Piksel is an international network and annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised 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.
The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the Free/Libre and Open Source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy.
Piksel is a member of the Pixelache network of electronic art festivals – pixelache.ac – and one of the nodes in the Production Network for Electronic Art in Norway – PNEK
More info: piksel.no
Piksel is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway and others.
Piksel Team
Director/curator: Gisle Frøysland
Co- curator: Maite Cajaraville
Producer: Anders Elsrud Hultgreen
Design: Jenny Pickett (APO33)
Technical producer: Liu Huzz
Technicians: Thor Arne Bruaas Hopland
Photographer: Martin E. Koch
Streaming/Camera: Ørjan Liland
Press: Maite Cajaraville
Volunteers: Jens Bjørlo Tandstad, Annika Sellik, Lucas Helgemo Irgens, Ahmed Gaadi, Esteban Piedrahita Martinez, Tanya Svendsen, Jared Theis, Vilde Fagerheim Aadland, Daniil Nikitin, Kirstyn Willliams, Ricardo Vaz, Filip Glezgo, Heebah Saleem, Julien Vadnais, Thor Arne Bruaas Hopland, Ørjan Liland, Sara Ortega
Partners
Contact:
PIKSEL Produksjoner
Strandgaten 207
5004 Bergen
Norway
post [AT] piksel [DOT] no