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(Piksel09 catalogue pdf)
Piksel09 is now over. Many thanks to all the wonderful people who made it happen!
The next edition - Piksel10 - is scheduled for
november 18-21 2010!
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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.
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Piksel09 is now over.
Many thanks to all the wonderful people who made it happen!
Check out the videos in the giss.tv MEDIABASE & images in the GALLERY.
Download the catalogue – Piksel09 catalogue.pdf (25 Mb)
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)
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
(…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
