[microsound-announce] Piksel15 || Get A-Life! || 19-22 Nov 2015, Bergen (NO) ||

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Piksel15  Get A-Life!
The 13th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies

- November 19th-22nd, Bergen (NO)
- http://15.piksel.no

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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)

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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: piksel15 at piksel.no
Registaer at PikselKidZ: tiril at piksel.no

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more info and complete festival program:
http://15.piksel.no
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Piksel15 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen
Municipality, Hordaland County, PNEK, BEK, EEA Norway Grants.

PIKSEL :: FREE AS IN ART!
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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.
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