his artworks have been featured in collective exhibitions with institutions including Somerset House, LEAP, ESC Medien Kunst Labor, iMAL, Le Manège, Le Vecteur ou Les Brasseurs.
Still Stillness, Carol Breen @Studio207 @Piksel Cyber Salon
still_stillness is a clusterfuck of copies, a collage of digital interfaces and banal mediations the artist gets lost in, as she continously re-makes her own archive of images.
Carol Breen (IR) Carol Breen is an Irish artist based in the West Midlands, fascinated by the impact digital technology is having on human agency and vision. Through practice I explore the idea of images as ecologies. I return to my own archive of images and re-make them again and again. This allows me to think about the relations between, images, data and the body. I am currently undergoing a PhD Studentship at C-DaRE, The Centre for Dance Research. I have undergone artistic residencies in Norway, Canada and the UK. Worked collaboratively on funded projects with researchers from a range of disciplines and co-designed BA (Hons) student projects with the The Media Archive of Central England, and The British Film Institute as well as poetryfilm.org. Recent exhibitions include Press on and Play in collaboration with Gemma Jones at Vivid Projects, in Birmingham and Rephotography: Coventry Then and Now, at The Herbert Gallery in Coventry.
Copyleft FAL 2019 + 1999: Marjorie Bonnet, Femke Snelting, HPDeskjet 2540 + Harrison. Image available under a Free Art License 1.3. You may copy, distribute and modify them according to the terms of the Free Art License: http://artlibre.org
Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and individualism. It conceives creations as original works, making collective, networked practices difficult to fit. Within that legal and ideological framework, Copyleft, Open Content Licenses or Free Culture Licensing introduced a different view of authorship, opening up the possibility for a re-imagining of authorship as a collective, feminist, webbed practice. But over time, some of the initial spark and potentiality of Free Culture licensing has been normalized and its problems and omissions have become increasingly apparent. ‘Authors of the future’ is an ongoing research trajectory in which we start re-imagining copyleft together.
Can we invent licences that are based on collective creative practices, in which cooperation between machine and biological authors, need not be an exception? How could attribution be a form of situated genealogy, rather than accounting for heritage through listing names of contributing individuals? In what way can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and in what way could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Or perhaps we should think of very different strategies?
Constant Constant is a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology.
Constant develops, investigates and experiments. Constant departs from feminisms, copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software. Constant loves collective digital artistic practices. Constant organises transdisciplinary worksessions. Constant creates installations, publications and exchanges. Constant collaborates with artists, activists, programmers, academics, designers. Constant is active archives, poetic algorithms, body and software, books with an attitude, cqrrelations, counter cartographies, situated publishing, e-traces, extitutional networks, interstitial work, libre graphics, performative protocols, relearning, discursive infrastructures, hackable devices.
About the curator Antonio Roberts Antonio Roberts is an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practices explore what ownership and authorship mean in an age impacted by digital technology.
His work has been featured at galleries and festivals including databit.me in Arles, France (2012), Glitch Moment/ums at Furtherfield Gallery, London (2013), Loud Tate: Code at Tate Britain (2014), glitChicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, US (2014), Permission Taken at Birmingham Open Media and University of Birmingham (2015-2016), Common Property at Jerwood Arts, London (2016), Ways of Something at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017), Green Man Festival, Wales (2017), Barbican, London (2018), and Copy / Paste at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2019).
He has curated exhibitions and projects including GLI.TC/H Birmingham (2011), the Birmingham editions of Bring Your Own Beamer (2012, 2013), µChip 3 (2015), Stealth (2015), No Copyright Infringement Intended (2017). He is part of a-n’s Artist Council, is an Artist Advisor for Jerwood Arts and from 2014 – 2019 he was Curator at Vivid Projects where he produced the Black Hole Club artist development programme.
FRI KUNST – en feiring av kunstnerisk ytringsfrihet 2.- 8. mars 2020
FRI KUNST er et nettverk av kunstnere, kunst- og kulturinstitusjoner og -organisasjoner.
Vi står sammen for å bidra til at kunstnere og kunstinstitusjoner – i alle land – skal kunne skape og utøve sin kunst fritt, uten trusler og forfølgelse. Dette er en grunnleggende rettighet og forutsetning for et fritt og demokratisk samfunn.
Den kunstneriske friheten er stadig mer utsatt og truet i verden. Vi kan ikke akseptere at kunstnere og kunstinstitusjoner settes under press av politikere som er uenig i budskapet, virkemidlene eller formen på kunsten. Politiske myndigheter skal ikke overstyre uavhengige, kunstfaglige beslutninger.
Vårt mål er:
– å handle aktivt og solidarisk når kunstnere utsettes for sensur, forfølgelse og trakassering,
– å bidra til økt oppmerksomhet og bevissthet i samfunnet om å ivareta den kunstneriske ytringsfriheten,
– å bevare kunstens autonomi – gjennom forsvar av «armlengdes avstand»-prinsippet i kunst- og kulturforvaltningen.
11:00
– 17:00
– Exhibition
– S59 and Piksel Studio 207
11:00
– 13:00
– Workshop
EXCERPT
video manipulation software Gregoire
Rousseau, Piksel
Studio 207
11:00
– 13:00- Workshop
Environmental
/ Biological sensing using Arduino and other open source approaches,
Cy Keener, Piksel
Studio 207
15:00
– 17:00
– Workshop
Sounding
Feet by Instituto Stocos: Pablo Palacio, Daniel Bisig, Muriel Romero,
Piksel
Studio 207
15:00
– 17:00 – Installation and Piksel DJ’s + Special guest – Piksel
Hut // Utestuen i Skostredet
16:00
– 17:00 – Lecture Post-news
journalism: Art meets journalism talk, Hossein Derakhshan, Bergen
Public Library
19:00
– 21:00 – Installation and Piksel DJ’s – Piksel
Hut // Utestuen i Skostredet
21:00 – 03:00 – AV Performances – Østre Invisible Ecologies, Gabriela Munguía (MX) Jana Jan vs. čirnŭ (NO/ES) ALOES: The Road, Alex van Giersbergen, Marloes van Son (NL/FI) Juan Antonio Nieto (ES) Limit of the Off-limit, Nnja Riot, Lisa McKendrick (UK/NZ)
Saturday
23rd Nov
11:00
– 17:00 – Exhibition – S59
and Piksel Studio 207
11:00
– 13:00
– Workshop
Mapping
Smart Futures, Andreas
Zingerle, Davide Bevilacqua, Linda Kronman, Piksel
Studio 207
15:00
– 17:00 – Installation and Piksel DJ’s +
Special guest – Piksel Hut //
Utestuen i Skostredet
19:00
– 21:00 – Installation and Piksel
DJ’s – Piksel Hut // Utestuen i Skostredet
21:00 to 03:00 – AV Performances – Østre OECUMENE, Pablo Palacios, Muriel Romero, Daniel Bisig (ES) Crystal Moss Core Force, Noish (ES) Jukka Hautamäki (FI) Transduction, Matt Spendlove (UK) Agnes Pe (ES) + Aleksandar Bradic (US)
—- Piksel is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Hordaland Kommune, Community of Madrid, Austrian Embassy, Acción Cultural Española, Inaem, Pro Helvetia and BEK.
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PIKSEL19 – e/co,li:bre The 17th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies is eager to invite the inhabitants and visitors of Bergen to partake when the festival opens on the 21st of November.
From 16:00 to 18:00 the music pavilion in Bergen will be known as the Piksel Pavilion, flooding the entire city center in light and sound. Always updated on the latest and greatest in electronics, the pavilion will play host to the music of Agnes Pe along with the stunning visuals of Aleksandar Brandic, two Piksel artists doing high impact performances guaranteed to make you want to explore the entire Piksel Festival program this year.
Once the showcase is over, at 20:00 hours, we invite you to join us at the Exhibition Opening Night at Piksel Studio 207, located at Strandgaten 207 and 208, just a comfortable walk away from the Piksel Pavilion. This is where more than 40 international artists will be showcasing their installations, videos and Pikselsavers.
Satiate your need to move with friday and saturday night concerts at Østre. Interactive dance, electronic performances, opti-sonic intervention, extreme computer music, noise and psychoacoustic effects await you from 21:00 to 24:00. A DJ, still yet to be confirmed, will be keeping the dancefloor warm and cosy until the end of the night.
Friday
afternoon, Hossein Derakhshan will be giving a lecture about how the
challenge for journalism in the years to come is to reinvent itself
around something other than news, whilst resisting the seduction of
propaganda and entertainment. Hossein Derakhshan is currently a
research associate at the MIT Media Lab. His writings have appeared
in The New York Times, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Wired,
Libération, Die Zeit, and Corriere Della Sera.
The workshop program will be running from Thursday to Saturday at Piksel Studio207, and on Saturday morning Piksel artists will be presenting their projects at Østre.
List of artists: Noish (ES), Sandra and Gaspard Bébié-Valérian (FR), Aad Björkro (SE), Aleksandar Bradic (US), Gabin Cortez Chance (US), Osvaldo Cibils (UR), Cached Collective (FR/PT), Hossein Derakhshan (CA), Iodine Dynamics (FR), Adam Fish , Sarah Friend (DE) , Susi Disorder(ES), Jukka Hautamäki (FI), Cy Edgar Keener (USA), Søren Krag (FI), Marc Lee (SW), Zack Lee (US), Justin Lincoln (US), Oscar Martin (ES), Michael Mastrototaro (AT), Nick Montfort (US), Gabriela Munguía (AR), Martin Nadal (ES), Juan Antonio Nieto (ES), Pablo Palacio (ES), Ivan Andre Paulsen (NO), Jana Jan (ES), Agnes Pe (ES), Alexandre Torres Porres (BR), Tivon Rice, Ninja Riot (UK/NZ), Gregoire Rousseau (FR), Gabriel Caniglia (US), Ozge Samanci (US), Matt Spendlove (UK), Jeff Thompson (US), Garen Jerire Torikian (US), Alex van Giersbergen (FI), Andreas Zingerle (AT), Arkadiy Kukarkin , Muriel Romero (ES), Marloes van Son (FI), Davide Bevilacqua (IT), Linda Kronman (FI)
Piksel19 is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Hordaland County, Community of Madrid, Austrian Embassy, Acción Cultural Española, Inaem, Pro Helvetia and BEK.
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One of the fastest rising Romanian young talents, Iuly.B (Iulian Bivolaru) resides in Iași, a major city in the North-Eastern part of the country. He is all about discovering and reinventing himself through music. He is self-taught and hard working in order to achieve the per fect matching sounds, leaving behind his own legacy. With the continuous flow of releasing an i deal amount of tracks, showing dedication and passion for what he does, along with playing in different i mportant venues across Europe, South America and Australia, in the recent years, he managed to make a name for himself.
Iuly.Bs records fly off the shelves as soon as they go on sale. We’re talking about a comprehensive discography, having credits on more than a dozen EPs in the last years, for renowned labels such as Rora, Visionquest, Mulen, Subtil or Fuse London. At Dubla Parties, he also plays on a regular basis in the opening for important names in the industry, such as Christopher Ledger, Ion Ludwig, Alci, Julian Perez, Priku, Cezar, Prâslea, SIT and together with many more.
Deep, hypnotic energies are forged into merciless basslines, born out of his own imagination and keener sense of space.
220hex / Gisle Frøysland has for over a decade been one of the key figures of the Norwegian electronic arts scene. Since the early 80s he has been working as a musician, VJ and visual artist. He is a founding member of BEK – the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art and initiator/director of the Piksel festival for electronic art and free technologies.
Gisle Frøysland has been the receiver of grants and has held numerous exhibitions, many of them in Norway but also abroad. His work has been presented at several international festivals like Electrohype, Dissonanze, Transmediale, Borealis, Ultima, MakeArt, Pixelache, Mal au Pixel and Electropixel. His past collaborators include KKNull, VuNhatTan, John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug, BAKtruppen and Motherboard.
The eclectic duo John Hegre og David Aasheim have decades of musical experience from different projects in the experimental/noise electronica scene. Tonight their bring they will bring their hard-gear and deliver a rare live performance.
DJ ERROR DJ Error alias Rolf Skøien har been a part of the Bergen underground scene since the start. DJ Error is known for arranging underground parties and playing long sets with a unique repertoire that is hard to describe in words.
ANDERS G Anders G is one of the founders of the Bergen’s techno scene. He has fit into all the facets of the scene, standing behind the stage as DJ and light artist, and in front of the stage as part of the audience. As a previous club organizer, he has managed club events, techno and rave parties, and incorporated VJ artists, performance art projects and installationst. Anders G has a distinct sound that may consist of everything from industrial ambience, intergalactic space funk and pure muzak.
VIDEO/INSTALLATIONS
PIKSELSAVERS – screensavers that makes a difference! PikselSavers is a screening programme of short videos and software art based on the screensaver format – short audiovisual (non)narratives made for endless looping. The programme is curated by the Piksel Festival.
PROGRAM: – Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media, Marc Lee – 2×6, Nick Montfort – El arte de las perillas (the art of knobs), Osvaldo Cibils – I will be waiting (2017), Dimitrios Gkikas (Alemania/Grecia)
VIDEO PROGRAM: – Copyright Atrophy, Antonio Roberts – Anarchotopia, Karen Eliot – Go Rando, Benjamin Grosser – Reconquista series, Paola Torres (Perú/Suecia)
#Anti-corruption-code-my-circumstances, Gisle Frøysland #Anti-corruption-code-my-circumstances is an autonomous algorithm that reads from the anti-corruption best practices manual for companies named “Anti-corruption: Ethics and compliances hand book for business” widely distributed on the internet and highly recommended by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the World Bank. The reader software gradually corrupts the text randomly picking sentences with the word “anti” until the word “anti” is the only word left. Idea, concept and development by Gisle Frøysland with the ideological inspiration of Maite Cajaraville.
FOOD – Michelle Zhao Michelle Zhao is the owner and creator of the Instagram account @nosweetsour, which features delicious, authentic Chinese dishes and recipes. Her motivations are simple: to discover, and recreate proper Chinese food from around her country and in particular from her region of Yunnan.
🌩️ Join us for one last Stormy Thursday!🌩️📅 Date: 21st March🕔 Time: 17:00-20:00📍 Location: Piksel Studio, Strandgaten 207Get ready for an evening packed with engaging discussions and knowledge exchange at Piksel Studio. Our team will unveil exciting updates on our IDLE Cyber Salong, now adorned with captivating interactive instruments!Images from IDLE cyber salong and previous Stormy Thursdays Don't miss out! See you there! 👋
🌟 Friendly Reminder: Get ready for another exciting Stormy Thursdays this week! 🌪️ Join us as we look at Hydra, learning how to wield its powers with any MIDI controller or keyboard. 🎹🕹️ https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ Plus, we will look at controlling a Praxis Live project using a MIDI keyboard.As always, there'll be dedicated time to work independently on your own projects.See you Thursday, 29/2 at Studio 207, Strandgaten 207, from 17:00-20:00. #PikselFest #StormyThursdays
🌩️ Stormy Thursday`s at Studio 207! 🌩️Join us today for yet an exciting edition of Stormy Thursdays! James will be giving a short demo of the game he's currently crafting; Wee boats, starring Beffen. With lots of cool open-source tools to highlight, it looks to be an interesting evening! 🎮✨ 📅 Date: Today 22.02-24🕔 Time: 17:00 - 20:00📍 Location: Studio 207, Strandgaten 207 #StormyThursdays #PikselFest #GameDemo #OpenSourceMagic #Studio207
Stormy ThursdaysEach Thursday for the upcoming weeks, Piksel are hosting a series of workshops, creating a space for exploration, creativity and community. Anyone intrigued by the intersection of art and technology are welcome to join, interact, share and work on own projects and ideas. The workshops takes place each Thursday from 17:00 – 20:00 at Studio 207, Strandgaten 207. More info: https://piksel.no/2024/01/14/stormy-thursdays-open-workshopsWe also have a Discord meeting room: https://discord.gg/QyK9Apyq
