On sat. 6.2.2010 Piksel will be present at the Creative Independents Network Market at CTM10 in Berlin. Please drop by our boot for a chat!
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Piksel is taking part in Organized Networks, a Training Programme for Cultural Network Management organised by RIXC in Riga, Latvia from December 3-5, 2009.
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Gisle Frøysland from Piksel participated in The Future of the Lab - an expert meeting discussing future strategies and forms of artist/media labs arranged by BALTAN Laboratories in Eindhoven from November 30th until December 2nd 2009.
22nd-26th March 2010, Piksel has invited sound artist and instrument maker, Audun Eriksen to host a circuit bending workshop in Bergen. The 5 day workshop aims to give the participants the opportunity of learning how to short-circuit existing audio toys and instruments to reveal new soundsscapes.
- No previous experience within electronics needed.
- No need to fully understand how it works.
- If it sounds good and don’t smell burnt, it’s ok.
- Almost anything goes – a vital part of CB is trial and error.
**WHEN: 22nd-26th March 2010 18-23 daily
**WHERE: PikselHut, Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 Bergen
**COST: Kr. 500,- (inc. components) **REGISTRATION: use this form or send a mail to: info [AT] piksel.no
Flick Flock, by Wendy Ann Mansilla and Jordi Puig, developed last year at BALTAN Laboratories in collaboration with Piksel, will be shown at Campus Party Brazil in Sao Paulo from January 25-31, 2010.
Campus Party is an annual event that brings together thousands of participants with their computers from all over the world in order to share their concerns and experiences and carry out a whole range of different activities related to computers, communications and new technologies.
Lyq – a newly released Google Chrome Extension by Kentaro Fukuchi.
Lyq: Leak Your Query
- Know What Google Knows -
Lyq (Leak Your Query, pronounced as leak) is a micro “unintentional” blogging tool that tweets (leaks) what you’ve searched automatically. It is a Google Chrome Extension, and after you’ve installed Lyq, it discloses your search query every your search query at various search services such as Google or Bing. Everyone can know what information you needed, where you wanted to go, or what you thought, what previously only your search services could know.
Do NOT use this extension unless you know what you are doing with it. You will face serious security risks.
Alexandre Quessy has just released Toonloop version 1.1 for Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux! The Debian packages for Toonloop and Pygame (its dependency) can be found at http://toonloop.com/?q=download
New in Toonloop 1.1 :
* Added groups of options. One for each effect.
* Unified interface to GLSL effects.
* Added simplechroma, lumakey, leavecolor and brcosa effects.
* Background image is one taken using a special key stroke.
* Able to add or delete frames anywhere in a clip.
* Playback direction : forward, backward, back&forth.
* Display a progress bar when saving a clip.
* Shift-Q to quit, and not ESC anymore. … Read more
The TInyVGA board is a very small (30×45 mm) PCB board which generates a VGA signal using a PIC microprocessor.
This is a timelapse animation of the “Generating VGA signals” workshop given by Arjan Scherpenisse on November 22nd, 2009 at the Piksel09 festival. It was created using Toonloop, the live stop motion animation software by Alexandre Quessy also presented at the festival.
Picture: Bureau d’Etudes (FR). Electromagnetic Propaganda. Exhibition “Waves”, Riga, 2006
ORGANIZED NETWORKS
Training Programme for Cultural Network Management
Riga, December 3 – 5, 2009
By addressing issues of cultural sustainability with focus on networking, the Training Programmefor cultural network management entitled “Organized Networks” will take place in Riga,December 3 – 5, 2009, gathering together representatives from more then 20 cultural organisations, new media centers and networks from Baltic, Nordic and other European regions, as well as Caucasus countries. … Read more
INVITATION TO THE OPENING OF THE FUTURE OF THE LAB
From November 30th until December 2nd, BALTAN Laboratories is hosting an international expert meeting titled The Future of the Lab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. These three days bring together participants from media art labs and lab programmes worldwide – from Australia to Chile, to the Netherlands and Switzerland – to challenge and debate future strategies and forms of the laboratory (or media lab) and the importance of research and production spaces for artists and creative professionals working with technology. … Read more
Saturday evening and another night at the Piksel 09 festival in Bergen. This night we even got to see boxers in action! I hereby steal some info from the Piksel site, and let them explain this for you: “A livecoding showdown – improvisation as physical interation with structure generators, two boxers are having an infight between themselves and the computer. … Read more
