Published by PNEK May 15, 2008
in Current projects, Excursions, Festivaler, Important, News, PNEK reports, Uncategorized, events, international relations, networking and presentations.
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.
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)
Article is a nordic biannual exhibition for unstable and electronic artforms.
i/o/lab together with co-curator Jens Hauser hereby invite you to submit proposals for artistic work and conference talks to be included in Article 2008.
We are interested in Nordic productions from areas including but not limited to:
* art making use of living material or oil material
* works addressing ecology/biology
* work for mobile devices
* concepts for broadcast television or podcasting
* installations for public spaces
* public actions
* social events
We are primarily interested in completed productions but will give equal merit to incomplete/suggested work and proposals in the evaluation of applications.
Article wishes to present work which is either site- or context-specific, work which explores and exploits the potential for artistic expression in everyday surroundings and objects. Please note that Article operates without a gallery space, and presents the selected art projects on public spaces selected in collaboration with the artist.
The artist/group we invite will receive artists fees.
Article will be launched 15.-30.November 2008
Deadline for submissions: Jan 1, 2008.
More info at the Article website or contact i/o/lab by mail at iolab@iolab.no.
Per Platou wrote a report from this years’ Ars Electronica in Linz published at Kunstkritikk. (NB: Norwegian only, sorry)
PNEK invites its members to take field trip to Ars Electronica in Linz.
Published by PNEK September 10, 2005
in Atelier Nord, BEK, Calls, Digital Narratives, Festivaler, PNEK news, Piksel, Seminar, TEKS, Trondheim Matchmaking and workshops.
Denne høsten byr på et tett program:
Digitale fortellinger er nå lansert på www.nrk.no/ulyd.
16. - 23. oktober arrangerer henholdsvis TEKS og BEK Trondheim Matchmaking og Piksel - to internasjonale festivaler som drar veksler fra hverandre. Ultimafestivalen inkluderer workshop med den Japanske elektronikaartisten MIWA med påfølgende konsert på BLÅ mandag 10. oktober, og Making Sense workshop arrangeres for 8. gang på Atelier nord 16. - 19. november. PNEK gleder seg over den høye aktiviteten!
Trondheim Matchmaking, workshop: Envisioning new situations Kunstnere fra ulike fagfelt møtes for å diskutere og produsere nye ideer i skjæringspunktet mellom kunst og ny teknologi 17. -20. oktober. Workshopen blir ledet av Rob van Kranenburg (Amsterdam)– co-direktør ved Virtual Platform, Nederlands nettverksorganisasjon for elektronisk kunst. Med seg har han Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (Helsinki) og Alan Munro (Glasgow/Trondheim). Workshopen blir arrangert i samarbeid med Trondheim Dialog. Kontakt: trine@teks.no
MAKING SENSE VIII: Call for workshop participation “Tangible Dreams” Onsdag 16. - lørdag 19. november 2005 på Atelier Nord, Oslo, med Erich Berger og Peter Votava http://randomseed.org Gratis deltakelse. Søknadsfrist m/ motivasjon og kort CV innen 28. oktober til sense@anart.no For mer informasjon: http://anart.no/?location=90
Ultimafestivalen (30. sep. - 16. okt): MIWA workshop på NOTAM og konsert på BLÅ 10. oktober! Under årets Ultimafestival vil den japanske komponisten MIWA holde et tredagers verksted på NOTAM (7.-9. okt) med påfølgende konsert på BLÅ mandag den 10. oktober kl 21:00. Opplev også Norske ledd, installasjon av Jørgen Larsson på Stenersenmuseet.
