Piksel is a festival and community for electronic art and technological freedom.
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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News:
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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[blogsearch] [piksel list] [pnek.org](…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
“act of a flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing
stream; a continuous succession of changes”
Chunky new stuff:
* New truetype font primitive, with 3D extruding and poly conversion
* Perlin and Simplex noise functions
* Tiled framedump for rendering insane resolutions
* New example games, space invaders and missile command!
* Lots of fixes and improvements, particularly in fluxa – the synth server.
* A new fluxus manual:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-documentation.pdf
* A new website:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus
It’s still best to be oldskool and build it from source:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-0.16rc1.tar.gz
But there are a few more packages and OSX apps available nowadays:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/packages/
