PIKSEL

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.

View on Vimeo. (Reblogged from Baltan Laboratories)

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.

For further information, go http://megaui.net/fukuchi/works/lyq/index.en.html
See http://twitter.com/kentaro_search for what Lyq tweets and what Kentaro  searched.

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Pixelache Helsinki 2010
25-28 March

Call for Participation

>> www.pixelache.ac/helsinki

Deadline Wednesday 20 January!

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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.
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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.

See http://scherpenisse.net/project/527/tinyvga

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.
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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

Piksel09 exhibition on Bergen Student TV:

(…from ROBERT WYATT AND STUFF)

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

The Pixelache Software of the Year 2010 title is given to two different projects this time – pure:dyne by GOTO10 and APODIO by APO33. Both of these are ‘live CD’ projects – distribution versions of Gnu/Linux operating system, which boot on any PC laptop or desktop, including the intel-based Mac and x86 netbooks. These distributions are dedicated to creative multimedia tools for audio/video processing and real-time performance and aims to provide a full set of tools for the average media artists needs.

In addition to these two initiatives, we would like to draw attention to the practice of developing custom GNU/Linux distributions tailored for specific uses such as media production, audio/video streaming, hacktivism, art installations and more. Other such initiatives include dyne:bolic, Sahabuntu and PikseLiveCD. … Read more