2005 – PIKSELXX – ARCHIVE – PIKSEL 05 – COLLECTIVE CODE

Festival for Free/Libre and Open Source Audiovisual Software and Art.

This year the Piksel 05 catalog published for the first time The Libre Culture Manifesto by David M. Berry and Giles Moss. Isabelle Arvers joins efforts with Gisle Frøysland to build up the program NO FUN, as part of the collaboration with Pixelache in Helsinki and Mal au Pixel in Paris, about games made by artists as opposition to consumerism and spam on information society. The festival is divided into parts for the first time: Kickstart, No fun exhibition, Installations, Game OVER performances, SOFTWARE, technologies, and Collectives. The catalog made by Marieke is something to read again.

Discussion and debates on how things should be done in real-time video plugin development keep high. As Herman Robak wrote in his article in LINUX magazine 5/2005:

“An important development project under Piksel’s auspices is the video framework LiViDO. It aims to become a standard plugin architecture for video. The developers of LiViDO had daily meetings during Piksel05. The discussion about how things should be done was heated. When they finished, there was great relief that they had managed to agree.”
LOL

dyne.org / Sustainable Source
Jaromil (NL/IT
Federico Bonelli (NL/IT)
Janet Casey (US)
Eleonora Oreggia (NL/IT)
Kysucix (IT)
MrGoil (DE)

veejay crew
Matthijs van Henten (NL)
Niels Elburg (NL)

Hackitectura.net – delcorp.org
Pablo Martin (ES)
Tatiana de la O.(ES/AR)
Elena Martinez (ES)
Pablo Soto (ES)

FSF
David Turner (US)

independent
Kentaro Fukuchi (JP)
Carlo Prelz (NL/IT)
Andraz Tori (SL)
Bostjan Spetic (SL)
Ben Bogart (CA)
Mathieu Bouchard (CA)
Daniel Fischer (DE)
Yves Degoyon (FR/ES)
Sergio Moreno a.k.a. chaser (ES)
David Galligani (ES/IT)
Ramiro Cosentino (AT/AR)
Salsaman (UK)
Georg Holzmann (AT)
David Hately (UK)
Suzi Webster (CA)
Jordan Benwick (CA)
Marloes (NL)
Piksel05 exhibition
Robert Praxmarer (AT)
Florian Berger (AT)
Tim Boykett (AT/AU)
Malte Steiner (DE)
Achim wollscheid (DE)
Alejo Duque (CH/CO)
Lorenz Schori (CH)
Piksel05 performance
Chun Lee (UK/TW)
Aymeric Mansoux (NL/FR)
Erich Berger (NO/AT)
Bjørnar Habbestad (NO)
Jeff Carey (US)
Billy Roisz (AT)
Dieter Kovacic (AT)
Cyrille Henry (FR)
Nicolas Montgermont (FR)
Martin Howse (ES/UK)
Jonathan Kemp (UK)

DRONE collective
Mathieu Guindon (CA)
Julien Keable (CA)
Jean-Sebastien Senecal (CA)
Samuel St-Aubin (CA)
Jonathan Villeneuve (CA)

GePhex crew
Martin Bayer (DE)

Waag/KeyWorx
Fokke de Jong (NL)
Lodewijk Loos (NL)

SolarDuo Project
Koray Tahiroglu (TR/FI)
Joni Lyytikainen (FI)

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The official Piksel05 video covering the KickstART and VjBattle events is finally released.
Beautifully put together in a nice DVD wrapping by Ingvild Hellesøy, it grabs some of the magic moments of the festival in an excellent way.

Download the individual videos here:
KickstART @ HKS – piksel05-kickstart.ogg (33,5Mb Ogg/Theora)
VjBattle @ the Bunker – piksel05-vjbattle.ogg (12,5Mb Ogg/Theora)
and as a ready to burn DVD image here: PIKSEL05_dvd.iso (676Mb)

Mathieu Bouchard has released a new version of GridFlow which we had the pleasure of getting a peek at during Piksel05. GridFlow is ‘a multidimensional dataflow processing library for PureData and Ruby, designed for interactive multimedia’.

Here’s the changelog:

version 0.8.2 (2006.03.17):

* Ruby 1.9 required
* removed jmax2pd
* fixes of various compilation problems
* new object classes: [realtimer], [#export_pix], [#import_pix],
[#border], [#fft]
* beginning support for LTIlib. new object classes:
[lti], [lti.meanShiftSegmentation], etc.
* added “load” method in [gridflow]. (thanks Claude)
* automatic attribute generator for C++
* added “help” and “get” methods to *all* classes (!!!)
* no more “make install”
* not using mkmf.rb (ruby’s makefile generator) anymore
* removed –debug-harder (use “valgrind” instead)

Fargerik datakunst

article about Piksel05 by Herman Robak for LINUXmagasinet nr 5/2005 (norwegian) is now available as a pdf.

By the end of this month, the rapidly expanding GOTO10 collective are organising Make Art – ‘a festival dedicated to the integration of “free and open source” software in electronic art’ in Poitiers, France.

I have been invited to do a presentation of Piksel05 and join a panel about the future strategies of open source in the context of digital art.
It’s very nice to see this kind of events popping up all over the place these days and I’m looking forward to meet new FLOSSminded ppl and probably some Piksel regulars too 🙂

More at the Make Art 2006 site.

The MapOMatix project which aims to be ‘A Collaborative Platform For Tactical Cartography’ has been released in version 0.004. MapOMatix was presented at Piksel05 by Yves Degoyon and Chaser, and the technology seems to be picked up by an increasing number of hactivist and artivist projects already. For instance, check out the Piksel map made by Alejo Duque from the S.O.U.P. team covering the different Piksel05 locations in Bergen.

Here’s the full announcement.

We are wrapping up piksel05 tonight with audiovisual performances in ‘the bunker’.

Program:

21:30 — Erich Berger
22:00 — ap
23:00 — SolarDuo
23:30 — 0xA
00:00 — Ben Bogart

The megaPiksel VJ battle takes place tonight – saturday october 22. @ 2100-0300.

Some of the best free software VJs the world can offer doing their trix on 4 parallell projections. All taking place in ‘the bunker’ to the beats of Andres G. and the piksel DJ team.

Welcome!

David Turner (FSF) delivered a very interesting and engaged speach about the dangers of trusted computing thursday evening. It’s now available online for downloading as an mpeg video (150Mb).
Among the things he brought up in addition to the DRM threat, was the upcoming GPL3 and some interesting theories about the background for Apples switch to Intel. He also had some critical views on Creative Commons licensing.

The Piksel05 catalog was finished yesterday, just in time for the exhibition opening at HKS. Marieke has done a great job putting it all together based on the collaborative gathering of material through the piksel wiki. It’s now available online here: piksel05_catalog_72dpi.pdf

Enjoy! 🙂

Thanks to Kysucix from dyne.org we now have streams from most of the presentations in ‘the bunker’. Kysucix are streaming directly from FreeJ using a simple webcam,so the image quality is not the best, but you should still be able to get a good impression of what’s going on. More info and links to the stream here: http://www.piksel.no/piksel05/streams.htm.

There’s also a irc channel for remote interaction at: irc.freenode.net #piksel

Tonight the grand opening of Piksel05 takes place at HKS. We’re kickstARTing from around 20:00 with an audiovisual concert featuring some of the best free software performers around.
Going from hardcore minimalist glitch via cheesy 3d electronica to noisepop polical extravagansa, it should be a feast for a wide range of interests. Anders g. is spinning freeky beats between the acts.

Check the program here: P05_kickstART

See y’all there!!