PIKSELXX, AI AI AI

PROGRAM

EXHIBITIONS -17th-27th Nov

Coping Strategies, curated by Sarah Grant, Critical Engineering Working Group.

@KIB, Kunstskole i Bergen

Coping Strategies is a new program produced by Piksel, curated by Sarah Grant, Critical Engineering Working Group.

Sarah Grant in her curatorial statement, affirms that by now we begin to understand the extent to which our personal and professional interactions are mediated by the digital, from user interfaces to data harvesting networks of surveillance. As digital captives, we have little agency over our membership and the extent of our participation within these obfuscated systems.

How can we put some space between ourselves and these dominant structures? How can we push back and reclaim agency over the narrative that is written about ourselves and our communities by these intrusive technologies? How do we mitigate digital crisis?

Coping Strategies is a program of works, including presentations, workshops, and performances, that demonstrate artist-led approaches to recasting our role in the asymmetrical relationship between ourselves and the dominant providers of information technology.

By demonstrating concrete actions that we as individuals and as communities can take in response to these domineering information systems, Coping Strategies hopes to provoke excitement and reassurance that we don’t have to passively accept the default settings of our digital lives.

EXHIBITION Nov 17th -27th
Futura Tropica by Juan Pablo García Sossa
What do you want me to say? by Lauren McCarthy

TALKS Nov 18th
VFRAME by Adam Harvey
Futura Trōpica by Juan Pablo García Sossa
Coding : Braiding : Transmissions by Isaac Kariuki

PERFORMANCE Nov 17th
Tango for us Two/Too by Joana Chicau

WORKSHOPS Nov 18th -19th
Open Wave-Receiver by Shortwave Collective
Messaging with lights in a not internet era! by Sarah Grant

Skogen, by Hillevi Munthe (NO) og Elisabeth Schimana (AT)

@Studio 2017 Nov 17th -27th

The forest is a collaborative project between Hillevi Munthe (NO) and Elisabeth Schimana (AT)

“The forest” is a spatial textile installation with incorporated electronics and metal wires with shape memory, so-called shape memory alloy (SMA) or muscle wire. The muscle wire creates programmed movement in the fabric.

In the gallery space, tubes of textile hang from ceiling to floor at regular intervals. They fill the room, but it is still possible to walk between them. The tubes are made of light, transparent silk partially felted with raw wool. The felted surfaces are knotty, bubbly and rough. At irregular intervals, the textile lifts up from the floor and stays there before slowly descending back towards the floor. Some are lifted a meter up, others two or more. The tubes are pulled together at the floor or ceiling, some in the middle. The promise happens quickly, suddenly, while the denial is slow. It is as if the installation breathes and lives. As the audience moves through the installation, they wear headphones with a field recording from the forest at Druskininkai outside Vilnius recorded with specially built microphones.

Hillevi Munthe (NO) has worked with electronic textiles since 2009 on her practical research project on e-textile materials and techniques carried out in collaboration with the Bergen Academy of the Arts titled Soft Technology. “The forest” is a continuation of this work.

E-textiles have become increasingly well known in recent decades and describe both the incorporation of traditional electronics into textile materials and the construction of textile components and electronic circuits. With textile material with current-carrying properties, you can knit sensors, embroider wires or sew entire circuits. E-textile is part of an open source and DIY tradition within electronic art and at the same time in a textile art tradition where knowledge of techniques for the construction of flexible surfaces is crucial for how the circuits are built. An embroidered or sewn circle can be shaped, expanded and stretched to the desired expression, and thus becomes a meaning-bearing unit in itself.

PIKSELXX, AI AI AI Main Exhibition

@KIB
Pillow Talk, Miller Puckette, Kerry Hagan (US)
ORDER OF MAGNITUDE and/or DEFICIT OF LESS, Ben Grosser (US)
VastWaste: Data-Driven Projection Art and VR Installation, Ozge SAMANCI (US)
Vis.[un]necessary force_1, Luz María Sánchez (MX)
BITS AND BYTES, Marko Timlin (FI/DE)
The Linguistic Errantry, Tansy Xiao (US)
Rewriting History: I keep forgetting faces, Malte Steiner (DE)
Going Viral, Derek Curry, Jennifer Gradecki (US)

@Strandgaten 205
memoryMechanics memoryMechanics, mads hobye, Lise Aagaard Knudsen and Karen Eide Bøen (DM/NO)

@ Marken 13 A
We are FM, August Black (US)

@Marken 13 B
Process Pages, Nick Montfort (US)

@Piksel Cyber Salon

Web deformation, Max Alyokhin (RU)
Compost listen center, August Black (US)
Precipitating Dread [PPT-Dread], Dominic Aidan Vetter [artist name: leclerq] (FR)
Boogaloo Bias Derek Curry, Jennifer Gradecki (US)
Minus, Ben Grosser (US)
The primacy of constructive methods over subjective imagination, Przemyslaw Sanecki (PL)
Fake or far away, Becky Brown (US)
Local time, Julian Scordato (IT)
Rewriting History: I keep forgetting faces, Malte Steiner (DE)
The Care and Feeding of Your AI, Joshua Westerman
Compost listen center August Black (US)
Going Viral, Derek Curry, Jennifer Gradecki (US)
Futurabilities, Azahara Cerezo (SP)
Drought, Claude Heiland-Allen (UK)
Uploaded to the Cloud, Kate Hollenbach (US)
Power&Bytes, Jerry Galle (BE)

PIKSELXX, AI AI AI SEMINAR

To celebrate the 20 years we plan to do the “PIKSEL XX. 20 years of Libre Electronic Art. Celebrating Art and Free/Libre technologies” seminar 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.

The Piksel 20th edition wants to be a celebration of the main Piksel theme: Electronic art and Free/Libre technologies.

Piksel topics have been revolving around artistic practices related to open source bio kitchen art, politics and surveillance in information technologies, visual/sound instruments made by electronics, using Free/Libre software and hardware (FLOSS), and open networks for 20 years!

The anniversary program will develop these topics through a seminar. We have invited some of the artists that have share these topics with us through the 20 years of history of Piksel.

Seminar
Per Platou (NO)
Grethe Melby (NO)
Dusan Barok (ES)
John Bowers (UK)
Marc Duseiller (SW)
Malte Steiner (DE)
APO33 – Julien Ottavi & Jenny Pickett (FR)
Asimtria / Marco Valdivia (PE)
Paola Torres Núñes del Prado (PE/SE)

PIKSELXX, AI AI AI WORKSHOPS

Introductory workshop for patching for sensors in pure data, Kris Kuldkepp (DE)
Open Wave-Receiver, Shortwave Collective (UK/FR)
Intro to PdParty, Dan Wilcox (US/DE)

Online
Prototyping DIY smart robots with Arduino and Machine Learning, Ivan Iovine (DE)
Neural Networks in Pure Data, Alexandros Drymonitis (GR)
Building web apps with free software, the composting audio app, August Black (US)

PIKSELXX, AI AI AI TALKS

Pillow Talk, Miller Puckette, Kerry Hagan (US)
Digital Culture & Cyborg Bodies, Idun Isdrake (SE)
Taper, An Online Magazine for Tiny Computational Poems, Nick Montfort (US)
BITS AND BYTES Marko Timlin (FI/DE)
ShadowPlay, Dan Wilcox (US/DE)
Creative PCB Design for Manufacturing using SVG2Shenzhen, Budi Prakosa (ID)
Haptic Box and its entangled flows, Dave Riedstra (CA)
Ritmo 2021: a code generated experimental/animation short film, Luis Fernando Medina Cardona (CO)
Journey to the Planet of nuclear Chewing Gum, Vera Sebert (DE)
I make music and videos with statistics software, MusikeR