Some photo documentation from the Pure Data workshop held in Bergen during the Piksel10 festival. The workshop was held by Servando Barreiro and Arnfinn Killingtveit and was hosted by Piksel and TRAFO in collaboration. The audio is from the jam the last day of the workshop.

During the workshop, the students constructed simple software instruments and effects in pure data from scratch, were shown how to hack existing patches, learned about crude frequency analysis, explored the possibilities of video manipulation in pure data with GEM, made their own DIY reactable (without the projection), and learned about FM and AM synthesis, among other things.

Piksel10 is in its final day.
Last change to get your hands dirty in a workshop environment, before listening in on three different presentations.
At 5 pm Signe Lidén and Michal Kindernay will hold a finissage concert, playing their installation Angualar Momentum at Entree.

Piksel10 is signing off with five different live art performances at Studio USF, last act UKI, a provocative collaborative performance by Shu Lea Cheang, assisted by Martin Howse.

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU 11:00-14:00

11:00 Mouse and keyboard hack – the way for a simple and universal interface [KNIPSU]

PRESENTATIONS | STUDIO USF 14:00-17:00

14:00 Cartografia Sonora Antarctica
15:00 RDEX presentation
16:00 CHEAP, FAT & OPEN

FINISSAGE | ENTREE

17:00 FINISSAGE CONCERT: Angular Momentum

LIVE ART | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 HYLICS
22:00 RDEX
23:00 Degenrative Illetrism
23:30 Dystophonia
23:45 UKI

See the full festival schedule.

Entering the third day, half of festival program has been presented, and an equally interesting half remains. The day starts off with workshops at three different locations, KNIPSU, the PikselHut and Studio USF – followed by four interesting presentations at Studio USF. Note the live art performance FRUIT+ EMOTIOn=NOISE at 17.30.

The evening is set off with Miss Oreggia performing Phantasmata. After that Piksel enters Bass – and the Pikselfestival in collaboration with Basstronomisk Institutt is proud to present a raw audio line-up of Porrige, Skwee and Dubstep, visually furbished by six person VJ-crew.

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU PIKSELHUT STUDIO USF 11:00-14:00

11:00 Exquisite_Code [KNIPSU]
11:00 Psychedelic D.i.Y. Toilet Roll Goggles [PikselHuT]
11:00 Spectral Analysis and Processing in Pure Data [Studio USF]

PRESENTATIONS | STUDIO USF 11:00-17:00

14:00 Golden Shield Music – sonification of IT censorship technologies
14:30 Naked on Pluto
15:00 The White People
16:00 Scenic: Telepresence software for live performances and installations
17:00 LIVE ART CONCERT: FRUIT+EMOTION=NOISE

LIVE ART & PIKSELBASS/BASSPIKSEL | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 Phantasmata
22:00 PIKSELBASS / BASSPIKSEL / PIKSELOMISK / BASSTROLOGISK PIKSELTUTT
Audio: Panetone, Automat.Piss.Tool, Mesak & Limonious, Bastronomic DJ Crew: Kjempetjukk DJ, DJ Eldfot & DJ Woo.
Visuals: Pikselcrew Allik, Servando, Root, Sweena, Alexandre Q., and Basstronomisk VJ Birk N.
Stroboscopmeister: Anders G

See the full festival schedule for the coming days.

We are in the second day of Piksel10 – Martin Howse, Shu Lea Cheang and Anthony Iles are starting off the morning assembling moments for a 6 hour period, in their performative live art event “The Construction of Situations”, and on two other locations in the city centre workshop participants learn how live code, and hack their radios in no time. The Piksel main exhibition at Galleri 3.14 opens at 18.00 – revealing seven installations that all reference the festival theme (Un)stable, accompanied by concert with Cellulose (NO).
All in time before dinner.
Evening starts at 21:00 at Studio USF and we are proud to present five audiovisual concerts.

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU PIKSELHUT 11:00-14:00

11:00 Functional live coding workshop [KNIPSU]
11:00 CHEAP SOUND GENERATOR //// HACK YOUR RADIO IN 30 MINUTES [PikselHUT]

SPECIAL LIVE ART EVENT | STUDIO USF 11:00-17:00

11:00 – 17:00 The Construction of Situations

PIKSEL10 MAIN EXHIBITION OPENING | GALLERI 3.14 18:00-20:00


18:30 CELLULOSE (NO)

LIVE ART | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 Cartografia Sonora Antarctica
22:00 RADIO NOISE INTERFERENCES COLLECTIVE
22:30 trAnsCodE
23:00 Andy Bolus / Miho
23:30 slub

See the full festival schedule for the coming days.

Piksel10 is opened and we are proud to present a day full of workshops and presentations, ending with an offical opening of the festival by Commissioner for Culture Harald Victor Hove, followed by concerts and audiovisual performances. Welcome!

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU PIKSELHUT 11:00-13:00

11:00 NoiZe bouyZ: Workshop and Guerilla Installation in Bergen [KNIPSU]
11:00 Building arduino synthesizers [PikselHUT]

PRESENTATIONS | STUDIO USF 14:00-17:00

14:00 Reflecting about ArTe
15:00 How to build a Capitalistic Robot
16:00 Scratch

FESTIVAL OPENING | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 Piksel10: Official opening with Commissioner of Culture Harald V. Hove
21:15 Something Stuck in My Throat
22:00 f(x)
23:00 The Cartographer
23:30 A/V

See the full festival schedule for the coming days.

* PIKSEL10 workshop series
* Free and Open Creative Technology workshops

In connection with the PIKSEL10 festival we are offering in total 7 hardware and software workshops. All the workshops are free to attend, but for the
hardware workshops we need to charge material costs.

To sign up or get more information, please contact us on piksel10 [AT] piksel.no or register directly at:
http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel10/schedConf/registration

* HARDWARE WORKSHOPS

**Building Arduino Synthesizers – Gijs Gieskes (NL)**
*Thursday 18.11 11-16 @PikselHut*
Build your own Arduino synthesizers from component kits, and (if there is time) learn how to make their own scripts for them.
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#Gieskes2

**NoiZe bouyZ: Workshop and Guerilla Installation in Bergen – Jenny Pickett
(UK), Julien Ottavi (FR)**
*Thursday 18.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU*
In this workshop the participants will produce EM NoiZe bouyZ as sculptual EM amplifying objects to be chained to various sonically interesting areas in the city center. The NoiZe bouyZ acts as a markers in the city, via which walkers or passers by may navigate/derive into an alternate veiw of Bergen
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#Pickett

**HACK YOUR RADIO IN 30 MINUTES – Julien Ottavi (FR)**
*Friday 19.11 11-16 @PikselHut*
Learn to hack cheap radios (on the am frequency) to make a new crazy light / touch / radio feedback sound generator.
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#Ottavi2

**Psychedelic D.i.Y. Toilet Roll Goggles – Ryan Jordan (UK)**
*Saturday 20.11 11-16 @ PikselHut*
D.i.Y hardware hacking and stroboscopic light. The workshop will focus on building simple hardware synths from 555 timer circuits and CMOS4093 chips. These electronic noise machines can also control lights and the workshop will focus specifically on stroboscopic light.
Material costs: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#Jordan2

**Mouse and keyboard hacking – Wolfgang Spahn (AT)**
*Sunday 21.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU*
Learn how to use hacked keyboards and mice for creating your own interactive installation.
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#Spahn

* SOFTWARE WORKSHOPS

**Functional live coding workshop – Alex McLean (UK), Dave Griffiths (UK) **
*Friday 19.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU*
Live coding using Schemebricks and Tidal.
The workshop is aimed at those without programming experience, or programmers with some experience with functional programming languages
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#McLean2.

**Spectral Analysis and Processing in Pure Data – Alexandre Torres Porres (AR)**
*Saturday 20.11 11-13 @ StudioUSF*

The objective of this workshop is to cover the basics of Puredata and introduce to Spectral Analysis and Processing. Participants will be provided with a good didactic material, and will learn how to use the Phase Vocoder Abstractions provided by the author, as well as other examples from the othertopics.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2573/#Porres

*SPECIAL EVENT:

**exquisite_code – Brendan Howell (DE), Jonathan Kemp (UK)
*Saturday 20.11 11-19 @ KNIPSU*
Participatory algorithmic text production and performance.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p10/schedule-2?page_id=2480/#Howell

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more info and complete program:
http://piksel.no/p10
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Piksel10 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County Council, PNEK, OCA, UD – Music from the south, BEK, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark, The Norwegian embassy in Belgium and the Austrian embassy in Norway.

PIKSEL :: FREE AS IN ART!
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with free and open technologies in artistic practice.
Part workshop, part festival, 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 & art.
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(Un)stable

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.

PIKSEL10 FESTIVAL  — CALL FOR PROJECTS

The Piksel Festival is organized for the eight time November 18-21  2010.

The Call for Projects is now online and open for registration.

!!!!!!!!!! Deadline postponed – JUNE 15. 2010 !!!!!!!!!!

Please use our online platform for submitting applications:
http://piksel.no/ocs