PNEKs årsregnskap og virksomhetsrapport for 2007 er nå tilgjengelig i pdf-format.
- Kortfattet årsrapport 2007
- Sammendrag av årsregnskapet 2007
Author Archive for PNEK
My PNEK trip to Beirut for the FIFVC experimental video festival became somehow different than what anyone had expected. It all started very nicely with a good crowd, a mix between teachers and students at the ALBA art academy in east Beirut, european curators and filmmakers, and local artists and audience. The Norwegian Embassy had sent out a press release about the topic of my lecture, and the english language paper The Daily Star even wrote an extensive preview of the whole event. I had the pleasure of presenting the first couple of programs, which was generally well received, especially the first part where I had the possibility to talk abput the works and the contexts they had originally been made and presented.
Then, after a heated roundtable discussion on the second day of the festival hell broke loose and nervous Beirut inhabitants had to rush home before the rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), machine gun firing and roadblocks of burning tyres would prevent them from getting through the city. My dutch friend and colleague Nat Muller, currently on a one-year residency in Cairo, has written this text about our war adventures in her blog at LabforCulture.org.
Since 2003 Piksel has been an annual festival for art and free software, and has developed into a major international meeting of artists and developers working on free and open source software and hardware.
For the past five years Piksel has been organized by BEK, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts. It is now decided to organize the festival as a separate and independent entity. As from May 1st 2008 Gisle Frøysland becomes director of the festival that’s currently being formally established, and from the same date he is leaving his position at BEK as director of visual arts.
During the transition BEK will continue to provide financial and organizational support for Piksel.
A new PNEK board for 2008-2009 was elected on the general assembly on March 13th.
Nils Henrik Asheim and Laura Beloff left the board, while Lars Midbøe and Trude Iversen was elected for two years.
Atle Barcley (former director for Atelier Nord) and Gunn Marit Christenson (culture entrepeneur in Grenland) has founded a new company, Ezenz. They have just launched three year project plan for technology and culture cluster developments in the Grenland region. A 28-page project description is available as a pdf here. (Norwegian only)
Notam has announced the winners of their sound art competition. 9 works will be exhibited at Høvikodden Kunstsenter in November 2008. Read more here. (Norwegian only)
As from March 1st, Notam will cut drastically in its free services towards its users, due to the sustained tight budget, according to a press release from director Jøran Rudi. From now on, Notam will focus its activities in the direction of
- more self-initiated and high-profile projects
- more commissions – music and sound art
- increased number of NOTAM-fellowships
- more production of text
- sharper focus on technical r&d
- more specialized courses and workshops
- more conferences and seminars
- increased cooperation with concert promotors.
IKT Grenland and Porsgrunn Kunstforening are organizing a two-day conference and exhibition about the possible development of a cultural infrastructure for art and new technology in and around the cities of Skien and Porsgrunn.
Atle Barcley, the former director for Atelier Nord and PNEK board who has recently relocated to the region, will present a sketch for these developments which will be presented at the conference on Feb 14 and 15.
Notam calls for contributions to a Sound art exhibition to be produced at Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter in Nov/Dec 2008. The winner of the competition will receive NOK 70.000 to produce a work for the exhibition, and a catalogue will be produced.
Deadline for submitting sketches and concepts is Jan 9, 2008.
