2006 – PIKSELXX – ARCHIVE – PIKSEL 06 – HARDWARE POLITICS
In 2006 Eleonora Oreggia wrote about the Piksel 06 edition: The collaboration of an artist and a programmer, Gisle Frøysland and Carlo Prelz , to prepare a video processing real-time software named Møb became an annual appointment by the unique and marked characteristics. The liberty and sharing of the knowledge are the heart of the festival. It lasts almost a week and attracts people all over Europe, Japan , Canada , Brazil and many others. Days of sharing, there are breakfasts, workshops, dinner and performances during the night.
The Piksel is actually a community, whose primary organs are the mailing lists, indexed on line and free access. It is not a closed community. The discussion are public and considered public utility.
Piksel is a bridge between hack-meetings and artistic festivals.
They so give birth to Livido, a framework to share video effects, Frei0r , similar but optimized for the real-time elaboration, and Videojack , a program to exchange video between different applications. Only Frei0r made success. Videojack and Livido are still in phase of development. The chaotic and anarchic nature of the free software made everything difficult. The free software is a multiform trend, it is not easy to understand and explain in a few words. It could be talked by the politic, technical, ethic or economic but even didactic side.
#LiViDO
# Frei0r
#VideoJack
#VJ tools
*DEVELOPERS
Kentaro Fukuchi (JP)
Gabriel Finch aka Salsaman (UK)
Niels Elburg (NL)
Carlo Prelz (IT/NL)
Martin Bayer (DE)
Georg Seidel (DE)
Scott Draves (US)
Jörg Piringer (AU)
Dave Griffiths (UK)
Luka Frelih (SL)
Øyvind Kolås aka Pippin (NO)
Richard Spindler (AU)
Adam Hyde (AUS/NL)
Mathieu Bouchard (CA)
Enrike Hurtado Mendieta (ES)
*LIVE PERFORMANCE
Lasse Marhaug (NO)
Daniel Skoglund (SE)
Gisle Frøysland (NO)
Gullibloon (AU/DE)
David Cuartielles (SE/ES)
Koray Tahiroglu (TR)
Enrique Tomas (ES)
Johannes Kreidler (DE)
Rob Munro (UK)
Yves Degoyon (FR/ES)
Alejandra Perez Nunez (CL/NL)
Fokke de Jong (NL)
Audun Eriksen (NO)
Fabianne Balvedi (BR)
Paris Treantafeles (US)
Nanofamas (HK)
5VOLTCORE (AU)
WhiteHouse (UK)
*GOTO 10
Aymeric Mansoux (FR/UK)
Marloes de valk (NL/UK)
Chun Lee (TW/UK)
Tom Schouten (BE)
Thomas Vriet (FR)
Antonios Galanopoulos (GR/UK)
Jan-Kees van Kampen (NL)
Ben Bogart (CA)
*XXXXX_AT_PIKSEL
Wilfried Hou Je Bek (NL)
Bruno Marchal (BE)
Otto Roessler (AU/DE)
Eva Verhoeven (NL)
Martin Howse (UK)
Jonathan Kemp (UK)
Tom Schouten (BE)
Aymeric Mansoux (FR/UK)
Marloes de valk (NL/UK)
Valentina Vuksic (DE)
*DAMAGED GOODS // EXHIBITION HKS
Association of experimental electronics (FI)
Christian Faubel (DE)
Malte Steiner (DE)
Emanuel Andel (AU)
Christian Güetzer (AU)
Gebhard Sengmüller (AU)
Federico Bonelli (IT/NL)
Tez (IT/NL)
Eleonora Oreggia (IT/NL)
Silvano “kysucix” Galliani (IT)
APO33 collective (FR)
Alexandre Castonguay (CA)
Stephanie Brodeur (CA)
Darsha Hewitt (CA)
Ben Dembroski (UK)
Gabriel Menotti (BR)
Valentina Vuksic (DE)
Italian online magazine Digimag features a 
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Øyvind Kolås’ Piksel06 presentation about the next-generation imaging core of the GIMP was recently featured in an article on 
The Really Free Movie Exhibition is the most politically correct action of Cine Falcatrua, a brazillian group that works in the bordeline between cinema’s hyper-authorized architecture and new media’s fluid ecology. It consists of screenings of copyleft movies downloaded from the Internet, whose url sources are beforehand revealed to the audience. The spectators are encouraged to download the movies and organize their own exhibitions, becoming curators themselves. All movies exhibited at Piksel06 can be downloaded through 
