Please disregard this announcement. This years workshops is in the next mail. Sorry about the mess. ---
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 12:40:49 +0100 220hex <g...@220hex.org> wrote: > PIKSEL18 Buzzocrazy! > The 16th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free > Technologies > > – Wokshops. > – November 22nd-24th, Bergen (NO) > – http://18.piksel.no > > Buzzocrazy! The Piksel18 festival slogan points to the new era of > “post-truth” based on appeals to emotion rather than policies and > facts. Stretching the truth can be seen as just part of a game. The > post-truth affects how we make sense of the world around us. That > phenomenon has a name — agnotology, the study of culturally induced > ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or > misleading scientific data. > > Piksel 18 Buzzocrazy! Claims to repair the hive mind. The global > consciousness has been manipulated and we have to bring it back again > from echo-manipulation to eco-pollinization, we seek the bee drones as > the new metaphor to restore the logic ecosystem. > > PIKSEL18 – BuzzOcrazy! > ———————————————————– > > Workshops Programme: > > All workshops are free to attend. > To sign up send an email to:prod(at)piksel(dot)no > --- > > OMSynth: DIY electronics and building audio circuits from scratch > Workshop by Peter Edwards 23rd Nov > Building: SKUR14 > Date: 15:00-18:00 > > In 2013 Peter presented the early stages of a DIY circuit building > interface called the Open Modular Syntehsizer (OMSynth). > > In this lecture he will share how the OMSynth has evolved from an idea > to a product and how it challenges many of the established norms of > DIY electronics practice. Along the way he will also discuss a call > for a new standard of DIY circuit design in the post SMT (surface > mount electronics) age. > > Participants will build an experimental sound circuit from scratch > using the OMSynth. > > Peter Edwards is an American artist, musician, and teacher. He has > been exploring the field of circuit bending and experimental musical > electronics since 2000 through his business Casperelectronics. He > performs regularly under the same name. > > Edwards has performed, taught workshops and spoken on the topic of > circuit bending and creative electronics at MIT’s Media Lab, Hasbro > Toys, Hampshire College, Skidmore College, New York University, > Bloomfield University, Long Beach University, Georgie Southern > University and at new media festivals around the world including The > Piksel Festival (Bergen, Norway). > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/23/omsynth-diy-electronics-and-building-audio-circuits-from-scratch/ > --- > > Weird Signal Processing – a VGA Hacking Workshop by Wolfgang Spahn > 24th Nov > Building: SKUR14 > Date: 15:00-18:00 > > Name Yune Paik is known for manipulating a TV set with a magnet. One > might think that after we abandoned monitor tubes the combination of > TV and magnetism is gone as well. But similar techniques are still > possible today by manipulating the monitor signal. > > The fact that most signals used to connect devices via wires are based > on electric current allows for easy hacking. For example one can > manipulate the VGA video signal flow with coils and magnetic fields. > The signal being similar to sound signals makes for an easy transfer > to sound and vice versa. One can make a video signal hearable and > display an audio signal on a monitor. > > In the workshop we will process VGA signals. We learn the basic about > the VGA standard and how to manipulate, mix and sonificate the signal, > how to amplifier, invert and add fast video signals. Every participant > will build a VGA breakout board that allows easy access to the signal. > > Please bring your own laptop (with a VGA connection or converter), an > Arduino and or your Raspberry Pi if you have some. > > Wolfgang Spahn (*1970, Austria) is a visual artist based in Berlin. > His work includes interactive installations, videos, projections, and > miniature-slide-paintings. After having studied mathematics and > sociology in Regensburg and Berlin he founded the > screen-printing-studio at Tacheles. He also managed various art > projects e.g. Schokoladen Mitte and was one of the artists at > Meinblau, Berlin. He currently teaches at the BBK-Berlin, > Medienwerkstatt and is associated lecturer at the University of > Paderborn, department of art. > > International exhibitions (selection): 2000 Biennial of young Art in > Genua, Italy, 2003 The Kosovo Art Gallery in Pristina, Kosovo, 2005 > Biennial in Prague, Czech Republic, 2008 and 2009 Internationales > Klangkunstfest in Berlin, 2009 The Art of the Overhead in Malmö, > Sweden, PIXEL09 and 10 in Bergen, Norway, 2010 Biennial Of Miniature > Art in Serbia, 2010 Media-Scape in Zagreb, Croatia, Transmediale 2012, > Berlin. > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/24/69/ > > --- > > 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 > > The workshop -the Umwelt of the Forager- will be studying the bio > semiotics of the beehive & its ecosystem. The workshop will be > organized as a DYI BioLab: the starting point is the role of > pheromones and the important task these signifiers play for the > communication in the beehive and for the relation of the bees to > their ecosystem. > > Participants will be sensing the ecology of the beehive and interpret > the emergence of symbols. They will be detecting the granularity of > waves formed between bacterial signals and the signs emitted through > invisible (bio)technologies. In several hands-on sessions the > microbial sphere in and around the beehive will be studied under the > microscope. Participants will prepare agar plates to culture bacteria > and spores that they collect at the intersection of places, called > the Umwelt of the Forager (bee). They will ‘design’ with bacteria and > reflect upon shared habitats for bees and other micro-organisms. > > Anne Marie Maes is an artist who has been studying the tight > interactions and co- evolutions within urban ecosystems. Her research > practice combines art and science with a strong interest for DIY > technologies and biotechnology. She works with a range of biological, > digital and traditional media, including live organisms. Her artistic > research is materialized in techno-organic objects that are inspired > by factual/fictional stories; in artefacts that are a combination of > digital fabrication and craftsmanship; in installations that reflect > both the problem and the (possible) solution, in multispecies > collaborations, in polymorphic forms and models created by eco-data. > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/23/the-umwelt-of-the-forager-on-bees-pheromones-and-bacteria/ > --- > > Radio Mycelium & How I Hack Plant Conversations by Martin Howse and > Mindaugas Gapševičius > 23rd Nov > Building: Piksel Studio 207 > Date: 10:00-14:00 > > The project invites us to experience interspecies communication and > feedback loops between mycelium networks and their habitats, including > other organisms and beings. It also proposes the examination of a new > networked imaginary between electrochemical signals, digital data, and > electromagnetic waves. The project invites the user to experience > plant to plant or plant to fungi interaction by connecting an > electronic interface and converting data from electrochemical to > digital and back to electrochemical signal. Using allelopathy as a > metaphor for plant interaction, the project questions the mechanism > of translation of signals, which, through the number of generations > are influenced by the information from outside, including its own > transmitted information. > > The experiments introduced in the tutorial will give an idea of how to > grow mycelium, how to make electronic tools and attach them to living > organisms, and how to use the tools for audiovisual expression. During > the hands on session, we will do four experiments:- Start growing > mycelium on coffee grounds;- Sense electric potentials in living > organisms;- Assemble and test the mycelial radio transmitter;- Use > built tools and a Pd patch provided for audiovisual expression. > > The experiments are facilitated by Mindaugas Gapševičius. > > Mindaugas Gapševičius, http://triple-double-u.com/ > Martin Howse, http://www.1010.co.uk/org/ > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/23/radio-mycelium-how-i-hack-plant-conversations/ > --- > > > PIKSEL KIDZ LAB 2018 EDITION > > City GO! 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 > > Do It Yourself Traffic lights of air pollution is an eco-design > workshop for kids. Kids will be assembling “air traffic lights” that > visualise the pollution in our cities. The goal is to experiment with > a sensor which detects levels of Carbon Monoxide (CO) concentrations, > the main gas produced by gasoline and diesel cars and go to the city > and test them in the urban environment. > > The project mixes artistic, environmental and social concerns and > adheres to the design principles of open hardware and software: > Everyone is invited to learn how the electronics and the code > functions in order to be able to modify it. > > Hamilton Mestizo (CDMX, Mexico) > Hamilton Mestizo explores the interfaces of arts, science and > technology and their critical, ecological, and social-culturall > implications. In the last decade, Mestizo has combined his artistic > practice with education and research focused on open source hardware > development, DIY-DIWO culture, new media and biotechnology. > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/05/city-go-diy-traffic-lights-of-air-pollution/ > --- > > 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 > > Sonorartec is a lab where the kids learn the basics of electronic to > produce sound with drawn images, toys with lights, plastic pianos, … > recycling everyday materials. What we will do? Build different devices > which permit kids to experiment with leds, circuits, sound, graphics, > creative writing, and much more. > > Oda Bremnes (Norway) is a third year of bachelor’s degree at the > Department of Art at the Faculty of Arts, Music and Design, UiB > (further Art and Design College in Bergen). She is working on new > media. mainly video, installation and electronics. > > Margarita Ardila (Colombia) > Margarita Ardila is a Colombian maker, composer and sound researcher. > Multidisciplinary artist coordinator and workshop of SONORARTEC LAB, > laboratory oriented to the application of new media in the art, > design, education. > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/12/city-tech-sonoratec/ > --- > > 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 > > Electrotextile workshop is a practical and theoretical workshop to > make, remixi and intervene your accessories and garments through the > manufacture of soft and flexible electronic circuits. > > The participants will approach to the concept of “wearable > technologies” and to the basic notions of electronics. To this end, > circuits will be prototyped and creative projects will be developed by > mixing textiles and materials capable of conducting electricity. > > Kids will learn to make resistances and soft switches with cloth, > felt, thread for lighting or sound applications and they can > customize your clothes or accessories with LEDs! > > Pauline Vierne, France > Pauline Vierne completed an MA in Innovative Textiles at ENSAAMA, > Paris, and works as an e-textile researcher at the Design Research > Lab, Berlin University of the Arts since 2014. Using experimental > design and practice-led processes, her work bridges conductive and > unconventional materials using traditional craft techniques to > explore new materiality. > > https://18.piksel.no/2018/11/12/electrotextile-city-tech/ > --- > > PDF with more pics and info: > http://piksel.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PIKSEL18_Workshops-pics-short.pdf > > > -- -- Gisle Frøysland Piksel Produksjoner Strandgaten 207 5004 Bergen, Norway +47 90665018 www.piksel.no ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre