PIKSEL

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The 8th annual Piksel festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom

The main festival exhibition is held at Galleri 3,14 and will be up from November 19th 2010 – January 9th 2011. In addition, several artworks are exhibited at KNIPSU and Entree Visningsrom during the festival period.

See the full program schedule, and an map overview of all locations.

We wish you welcome!

FESTIVAL PASS/DAY PASS
The day program consisting of the exhibitions, workshops and presentations, is free to attend.

For the evening program you will need a festival pass/day pass.
A festival pass is 250 NOK and will give you free entry to the evening events all days.
The day pass is 100 NOK.

Registration for the festival and workshops can be done at the online registration or by sending a mail to piksel10 [AT] piksel.no.

Festival- and daypasses can be picked up and paid for at the festival desk at KNIPSU or at the door for live events.

Workshops are free but some has a fee for materials. (check costs)
Fees can be paid  at the workshop location where needed.

Liwoli 2009
hacklab for art and open source
23 – 25 April 2009 – Kunstuniversität Linz

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Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software and Art.  FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and performances.

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Pall Thayer’s Microcodes are short code art pieces written in Perl and presented on a website for viewers to read, download, and execute. Each code piece encapsulates tasks performed by artworks such as portraiture or memento mori. They follow on from Thayer’s earlier “Exist.pl”, which allegorized life, death and being using running Perl code.

This is a Romantic use of code, a projection of human experience onto mere material existence. Processes become lives or individuals, network sockets become voices or eyes. And in a Nietschean twist some of the code can be genuinely destructive for data. But it works the other way round as well, demonstrating that meaning can be found in or recovered from mere processes.

The program listings are presented on a modern, neutrally styled, website for download and execution. The code is licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 (or later), so everyone is free to use, study, modify and redistribute it. The use of the GPL should be a given for code art, but far too many artists are happy to take the freedom that they are given by other hackers and not pass it on. Thayer deserves credit for doing the right thing.

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