The Piksel (no) festival tours have been cancelled, the festival activities will proceed as programmed on Thursday and Saturday, with the exception of the tours around the city and Rare Earth Walks with Max Dovey – Piksel Kidz.
Please follow our webpage and social media for updates.
Thursday 23.11:
Piksel (NO) Festival opening Studio 207 18:30-23:00
18:30 DJ Performance Anders G.
21:00 Piksel festival activities presentation
IDLE presentation: “Discovery artists” EFEEA residency artists Flor de Fuego and Blaž Pavlica who have developed an unique visual instrument for the Web Virtual Reality (WebVR) environment IDLE using the live coding framework Hydra.
Presentation of the exhibition “A knock from below heard at the bottom” from Polina Medvedeva and the artistic director Julie Lillelien Porter from Lydgalleriet.
22:00 Open studio207 • Open decks • Open Beamer Showcase of Free/Libre & Open Source New Media/ DIY/OSHW / Electronic Art
Saturday 25.11: Piksel (NO) Festival “Discovery artists” EFEEA IDLE Performance.
21:00 Open studio207 • Open decks • Open Beamer Showcase of Free/Libre & Open Source New Media / DIY/OSHW / Electronic Art
22:00 PIKSEL (NO) Festival is presenting the “Discovery artists” EFEEA residency artists Flor de Fuego and Blaž Pavlica, IDLE Performance
23:00 Open studio207 • Open decks • Open Beamer Showcase of Free/Libre & Open Source New Media/ DIY/OSHW / Electronic Art
With mixed emotions, we announce the conclusion of our collaborations with the guest curators for the 2023 edition of the Piksel Festival. Due to increasing differences regarding the scope of their involvement, we feel that the only way of moving forward and still keep the integrity of the Piksel Festival is to end our collaboration at this point.
The Piksel (no) festival is still happening, festival activities will proceed as programmed on Thursday and Saturday, with the exception of the tours around the city.
Please follow our webpage and social media for updates.
We express our gratitude to the curators for their contributions and dedication throughout our time together. Additionally, we want to thank the artists included in the program and apologize for this last-minute decision and any inconvenience it may cause.
We remain committed to fostering creativity and excellence in our endeavors, and we eagerly anticipate new opportunities and partnerships that align with our vision and values.
Thank you for your continued support.
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Piksel is presenting the project IDLE Inclusive Digital Laboratory for Experimental Art at the ISEA SYMBIOSIS 23 as a part of the event program Analysis, theory & politics of care (in Electronic Arts) May 17th at 4:30 GMT+2 at Mains d’Œuvres.
The event is organized by the EU funded project Toolkit of Care, an Action’s network to share collective expertise and technical knowledge employed in creative ways to develop knowledge and methodologies of care. Enabling creative technology to form a “critical network of care”.
With our ongoing project Inclusive Digital Laboratory for Experimental Art (IDLE) recognized as a useful tool by the Toolkit of Care network, Piksel representatives will present the concept of IDLE and its possibilities to the International Electronic Art Symposium 2023 Audience.
IDLE intends to offer a creative virtual meeting point for school kids, youngsters, people with reduced mobility, artists performing remotely who want to interact with the physical world, and all of those art curious lovers that want to look for new physical-virtual new experiences.
DIGI.KOMP is a Cultural cooperation with Slovenians partners through the EEA and Norway Grants.
DIGI.KOMP answers the growing demands for the use of digital content in society, which are difficult for teachers, other pedagogical workers, and training organizers to follow and use in their day-to-day work. Children, adults and the elderly need quality training to raise their digital competencies for work and everyday life. The main goal of the project is the development and pilot implementation of 39 new teaching and learning practices for work and life in the field of digital competencies.
Piksel has prepared 3 workshops about basic electronics, DIY bioart instruments, and digital streaming competences:
Basic electronic knowledge – how to teach computer skills, how to start working with electronics, how a computer works. Useful for teachers teaching children around 8 years old.
How to use microscope with your mobile phone – a creative approach to science that teachers can do at schools (11-18 years old or more)
How to use OBS Studio – Streaming video to different platforms (YouTube, others) where the lecturer can integrate slides, documents, web pages, different cameras, webcam, high-performance real-time video/audio capturing and mixing, create scenes made up of multiple sources and more.
The first part of the project is planned for March 2023 when the Piksel team travel to Slovenia to host the first series of workshops. To help lead the workshops we are lucky to be joined by the artists Sarah Grant, Hamilton Mestizo and APO33/Julien Ottavi.
In February the Spanish national TV program – Metrópolis – successfully aired a PikselXX special where they showed highlights of AV performances, the AI AI AI exhibition and interviews with artists and curators. Capturing the essence of Piksel in the beautiful framing of sunny Bergen and KiB, – Kunstskolen i Bergen, our main festival venue. The show is a must watch for any new media art enthusiast with a case of wanderlust. The full program with English subtitles can be seen here: https://www.piksel.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/Xj9oFdZnjoYNmdL
(click on the image to see the video)
Featured artist include: Oscar Martin a.k.a Noish (ES), Miller Puckette (US), Kerry Hagan (IR), Derek Curry (US), Jennifer Gradecki (US), Nick Montfort (US), Luz María Sánchez (MX), Ben Grosser (US), Özge Samanci (TR/US), Hillevi Munthe (NO), Elisabeth Schimana (AT), Sarah Grant (DE/US), Teresa Dillon (IR), Joana Chicau (PT/GB), Juan Pablo García Sossa (CO/DE), Lauren McCarthy (US), Shortwave Collective (UK).
Inkluderende Digitalt Laboratorium for Eksperimentell Kunst (IDLE) is an innovative artistic and participatory project based on a digitally updated art venue space, Studio 207, in Bergen. The goal is to unlock the room’s different audiovisual devices, remotely accessible via the Internet, enabling everyone to interact with them to create new artistic experiences even not being physically there.
The venue’s audiovisual devices are controlled remotely through a virtual gallery. Guest artists and audiences can manipulate lights, videos, and sound equipment to create different atmospheres and performances in the venue. Through the manipulation of the virtual interfaces (the gallery), inputs are transformed by the Internet of Things system to alter physically the space. The public designs spatial audiovisual experiences for those In Real Life at the venue and simultaneously in the virtual gallery!
IDLE intends to offer a creative virtual meeting point for school kids, youngsters, people with reduced mobility who wants to interact with the physical world, and all of those art-curious lovers that want to look for new physical-virtual new experiences. The project explores new collaborations and forms of interaction between different art and cultural forms.
2022 IDLE is a multi-disciplinary three years project from 2022-2024. First-year development, 2022, has focused on the research and prototyping of the user interaction system. Tasks have included forming the team, coordinating meetings, researching the 3 main fields of the project: IoT (Internet Of Things) devices, Sound and Video control interfaces, and Virtual Reality user interface; testing software and hardware solutions within the free/libre technologies, development of a prototype, IDLE version 0.0, a possible model to follow, a Bergen development team residency’s, and a final presentation of the results.
The IDLE version 0.0, have been premiered at the 20th Piksel anniversary: PIKSELXX AI AI AI festival for Kunst og Fri Teknologi. The artists and developers of the project traveled to Bergen to work together in an art residency, creating the first sound and visual, physical, and virtual experience. The presentation was held on Thursday, Nov 17th – 22-23h.at Studio 207 and the @Piksel Cyber Salon with a massive public attendance.
2023 As with any research project, we found different technical challenges over the year that lead to a re-schedule of the initial project plan. To absorb the delay we have overlapped the second-year production with the final tasks of the first year. The new schedule will facilitate the developments to achieve IDLE version 1.0 and the dissemination plan to collaborators of the second year.
2023 is the year focused on knitting the mediators network among the voluntary organizations, the professional sector at the healthcare facilities, the public workers in different municipalities, and any other inclusive association that works with groups that need special facilitation: children and young people with long stays at healthcare facilities, school kids, people with reduced mobility, etc. The 2023 goal is to transfer the technological competencies on how to use IDLE through meetings and “hands-on” workshops.
2024 Still, there is a challenge to overcome this year. The initial project is planned over 3 years, including Development, Dissemination to mediators, and Public events with final users. The Arts Council Norway has only provided funding for 2 years (2022-23).
2024 is a crucial period that will determine the success or failure of the entire process. Throughout this last year, a series of public events will show the “Art Experiences” in Norway and internationally created by the audiences and specially curated guest artists invited to participate.
In 2023 we will apply again with this project to achieve the necessary funding to finish the IDLE project as intended and planned.
IDLE is a project initiated by Piksel in 2022, in collaboration with CNDSD, Malitzin Cortés and Iván Abreu, APO33, Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi, Romain Papion, and Martin E. Koch.
2022 System Development
Piksel proposed to develop the project over athree year period, from 2022 to 2024. This report is about explaining what has been done in the first project’s year.
In 2022 IDLE project goals were to develop the different components of the system and to connect them through a virtual gallery:
To create the virtual gallery
To implement the IoT system at Studio 207.
To implement sound streaming tools to make online concerts with remote musicians and/or users.
To connect all the systems.
The virtual gallery The virtual gallery has taken the physical space as architectural model to enhance the understanding of the project and the identification of the venue. The system, based on innovative previously done projects, presents Studio 207 on a web-based internet VR platform.
The IoT system The IoT system has been programmed using only free and open-source technologies and every developing step is published in a local wiki. This open documentation can be used to facilitate other venues to integrate IoT technologies in their spaces.
GIASO, Sound multi-user interface
The sound user interface is based on the server software developed by Apo33, Great International Audio Streaming Orchestra, GIASO, to create a place for networked performance.
The “Great International Audio Streaming Orchestra” uses a bi-directional multiplex platform to perform and mix different audio sources (streaming). In the time of the performance, the streams (transmission) are re-composed in the broadcast space through a spatialization based on a free and multi-stream internet transmission system. GIASO creates a new form of orchestral composition where composers become virtual entities that emerge from a community of nodes – audio explorers and networked performers.
Web-dev Interface Through a browser we connect the physical devices, lights, sound, and screens at the Studio, to the VR environment, in such a way that people can interact and create new environments in real time.
Activities in Bergen related to the project
Residency
The artists and developers have been in Bergen a week on a working lab residency to fine tuning the first IDLE version. The team is originally from France, Mexico, Germany, Norway and Spain. This residency has allowed to set up the systems we have been working during 2022, connect them and test it.
Premiere at Studio 207. IDLE Versión 0.0.
On the right we can see the Studio 207 were the audience could enjoy the AV performance. The audio and visual electronic artists are located on the next office, to show clearly to the public they are controlling the Studio 207 venue. The performance can be seen at the Studio but also the audience could visit the remote work from the artists. A big monitor was showing the same performance also in the virtual gallery, the Piksel Cyber Salon.
The 2022 plan included the following practical goals:
To develop a virtual gallery Studio 207 where the people can interact.
To develop a sound interface where musicians or public can interact and send the final sound stream to the Studio 207 sound system.
To integrate the IoT system in the Studio 207, including robotic cameras, led lights, sound equipment and video equipment connected.
To make a website to use at Studio 207 to control the IoT system in situ.
To publish the project findings to the general public and other cultural organizations.
To disseminate the project.
Done tasks:
To study the possibilities actual software and hardware based on free/libre technologies.
To test them, to test the limitations and find out how to implement a solution easy to use.
To put in common the different knowledge of the team members to achieve the final goals.
To meet all over the year to coordinate the different teams: The IoT team, created by Martin E. Koch, Gisle Frøysland and Maite Cajaraville, the sound development system with Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi and Román Papión, and the virtual environment team Iván Abreu and Malitzin Cortés.
To make a week residency inviting all team members in Bergen to be able to actually work in real life and in te real physicial space.
To write down reports, documentation and graphical information about the system and how to implement it.
– A wide research has been done on software and hardware related to each field. Therefore, we are in a better position to decide how to develop the final solution.
– We encountered several technical barriers that led us to change the software and hardware tools we had in mind. On the other side, to confirm our guess, we opened a communication channel with the Mozilla Hubs developers team. They confirmed several of our concerns, meaning we have got some awareness of the project and a better vision of how to get our goals.
– The project is very complex. We knew that. We calculate we have done approx a 75% of the planned project, which we believe is a good result.
– The team has met and decided how to work and is highly engaged in the process and the project.
– The activities in Bergen have been very successful, in public attendance and teamwork.
– To develop a project like this, the residency format works very well. It is highly recommended and effective.
Next steps:
In the first 6 months of 2023 we expect to have a new IDLE version 1.0, easy to use for external audiences. In parallel, we plan to start the second year activities.
The second year, once the system is functioning, we want to develop a dissemination plan together with voluntary organizations, the professional sector at the healthcare facilities, the public workers in different municipalities, and any other inclusive association who works with groups that need special facilitation: children and young people with long stays at healthcare facilities, school kids, people with reduced mobility, etc. Adding to that we want to invite national and international artists as well as the civil society to participate in the common creation. A series of workshops will be hosted at Piksel to transfer the competences from the Piksel team to collaborators and mediators.
The third year we will execute the dissemination plan in Norway and internationally through a series of public events where the different “Art Experiences” created by the public will be shown along the year. Specially curated guests artists will be invited to participate.
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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.
Why
Europe should build its own social platform for news;if
news is dying, who will safeguard democracy?; how
did the news go ‘fake’? When the media went social.
These has been some of the articles that Hossein Derakhshan has been
writing at The Guardian and other international media.
Hossein
Derakhshan is an Iranian-Canadian writer, who
has been defining, commissioned by the Council
of Europe, on
the theory and practice of what is known as ‘fake news’ together
with Claire Wardle.
In
2010, Iran’s Mashregh News reported that the ‘counterrevolutionary
blogger” had been sentenced to more than 19 years in jail for
“conspiring with hostile governments, spreading propaganda against
the Islamic system, spreading propaganda in favor of
counterrevolutionary groups, blasphemy, and creating and managing
obscene websites.1
After
six years in prison he was pardoned by Iran’s supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. No reason was given for the pardon.
As
Wired magazine reported, Mr. Derakhshan “figured out a way to
combine Unicode and Blogger.com’s free tools to handle Persian
characters.” This technical advance, Wired said, meant that
“suddenly, blogging in Persian was as simple as it is in English.”
Considered
a major influence in introducing the blogging concept to Iran, he was
a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center
and is currently a research associate at the MIT Media Lab. His
current research is focused on the future of journalism and also on
the theory and socio-political implications of digital and social
media. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The
Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Wired, Libération, Die Zeit, and
Corriere Della Sera.
In
Bergen, under the Piksel19 festival program, he will be giving a
lecture about how the challenge awaiting journalism in the years to
come is to reinvent itself around something other than news, whilst
resisting the seduction of propaganda and entertainment. He thinks
that post-news journalism will revolve around drama. This means
journalists should make various experiments inspired by older
artistic forms such as literature, theatre, cinema, photography and
even music and dance. Innovation in journalism should not only be
about business models or technology, it should be also about
radically new cultural forms and representation formats.
Hossein Derakhshan will be in Bergen invited by the Piksel Festival, giving a lecture on Friday 22nd of November at the Bergen Public Library. He will be available for interviews. Please contact Maite Cajaraville (maite(at)piksel.no) or Gisle Frøysland (gif(at)piksel.no) . For mer informasjon: http://19.piksel.no
Journalisme
I tiden etter nyhetenes fall: Kunst møter journalisme
Why
Europe should build its own social platform for news;if
news is dying, who will safeguard democracy?; how
did the news go ‘fake’? When the media went social. Dette
er eksempler på noen av artiklene Hossein Derakhshan har ført I
pennen for The Guardian og andre internasjonale nyhetsbyråer.
Hossein
Derakhshan er en iransk-kanadisk
skribent som på kommisjon fra Europarådet, sammen med Claire
Wardle, har hatt en definerende rolle når det kommer til å utforme
teorien og praksisen bak
hva
vi snakker om når vi I dag betegner
noe
som
“fake news”. I 2010 rapporterte en av Iran sine nyhetskanaler,
Masregh News, at
den motrevolusjonære bloggeren har vært idømt mer enn 19 år I
fengsel for å ha konspirert med fiendtlige regjeringer, spredt
antiislamistisk propagada, spredt propaganda til fordel for
motrevolusjonære grupper og blasfemi. I tillegg til å både
opprette og drive hjemmesider med svært upassende innhold.
Etter
å ha tilbragt seks av årene I fengsel, ble Derakhshan benådet av
Iran’s
øverste leder, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Noen årsak til dette ble aldri gitt.
Det
gikk ikke ubemerket hen da Derakshan oppdaget hvordan han kunne
kombinere Unicode med de gratis verktøyene som allerede var
tilgjengelig gjennom Blogger.com slik
at
persiske tegn og bokstaver kunne
taes I bruk.
Magasinet Wired omtalte det hele som et
teknisk fremskritt som plutselig gjorde det akkurat like enkelt å
blogge på persisk som på engelsk.
Betraktet
som en helt
vesentlig figur når det gjelder å ha bragt konseptet blogging til
Iran, tidligere forskningspartner ved Harvard Kennedy School’s
Shorenstein Center og
for øyeblikket forskningskollega ved MIT Media Lab. I
sin nyere forskning har Derakshan imidlertid valgt å fordype seg I
undersøkelser omkring journalismens fremtid og de mulige
sosialpolitiske konsekvensene av vår
tids utstrakte bruk av digitale
og sosiale medier.
Tekstene
hans har stått på trykk I både The
New York Times, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Wired,
Libération, Die Zeit, og
Corriere Della Sera.
I
løpet av Piksel19 festivalen
I Bergen kommer
han til
å
holde en forelsening omhandlende hvordan journalismens virkelige
utfordring på vei inn I fremtiden er å gjenskape seg selv, bygge
seg opp på nytt etter
nyhetenes tid er over
og samtidig unngå å la seg forføre av propaganda og underholdning.
Selv
er han overbevist om at journalisme I tiden etter nyhetenes fall vil
dreie seg om drama. Med dette mener han at journalister burde
eksperimentere med eldre kunstformer som litteratur, teater, film,
fotografi. Ja til og med musikk og dans. Innovasjon innenfor
journalismen burde ikke utelukkende handle om forretningsmodeller
eller teknologi, men også radikalt nye former for kultur og
presentasjon.
PIKSEL19 – e/co,li:bre 21. – 23. november Med et mål om å ta tilbake kunstnerisk kontroll over teknologien, lar Piksel deg utforske elektronisk kunst og fri teknologi. Du kan få oppleve live koding, eksperimentere med lyd og interaktiv kunst.
Hossein Derakhshan er invitert til Bergen av Pikselfestivalen, og holder en forelesning fredag 22. november på Bergen Hovedbibliotek. Han vil være tilgjengelig for intervjuer. Ta kontakt med Maite Cajaraville (maite(at)piksel.no) eller Gisle Frøysland (gif(at)piksel.no) . For mer informasjon: http://19.piksel.no
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.
Piksel Festival is looking for volunteers!! Come on join us as artists assistants, exhibition mounting, event producers, communicators, and more!! Email us at prod (AT) piksel.no or pm us on Facebook!!! 21-23 Nov 2019 BERGEN (NO)
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.
PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy!
The 16th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies
http://18.piksel.no presents:
Piksel Pavilion – The central info point for Piksel18 – Buzzocrazy!!
Yes, you heard it right, on the 22nd of November we are going to visualize and sonorize the Music Pavillion in Bergen with 3 hours of audiovisual live performances. The music pavilion will be electronically updated to host different Piksel artists doing high impact performances as a preview of what is going to happen at the Piksel Festival.
Piksel18 – Buzzocrazy! Is a festival devoted to art and technological freedom. It is happening next weekend in Bergen. Starting on Thursday with the Exhibition Opening, Concerts nigths on Friday and Saturday, workshops and artists talks.
To show you all of this we will be warming up for the opening of the festival in the Piksel Pavilion (Music pavilion in Bergen) from 16:00 to 19:00. It will produce a very different spectacle for the citizens passing by the main square and surroundings streets.
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Once the show is over we invite you to join at the Exhibition Opening Night – Piksel18 – Buzzocrazy! at Piksel Studio 207 in Strandgaten 207 and SKUR14 in Holbergskaien 1, Bergen
– Exhibition – 22nd opening night – 20:00 – 01:00
PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy! Is proud to announce the opening night that will take place in two different spaces at the Piksel Studio 207 and SKUR14.
We invite you to join us in the opening night tour! 2 openings at the same time. Starting at 20:00 in Piksel Studio 207, the main exhibition shows different artworks devoted to DIY bioart and the Buzzocrazy! theme.
At 22:00 we will tour to SKUR14 where we will enjoy the premiere of the sound installation developed by Camilla Vatne Barratt-Due, Jo Grys with altered accordions: Hidden Track. SKUR14 is also hosting works by artists from Germany, Iceland, Italy, Uruguay and UK and Norway.
We hope you can enjoy the opening night with us.
At PIKSEL STUDIO 2017
Strandgaten 207, Bergen
DIY bioart topic is presented by the work of Anne Marie Maes (BE), The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive; Mindaugas Gapševičiuss (LT)+ Martin Howse(UK), Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations; Gisle Frøysland (NO) + Maite Cajaraville(ES), From DNA to NSA; Hamilton Mestizo (CO), DIY Traffic Lines for Air Pollution; Jose Alejandro Lopez (CO), Our 25th Chromosome on Google and Dimitrios Gkikas (GR/DE), I will be waiting.
Buzzocrazy! The slogan of this edition festival bring us artworks from Marc Lee (CH) , Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media – Start TV Bot; @Antonio Roberts (UK), Copyright Atrophy; Gabin Cortez Chance (US); Gisle Frøysland (NO), #Anti-corruption-code-my-circumstances.
At SKUR14
Holbergskaien 1, Bergen
International artists are invited to show their last developments at SKUR14 as part of the PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy! Exhibition.
Björk Viggósdóttir (IS), Circle; Wolfgang Spahn (DE/AT), It’s Organic If You Look Close Enough; Antonio Della Marina (IT), fades.net; Osvaldo Cibils (UR), El arte de las perillas (the art of knobs); Bioni Samp (Live Electronics) (UK), Beespace or Hive Synthesis, Camilla Vatne Barratt-due(NO), Jo Grys, Hidden Track, and, Ann Edvartsen (NO) with her last work Kessler Syndrome.
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RE-SIS-TER-ANCEFor more than two decades, Piksel and Stadtwerkstatt have inhabited a particular corner of technological culture: one where technologies are adopted, opened, questioned, dismantled and rebuilt. At STWST84x12 HAUNTED, Piksel joins STWST as co-curator with works by Paul Magee and Malte Steiner, and with a question about what is happening to the independent infrastructures that have sustained critical tech art for decades.From 7–13 September at STWST, Linz. https://stwst84x12.stwst.at/en/intro
Piksel & NSA Kollektiv. A busy autumn is coming! AUTUMN 2026📍 27–29 Aug — OsloFirst Supper Symposium 📍 3–5 Sept — Podgorica, MontenegroVectors of Care in Experimental ArtsToolkit of Care Conference 📍 7–13 Sept — Linz, AustriaSTWST84x12 HAUNTEDStadtwerkstatt 📍 15 Sept — KristiansandTechArt 2026Kilden 📍 30 Sept–11 Oct — Olivenza, SpainTras el telón de corchoPlat. MAL 📍 20–22 Oct— Zafra, SpainIX Foro Cultura y RuralidadesMinistry of Culture of Spain 📍 19–22 Nov — BergenPIKSEL26
CHORNOBYL40 invites artists, designers, researchers, and hybrid practitioners to create new artistic works that rethink Chornobyl not as a closed tragedy of the past, but as a complex European subject that continues to shape our present and future. https://chornobyl.eu/chornobyl40_opencall
Have you ever thought about integrating technological tools into your artist practice? If so, this meeting may interest you: Next April 28, 2026 we present at IRIA-Almendralejo three interactive art projects using different technologies. 📍 IRIA - Immersive Realities Incubator, Almendralejo🕙 10:00 – 14:30 h🔗 Registration: https://www.fundecyt-pctex.es/.../meet-up-creativelab-de.../
