[spectre] Open Call: PIKSEL16 :: ZERO-Level -- deadline June 30!!

[Piksel Infobot]

Piksel16
November 24-27 2016
Bergen, Norway

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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working
with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. It
is organized 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, free culture & art.

Piksel16, ZERO-level, wants to focus on the biological and social
aspects of the sea as a sustainable environment. Zero in the meaning
of: zero-emissions, zerofootprints, zero-waste, zero-energy,
zero-pollution, zero-plastic, zero-trash. Also Zero encourages
bioefficiency, bioecology, marine inheritance, sustainable maritim
transport, sea communication, civil society, water as a playground, and
civil engagement.

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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 Piksel16 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 Piksel16
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 Piksel16 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 - june 30. 2016 !!!!!!!!!!

Please use the online submit form at:
https://piksel.no/ocs

or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online
documentation with images/video to piksel16 (AT) piksel.no

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Piksel16 is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council
Norway, PNEK and others.

more info: www.piksel.no