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PIKSEL (No) Festival

From the 23rd to the 25th of November, the city of Bergen hosts the Piksel (no) festival and includes in the program the results of the EFFEA residency from the artists Flor de Fuego and Blaz Pavlica as the closure of the program. Piksel KidZ will have a new edition focused on live coding programing for young people.

Press contact:
Press info enquiries: press@piksel.no / Ina Knutsen Glosli, formidlervarlig ina@piksel.no
Phone: +4741437192

Full program November 23rd-25th

(No) Opening
Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:30 – 23:00h

18:30 DJ Anders G.

21:00 Piksel (no) Festival project presentations

• IDLE presentation: “Discovery artists” EFEEA residency artists Flor de Fuego and Blaz Plavlika who have developed an unique visual instrument for the Web Virtual Reality (WebVR) environment IDLE using the live coding frame Hydra.

• Presentation of the exhibition “A knock from below heard at the bottom” from Polina Medvedeva and the artistic director Julie Lillelien Porter from Lydgalleriet.

22:00 Open Studio207 • Open decks • Open beamer
Showcase of Free/Libre & Open Source New Media/ DIY/OSHW / Electronic Art


(No) Closing Evening
Saturday 25 November 2023 21:00 – 23:00
IDLE Performance, Flor de Fuego (AR/DE) and Blaž Pavlica (SL)
Inkluderende Digitalt Laboratorium for Eksperimentell Kunst (IDLE)
Studio 207 (Strandgaten 207) & @Piksel Cyber Salon

Nov 28th – Dec 1st
PIKSEL KIDZ Lab: Creating Visual effects with Code – LIVE Coding!
Studio 207 (Strandgaten 207)
Please register: piksel23@piksel.no


Festival Website: https://no.piksel.no/
For live information & updates, please join the official Piksel Festival Telegram channel:
t.me/piksel23

About Piksel
Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Founded in 2003, 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 Art and Free Technologies.

Piksel is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Vestland fylkeskommune and European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA. Piksel (no) festival collaborates with Lydgalleriet, the Center of Digital Narrative (UiB), APO33, Adela International Emergent Arts Festival, Electropixel and Internationales Digitalkunst Festival.