[spectre] Call: PIKSEL11 -- Open Workshops

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The 9th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom. 
- Exhibitions – workshops – live art – presentations
- November 17th-20th, Bergen (NO)
- http://piksel.no/p11

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* PIKSEL11 workshop series
* Free and Open Creative Technology workshops 

In connection with the PIKSEL11 festival we are offering in total 12 hardware
and software workshops. All the workshops are free to attend, but for some of 
the hardware workshops there is a cost for materials.

To sign up or get more information, please contact us on piksel11 [AT] 
piksel.no or register directly at:
http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel11/schedConf/registration
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* HARDWARE WORKSHOPS

**Schmutz||Disrupter analog tools - MP19 collective**
**Thursday 17.11 11-16 @ PikselHut**

In this workshop the participants will learn to make the analog performance 
tools Time Disrupter & Schmutz
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Gonzalo
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**ELECTROMAGNETIC CITYSCAPE - Roger 10-4**
**Friday 18.11 11-16 @ PikselHut**

ELECTROMAGNETIC CITYSCAPE is a workshop in which participants build a wearable 
device (from re-purposed objects) that makes electromagnetic fields audible and 
go into the city to explore these invisible fields.
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Roger
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**Using the Milkymist One video synthesizer – Sébastien Bourdeauducq**
**Saturday 19.11 11-16 @ PikselHut**

The Milkymist One is an open hardware live video synthesizer device – no 
computer needed! Connect a camera and a videoprojector, press the power 
button, and seconds later, everything you film becomes live psychedelic effects 
of color and light. Point the camera at a dancer on stage, at people attending 
your party, at toys, use UV-glow paint… there are no limits to creativity!
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Roger
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**Sudamerica Experimental Workshop – Cristiano Rosa, Daniel Llermaly**
**Sunday 20.11 11-16 @ PikselHut**

Construction of devices developed in research laboratories of Sudamerica 
Experimental. 
Applications for Audio: Atari Punk Console, Pulse sequence is Control Voltage, 
Subaquatic Bass Machine, Qadrox – Square Wave Generator, Little Bass, Space 
Mini Rocker
Applications for video: Saturated signal, Mini Mixer, Atari Punk Video
Material cost: NOK 100,-
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Llermaly
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* SOFTWARE WORKSHOPS

**Workshop on CHDK – Aditya Zalewski Mandayam**
**Thursday 17.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU**

This workshop will cover how to install and run CHDK on Canon point-and-shoot 
cameras. In keeping with Piksel's focus on open-source technologies, there 
will exclusively be use of Linux and open source tools such as emacs, mplayer, 
ffmpeg, GIMP and imagemagick to teach participants how to gain fine-grained 
control over their cameras. 
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Mandayam
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**Visual Live Coding with Texture – Alex McLean**
**Friday 18.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU

This workshop will explore the use of Texture, a visual programming language 
designed for the live coding of pattern. Texture recognises the importance of 
space (e.g. prosody, handwriting, layout) in language by making arrangment in 
2D Euclidean space part of the primary syntax of the language. All the user 
can do is move the cursor and type in text, but they can move the words around 
freely in two dimensions, with connections made between words to compose 
functions, in order to build up rhythmic structure.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#McLean
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**OHANDA working session – Juergen Neumann, Tuomo Tammenpää**
**Friday 18.11 14-17 @ Kafe Knøderen**

OHANDA, Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance, is an initiative to foster 
sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. Join us for this working 
session to discuss the tactics for raising awareness of open source hardware 
among larger audience and develop methods for sustainable sharing of the open 
source hardware designs & documentations.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Neumann
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**C/Overt operations with CCTV sniffing – Adnan Hadzi**
**Saturday 19.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU**

Our main tool for this workshop will be easily to obtained, simple to use and 
perfectly legal video receivers that can intercept the data collected by small 
CCTV video cameras often placed covertly in shops, offices and other 
public/private spaces. But we will also use ordinary media-gathering devices, 
our own eyes and ears and our social skills to identify and record evidence of 
covert operations in our midst, whether this is capturing gossip and rumour 
about the Piksel festival or observing city planners’ attempts to ‘design out’ 
specific social behaviours.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Hadzi
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**the 120days of *buntu – Gordan Savicic, Danja Vasiliev**
**Saturday 19.11 14-17 @ Kfe Knøderen**

OS modification workshop.
The 120days of *buntu is a mash-up of 120 different Ubuntu operating systems 
(OS). Each OS is a self-contained Live CD/USB stick; any PC/Mac can be 
instantly booted from it. 'The 120 days of *buntu' project treats Operating 
Systems (Ubuntu Linux distributions) as public space, prone to modification by 
its habitants/users. The OS modification happens on all levels: from looks-and-
feel of User Interface (GUI), interaction model, visual and audio feedback and 
down to modified system tools and hacked kernel. 
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Savicic
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**din is noise – S Jagannathan**
**Sunday 20.11 11-16 @ KNIPSU**

In this workshop S.Jagannathan invites people to learn how to use din to 
design their own sounds and improvise their music.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#SJagannathan
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**SonicDrift – the MemeLab**
**Sunday 20.11 14-17 @ Kafe Knøderen**

SonicDrift is an Android application created by the memelab that serves as a 
framework for realtime creation, playback, and editing of locative-sound maps. 
With the ability to read the user's GPS location and access the internal 
hardware, you can 'write' location-based audio recordings to the phone, and 
'read' these recordings, by yourself or others.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Rosner
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*SPECIAL EVENT

**UKI game level one [infect the city]  - Jara Rocha, Massimo Avvisati**
**Every day 17-20 nov. 11-12 @ KNIPSU**

UKI game level 1 gathering/workshop with the following aims:
1) map out the city – define the routes for workshop participants to go out 
with mobilephone and QR code stickers to infect the city
2) preview and review the viral game one programming codes with workshop 
participants
3) work with workshop participants’ comments to improve and work on more codes 
everyday for next day presentation.
more info: http://www.piksel.no/p11/workshops11#Rocha
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more info and complete festival program:
http://piksel.no/p11
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Piksel11 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, 
Hordaland County, PNEK, BEK, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark and KORO.

PIKSEL :: FREE AS IN ART!
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with
free and open technologies in artistic practice.
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 & art.
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Piksel11 - 17-20 nov. 2011
www.piksel.no
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