[spectre] CFP: Piksel24 - November 21-23 2024

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Piksel24
November 21-23 2024
Bergen, Norway

Dear friends,

We are excited to announce the call for projects for the 22nd edition of 
the Piksel Festival!

Piksel will go hybrid again this year, so we welcome ideas for both 
online and physical collaborative activities. We are also interested in 
projects that involve the virtual gallery IDLE. If you are a 3D artist, 
live coder, or feel inspired by the virtual environment IDLE (Inclusive 
Digital Laboratory for Experimental Art), we would love to hear your 
ideas. IDLE includes a virtual gallery that mimics the physical Piksel 
Studio 207 and is connected to the IDLE IoT system, with lights, 
screens, and a sound system controlled by the internet (Internet of 
Things system). Learn more at https://idle.piksel.no/.

To make the most of our resources and create a more sustainable event, 
we are extending the exhibition period from the festival dates until 
mid-December. We encourage you to present art installations that can be 
built in Bergen to minimize international transport, aligning with our 
green strategy. Due to limited resources, we will prioritize projects 
from individual artists or artist collectives that can explore a 
specific theme through multiple artworks and workshops. We warmly 
encourage artists to apply to different open tracks, as this will help 
us better understand the full scope of your work.

Please feel free to submit your projects to any of the open tracks: 
presentations, workshops, concerts, installations, and PikselSavers.

Piksel offers travel to Norway, accommodation, and meals during the 
festival and the setup days in advance to help you realize your project.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!
!!!!!!!!!! Deadline — September 1st 2024 !!!!!!!!!!
Please use the online submit form at: https://pretalx.com/piksel24/

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Piksel is an international festival 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 art and free technologies.

open CALL for PROJECTS

For the exhibition and other parts of the program we currently seek 
projects in the following categories:

1. Installations
Projects to be included in the exhibitions. The works must be realized 
by the use of free and open source technologies.
For Piksel24 we specially encourage projects in the field of DIY BIOart 
and renewable/sustainable technologies to apply.

2. Audiovisual performance
Live art realized by the use of free software and/or open/DIY hardware.
If you are a 3D artist/live coder or feel inspired by the virtual 
environment IDLE, Inclusive Digital Laboratory for Experimental Art, we 
would like to hear your ideas. IDLE consists of a virtual gallery, 
mimicking the physical Piksel Studio 207 and the IDLE IoT system, 
lights, screen and sound system controlled by internet (Internet of Things).
https://idle.piksel.no/

3. Presentations
Innovative DIY/open hardware and audiovisual software tools or software 
art released under a free/open license. (Also includes presentations of
artistic projects realized using free/open technologies.)
For Piksel24 we specially encourage projects in the field of DIY BIOart 
and renewable/sustainable technologies to apply.

4. Workshops
Hands on workshops utilizing free software and/or open/DIY hardware for 
artistic use.
For Piksel24 we specially encourage projects in the field of DIY BIOart 
and renewable/sustainable technologies to apply.

5. PikselSavers
Video and software art based on the screensaver format – short 
audiovisual (non)narratives made for endless looping. Possible thematic 
fields includes but are not limited to: sustainable resource allocation, 
renewable technologies, energy harvesting, fair trade hardware, free 
content, open access, open data, DIY economy, shared development. The 
works must be realized by the use of free/open source technologies.

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Piksel24 is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council 
Norway, Vestland fylkeskommune and others.

More info: https://piksel.no/