15^th – 16^th of June Workshop @Piksel Studio 207 from 10:30 – 17:00

To sign up for this workshop write an email to piksel19(at)piksel(dot)no

The workshop aims to build a ∏box and to experiment on it : a ∏Box is a modular system of radio/streaming broadcast, composed of multiples inputs and outputs. The ∏box aims to provide a multi-functional and easy-to-use micro-FM streaming station. It has been developed within the collective ∏-node.org. The system is open source, and based on open source software / open hardware.

∏Box is based on a Micro-FM way of practising and appropriating radio, which has been introduced in the 80th by the Japanese artist and researcher Tetsuo Kogawa (1). In comparison to the traditional radio broadcasting, this micro-radio transmits FM waves on a tiny perimeter, such as a house, a block, or a small zone. Technically, local and “narrowcasting” radio is also much more easy to set up! Combining an ultra local transmission mode with internet (Ethernet, Wifi or 4G), a ∏box leverages the possibilities of transmission. This technic aims to everyone to create a mini FM transmission station aggregated online, with the help of an Icecast server.

This micro FM/streaming radio station can be used in temporary or sustainable situations, from concerts, events, or talks broadcasting, including the audio archives of it, to the transmission of the memory of a neighborhood or the medium of a collective speaking. Thanks to its modular conception, the ∏box can adapt to the needs of everyone, everywhere!

Behind the goal of understanding and appropriating a technic of radio broadcasting, this workshop will also aim to create a social space, to confront to the stakes of the public speaking, to appropriate a media, in an horizontal way, that breaks with the more well known asymmetrical relationship between multiple invisible auditors and one single distant voice on air. Here, the animators of the show and the auditors are the same, and participate to a common shared situation, following Felix Guattari’s thinking on radio (3). The FM-streaming hybridization invites also to imagine artistic forms and actions based on this combination of technologies.

The workshop will start with a demo of the ∏box and a presentation of the technical concepts, to open to a discussion on the possible uses, before to install it from scratch, step by step, on a Raspberry-pi. So everyone is able to build and personalize his tool. An Icecast server will be setup specifically for the workshop, to get the overview of technical chain of transmission.

(1) http://anarchy.translocal.jp/

(2) https://p-node.org/works/pibox/piboxv2

(3) http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpbifo1.htm

∏-node (FR) is a collective, which regroups emblematic figures of the sound art, radio and streaming scenes. The collective was created for the CTM 2014 Radio Lab, and was one of two recipients of the “Ubiquitous Art and Sound” Open Call for works, awarded by Deutschland Radio Kultur/Klangkunst, Goethe‐Institut, ICAS – International Cities for Advanced Sound, ECAS – European Cities for Advanced Sound, and CTM Festival.

http://p‐node.org

Duration: 2 days, 10 hours , 10h30-17h (with a break)

Max 12 participants

Technical needs from Participants (per participant):

REQUIRED (Piksel will provide the materials, if you want to keep it after the workshop, materials costs are 733 NOK, you can also bring your own if you want) :

• 1 raspberry pi 3B or 3B+ or 2B (it works with Raspberry Pi under 2B but the 3B or 3B+ version are highly recommanded)

• 1 power plug micro usb (5V, 2A minimum)

• 1 micro SD card 8Go minimum (sdhc class 10)

• 1 WiFi USB dongle (or 2 WiFi USB dongles if you have a version of Raspberry Pi < 3B)

• 1 USB sound card like : https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDO2j6FA70kvofj2JgQ3F3cNjTLmY8NJHUJuM3k7WfeGmexziu (possible to use a Zoom H4N Pro as soundcard)

EACH PARTICIPANT has to bring :

• a laptop

• 1 headphone (mini jack)

• 1 radio receiver (FM band)

• sound, music, record files…

If you want to have a MOBILE BROADCASTING PI-BOX for events, then you need to bring also:

• battery : 12000mAh – USB output : 5V, 2A min

• smartphone to share internet connection through 4G

• 1 case for raspberry-pi (optional, a tupperware can do it 😉

If you are already working with sound and/or radio and have SOUND PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT, you can bring in it so we can make experiments and understand how “upgrade” the PI-BOX radio:

• recorder (tascam, zoom + mini-jack cable) > soundcard class compliant that can replace the tinny usb soundcard

• microphone (only micros working without phantom power, in shema = mini-jack)

Piksel is proud to present a new program “Piksel Fest Spill” during the International Bergen Festival focused in electronic art. In May 2019 an exhibition, a performance and four workshops will take place at the Piksel Studio 207 with several local and international artists plus one late evening event at the at the music pavilion. We invite you to join in all our activities!

Piksel Fest Spill is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, the Wallonie-Bruxelles International and Rumanska Kultur Institutet.

PROGRAM

24th of May
Exhibition Opening at the Studio at 19:00 – 23:00
Signal To Noise, curated by Tincuta Heinzel
Exhibition dates: 25th of May – 16h of June (Mondays closed)
Opening hours: 15:00 – 18:00

26th of May
Performance
Expirator (reversed vacuum cleaner) by Pierre Berthet (BE)
20:00

27th of May
Workshops
Touching Sound, a workshop by Pierre Berthet (BE)
from 14:00 – 18:00

30th of May
Piksel Pavilion – AV Performance
Hlöðver Sigurðsson (IS)

31st of May
Workshops
Pure Data, Hlöðver Sigurðsson (IS)

2nd of June
Do your own radio! Exhibition parallel activities: workshop (FR)
from 14:00 – 18:00

PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy!
22nd – 24th November
Piksel Studio 207
Strandgaten 207
5004 Bergen

WORKSHOPS announcement– Piksel Studio 207 (All in 1 PDF)

PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy!
The 16th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies

– Wokshops.
– November 22nd-24th, Bergen (NO)
– http://18.piksel.no

Buzzocrazy! The Piksel18 festival slogan points to the new era of “post-truth” based on appeals to emotion rather than policies and facts. Stretching the truth can be seen as just part of a game. The post-truth affects how we make sense of the world around us. That phenomenon has a name — agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.

Piksel 18 Buzzocrazy! Claims to repair the hive mind. The global consciousness has been manipulated and we have to bring it back again from echo-manipulation to eco-pollinization, we seek the bee drones as the new metaphor to restore the logic ecosystem.

PIKSEL18 – BuzzOcrazy!
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Workshops Programme:

All workshops are free to attend.
To sign up send an email to: prod(at)piksel(dot)no
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OMSynth: DIY electronics and building audio circuits from scratch Workshop by Peter Edwards
23rd Nov
Building: SKUR14
Date: 15:00-18:00

In 2013 Peter presented the early stages of a DIY circuit building interface called the Open Modular Syntehsizer (OMSynth).

In this lecture he will share how the OMSynth has evolved from an idea to a product and how it challenges many of the established norms of DIY electronics practice. Along the way he will also discuss a call for a new standard of DIY circuit design in the post SMT (surface mount electronics) age.

Participants will build an experimental sound circuit from scratch using the OMSynth.

Peter Edwards is an American artist, musician, and teacher. He has been exploring the field of circuit bending and experimental musical electronics since 2000 through his business Casperelectronics. He performs regularly under the same name.

Edwards has performed, taught workshops and spoken on the topic of circuit bending and creative electronics at MIT’s Media Lab, Hasbro Toys, Hampshire College, Skidmore College, New York University, Bloomfield University, Long Beach University, Georgie Southern University and at new media festivals around the world including The Piksel Festival (Bergen, Norway).
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Weird Signal Processing – a VGA Hacking Workshop by Wolfgang Spahn
24th Nov
Building: SKUR14
Date: 15:00-18:00

Name June Paik is known for manipulating a TV set with a magnet. One might think that after we abandoned monitor tubes the combination of TV and magnetism is gone as well. But similar techniques are still possible today by manipulating the monitor signal.

The fact that most signals used to connect devices via wires are based on electric current allows for easy hacking. For example one can manipulate the VGA video signal flow with coils and magnetic fields. The signal being similar to sound signals makes for an easy transfer to sound and vice versa. One can make a video signal hearable and display an audio signal on a monitor.

In the workshop we will process VGA signals. We learn the basic about the VGA standard and how to manipulate, mix and sonify the signal, how to amplifier, invert and add fast video signals. Every participant will build a VGA breakout board that allows easy access to the signal.

Please bring your own laptop (with a VGA connection or converter), an Arduino and or your Raspberry Pi if you have some.

Wolfgang Spahn (*1970, Austria) is a visual artist based in Berlin. His work includes interactive installations, videos, projections, and miniature-slide-paintings. After having studied mathematics and sociology in Regensburg and Berlin he founded the screen-printing-studio at Tacheles. He also managed various art projects e.g. Schokoladen Mitte and was one of the artists at Meinblau, Berlin. He currently teaches at the BBK-Berlin, Medienwerkstatt and is associated lecturer at the University of Paderborn, department of art.

International exhibitions (selection): 2000 Biennial of young Art in Genua, Italy, 2003 The Kosovo Art Gallery in Pristina, Kosovo, 2005 Biennial in Prague, Czech Republic, 2008 and 2009 Internationales Klangkunstfest in Berlin, 2009 The Art of the Overhead in Malmö, Sweden, PIXEL09 and 10 in Bergen, Norway, 2010 Biennial Of Miniature Art in Serbia, 2010 Media-Scape in Zagreb, Croatia, Transmediale 2012, Berlin.
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PIKSEL BIO LAB 2018 WORKSHOPS

The Umwelt of the Forager: on Bees, pheromones and bacteria by Anne Marie Maes
23rd and 24th Nov
Building: Piksel Studio 207
Date: 15:00-19:00

The workshop -the Umwelt of the Forager- will be studying the bio semiotics of the beehive & its ecosystem. The workshop will be organized as a DYI BioLab: the starting point is the role of pheromones and the important task these signifiers play for the communication in the beehive and for the relation of the bees to their ecosystem.

Participants will be sensing the ecology of the beehive and interpret the emergence of symbols. They will be detecting the granularity of waves formed between bacterial signals and the signs emitted through invisible (bio)technologies. In several hands-on sessions the microbial sphere in and around the beehive will be studied under the microscope. Participants will prepare agar plates to culture bacteria and spores that they collect at the intersection of places, called the Umwelt of the Forager (bee). They will ‘design’ with bacteria and reflect upon shared habitats for bees and other micro-organisms.

Anne Marie Maes is an artist who has been studying the tight interactions and co-evolutions within urban ecosystems. Her research practice combines art and science with a strong interest for DIY technologies and biotechnology. She works with a range of biological, digital and traditional media, including live organisms. Her artistic research is materialized in techno-organic objects that are inspired by factual/fictional stories; in artefacts that are a combination of digital fabrication and craftsmanship; in installations that reflect both the problem and the (possible) solution, in multispecies collaborations, in polymorphic forms and models created by eco-data.
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Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations by Martin Howse and Mindaugas Gapševičius
23rd Nov
Building: Piksel Studio 207
Date: 10:00-14:00

Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations
Martin Howse, Mindaugas Gapševičius
Keywords: Installation, tutorial, toolkit, experiments

The project invites us to experience interspecies communication and feedback loops between mycelium networks and their habitats, including other organisms and beings. It also proposes the examination of a new networked imaginary between electrochemical signals, digital data, and electromagnetic waves. The project invites the user to experience plant to plant or plant to fungi interaction by connecting an electronic interface and converting data from electrochemical to digital and back to electrochemical signal. Using allelopathy as a metaphor for plant interaction, the project questions the mechanism of translation of signals, which, through the number of generations are influenced by the information from outside, including its own transmitted information.

The experiments introduced in the tutorial will give an idea of how to grow mycelium, how to make electronic tools and attach them to living organisms, and how to use the tools for audiovisual expression. During the hands on session, we will do four experiments:

– Start growing mycelium on coffee grounds;
– Sense electric potentials in living organisms;
– Assemble and test the mycelial radio transmitter;
– Use built tools and a Pd patch provided for audiovisual expression.

The experiments are facilitated by Mindaugas Gapševičius.

Mindaugas Gapševičius, http://triple-double-u.com/
Martin Howse, http://www.1010.co.uk/org/

Martin Howse is occupied with an artistic investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics), proposing a return to animism within a critical misuse of scientific technology.

Mindaugas Gapševičius (b 1974) is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working in Berlin and Vilnius. He earned his MA at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999 and started MPHIL/PhD program at Goldsmiths University in 2010.
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PIKSEL KIDZ LAB 2018 EDITION

City GO! DIY Traffic lights of air pollution by Hamilton Mestizo
5th – 7th November – 10:00- 14:00
8th – 9th November – 14:00 -18:00
Building: Piksel Studio 207
To participate send and email to piksel18(at)piksel(dot)no

Do It Yourself Traffic lights of air pollution is an eco-design workshop for kids. Kids will be assembling “air traffic lights” that visualise the pollution in our cities. The goal is to experiment with a sensor which detects levels of Carbon Monoxide (CO) concentrations, the main gas produced by gasoline and diesel cars and go to the city and test them in the urban environment.

The project mixes artistic, environmental and social concerns and adheres to the design principles of open hardware and software: Everyone is invited to learn how the electronics and the code functions in order to be able to modify it.

Hamilton Mestizo (CDMX, Mexico)
Hamilton Mestizo 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.
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City TECH! SONORATEC! en kunstlab med nye medier for barn! by Oda Bremnes (Norway), Margarita Ardila (Colombia)
12th – 14th – 10:00- 14:00
15th – 16th November – 14:00 -18:00
Building: Piksel Studio 207
To participate send and email to piksel18(at)piksel(dot)no

Sonorartec is a lab where the kids learn the basics of electronic to produce sound with drawn images, toys with lights, plastic pianos, … recycling everyday materials. What we will do? Build different devices which permit kids to experiment with leds, circuits, sound, graphics, creative writing, and much more.

Oda Bremnes (Norway) is a third year of bachelor’s degree at the Department of Art at the Faculty of Arts, Music and Design, UiB (further Art and Design College in Bergen). She is working on new media. mainly video, installation and electronics.

Margarita Ardila (Colombia)
Margarita Ardila is a Colombian maker, composer and sound researcher. Multidisciplinary artist coordinator and workshop of SONORARTEC LAB, laboratory oriented to the application of new media in the art, design, education.
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City TECH! Electrotextile! Customize your clothes or accessories with LEDs! by Pauline Vierne (France)
12th – 14th – 10:00- 14:00
15th – 16th November – 14:00 -18:00
Building: Piksel Studio 207
To participate send and email to piksel18(at)piksel(dot)no

Electrotextile workshop is a practical and theoretical workshop to make, remixi and intervene your accessories and garments through the manufacture of soft and flexible electronic circuits.

The participants will approach to the concept of “wearable technologies” and to the basic notions of electronics. To this end, circuits will be prototyped and creative projects will be developed by mixing textiles and materials capable of conducting electricity.

Kids will learn to make resistances and soft switches with cloth, felt, thread for lighting or sound applications and they can customize your clothes or accessories with LEDs!

Pauline Vierne, France
Pauline Vierne completed an MA in Innovative Textiles at ENSAAMA, Paris, and works as an e-textile researcher at the Design Research Lab, Berlin University of the Arts since 2014. Using experimental design and practice-led processes, her work bridges conductive and unconventional materials using traditional craft techniques to explore new materiality.

Kollektivet DELTA Piksel snurrer i gang en arrangementsrekke med presentasjon av utenlandske artister innen minimalistisk elektronisk musikk – i kombinasjon med eksperimentell kunst og installasjoner.

Vi har fått med oss litt av et kobbel glitrende artister på første event!

Tidligere fast dj i Berlin på Bar 25, Panorama Bar og Watergate mv. og foregangsfigur innenfor minimal- og mikrohouse, Daniel Dreier, disker opp med et 3,5 timers “hybrid” sett.

line up:
Daniel Dreier(DE)

Kvelden åpner med to live-sett og installasjoner i Lydgalleriet med følgende eminente utøvere:

ADIVAN (Ida Nerbø & Ivan Andre Paulsen) – live sett
Rudi Valdersnes – live sett

DJ Pete the Heat & Anders G.

visuals:
Gisle Frøysland

CC: 150, –

BILLETTER:
https://goo.gl/bYXssJ

Arrangementet støttes av Bergen kommune

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DANIEL DREIER

Daniel Dreier has played an integral role in Berlins techno scene since the early 2000’s.
Since his very first release on Highgrade records Chick ’n Chips which was a huge summer hit 2005 , played by the likes of Luciano and Richie Hawtin. Luciano even featured it on his charts on number 2.
It followed a residency for 5 years at Watergate, Bar25 and in the infamous Panoramabar.
Collaborations with Guido Schneider , Tom Clark and Lee Jones followed on labels such as Bar 25 , Klang Elektronik (sublabel of Playhouse) and Sender Records.
He counts Ricardo Villalobos as a huge influence who he saw play the first time in places such as E-werk and Panoramabar.
Daniel has played all around the world and can adapt and sense what the crowd needs whatever the situation is.

https://soundcloud.com/danieldreier

ADVIAN – Ida Nerbø & Ivan Andre Paulsen

IDA NERBØ

Ida plays a dark, hypnotic and trippy mix of acid and techno music. She has been a figure in the techno scene in Norway for a few years, and has performed at raves on boats in the Norwegian fjords, clubs including PLOINK (NO), DOT (NO), and EKKO Festival (NO), as well as holding down a monthly residency at KLUBB BLUBB (NO). Spring of 2017 she made her international debut in Portugal where she performed at the Parva Basement rave (PT). Later she has travelled to Asia for gigs at Social Room/HYPNOTIC (HK), Vervo Club (CHI) and Club Kowloon (HK).

Ida contributes to the techno scene in Norway with various side projects such as publishing the Bergen Techno Fanzine, a printed magazine about techno culture in Norway.

Ida is part of DOT Collective Bergen, which is a team that creates and promotes dance events focusing on unusual techno acts in combination with art and light work.

IVAN ANDRE PAULSEN

Ivan has spent most of his time in the dark and murky underground territory of DIY ,noise, contemporary music and impromusic as part of Bergen Impro Bigband, automat.piss.tool and the BIT20 Club. The last few years he has been fucking around with power electronics under the moniker cirnu and lately as one half of the experimental duo ADIVAN with ida nerbø. Unexpect the expected.

RUDI VALDERSNES

Musician producer Dj making leftfield Techno by hardware and selfmade/ found perkusion instruments. Founding member of Ideophone records and contributer to events in the nabourhood. Focusing on gender issues, including events and experimental avantgarde techno music. Has new album releases cuming up as solo artist and in collaboration with musician’s and artists. a diverse musical past including punk rock careers , jazz art music and contemporary music scene organicer it has all been translated in to production of techno. Hypnotic minimal calming and uplifting dark and light rhythms, ambients and melodys.

https://soundcloud.com/rudi-valdersnes

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 organiser, he has managed club events, techno and rave parties, and incorporated VJ artists, performance art projects and installations. Tonight he’ll do a set with DJ Peat the Heat, and they’ll give some distinct sound that may consist of everything from industrial ambience, intergalactic space funk and pure muzak.

https://soundcloud.com/anders_gogstad/archive_x_15

GISLE FRØYSLAND

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 free technologies in artistic practice.
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.

http://piksel.no/

DJ PETE THE HEAT

Event organizer and dj since mid-nineties. Minimal enthusiast.

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.

BergenTechNoiseCity

#bergentechnocity meets international noise artists in a night of spectacular frequencies and chilling beats exploring the laptop possibilities from experimental to dance music.

Lineup:

21:00 Lars Åkerlund / Julien Ottavi
22-23 Julien Ottavi / Arthur Hureau
23-00:30 Dj Anders G.

Venue:

Inside Rock Cafe
Vaskerelvsmuget 7, 5014 Bergen

CC: 70,-

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Bios:

///Lars Åkerlund///

Lars Åkerlund is a composer, sound artist and performer of mainly electronic and electroacoustic music, living in Stockholm. He studied music and classical guitar at Conservatorio del Liceo, Barcelona, and classical guitar and electroacoustic music at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, at the EMS, Stockholm, as well as musicology at the University of Stockholm. Musical collaborations include Eryck Abecassis, Kasper T Toeplitz, Zbigniew Karkowski, CM von Hausswolff, Jean-Louis Huhta, Dror Feiler, Tetsuo Furudate, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Freddie Wadling, Dennis Wong, Leif Elggren, Kent Tankred, Flesh Quartet, Kroumata and Johan Söderberg. He also co-founded bands like P.I.T.T. (with Zbigniew Karkowski et al) and Lucky People Center (with Johan Söderberg et al). Since the 90s he has made music for contemporary dance with choreographers Per Jonsson, Björn Elisson, Johan Inger and Cristina Caprioli and the Rambert Dance Company, London, Finnish National Ballet, Helsinki, the Gothenburg Opera Ballet, Stockholm Opera Ballet and most of the major Nordic dance companies, as well as the companies of the choreographers mentioned above. Lars Åkerlund made the music for film director Jan Troell’s Il Capitano (Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival 1992 and the Guldbaggen Award for Best Film 1992, Stockholm) and Their Frozen Dream (Awarded at San Francisco International Film Festival 1999 and Valladolid International Film Festival 1999). In 2015, he made the music for the Sound of Silence festival, playing live in Tokyo and Berlin to the Chinese silent movie ”The Peach Girl” by Min Wancang Bu, made in 1932. Lars Åkerlund has been touring and made numerous live performances as well as music lectures and workshops throughout Africa, South America, Asia, USA and Europe. Lars Åkerlund has released records on labels as Radium 226.05, Firework Edition Records, SubRosa, Monotype Records, R.O.S.A. MNW Records and Fylkingen Records.

http://www.larsakerlund.com/

///Julien Ottavi///

Composer, Artist, curator and PhD student on new music and network

A mediactivist, artist-researcher, composer / musician, poet and tongues destroyer, experimental film maker and anarchitect, founder and member of Apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new technologies and body performances. Since 1997, he develops a composition work using voice and its transformation through computer. Active developer of audio/visual programs with Puredata, he has also developed since many years DIY electronics (radio transmitters, oscillators, mixers, amplifiers, video transmitters…etc) in the perspective of knowledge sharing on technological development. Main developer for the Gnu/Linux operating system APODIO for digital art and A/V & streaming diffusion. His practices is not limited to the art spheres but crosses different fields from technological development to philosophy / theoretical research, biomimetic analysis & experimentation. Since many years he reflects on the relations between experimental practices and collective practices within the creation of autonomous collective groups, putting in question the authorship strategy of the “art ideology”.

http://www.noiser.org

////Anders G////

Theatre scientist and writer Anders Gogstad, also known as DJ Anders G, is one of the founders of the norwegian techno scene. He has published dosens of articles about ambient theatre, clubbing and pop culture. He is also a member of the Piksel organisation in Bergen, mostly working with press releated matters. As a DJ and previous club organiser, he has managed club events, techno and rave parties, and incorporated VJ artists, performance art projects and installations, inspired by contemporary post mainstream theories like Guy Debord and Neo Situationism, Nicholas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics, Mark Amerika’s Avant Pop Manifesto, and Deluze & Guattarian rhizomatic paradigm, to name a few. In collaboration with Peter Pajhel from Verdensteateret and Gisle Frøyland from Baktruppen, Anders Gogstad became a member of the interactive theatre performance group RE:actor, known for their DIY real time stage technology, where the audience participance was triggered and integrated as an active part in the stage settings surrounded by sound and visuals. Anders G is known for his own distinct sound that can consist of anything from industrial ambience, intergalactic space funk and pure techno.

www.piksel.no

////Arthur Hureau////

Composer, sound-designer and electronic music performer, his research mixes sciences, socio-political issues and new technologies within the field of DIY engineering and contemporary music. He has performed in several collaborations and ensembles in Europe and USA.
Also known as a DJ under many nicknames, he already shared the stage next to Ritzi Lee, The Geezer, Sarah For Sure, Falhaber and many mores under Syndrøm Records and Castle Hood banners.

VECTOR SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP WITH DEREK HOLZER

VECTOR SYNTHESIS is an audiovisual, computational art project using sound synthesis and vector graphics display techniques to investigate the direct relationship between sound+image. It draws on the historical work of artists such as Mary Ellen Bute, John Whitney, Nam June Paik, Ben Laposky, and Steina & Woody Vasulka among many others, as well as on ideas of media archaeology and the creative re-use of obsolete technologies. Audio waveforms control the vertical and horizontal movements as well as the brightness of a single beam of light, tracing shapes, points and curves with a direct relationship between sound and image.
You can see several demo videos here:

http://macumbista.net/?page_id=5000

SOFTWARE

The Vector Synthesis library allows the creation and manipulation of 2D and 3D vector shapes, Lissajous figures, and scan processed image and video inputs using audio signals sent directly to oscilloscopes, hacked CRT monitors, Vectrex game consoles, ILDA laser displays, or oscilloscope emulation softwares using the Pure Data programming environment.

https://github.com/macumbista/vectorsynthesis

During this workshop, you will learn how to use a custom library in the Pure Data programming environment to directly control the vertical and horizontal movements, as well as the brightness, of a beam of light. You will then explore Lissajous figures, waveform representations, and other multiplexed, audio-driven visual shapes and forms which can be displayed and manipulated in real time on an XY oscilloscope, Vectrex game console, ILDA laser display, and other analog vector displays, or with oscilloscope emulating software directly on your laptop.

DATES

March 9-11 2018

PLACE

Piksel Studio 207
Strandgaten 207
5004 Bergen
http://studio.piksel.no

To sign up, send a mail to: prod (AT) piksel.no

LINKS

http://macumbista.net/?page_id=4869

https://www.instagram.com/macumbista/

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American instrument builder and sound artist based in Helsinki FI & Berlin DE, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound + space, media archaeology and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has performed live, taught workshops and created scores of unique instruments and installations since 2002 across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand

Briefly about Piksel and Piksel Studio
Piksel is a network of artists and an annual media art festival based in Bergen (NO), which focuses on the relationship between art and free technologies, arranged for the first time in 2003.

Piksel Studio 207 is Piksel’s new project in Bergen. Piksel Studio 207 is established in a 130 m2 room where we will create an annual program for artists, children and young people, cultural institutions and the general public.

CALL FOR PROJECTS
In 2018 Piksel Studio plans to make up to 5 exhibitions selected from this open call. Each exhibition will take a maximun of a month, one week to setup and 3 weeks to exhibit. Formats are flexible and open for discussion.

Piksel Studio is currently seeking artists, curators and organizations to use the space as an exhibition space, workshop room or performative space. The projects can be of any format that fits the space.

The works must be realized by the use of free and open source technologies. We specially encourage projects in the field of DIY Bioart, renewable/sustainable technologies, DIY and open hardware, audiovisual software tools or software art released under a free/open license. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realized using free/open technologies.)

Piksel offers the space, the communication skills, the technical production equipment and support within the actual resources. The selected projects must provide their own fundings in case extra production costs are needed (travel, accommodation, per diems etc.). Piksel can assist in seeking for external fundings in specific projects.

The selection will be done in a first come first served process. We will be selecting projects as they come and the call is open till 1st of October.

To submit a project please send an email to piksel18 (AT) piksel (DOT) no with the subject Piksel Studio Exhibition. The email should include the name of the project, description, bio and cv of the people involved, technical needs and fundings possibilities.

more info: www.piksel.no

Høstskolee 2017
PIKSEL KIDZ Lab 🙂
CITY PLANTS & CITY TECH & CITY WATER
en kunstlab med nye medier for barn!

BERGEN
6. november – 17. november
14:00 – 17:00

Pressemelding

For første gang i Bergen kan barna tilbringe med å leke med kunst og elektronikk. Piksel KidZ Lab er et kunstnerisk laboratorium hvor barn kan lære seg å forstå og skape kunstverk på nye medier.

Under temaene City- PLANTS, City- WATER og City- TECH, vil barna samhandle med miljøet på flere fronter: både det sosiale, kulturelle og naturlige miljøet.

Anvendelsen av åpen teknologi hjelper barna å forstå hvordan datamaskiner fungerer og introduserer dem for begreper knyttet til digital frihet. Laben tar i bruk samarbeidsprosjekter basert på Do It With Others (DIWO) for å fremme kulturell diversitet og et mangfold av fysiske og virtuelle opplevelser som gjør barna klare for det 21. århundret!

Piksel KidZ Lab har som målsetning å bringe kunst i nye medier ut til barn og unge. Det er et initiativ i regi av Piksel, bergensfestivalen med fokus på kunst og fri teknologi.

For mer informasjon: http://studio.piksel.no/
For å melde deg på, send en email til piksel17@piksel.no

-english
For the first time in Bergen, the kids will enjoy the autumn playing with art and electronics. Piksel KidZ Lab is an artistic laboratory for kids to understand and build new media artworks.

From 6th of November, Piksel Studio 207 will host the Autumn School Piksel KidZ Lab. Three different workshops: Hello plants :), Water talking! and Sonorartec to explore the urban and natural environment. Kids build small electronic sound devices, marine bio-art sensors, and chips to communicate with the plants.

Under the themes City- PLANTS, City-WATER and City- TECH, kids engage with the environment in a wide sense: social, cultural and natural environment.

The use of free technologies empowers the kids to understand how computers works and introduces them into the digital freedom concept. The lab apply to collaborative production based on Do It With Others (DIWO) to promote cultural diversity and multilayer physical and virtual experiences to get ready for the XXI century!

Piksel KidZ Lab, aims to bring new media art practices to kids and youngsters. It is an initiative of Piksel, the Bergen festival focused on art and free technologies.

For more information please visit: http://studio.piksel.no/

Piksel 16, ZERO-Level
elektronisk kunst og fri teknologi
24-27 Nov
Bergen, Norway

PIKSEL16 Festival ZERO-LEVEL, elektronisk kunst og fri teknologi.

Et uavhengig blikk på Bergens marine miljø

Fra 24. til 27. november samles kunstnere fra et dusin land på PIKSEL Internasjonale Festival i Bergen. Gjennom konserter, installasjoner, performancer, workshoper og presentasjoner vil kunstnerne dele sine forskjellige innfallsvinkler til vårt marine miljø.

Er fisken vi spiser blitt «femininisert» av forurensing? Hvordan kan vi skape et alternativt kommunikasjonsnettverk i en post-internett tidsalder? Hvordan kan vi samle inn forskningsdata fra havet og lære oss å tolke dem? Kan båter utgjøre et nytt omreisende verktøy for kunstnerisk virksomhet? Er det mulig å lage havgående prototyper basert på nullutslipp?

Bioteknologi er ikke lenger bare et emne for vitenskapsfolk. Også eksperimentelle kunstnere forsker på biologiske, biopolitiske og bioeffektive spørsmål som påvirker samfunnet i sin helhet. Som bevisste samfunnsborgere gransker kunstnere disse spørsmålene og sender dem videre til resten av befolkningen gjennom kunstverk, performancer og workshoper hvor alle er invitert til å delta.

Piksel 16, ZERO-Level, ønsker å rette fokus mot biologiske og sosiale aspekter ved havet som et bærekraftig miljø. ZERO (null) som i: nullutslipp, nullavtrykk, nullavfall, nullenergiforbruk, nullforurensning, nullplastikk, nullforsøpling. Festivalen ønsker også å oppmuntre til bioeffektivitet, bioøkologi, marin arv, bærekraftig sjøtransport og kommunikasjon, vann som lekeplass, og sivilt engasjement.

Piksel 16, ZERO-Level er en internasjonal festival for elektronisk kunst og teknologisk frihet som holdes i Bergen. Fra 24. til 27. november vil konserter, AV-performancer, utstillinger og workshoper finne sted ved BAS (Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), PIKSEL Studio 207 i Strandgaten, Rom 8, og Møllen på Hegreneset. Kunstnere fra et dusin land vil presentere DIY biokunst, DIY elektroniske instrumenter, visuell programmering, livekoding, workshoper for FM-radio, installasjoner og performancer.

CheSjekk ut programmet på http://16.piksel.no/
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Piksel in collaboration with S.Net Conference, UIB and KHIB Bergen presents

Sushi Roulette, a workshop commissioned by Piksel to Kat Austen and Gjino Šutić

12-14 October 2016
At the Student Center, UIB | BERGEN
Explore plastic pollutants in the marine environment using DIY science
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Artists and scientists Kat and Gjino invite us to examine the unseen and hard to detect impact of our increasing use of “hidden” plastic – plastic that we can’t see, like micro beads, or that we don’t (yet) have a narrative of as polluting, such as 3D printed materials. At the workshop, we’ll be refining DIY chemical tests for micro-plastics, looking at fish samples from the local fishmongers.

Over 4 days of activities, starting with sample collection on a field trip to the fish market, participants will go through a process of exploration of these newly developed DIY techniques, to better understand the presence of plastics in the marine environment around Bergen.

The workshop will culminate with a Sushi Roulette afterparty, where through the encounter with real and dummy sushi the participants are challenged to test their reactions to the thought of consuming plastics as
food.

Schedule:
Day 1: Tuesday 11 Oct. | Meet-up at 1st floor Mesanine, Student Center
3pm – 5pm: Field trip. Visit and finding fish at the Fish Market and other fish shops.

Day 2: Wednesday 12 Oct. | 1st floor Mesanine, Student Center
1pm to 6 pm: Workshop part 1: Establishing an open source and open hardware lab for DIY biology, chemistry and marine fauna research.
6pm-7pm: Cleaning the lab.

Piksel in collaboration with the S.Net Conference, UIB and KHIB
presents a

Do-It-Yourself lab for artistic and scientific research.

13 October 2016
1st floor Mesanine, Student Center, UIB | BERGEN
Sign-up by emailing: piksel16 (@) piksel.no

Solar kinetic sculptures

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Recycling, derelict materials, and self-sufficiency are keywords that would emerge in a possible future where new life forms will have to rely on other building blocks than those required for biology. Thinking of plastic being the only thing left for grabs for new life forms has resulted in a series of ‘living’ kinetic sculptures.

These sculptures would act like little sprouts from this extreme futuristic scenario.

The workshop will be run by artist Egil Paulsen. Attendants are invited to create playful little sculptures that move with the help of solar cells. Combine art and technology in a fun way by creating simple poetic machines, which in turn gives way to experiencing renewable energy technology, with movement and animism as aesthetic qualities.

Schedule:
1pm to 5 pm: Workshop: Participants will become familiar with how solar power works, and create art using renewable energy.

Artists’ bios
Egil Paulsen (Norway)
http://egilpaulsen.com

Works with installation, computer art, and video. He has a Bachelor degree from Bergen National Academy of the Arts where he was enrolled under Department of Fine Art. His works include Solar Sculptures, Ultrasonic Vision, WiFi-Shamanism, and a newly completed face tracking installation done for a big mask exhibition at Rubin Museum of Art in NY.

Exhibitions and workshops at Juniutstillingen ‐ Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2015; Becoming Another: The Power of Masks ¬‐ Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2015-¬‐2016; Piksel Festival 2014 ‐ Bergen, 2014; An Indifferent Map ‐ Galleri ApARTe, Iasi, Romania, 2014; Secitioning Experience -¬ Bachelorutstilling Avd. Kunstakademiet 2014; Breaking the Silence ¬‐ Galleri Totaldobze, Riga, Latvia; Born of Emptiness -¬ Galleri KICA, Krasnodar, Russland, 2013; Mate REALIZE -¬ Tallinn, Estland. Estonian Academy of Arts, 2013; Streaming Canvas -¬ “Bring Your Own Beamer”, Galleri Knipsu, Bergen 2012; Transcript -¬ Bergen/Stuttgart art exchange, Kunst-¬ og Designhøgskolen I Bergen, 2012; Crisis, What Crisis? -¬ European Exchange Academy, Beelitz-¬‐Heilstätten, Berlin, 2012.

PIKSEL
Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. 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 and open source software. Piksel’s upcoming edition will be devoted to DIY (Do It Yourself) biotechnology applied to art.

In collaboration with S.Net Conference, UIB and KHIB Bergen

More info and full program:

SNET Conference 2016