Schedule

Festival Opening and Presentation

19:00–24:00
Festival Opening & Exhibition Tour

Join us for an exciting tour around the city, beginning at Kunstkolen i Bergen (Marken 37) at 19:00 with the Festival Opening Presentation by Gisle Frøysland and Maite Cajaraville, alongside the project Droning by Marta Revuelta & Laurent Weingart. From there, we’ll head to Alt Går Bra Lokale (Strandgaten 208) to explore the project OHANDA.One. Next, we’ll visit the PIKSEL24 Main Exhibition at Strandgaten 221, showcasing 16 new electronic art pieces by PIKSEL24 artists from around the world. Finally, we’ll conclude at Studio 207 (Strandgaten 207) with the captivating performance IDLE Data Transitions
by Blaž Pavlica and Flor de Fuego starting at 22:30.

EXHIBITIONS

Piksel24 Main Exhibition
12:00 – 18:00 @ Main Piksel Exhibition / Strandgaten 221
15:00 – 21:00 @ Østre / Skostredet 3 (At 17:00 and repeating at 21:00, special performance by the artists Camilla Barratt-Due, Lukas Grundmann, Erin Sexton activating the piece "Suction Twist: Dirty Pairs")
12:00 – 18:00 @ Piksel Library / Strandgaten 207
12:00 – 18:00 OHANDA.ONE @ Alt Går Bra Lokale / Strandgaten 208
12:00 – 18:00 DRONING @ Kunstskolen i Bergen KIB / Marken 37

WORKSHOPS

@ Alt Går Bra Lokale
12:00 – 18:00 OHANDA.ONE Lab , Juergen Neumann, Tuomo Tammenpää, Julian Priest
@Studio207
12:00-14:00 Workshop Sonus Verbosa, Anastasia Melandinou
16:00 – 18:00 How to Make a “Videogame Poem”: Creating Subversive Games with Open Source Tools, Jordan Magnuson
@BBB1 – Online
12:00-14:00 Workshop Building Environments in the Metaverse, James Alec Hardy
@Piksel Library
16:00 – 18:00 Live coded visuals in Punctual, Søren Peter Mørch

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES / CONCERTS

21:00-01:00 @ Østre

Reactive Ensemble performs ECHO52 *
Reactive Ensemble (RE) is an electro-acoustic collective from Stuttgart dedicated to reshaping the nature of music creation and performance. Through unlimited experimentation, the ensemble creates innovative formats that challenge traditional music conventions and reimagine how sound, space, and collaboration can be experienced. In 2023, the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists awarded the ensemble with the EFFEA Discovery Residency and in 2024 with the Springboard Residency, which gave the ensemble the opportunity to establish partnerships with the Delian Academy for New Music (Greece), Piksel Festival (Norway), Festival Catalysi (Italy) with the support of the Internationales Digitalkunst Festival (Germany).
Kyungjin Lim – [mi:t]spiel (2024*) for violoncello, live electronics and video
Savannah Agger – Being Water (2024*) for violoncello and electronics
Celine Papion: Violoncello
Kyungjin Lim: live electronics
Remmy Canedo: live electronics
*Norwegian premiere

MEDIA()MESSe, AV performance
THE MEDIA()MESSe brought together an international group of artists-researchers on new media / art+hacking+diy; 10 artist-hackers invited from European art and technology laboratories and collectives worked together on a new creation that builds on disconnects of our mediated realities through intermedia arts, DIY (do it yourself), DIWO (do it with others) and media activism and audio-visual performance.
Artists: APO33: Julien Ottavi, Jenny Pickett, Romain Papion
STWST: Tanja Brandmayr, Jan-Nahuel Jenny, Taro Klemens Knopp
PIKSEL: Gisle Froysland, Maite Cajaraville
MADLAB: Dimitra Kousteridou and Anastasia Melandino.

EXHIBITIONS

Piksel24 Main Exhibition
12:00 – 18:00 @ Main Piksel Exhibition / Strandgaten 221
15:00 – 21:00 @ Østre / Skostredet 3 (At 17:00 and repeating at 21:00, special performance by the artists Camilla Barratt-Due, Lukas Grundmann, Erin Sexton activating the piece "Suction Twist: Dirty Pairs")
12:00 – 18:00 @ Piksel Library / Strandgaten 207
12:00 – 18:00 OHANDA.ONE @ Alt Går Bra Lokale / Strandgaten 208
12:00 – 18:00 DRONING @ Kunstskolen i Bergen KIB / Marken 37

WORKSHOPS

12:00 – 18:00 @ Alt Går Bra Lokale
OHANDA.ONE Lab , Juergen Neumann, Tuomo Tammenpää, Julian Priest

ARTISTS PRESENTATIONS

11:00-14:00 @Studio207
What is a "Videogame Poem"? Subversive Game Design as Lyric Practice – Jordan Magnuson (US)
WEBPIT 3.0, Vytautas Bikauskas (LT)
A minimalist social network powered by plain text files , Søren Peter Mørch (DK)
ORAMICS back to LIVE , Melisa Cano (SP)
Drink The River , Rosa Prosser (UK) and Christopher Bonk (DE)
Las fuerzas del suelo / The forces of the ground, Julia Rossetti, Daniela Ruiz Moreno (CH)
Colateral Vértigo, Chico Ortiz

NETWORKS AND PROJECTS PRESENTATIONS

16:00-19:00 @Studio207
MEDIA()MESSe
COST Action CA21102, Toolkit of Care (TOC)
OFF + Labs: APO33 (Nantes), STWST (Linz), MADLAB (Cyprus), PIKSEL (Norway)
Julien Ottavi, Jenny Pickett, Tanja Brandmayr, Jan-Nahuel Jenny, Taro Klemens Knopp, Dimitra Kousteridou, Gisle Froysland and Maite Cajaraville.
IDLE, Inclusive Digital Laboratory for Experimental Art / Flor de Fuego (DE) and Blaz Pavlica (SL)
OHANDA, Juergen Neumann (DK), Tuomo Tammenpää (FI), Julian Priest (DE)

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES / CONCERTS

21:00-03:00 @ Østre
Solo for Computer and Feedback, Remmy Canedo (DE)
Show Us Your Screen, Citlali Hernández & Eloi el Bon Noi (SP)
Organalog, Miha Godec (SL)
beat.me 102, IOhannes m zmölnig (AT)
The Unsyncable II– Seven Rasas, Wolfgang Spahn (DE)
Holding up burning houses, Lorenzo Berretti (IT)

EXHIBITIONS

Piksel24 Main Exhibition
12:00 – 18:00 @ Main Piksel Exhibition / Strandgaten 221
12:00 – 18:00 @ Piksel Library / Strandgaten 207
12:00 – 18:00 OHANDA.ONE @ Alt Går Bra Lokale / Strandgaten 208
12:00 – 17:00 DRONING @ Kunstskolen i Bergen KIB / Marken 37

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES / ONLINE CONCERTS

14:00-19:00 @Studio207
Twelve Hours, Same Time, Michał Seta
Singular reproductible 2, irisS CANCELLED!
The Way of Schesa, Ryan Ross Smith and Shawn Lawson
Transmission~, Luis Sanz