Program

22-24 Nov
Bergen, Norway

Piksel18 – Buzzocrazy!, elektronisk kunst og fri teknologi.
The hive mind: from echo-manipulation to eco-pollinization.

Program
Piksel Pavilion at the Musikkpaviljongen in Bergen
22nd of November – 16:00 – 19:00

Olav Kyrres gate 27, 5014 Bergen
We are going to visualize and sonorize the Music Pavillion in Bergen with 3 hours of audiovisual live performances. The music pavilion will be electronically updated to host different Piksel artists doing high impact performances as a preview of what is going to happen at the Piksel Festival.

EXHIBITION

– Exhibition – 22nd opening night – 20:00 – 01:00
– November 23th -24th, Bergen (NO) – 12:00 18:00
– Venues: Piksel Studio 207 / Strandgaten 207; SKUR14 / Holbergskaien 1; | Bergen

Artists:

At PIKSEL STUDIO 2017
Strandgaten 207 Bergen

DIY bioart topic is presented by the work of Anne Marie Maes (BE), The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive; Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT)+ Martin Howse(UK), Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations; Gisle Frøysland (NO) + Maite Cajaraville (ES), From DNA to NSA; Hamilton Mestizo (CO), DIY Traffic Lines for Air Pollution; Jose Alejandro Lopez (CO), Our 25th Chromosome on Google and Dimitrios Gkikas (GR/DE), I will be waiting.

Buzzocrazy! The slogan of this edition festival bring us artworks from Marc Lee (CH) , Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media – Start TV Bot; Antonio Roberts (UK), Copyright Atrophy; Gabin Cortez Chance (US); Gisle Frøysland (NO), #Anti-corruption-code-my-circumstances;

At SKUR14
Holbergskaien 1;

International artists are invited to show their last developments at SKUR14 as part of the PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy! Exhibition.

Björk Viggósdóttir (IS), Circle; Wolfgang Spahn (DE/AT), It’s Organic If You Look Close Enough; Antonio Della Marina (IT), fades.net; Osvaldo Cibils (UR), El arte de las perillas (the art of knobs); Bioni Samp (UK), Beespace or Hive Synthesis, Camilla Vatne Barratt-due (NO), Jo Grys, Hidden Track, and, Ann Edvartsen (NO) with her last work Kessler Syndrome.

CONCERTS

At USF – 23rd of November 21:00 – 01:00 – Doors open at 20:30
– Venue: Studio USF | Georgernes verft 12, 5011 Bergen
– https://usf.no/lokaler/studio-usf/
– Entrance 60 NOK – Free for students.

Thor Merlin (NO)
Bioni Samp (UK)
Wolfgang Spahn (DE)
Gisle Frøysland (NO)
Iohannes Zmolnig (AT)

At Hulen – 24th of November 21:00 – 22:30 – Doors open at 20:30
– Venue: Hulen| Olaf Ryes vei 48, 5006 Bergen
– http://hulen.no/
– Entrance Free for the festival concerts. 150 kr if you stay all night long at Sista Låten 3rd Anniversary techno night.

John Bowers (UK)
Tim Shaw (UK)
Ivan Paulsen (NO)
Thor Merlin (NO)
Peter Edwards (US/SL)

****We are proud to collaborate with Sista Låten techno underground collective in Bergen to bring you a 2 sessions concerts program. Pikses18 – Buzzocrazy! starts at 21:00 to 22:30, then Sista Låten will start with their impressive line up of techno DJ’s. The Piksel festival entrance is free. If you want to enjoy all night long together with Sista Låten starting at 23.00 → 3:00, then the ticket entrance will be 150 kr. You can pay that at the entrance.

ARTISTS TALKS

At SKUR14 – 24th of November – 11:00

Wolfgang Spahn (DE/AT),
Bioni Samp (UK)
Peter Edwards (US/SL)
John Bowers and Tim Shaw (UK)

WORKSHOPS
OMSynth: DIY electronics and building audio circuits from scratch Workshop by Peter Edwards
23rd Nov
Building: SKUR14
Date: 15:00-18:00

Weird Signal Processing – a VGA Hacking Workshop by Wolfgang Spahn
24th Nov
Building: SKUR14
Date: 15:00-18:00

PIKSEL BIO LAB 2018 WORKSHOPS
The Umwelt of the Forager: on Bees, pheromones and bacteria by Anne Marie Maes
23rd and 24th Nov
Building: Piksel Studio 207
Date: 15:00-19:00

Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations
by Martin Howse and Mindaugas Gapševičius
23rd Nov

Building: Piksel Studio 207
Date: 10:00-14:00

PIKSEL KIDZ LAB 2018 EDITION

City BIO! DIY Traffic lights of air pollution by Hamilton Mestizo

5th – 7th November – 10:00- 14:00
8th – 9th November – 14:00 -18:00
Building: Piksel Studio 207
To participate send and email to piksel18(at)piksel(dot)no

City TECH! SONORATEC! en kunstlab med nye medier for barn! by Oda Bremnes (Norway), Margarita Ardila (Colombia)
12th – 14th – 10:00- 14:00
15th – 16th November – 14:00 -18:00
Building: Piksel Studio 207
To participate send and email to piksel18(at)piksel(dot)no

City TECH! Electrotextile! Customize your clothes or accessories with LEDs! by Pauline Vierne (France)
12th – 14th – 10:00- 14:00
15th – 16th November – 14:00 -18:00
Building: Piksel Studio 207
To participate send and email to piksel18(at)piksel(dot)no