PIKSEL

MAKE ART 2009 – What The Fork?!
distributed and open practices in FLOSS art

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CALL FOR PROJECTS

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make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.

The fourth edition of make art – What The Fork?! distributed and open
practices in FLOSS art – will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 7th
to the 13th of December 2009. … Read more

** Description

Breakthrough proposes an experimental, interdisciplinary event constructing a new field of research and play. Breakthrough signals the skewed extension and plain rupture with a series of earlier actions [London, Bergen, Berlin] exploring the material basis of technology and expanding on the practice of life coding.

The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into
unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for communication between the past and the future?
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The registration of proposals for Piksel09 is now open.

Please check the call: http://www.piksel.no/p09/p09_call
and sign up at  http://piksel.no/ocs to submit projects.

Deadline – july 15. 2009

Deadline extended to july 31. 2009 !!
Proposals will be accepted until august 8th due to recent server problems.