Cyber Salon – PIKSEL

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

by Mindaugas Gapsevicius (LT) and Maria Safronova Wahlström (SE) Number of Participants: 15Place: Bergen Dance Center, Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 BergenTime: Thursday 18th of November from 12-14hDuration: 2 hours This workshop is part of the Performing Arts Workshop program, electronics […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Holons & Holarchy

Conceptually rooted in Arthur Koestler’s book Ghost in the Machine, Holons & Holarchy is an expanded body of work that contains prints, interactive web-art, digital objects, and video work. Together, they all reference the concept of Holon, where holos means […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

National report of Amazonian communities

This report uses sound and light as a possibility to represent and randomly compare the number of inhabitants of some communities in the Peruvian Amazon. This project uses a Pd patch that made tones from the number of inhabitans of […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Pfum

What was written about the “fertile source of moving power” bulges and disintegrates. The words of the so-called father of the computer form an endless exhaust; algorithmically generated on a computer screen.Real-time generative concrete poetry with one page of Charles […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Good-for-nothing (no. 2) and Good-for-nothing (pours)

Digital technology has fundamentally altered our perception of the world we traverse. And the smartphone, through its immanent accessibility has, paradoxically, made our experience of daily life more tenuous. The camera’s re-framing of the world through re-presentation is obscured by […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

The Bug

The Bug is a single-page browser demo / digital poem / scream saver made for BrowserFest 2021. It glitches itself in three different ways, specific to image, text, and sound. Nick Montfort studies creative computing. As a poet and artist, […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

usuarios en la noche animaciones de barra 1997/2005

usuarios en la noche animaciones de barra 1997/2005 Video compilation with historical files. Archives of experimental and interactive animations made with a computer for bar counter, CD-R and internet between the years 1997 and 2005. All the files were produced […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

custom rule

custom rule, 2020Immaterial procedure artwork, web-based interactive program A minimalist conceptual procedure artwork to make users feel their illusory prospects of changing the rule, the system. The program has a “bug” (backdoor) that unlocks a hidden feature to hack the […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

AGITSENT

AGITSENT, Department for AGITation of SENtiment & TrollingABSTRACTION OF LEFT VS RIGHT/textual promiscuity Should we embrace uncertainty and chaos in the form of internet abstraction such that it resists the rationalist tendencies of capitalism? Troll the adherence of rationality. AGITSENT […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

VEXTRE, augmenting rural realities

VEXTREIn the popular imagination, a narrative has been constructed around the cultural nature of Extremadura that is rooted in stereotypes of socio-economic underdevelopment. Historically, the region has been defined by its status as a peripheral and border territory, a space […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Used to Be My Home Too

Are we living in a globalised world that is becoming more and more homogeneous? Plants, fungi and animal species are continuously decreasing. In the distant future, will only domesticated species survive? What impact does this homogenisation process have on our […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Holons & Holarchy

Conceptually rooted in Arthur Koestler’s book Ghost in the Machine, Holons & Holarchy is an expanded body of work that contains prints, interactive web-art, digital objects, and video work. Together, they all reference the concept of Holon, where holos means […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Screaming at the Void

Reclaim your humanity and scream at the Internet As the media __m__algorithms bait you into ever more hateful distress and you find yourself sticking to the glutinous sides of your info-bubble regain your analog agency by shouting your frustrations at […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

We Are Here FM

We Are Here FM is a web-based audiovisual installation and transmission created by Betsey Biggs and August Black. A constantly shifting audiovisual radio station of sights and sounds, it brings together geo-tagged landscapes and audio clips to create unnamed, imaginary, […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Assimilation of absence

Assimilation of absence “When a language stops being spoken or used and is replaced by another, nothing – not even the grammatical texts and dictionaries that may remain of it – can make it reappear.” Morató 2019 Proposal from Bolivia […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Dasein of Others

“Dasein of Others” is a generative habitat of algorithmically created entities. Each of the visual elements in the space have a self-role on its own. Field of stars, sentinels (self-wandering objects), a land created with minimal surface algorithm. All these […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Macalla

Interactive online artwork using photographs taken during a one-month artist residency at Visual Arts in Rural Communities, partnered with the Kielderhead Wildwood Project, Northumberland Wildlife Trust, UK. The wildwood project are planting 39,000 native trees in an area near Kielder […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

it seemed like we were moving closer together

it seemed like we were moving closer together (2021) Link to short video (01:30) of artwork on Peertube: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/jqC96Yxu3CnAEx6LqT4vTo An interactive artwork about microchips, critters & touch that critiques contemporary contactless technologies Media: Raspberry Pi, fence posts, plastic, Arduino, RFID […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Concerto for public transport orchestra in four movements

The algorithms regularly receives data about the movement of public transport from a server in Latvia, which provides this data to several transportation services in several cities in Russia and the Baltic States, and interprets (sonificating) this data as a […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Packetsphere: An Internet Travelogue

What does it take to send a single message halfway around the globe? What issues exist in the technological world just below the surface of your keyboard? Come join Zak, Becky, and a colorful cast of digital characters for a […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

☯

In the installation ☯, booklets (also entitled ☯) are stacked and presented on a pedestal, where Piksel21 attendees may take copies. The self-cover booklet is 40 pages long (10 sheets of paper) and presents Unicode glyphs opposite each other on […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

PAC-MOM

PAC-MOM [1] is a parody of the popular arcade game PAC-MAN (1980) by Toru Iwatani. Game scholars classify PAC-MAN as an eating game. PAC-MOM is a game about gender and food insecurity. PAC-MOM takes place in a situation where accessingfood […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Platform Sweet Talk

Today’s dominant social media platforms are designed to produce, above all else, user engagement. Engaged users contribute increasing amounts of data, transforming platforms from empty containers of nothing into profitable private stores of human behavior and culture. But this production […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Latent Voice

Creation of a system to capture / record / transfer to the gallery space (or other inside) voice of the river flowing from Svartediket. Jarek Lustych is Polish visual artist (b.1961). He received his MFA degree from Warsaw Academy of […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Island of Doubt

The little cars Wally, Dory, Mortimer, Ferguson, and Baxter move back and forth in different combinations on the wood curvy tracks. They report their location to the brain of the system that functions as a communication line between all of […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Sympathetic Motion

Sympathetic Motion includes four large-scale sculptures that are detailed in fabric design and in their movements. Each sculpture inherits distinct characteristics that formally and technically distinguishes them from the other pieces in the series. They also have different spatial relationships […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Kube y su conjunto

A visual-sound performance work with experimental-noise characteristics combining electronic music, programming languages, real-time projections + an immersive experience using virtual reality (360). The project was one of the winners of #PlataformaFuturo, a program for emerging artists with a jury made […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

shrug.no

Shrug.no The site checks where you come from, takes you along defines of your browser, in divisions and subdomains but always pixel to pixel. Pay a visit and a shrug!https://bit.ly/3iCbI3k

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

INFOTOXICATION

INFOTOXICATION, Infobesity or Information Overload is a concept that describes a state of paralyzation caused by the excess of data. The question is ” How much information we can handle?” or ” What kind of changes are we facing in […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

The Stage is (a)Live

title: The Stage is (a)Live authors: Joana Chicau and Renick Bell short synopsis: a web based installation that stages the interactions between algorithmic dancers that set into motion a myriad of audio pieces and visual elements. This work is part […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Dystopia Trilogy (WebVR)

Dystopia Trilogy is a WebVR composition consisting of three movements inspired by the author’s experiences during the seven months of social restriction in 2020. These memories are interpreted and developed as narrative ideas and divided into three major pandemic episodes—infectious […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

256 Million colours of Violence

256 Million Colours of Violence is a survey-based interactive archival research project, inviting online and onsite audiences to participate in a survey-based research to actively co-create the website’s archive of colours that represent ‘violence’. The project addresses issues of privilege […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Everyone is Trapped in Someone Else’s Paradise

Everyone is Trapped in Someone Else’s Paradise is a video installation of three looped-animations. The animations are made using the open source software Blender with some photoscanned assets from the free Quixel Megascans library. The animations depict three portraits of […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

PANDEMIC SOUND MAP

The interactive sound installation “PANDEMIC SOUND MAP” transforms the statistical data on the spread of the SARS COVID-19 virus into sound, by means of sonication process based on the number of infected per day per country since January 2020 until […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Falling

360° video / VR installation.Synopsis : Falling is the study of a collapse. Consisting of nine “collapsology” scenes created from Internet culture imaginaries, this artwork tries to interrogate a possible dismantling of the human practices of nature subjection and species […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure

Critical Engineers Working Group exhibition “Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure” will take place from the 15th of November to 12th of December 2021, showing well known artworks plus new works in progress by the artists Bengt Sjölén and Danja […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
11:00 am

De-fragmented Bergen

Carbon Death will transmit a live cinema experience at the crossing between environmental harsh noise wall music and bleak November landscape during Piksel Festival. A machine will received films and sounds to produce a new forms of live cinema based […]

Thu 18 Nov 2021
9:00 pm

The Rose Walks

This is a proposal for the premiere at Piksel of a work by Tim Shaw and John Bowers that will combine live steamed and recorded video and sound installation, walking-exploration around the city of Bergen, field recordings, and spontaneous open-air […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
10:00 am

Audiovisual creation in Pure Data/GEM using [ARRAST_VJ]

This workshop introduces the basic and creative uses of [ARRAST_VJ], a free software for audiovisual creation that enables real time manipulation of videoclips (with sound), images and cameras, and also the creation of interactive compositions, which may be stored, reproduced […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
10:00 am

Ephemer(e)ality Capture: Glitching Photogrammetry

Ephemer(e)ality Capture is a practice-based workshop in which participants hack, disturb and glitched the parameters of photogrammetry. Participants use free or open-source 3D scanning apps and software (which they can access online) to scan reflective, invisible, specular, refractive, or ‘ephemeral’ […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
4:00 pm

Art of Coding – The Demoscene as UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage

The Demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. It shows how skills and creativity can be stimulated and implemented in a dynamic cultural practice adopted to […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
4:45 pm

the experimental and experiential interaction from the wearable-wearable: Tryptich

The crossing of the wearable with the new technologies is a discipline that develops new areas of theoretical research about the functionality and symbolism of the wardrobe as such, which constantly generates technical and methodological rethinking, in the field of […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
5:30 pm

DMX to Motion: An open hardware DMX controller for large AC motors

DMX to Motion is an open-hardware circuit board used to control AC motor drivers through DMX, ArtNet and/or OSC. It is being developed in Mexico City by researchers in STEAMLab at Centro de Diseño, Cine y Television and engineers at […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
6:15 pm

analog Not analog

analog Not analog (aNa) is an open source software that allows you to combine generative algorithms with web cams or video recordings in real time. It combines two techniques: live coding and video feedback loops. aNa tries to eliminate the […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
8:00 pm

Two Body Orchestra

“Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.” Deleuze/Guatarri “Orchestra (n.), area in an ancient theater for the chorus, from Latin orchestra, from Greek orkhestra, semicircular space where the chorus of dancers performed.” etymonline.com Two Body […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
9:00 pm

KHIPUMANCY

Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado(PE), Patricia Cadavid H. (COL) We are the Technokhipumancers, also called Khipunks or Neokhipumancers, part of the extended movement of the now called Neokhipukamayoqs; whose name refers to the ancient Andean experts of the Inca period, […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
10:30 pm

The Unsyncable

==================================================================== by Wolfgang SpahnFace the Unsyncable, expand your horizon and sync beyond all limits!The Unsyncable is a sonic vaccination of digital devices with an excerpt of analog electronics. These so injected devices become immune against binary infertility and all kind […]

Fri 19 Nov 2021
11:10 pm

AlgoNoiseOrchestra

The orchestra, the Network and the PerformanceDirection: Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi (APO33) with Marinos Koutsomichalis and MadlabVisuals performance: Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland AlgoNoiseOrchestra is a live coding open group started by Apo33 in 2018 to create a bridge […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
10:00 am

Responsive Body | Responsive Tech

by Kenneth Flak and Külli Roosna (NO, EE) Number of Participants: 10-15Place: Bergen Dance Center, Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 BergenTime: Saturday 20th of November from 10-14hDuration: 4 hours This workshop is part of the Performing Arts Workshop program, electronics and […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
11:00 am

A Butterfly in an Analog Computer

by Wolfgang Spahn, 2021A workshop for an Chua Circuit with in an analog computer to generate chaotic signals, noise and sound. This circuit generates chaotic signals over a wide range of frequency therefore it is an interesting device for noise […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Mellite – an environment for creating experimental computer-based music and sound art

Mellite is an open source application that aims to be an environment both for the composition and creation as well as for the performance and exhibition of computer based music and sound art. It targets various scenarios, from real-time live […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Simple WebXR with AR.js and Model-Viewer

We will be covering the basic and recommended settings for having simple AR web applications. In this case, Modelviewer for using Android’s ARCore and iOS’s ARKit native frameworks and AR.js for simple marker tracking.

Sat 20 Nov 2021
12:30 pm

Jeu Videa

Exploring collectively, feministand intersectional possibilities of vide-a game by learning Godot Engine software Since 2018 as a group we have organised workshops that toke place around 2 axes, a reflection on contemporary languages on contemporary video games from a feminist […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
4:00 pm

Gordan Savičić

Gordan Savičić is a creative technologist, artist and designer whose work investigates the relationship between people, networks and interfaces. He has a background in media art and visual communication, and he has been active within the fields of academic research, […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
4:30 pm

Bengt Sjölén

Bengt Sjölén is an independent software and hardware designer, hacker, and artist based in Stockholm and Berlin with roots in the Atari demo scene. Piksel is glad to announce a special collaboration program with the Critical Engineers Working Group within […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
5:00 pm

Danja Vasiliev

Danja Vasiliev (Russian: Даня Васильев, pronounced as: “Da-nya Vas-ile’-ev”) is a media artist, Critical Engineer and educator born in Saint-Petersburg, currently living and working in Berlin. “..when a person gives self-control over to a computer and acceptsthe default options without […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
5:30 pm

Sarah Grant

Sarah Grant is a Brooklyn-based media artist, educator and a recently licensed HAM Radio Operator. She is a former artist-in-residence of the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and is currently a Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Journalism at […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
8:00 pm

Concert for Smartphone Network

Concert for Smartphone Network is at the same time a music composition, a piece of distributed computer software and a collective improvisation practice. The work is for a networked smartphone ensemble where a custom made distributed software system combines the […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
8:40 pm

Glitch Vacations

Glitch Vacations is an audiovisual performance by Flor de Fuego and Naoto Hieda – a journey through open-source webpages and platforms created by the artists and the community members. The generative video and sound consist of minimal elements – geometric […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
9:20 pm

Janelas Afetivas: frameworks for absences

Janelas Afetivas: frameworks for absences the sensation of emptiness in everyday life, in routines, in excesses, in the repetition of confinement, and in the endless losses. This audiovisual performance is performed live using the OBS free stream software, used to […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
10:00 pm

LURU

action-reaction between the murmur made into poetry, and being a voice echoing to the hemisphere of your heart, your mind in its hole reason wanders.Your / The body has an ephemeral shape tonight, barefoot you come to see the verse […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
10:40 pm

Anemone Actiniaria

Anemone Actiniaria is an algorithmic improvisation duo consisting of Graz-based sound artists Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò. Beyond a purely performative agenda, Anemone Actiniaria is also an artistic research project, aiming at subjecting the seemingly well-defined concept of algorithm […]

Sat 20 Nov 2021
11:20 pm

Cascade | Live coding by Raphaël Bastide

Cascade is a live-coding utility allowing to create a sound and visual language for installations and performances. Cascade turns web pages into sound, interpreting the web standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) into MIDI signals. It is free software, source code […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
3:00 pm

10800Pixel

10800Pixel is an audiovisual performance utilising tapes, a hacked pixelcam and a mixing desk to create a arte povera version of expanded cinema. Kris Limbach (born in 1978) is a sound and visual artist residing in Berlin. Although his focus […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
4:00 pm

Using Web3D-based Computer Graphics as Open Educational Resources for Coding and Visualizing Digital Artifacts Related to Rubem Valentim’s Afro-Brazilian Artwork and Beyond

This presentation addresses transdisciplinary educational processes of learning and using low-cost Web3D-based computer graphics programming and interactive virtual reality (VR) techniques as open educational resources (OER). Accessible web-based resources, such as the Extensible 3D (X3D) language/format, the Hypertext Markup Language […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
4:35 pm

ModoriTuk

ModoriTuk is an open source constructive system for 3D printing. It can be used as a toy and can also be adapted for educational purposes. Daniel SedaBrazilian multimedia artistVideo, netart, performance, public interventions, origami, toyart, paper and plastic recycling, 3D […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
4:45 pm

Artwork and Beyond

by Jorge Ferreira Franco

Sun 21 Nov 2021
5:45 pm

Paradigmshift

Quo vadis world? In the face of growing global crises, it seems advisable to take a step back and revise existing paradigms of our thinking and acting. Ecological, systemic approaches and questions about diversity and sustainability are also becoming more […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
6:20 pm

The workspace as a modular audio visual exhibition

A studio tour to show the principles and ideas of Rumtiden Idea Lab in Stockholm. Rumtiden is a collaboration space where the workspace itself is totally modular, re-buildable and re-mixable. It’s a programming studio, office, workshop, laboratory and audio-visual exhibition […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
8:00 pm

Tropical Rain Spiritual Cyberexperience

Experimental show of music and immersive visuals through livecoding or real-time audiovisual programming based on the tropical forests of Costa Rica. The presentation lasts approximately 35 minutes and is performed live. Tacacocodin’ is a Central American collective of audiovisual experimentation […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
8:40 pm

_ :: _ -> _ -> _

This is a multilingual live coding performance using the platform Estuary and its many languages and modalities (visual, textual, aural, etc.). In live coding practices, the programming code allows a simultaneous, double communication: the code instructs the computer what kind […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
9:20 pm

sainsŵn: test / pro-fi

An A-V performance critically deconstructing perceptual psychology, psychoacoustics and A.I. Created with a range of open (and closed) software and hardware. This piece explores, questions and deconstructs the initial encounter between a sonic creator and her audience, as mediated by […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
10:00 pm

smosgasbord

I’ll be presenting a livecoding set prepared for the festival based on samples i’ve gathered from this pandemic time. Pulgateca co-founder, collective and platform for mediation and experimentation with obsolete resources and the U-suré Magazine, independent anthropology and social communication […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
10:40 pm

QFT

QFT (Quantum Feelings Theory) is an audiovisual project for livecoding and an open framework in which you can create your own multimedia pieces, using Quantum theory as background. Livecoding is a musical and performative technique in which the interpreter executes […]

Sun 21 Nov 2021
11:20 pm

RANDOM ASSEMBLY OF PARROTS

Through a jamsession with open source tools and advanced technologies such as obsolete technologies, trying to make convergences in space and time uniting realities of our area, generating unique and unrepeatable contexts associating the imaginary of pirate parrots in an […]

Sat 27 Nov 2021
11:00 am

Piksel KidZ – STRØMFØRENDE TEKSTIL OG MYK ELEKTRONIKK

Oct 4th – 8thth – 10h-13h | 16-19hGratis verksted for barn/unge i alderen 8-18 år for påmelding: piksel21(at)piksel(dot)no Vil du lage en t-skjorte med lys som blinker når noen gir deg et klapp på skulderen? Eller en veske som lyser […]

Fri 3 Dec 2021
11:00 am

Workshop Hotglue

Danja Vasiliev and Sarah Grant Building decentralized websites using Beaker and Dat is fun – and a great, hands-on way to learn about the otherwise hidden structures and exchanges that power the web. But to do so, one – more […]

Sat 11 Dec 2021
11:00 am

SelfHosted

by Critical Engineering Working Group Decentralise! This 4 hours walks participants through the process of setting up their very own server on the Internet, complete with webmail, cloud, VPN, gallery and website services, scalable to hundreds or thousands of users. […]

Thu 20 Jan 2022
8:10 am

You and I, You and Me

You and I, You and Me Mindaugas Gapševičius, Maria Safronova Wahlström In collaboration with Helga Mogensen (jewelry), Leon Crayfish (shoe design) The project You and I, You and Me explores the possibilities of communication through electricity. The project proposes that […]