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PIKSEL is thrilled to announce the 14th edition of the PIKSEL Festival in Bergen, Norway.

Piksel16 || Zero Level focus on the biological and social aspects of the sea as a sustainable environment. Zero in the meaning of: zero-emissions, zero-footprints, zero-waste, zero-energy, zero-pollution, zero-plastic, zero-trash. Also Zero encourages bio-efficiency, bio-ecology, marine inheritance, sustainable maritime transport, sea communication, civil society, water as a playground, and civil engagement.

The workshop program reflects this diversity combining artists and art collectives that work in boats (Ohanda, Eleanora and Downriver Danube) developing DIY prototyping labs, FM radio communication and boat networking; with those that analyze the water to measure the estrogen in our maritime environment or build up a DIY marine biolab for sensoring the water variables and collect open data, and with those who use the water as an instrument, linking the sea, sound and trash.

In the specifitcity of PIKSEL's tradition, three other workshops on visual language programming will be hosted: two Pure Data meetings, an one in Live Coding: TidalCycles.

PikselKidZ for the youngest. Piksel Kidz Lab brings new media art practices to kids and youngsters. CITY SECRETS, CITY LIGTHS & CITY AIR, three workshops are dealing with social communication, air pollution/healthy environment, and bioluminiscence as a way of exploring the urban and natural environment.

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Piksel16 || Zero Level The 14th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies

• November 24th-27nd, Bergen (NO)
• http://16.piksel.no

Workshops program ­ OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Live Coding With TidalCycles @ Room 8, by Alexandra Cárdenas http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/live-coding-with-tidalcycles/ subject: TidalCycles

This workshop will allow the participants to gain the basic knowledge to make use of the software TidalCycles to create patterns of sound for a live coded performance.

DIY Bio Marine Biolab: Marine biology DIY tools for water quality monitoring @ BAS, by Cristian Delgado http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/diy-bio-marine-biolab/ subject: Biolab

This workshop pretends to teach all the basics of marine biology, and from it how to make DIY tools to monitor and measure all the principal parameters and keep it on eye on marine water quality. This also includes made a remote made sensing networks and post it on the INTERNET so can keep a global monitoring with small and cheap tools, also how to make chemical analytics and test for contaminants, all in a in 'kitchen' approach. http://15.piksel.no/category/performances/

OHANDA ONE @ BAS, by Juergen Neumann, Tuomo Tammenpää and Julian Priest http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/ohanda-one/ subject: OHANDA

Zero emission, open hardware & open science trans-ocean research platform. Sailing in 2020. It's about the journey, not about the destination. Ohanda One will pilot a fleet of sea vessels, capable of crossing the ocean. Ohanda One is about open science, open software & hardware, open data and formats. It aims to be emission-free in the first five years of sail. On board, each individual will be a part of greater collaborative team, and besides their own topics, work together towards the sustainability goals.

Electronics for schools @ PIKSEL Studio 207, by Marco Valdivia http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/introduction-to-electronics-and-alternative-e... subject: RPN

RuidoParaNiñxs (RPN) is an open process that seeks to integrate people to the use and practice of electronic technology, from autonomous construction, with applications in music, art and everyday life. The workshop provides the development of the RPN method, a method developed based on pedagogical experiences in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia, and which is a method to introduce teachers how to apply it in schools to electronics, from scratch, through practice of the construction of basic electronic musical instruments. The method uses many metaphors to introduce concepts such as energy, polarity, voltage, amperage and the importance of Free Culture in this process.

7067 KHZ ­ it¹s not a test @ BAS by Stadtwerkstatt/Eleonore, project presented by Shu Lea Cheang, Franz Xaver http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/7067-khz-its-not-a-test/ subject: 7067KHZ

'7067 khz ­ it`s not a test' calls for daily transmission of automatically/manually generated radio signals from different stations around the world at scheduled time slots. Recalling the sputnik satellite's outer space broadcast of radio pulses in the fifties, Eleonore's 7067khz inverts the space signals to earth signals, calling for like-minded media/cultural spaces to sign on for signal sending. We do not want to specify the content of the transmission, rather we consider the act of sending the signals an act of solidarity in this post-internet future present. http://7067.stwst.at

OPEN SOURCE ESTROGEN @ BAS, by Mary Tsang, Byron Rich, Paula Pin and Gaia Leandra http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/open-source-estrogen/ subject: Estrogen

Open Source Estrogen explores the various ways that estrogen performs a molecular colonization in our society, bodies, and ecosystems. Estrogen is the most ancient of sex hormones. Therefore the mutagenic effects of environmental (xeno) estrogens disrupt species across all animal taxa, including humans. In response to our collective mutagenesis (becoming alien), the project and installation uses DIY/DIWO laboratory tools and protocols for detecting and extracting xeno-estrogens. We see these tools as a way of detecting & extracting a form of slow violence (bio-lence).

Plastic Souls @ BAS, by Geert-jan Hobijn http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/plastic-souls/ subject: PlasticSouls

Plastic Soul is an art work on the sonification of plastic waste. Beaches all over the world are buried under plastic waste. Plastic Souls: a floating musical instrument entirely made of plastic waste acquired by beachcombing. The waves of the sea act as the musician of the instrument. This tutorial teaches how to make this wave music instrument and as a free bonus how to make a plastic bottle cutter and flutes from PVC pipe.

PURE DATA Bergen Meeting @ PIKSEL Studio 207 by Servando Barreiro subject: PD-Servando http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/piksel-pd-meeting-2/ One of the things you can do with puredata is to clone the architecture of one of your favorite Synthesizers. In this practical workshop, we are going to create together different types of synthesizers that aren't possible to realize using just electronics components. Modular software blocks are going to be provided so this it¹s going to speed up the creation process.. Among this modules there are sequencers, effects and a system to synchronize computers via OSC, so we will be able to Jam together at the end of the workshop.

PIKSEL PD Meeting @ PIKSEL Studio 207 by Malte Steiner http://16.piksel.no/2016/11/24/piksel-pd-meeting/ subject: PD-Malte

Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of graphical patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. Pd is free open source software running on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows, downloadable from http://puredata.info/downloads. This workshop introduces Pure Data and gives an overview over how to install Pd and the externals to enhance the creative possibilities, basic audio synthesis, bringing in data from controllers via Midi and OSC and 3D visuals and Video with GEM.

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Open call for participants. Register by sending an email to: piksel16@piksel.no indicating the subject for each workshop.

!! All workshops are free to attend but might include a fee for components used !!

-- more info and complete festival program: http://16.piksel.no --

Piksel16 workshops is supported by Bergen Municipality, PNEK, BEK, EEA Grants, Arts Council Norway and others.