x_at_piksel13-14 October, Cinemateket USF,Bergen, NorwayTwo days of seminar, discussion and highly practical interrogation of expandedsoftware and the impact of the executable on necessarily open hardware as a
political act.x crashes into the intent of open hardware, eviscerating software; theblunt realm of the user as cynical economic motif. After Artaud, the CPU(central processing unit) and its double mimes The Theatre and its Double. On
the one hand, there is the System or entropic operation of a necessarilycynical machine for living, an atrocity exhibition, on the other hand thespecification of an artistic CPU for life coding. The data sheet will be
examined as to its operational codes (day one), new (simulation) models willbe constructed (day two).Confirmed participants:Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Aymeric Mansoux, BrunoMarchal, Otto Roessler, Tom Schouten, Marloes de Valk, Eva Verhoeven,
Valentina VuksicProduced by BEK and ap/x:ap/x[1] was founded in 1998 to necessitate the code-terms expansionimplied by a growing and politically active free software movement. Withwilfully avant-garde intent, and through intervention, performance, staged
events, seminars, hardware constructions and readily accessible software,ap/x examines through live descriptive process software (culture andhistory), embedding auto-destruction. Software is viewed as substance.
Piksel[2] is an annual event for artists and developers working with opensource audiovisual software. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised inBergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK)[3] and
involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas,coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performancesand discussions on the aesthetics and politics of open source and free
culture. This years event - Piksel06[4] – continues the exploration ofaudiovisual code and it's myriad of expressions, but also brings in openhardware as a new focus area.Information:x_at_piksel[5] will take place 11am to 3pm 13 October, 11am to 5pm 14
October at Cinemateket USF[6], Bergen, Norway as part of the Piksel06festival.Admission is free but with a limited number of seats. For reservation send amail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About the participants:**Wilfried Hou Je Bek (NL)Applying scientific rigour and an eminently wide-ranging frame ofcrytsalpunk reference, socialfiction.org
protaganist Wilfried Hou JeBek plays out the expressively elegant and digressional expansion ofsoftware across all (literalised) domains, for example algorithmicpsychogeography.**Martin Howse (UK)
Speculative and necessarily open hardware explorer Martin Howseproposes a denuded artistic CPU (an elaborated, auto-destructivebachelor-culture machine) running heavily promiscuous code andoperating on a noise terrain. Latest plans include the staging of the
x research institute in Berlin.**Jonathan Kemp (UK)Performer, theorist, ap/x collaborator and visual artist, Jonathan Kempapplies the refined instruments of his adoptive stoneworking to excavate the
esoteric thought matter of characters such as Emmanuel Swedenborg andGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.**Bruno Marchal (BE)Bruno Marchal is currently occupied with refining his supremely elegant,code-based theories of COMP at the IRIDIA AI labs in Brussels. COMP has
precise consequences, for example that physics is necessarily a branch ofcomputer science; the implication being that if you were in a perfectsimulation you wouldn't know it.**Otto Roessler (DE)
German biochemist Otto E. Roessler occupies the rare contemporary position ofa scientific and artistic polymath with noted significant contributions tochaos theory, under his original attractor, and the fresh science of
endophysics. His current major project, Lampsacus, proposes a truly freenetworked informational society.**Eva Verhoeven (NL)The original work of artist and theorist Eva Verhoeven proposes a concise and
well defined series of laboratory-style experiments and interventions whichelaborate a trajectory from noise/interference within existent (computer)systems towards totally speculative hardware.**Valentina Vuksic (DE)
Former student of both essential economics and computer science, ValentinaVuksic explores a highly individual articulation of hard and softwaremediation; the processes in such intermediate space as action thus implying
actors rendered audible through novel intrusion. **Tom Schouten (BE)Artist and independent software developer. He is the author of PDP, anextension for Pure Data, which adds building blocks for image and video
processing, and other media oriented applications, tightly integrated to thecomputer music system which hosts it. Currently he is developing PacketForth, a stand-alone application / scripting language for media processing
and BADNOP, an interactive FORTH compiler for Microchip Picmicromicrocontrollers. **Aymeric Mansoux (FR)Since the mid-nineties, Aymeric Mansoux
