Piksel17
November 16-18 2017
Bergen, Norway

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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 free technologies.

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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 Piksel17 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.

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 Piksel17 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 Piksel17 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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!!!!!!!!!! Deadline - july 1. 2017 !!!!!!!!!!

Please use the online submit form at:
ONLINE FORM

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Piksel17 is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, PNEK and others.

more info: www.piksel.no