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 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.
Lars Gustav Midbøe is appointed new director for Atelier Nord. He has a background primarily as a co-founder for the Electrohype biannual in Sweden since 2000, together with Anne Kindvall. He will start the new job as from January 2008
Current director Atle Barcley will relocate to Grenland after six years at Atelier Nord, among many other things establishing AN as a project base for unstable media.
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.
On Friday 14th and Saturday 15th September 2007 Atelier Nord held a conference about art in the city, focusing on discourses surrounding public and private space. The conference was called The Porous City: Art claiming the urban void. It took place at Fabrikken, Nedregate 7, Oslo.
Per Platou er ansatt som ny leder for PNEK fra 1.november 2006, i 50% stilling. Han kan kontaktes på telefon 9306 9406 eller epost pnek@pnek.no. Ny postadresse er PNEK, Postboks 9334 Grønland, 0135 Oslo.
1. Nyproduksjon av verk under paraplyen INTERFACE AND SOCIETY.
Enkeltkunstnere og kunstnergrupper inviteres til å sende inn søknader for verkproduksjoner. Søknadsfrist: 16. januar 2006.
2. TANGIBLE CODE onsdag 15. - lørdag 18 februar på Atelier Nord.
Workshopen ledes av Marius Watz & Erich Berger. Gratis deltakelse. Søknadsfrist: Fredag 27. januar 2006. Send søknad med CV til sense@anart.no . Mer informasjon om begge prosjekter på Atelier Nord
Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst arrangerer workshop 23.- 27. januar kl. 11-15
Max/Msp er et utbredt grafisk programmeringsmiljø for lyd, video og interaktivitet. Kursets målsetting er å gi deltakerene nok kunnskap til at de selv kan begynne å utvikle egne applikasjoner for audio manipulasjon, komposisjon og interaktivitet. I dette kurset vil kursleder Thorolf Thuestad fokusere mulighetene Max/Msp gir som verktøy innen audio manipulasjon, i tillegg til teknikker for automasjon og komposisjon. Fasiliteter for videre arbeid utenfor kurstidene vil være tilgjengelig. Gratis deltakelse.
Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst arrangerer Piksel for 5. gang.
Piksel er en årlig begivenhet for kunstnere og utviklere som arbeider med åpen kildekode programvare for lyd og bilde, og organiseres som en kombinasjon av workshop og festival. Her utveksler deltakere fra en rekke land idéer, kode, presenterer kunst og programvareprosjekter, holder workshops, performance samt diskuterer åpen kildekodes estetikk og politikk. De foregående Piksel-events har fokusert på liveart/audiovisuell performance. Under Piksel05 vil hovedelementet være en utstilling i samarbeid med Hordaland Kunstsenter. Piksel er bl. a. støttet av PNEK.
