PIKSEL10 : FINISSAGE!

Piksel10 is in its final day.
Last change to get your hands dirty in a workshop environment, before listening in on three different presentations.
At 5 pm Signe Lidén and Michal Kindernay will hold a finissage concert, playing their installation Angualar Momentum at Entree.

Piksel10 is signing off with five different live art performances at Studio USF, last act UKI, a provocative collaborative performance by Shu Lea Cheang, assisted by Martin Howse.

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU 11:00-14:00

11:00 Mouse and keyboard hack – the way for a simple and universal interface [KNIPSU]

PRESENTATIONS | STUDIO USF 14:00-17:00

14:00 Cartografia Sonora Antarctica
15:00 RDEX presentation
16:00 CHEAP, FAT & OPEN

FINISSAGE | ENTREE

17:00 FINISSAGE CONCERT: Angular Momentum

LIVE ART | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 HYLICS
22:00 RDEX
23:00 Degenrative Illetrism
23:30 Dystophonia
23:45 UKI

See the full festival schedule.

PIKSEL10 : DAY 3

Entering the third day, half of festival program has been presented, and an equally interesting half remains. The day starts off with workshops at three different locations, KNIPSU, the PikselHut and Studio USF – followed by four interesting presentations at Studio USF. Note the live art performance FRUIT+ EMOTIOn=NOISE at 17.30.

The evening is set off with Miss Oreggia performing Phantasmata. After that Piksel enters Bass – and the Pikselfestival in collaboration with Basstronomisk Institutt is proud to present a raw audio line-up of Porrige, Skwee and Dubstep, visually furbished by six person VJ-crew.

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU PIKSELHUT STUDIO USF 11:00-14:00

11:00 Exquisite_Code [KNIPSU]
11:00 Psychedelic D.i.Y. Toilet Roll Goggles [PikselHuT]
11:00 Spectral Analysis and Processing in Pure Data [Studio USF]

PRESENTATIONS | STUDIO USF 11:00-17:00

14:00 Golden Shield Music – sonification of IT censorship technologies
14:30 Naked on Pluto
15:00 The White People
16:00 Scenic: Telepresence software for live performances and installations
17:00 LIVE ART CONCERT: FRUIT+EMOTION=NOISE

LIVE ART & PIKSELBASS/BASSPIKSEL | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 Phantasmata
22:00 PIKSELBASS / BASSPIKSEL / PIKSELOMISK / BASSTROLOGISK PIKSELTUTT
Audio: Panetone, Automat.Piss.Tool, Mesak & Limonious, Bastronomic DJ Crew: Kjempetjukk DJ, DJ Eldfot & DJ Woo.
Visuals: Pikselcrew Allik, Servando, Root, Sweena, Alexandre Q., and Basstronomisk VJ Birk N.
Stroboscopmeister: Anders G

See the full festival schedule for the coming days.

PIKSEL10 : DAY 2

We are in the second day of Piksel10 – Martin Howse, Shu Lea Cheang and Anthony Iles are starting off the morning assembling moments for a 6 hour period, in their performative live art event “The Construction of Situations”, and on two other locations in the city centre workshop participants learn how live code, and hack their radios in no time. The Piksel main exhibition at Galleri 3.14 opens at 18.00 – revealing seven installations that all reference the festival theme (Un)stable, accompanied by concert with Cellulose (NO).
All in time before dinner.
Evening starts at 21:00 at Studio USF and we are proud to present five audiovisual concerts.

WORKSHOPS | KNIPSU PIKSELHUT 11:00-14:00

11:00 Functional live coding workshop [KNIPSU]
11:00 CHEAP SOUND GENERATOR //// HACK YOUR RADIO IN 30 MINUTES [PikselHUT]

SPECIAL LIVE ART EVENT | STUDIO USF 11:00-17:00

11:00 – 17:00 The Construction of Situations

PIKSEL10 MAIN EXHIBITION OPENING | GALLERI 3.14 18:00-20:00


18:30 CELLULOSE (NO)

LIVE ART | STUDIO USF 21:00-01:00

21:00 Cartografia Sonora Antarctica
22:00 RADIO NOISE INTERFERENCES COLLECTIVE
22:30 trAnsCodE
23:00 Andy Bolus / Miho
23:30 slub

See the full festival schedule for the coming days.

Piksel09 exhibition on Bergen Student TV:

Pixelache 2009 continues in it’s 2nd day with exhibition openings, presentations, seminars and performances.

Images from the events are available in the gallery and on flickr.

pixelache 2009 av hacking container

Piksel sister festival and long time collaborator Pixelache are hosting their 2009 edition in Helsinki this weekend.

Piksel are following the activities which this year has no official theme but loosely gravitates around issues of alternative economies and environmental sustainability.

Pictured above is the audiovisual hacking container on exhibit outside the Kiasma centre. It features works resulting from the audiovisual hacking workshop featuring piksellites Koelse and Gijs Gieskes. Gijs will also do a club performance showing some of his latest instruments during the festival.