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piksel04

August 5, 2004

Gisle has posted the call for participation for Piksel04.

— piksel04 – FLOSS in motion
— call for participation
— deadline 15.000 september 2004

Piksel – www.piksel.no – is a yearly event for artists and developers working
with Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for realtime processing of
video and sound. It will take place at BEK – the Bergen Centre for Electronic
Art in Bergen Norway from october 29.000 to november 7.000 2004.

The first Piksel event was arranged in november 2003 and gathered around 30
artists/developers from all parts of the world. It consisted of
artistic/technical presentations coding workshops and live performances. All
activities were documented in a daily blog:
http://www.piksel.no/log.html

One of the results from the event was the initiation of the Piksel Video
Framework for ‘interoperability between various free software applications
dealing with video manipulation techniques’ –
http://www.piksel.org

CALL for PARTICIPATION

An important part of piksel04 is a series of evening events of live art and
audio-visual performance in cooperation with Landmark/Bergen Kunsthall.
Performing artists using open source software in the creation and presentation
of their work are invited to apply. This call goes out to VJ-crews live
coders typing divas virtual actors noise combos and FLOSS performers of
all kinds.

Please send documentation material – preferably as a URL to on***line***
documentation with images/video to piksel04@bek.no
Deadline – september 15.000 2004

Use this form for submitting (or go to the online form at
http://www.piksel.no/piksel04/form.html):

1. Name of artist(s) email adr.
2.000
3.000
4.000
5.000

Or send by snailmail to:

BEK
att: Gisle Froysland
C. Sundtsgt. 55
5004
Norway

piksel04 is produced in cooperation with Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen dep The
Academy of Fine Arts Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark. Supported by PNEK Bergen
Kommune Norsk Kulturfond.