Piksel participated in the Media Forum organized as part of the Moscow International Film Festival in Moscow 19-23 June 2010.
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Piksel participated in the Archipelagos project arranged by APO33 in Nantes 25-30 May 2010.
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Piksel participated in the OHANDA sessions at the Pixelache Festival 2010, 25-28 March in Helsinki, Finland.
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On sat. 6.2.2010 Piksel was present at the Creative Independents Network Market at CTM10 in Berlin.
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Piksel took 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.
“You are 4.3 billion kilometres away from the nearest human, what would you like to do?”
Naked on Pluto is a text-based multiplayer game on Facebook. You are stranded on the planet Pluto, naked, alone. Your world is empty except for fragments of data, objects relating to your past life on social networks – but seen through the distorted lens of the game world. You can explore this world, at first alone and later in the game you’ll be able to invite and interact with friends. You can add and manipulate objects you encounter, interact with others and bots. Once you enter deeper into this world and web of data, you become aware of increasing complexity, characters appear you may recognise – are they friends or animated bits of data? Information is substituted and modified in subtle ways. Is it possible to remember what was ever real in the first place?
The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used. … Read more
■■ PikselSavers – Screensavers that makes a difference!
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■■ Piksel @ Meta.Morf
As part of the screening programme at the Meta.Morf Biennal in Trondheim, Norway oct. 7 – nov. 7 2010, Piksel will curate a special event called
PikselSavers.
PikselSavers use the screensaver as a point of departure and inspirational springboard connecting to the main festival theme ‘New.Brave.World’.
We are looking for videos and software based on the screensaver format – short audiovisual (non)narratives made for endless looping. Possible thematic fields includes but are not restricted to: sustainable resource allocation, renewable technologies, energy harvesting, fair trade hardware, free content, open access, DIY economy, shared development.
■■ Call for Entries
Please use our submission form at http://piksel.no/pulse/pikselsavers or send a mail with a short description of the work and bio of author(s) to info [at] piksel.no. A preview version of the work should be provided as an online or downloadable video or source code. The following criteria must be met:
- Format: digital video or executable software including sound made to run full screen at minimum 720p resolution.
- The work must be produced using free/open source software.
- Videos should be available in a free/open format (ogg/theora/dirac).
- Software works should be available as source code under a free/open license.
!!! Deadline postponed! – now you have until July 15th 2010 !!!
NOTE:
We are sorry to inform that the Piksel SummerCamp 2010 is cancelled.
Due to reorganization of management on the camp location, there has been a delay in setting up the practical framework for the stay and giving potential participants the information needed to confirm their arrival. We thank you for your interest, and hope to see you again at future Piksel events.
Piksel Summer Camp is international gathering of artists, developers and creators working with free and open technologies, taking place at the idyllic island of Skjerjehamn outside Bergen, Norway. … Read more
Funware Shared Artist in Residence: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
BALTAN Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
Piksel, Bergen (NO)
CALL
BALTAN, NIMk and Piksel have launched an open call for proposals as part of the exhibition project Funware. We are looking for interesting new software art projects that can be developed in the period of June – November 2010 through a shared residency. The new work developed during the residency will be presented in the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010.
This residency is a collaboration between three labs, based on a desire to investigate the ways and potential of working within a network of labs that support the exchange and sharing of resources and knowledge. The form of this collaboration aims to provide the most specific and relevant support to artists working on art and technology projects in residence. Knowing the capacities and competences of each lab/organisation, the residency exchange will offer targeted support (in the form of resources, space, technical support, local context and time) to be provided at different stages of the research and development of the project specific to each organisation. Off- and online dissemination of form and content via this partnership and the building of structural relationships are crucial to the collaboration. … Read more
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 soundscapes.
- 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.
