Background: In the period 3.-9. november 2003, BEK is hosting the symposium "piksel" with focus on work with live video on the GNU/Linux platform. The background for the conference is the software "MøB" developed at BEK by Gisle Frøysland and Carlo Pretz. There is a large interest around the symposium which will gather worldleading artists and developers from within the field.

As a part of the symposium, we will present live, GNU/Linuxbased videoart and performance on a high level every night during the week of the symposium; The p1k53l evening events

The p1k53l evening events with Vj/Dj-sets and special performances will go on each night at Landmark. Landmark is situated inside Bergen Kunsthall, right in the senter of Bergen.

The p1k53l worklab is a work in progress. Additional jams, collabs and stunts will evolve during the workshop, and may or may not be announced here. For the daytime activities go here: WorkLab

2100:   The Code -  http://www.linuxthemovie.com/

2200:   talk: Jaromil - Dynebolic - http://www.dynebolic.org/

22:30:  Jaromil/FreeJ? - http://rastasoft.org/

2100:   talk:Pedro Soler - live video in the theatre

2200:   BULT (Yves Degoyon & Tom Schouten) - http://mala.wha.la/bult_review.html

2100:   talk: Janet Casey - FSF/the Directory - http://www.gnu.org/directory/

2200:   Rama/Skeezo/d.r.e.g.s.

Rama and Skeezo from Barcelona and d.r.e.g.s. from France.

Spanish/french evening with high artistic integrity and solid political power. These videoartisit doesnt settle with eyecandy, but mixes striking visuals with heavy political content. 'Vj's with an attitude'.

2100:   talk: Amy Alexander - Cyberspaceland - http://botimation.org/

2200:   Vj Übergeek (Amy Alexander) - Cyberspaceland

Vj Übergeek (Amy Alexander) - american codediva shows her last project
'Cyberspaceland'. With basis in the previous projects Med basis i de tidligere'b0timati0n' and 'extreme whitespace'. She appears as popstar with geektoys and generates endless streams of shapes and text based on live searches on the net.

"Programmers used to be nerds - now they're cool. Übergeek wanted to be a rock star - but couldn't play an instrument. Now it doesn't matter: Übergeek can program...

2300:   MøB crew (Freeze SneekPeek 0.02) - http://mob.bek.no

2100:   The Code -  http://www.linuxthemovie.com/

2200:   PUREBERGER - http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/CvPVotavahttp://randomseed.org/

- renowned austrian elektronika-duo. Interlinked performance environments enable them to create an audiovisual entity. Their idea is to create temporary spaces. Where modernists refered to architecture as a space of encircled light, their space is constructed of light and sound itself.

2300: VeeJay crew - http://veejay.sourceforge.net/

- artists/code collective from the Netherlands

2100:   Revolution OS - http://www.revolution-os.com/

2200:   ap02 - http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/cv_Martin

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