Newsletter 1-2012
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INTRO STREAM: NEWSLETTER INDEX
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PIKSEL FESTIVAL
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PIKSEL PULSE
1. LGRU
2. OpenSound
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■■ PIKSEL[X] FESTIVAL
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■■ 1. CALL FOR PROJECTS
The Piksel Festival celebrates its 10 year anniversary
22.-25. November 2012. The Call for Projects is open:
!!!!!!!!!! Deadline August 15th 2012 !!!!!!!!!!
Please use our online platform for submitting applications:
http://piksel.no/ocs

■■ PIKSEL PULSE
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Piksel is involved in several off-festival activities throughout 2012, both
locally in Bergen and in collaborative projects internationally.
These activities are named Piksel Pulse.

■■ 1. LGRU (Libre Graphics Research Unit)
Piksel hosted Piksels & Lines- the third meeting of this research seminar series in Bergen 6.-9. June 2012. The seminar had particular focus on improvements, interoperability and fringe use of F/LOSS graphic bitmap and vector software, as well as generative software used in performative contexts. We invited artists, programmers, designers and theoreticians from all over Europe to imagine the future of image creation and processing software in collaboration, through four days of presentations, discussions, hands-on workshops, demonstrations and performances.

Programme:
http://www.piksel.no/pulse/lgru/programme

The fourth LGRU research seminar is scheduled for 27.-29. September and is to be hosted by WORM in Rotterdam (NL).

■■ 2. OPEN SOUND
OPEN SOUND is a European network enabled through the Grundtvig learning partnerships program. Open Sound is coordinated by APO33 (Nantes, FR) and partners include AntiTesi (Palermo, IT), Piksel (Bergen, NO), Granular (Lisbon, PO), Audiolab (San Sebastian, ES), ModusArts (London, UK), and N.K. (Berlin, DE). By participating in workshops, symposiums and conferences new skills will be developed as well as new focus areas of strengths in urban sound art, communication technologies, social inclusion and cross disciplinary discussions.
Piksel attended Open Sound hosted by Audiolab in San Sebastian January 2012, and will attend Metasonic hosted by Granular in collaboration with the Open Sound project in Lisbon 25.-29. June 2012.

Piksel will be the host for OpenSound in Bergen from 28. August- 1st of September 2012.

More:
http://www.opensound.eu

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OUTRO STREAM: FREE AS IN ART!
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. 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, free culture & art.
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