Piksel15 Get A-Life!

Piksel15 Get A-Life! The 13th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies - November 19th-22nd, Bergen (NO) - http://15.piksel.no --------------------------------------------------------- WELCOME TO the 13rd Edition of the PIKSEL FESTIVAL! Piksel is an annual festival for artists and developers working with free/open source software, hardware and art in Bergen. The 13th edition of the Piksel Festival || Get A-Life! is devoted to show a series of artistic works, performances, workshops and presentations dealing with DIY A-Life (artificial life), DIY electronic and audiovisual artworks, and concerts. Piksel KidZ Piksel Kidz Lab wants to bring new media art practices to kids and youngsters with three workshops to enjoy the city: City-SUNS!, City-WATER!, City-GO! Renewable energy, natural and urban environment through mobile apps, solar energy creatures, maps, augmented realities, water sensors, … SUN! WATER! GO! DIY A-Life! Seminar Experts speakers, researches and artists will discuss Open biotechnology, DIY bioart, DIY synthetic biology, Artificial Life (A-life) speculative art projects, bioethics applied to the practice of bioart. Check our website! Streams will be available at the DIY A-Life Seminar lectures (19th and 20th, from 10:00 to 13:00), presentations (Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00) and performances! (19th-22th from 21:00 till 24:00) ----------------------------------------------------------- Programme: EXHIBITIONS @ S12, Lydgalleriet and Bart http://15.piksel.no/category/exhibitions/ Benjamin Gaulon, Gijs Gieskes, Karl Klomp, Tom Verbruggen, Wolfgang Spahn, Malte Steiner, Signal-to-Noise, Oliver Wilshen and Niall Quinn, QUADRATURE, Jan Bernstein, Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch, Erin Sexton, Oscar Martin, Katrin Caspar, Eeva-Liisa Puhakka, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smite, Robertina Šebjanič, Alexandre Castonguay, Marek Sitko, Maxime Damecour, Jenny Pickett, Sabina Ahn, Harald Fetveit, Matteo Pasin, Nick Montfort, Karen Eliot, Pall Thayer, Giuseppe Gavazza, Benjamin Grosser, Mari Ohno, Nick Montfort, Shu Lea Cheang. PERFORMANCES @ ØSTRE http://15.piksel.no/category/performances/ Servando Barreiro, the noiser, h220, Sabina Ahn, Nicolas Maigret, Brendan Howell, Tim Shaw, Sébastien Piquemal, Jean-Francois Blanquet, Stefan Tiefengraber, SCREAMING IT, Dr. Nexus and Greta Christensen, André Damião, Tijs Ham, Wolfgang Spahn, Kasia Justka, Ben Freeth, Roosna & Flak, Rob Canning, Antonios Galanopoulos, Barbara Kukovec, Quimera Rosa. PRESENTATIONS @ ØSTRE http://15.piksel.no/category/presentations Ben Freeth, Arve Knudsen, Jose David Cuartas, PNEK Network WORKSHOPS @ S12, Lydgalleriet, BIKS and 1880 http://15.piksel.no/category/workshops/ DIY A-LIFE WORKSHOPS http://15.piksel.no/category/diyalifeworkshops/ Pikslo_deep_diving / underwater interception of the nordic sea, DIY BioLab: How to mix molecular biology and electronics as new performances, R language, a powerful tool for environmental data analysis, Bio-Vortex (Bio-Illuminating The Vortex). DYI A-Life Seminar in collaboration with the NORTH CREATIVE NETWORK http://15.piksel.no/diyalifeseminar/ Nora S. Vaage (NO), Gjino Šutić (CR), Kat F Austen (UK), Cristian Delgado (MX), Christian E. Mong (NO), Ben Freeth (UK), Hege Tapio (NO), Rasa Smite (LV), Robertina Šebjanič (SL), Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir (IC) Open call for participants. Register sending an email to: [email protected] Registaer at PikselKidZ: [email protected] -- more info and complete festival program: http://15.piksel.no -- Piksel15 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County, PNEK, BEK, EEA Norway Grants. PIKSEL :: FREE AS IN ART! -------------------------------------------------- Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with free and open technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies & art. --------------------------------------------------