http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ en gissnetwork@gmail.com gissnetwork@gmail.com 1088 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/Pik19_aleAudio-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 26-11-2009 Performance Realtime audiovisual performance by Tonagel, Faubel and Schreiber. 3 persons, 3 overhead projectors, 3 screens and 3 sound systems. A triptichon that displays magnified, filtered distorted images of what happens on the screens/fresnel lenses of the projectors. What you see and hear is a live experiment and improvisation with small electro-kinetic devices and machines arranged on the overhead projectors. Using rotating invented instruments, autonomous solar robots, solar synths and motors, instruments which are not playable in a controlled way, the performes are forced to improvise with the instabilities of the system. Ralf Schreiber (DE), Tina Tonagel (DE), Christian Faubel (DE) 1393 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/Pik19_aleAudio.jpg 47 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucía Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1087 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/1890006918Lydengareriet-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 26-11-2009 Exhibition Health & Safety Violation #14 – Randomly Activated Tripwire Proposal. Ben Woodeson pikseexpoBW1 pikseexpoBW3 pikseexpoBW2 What level of perceived risk are individual viewers and institutions comfortable (or uncomfortable) with? The works are challenging with some level of risk (but not dangerous), as in “Health & Safety Violation #8 – Randomly Activated Tripwires”. In this work, the steel trip wires randomly rise and fall, and their movement unsettle the viewers, effectively moving down a corridor filled with blatant trip hazards. http://www.woodeson.co.uk intrinsic Angie Atmadjaja pikseexpoAA1 pikseexpoAA2 Intrinsic is an audio and light installation that explores minimal sound and audio. Dimensions of the space govern the configuration of the installation. The frequencies of the sine waves correlate to the dimensions of the space and create room modes. A series of light tubes are hung from the ceiling. As viewers enter the pitch-dark room, their eyes begin to slowly adjust to the shifting white light intensities that seem to be hovering in the space. Their ears perceive changing loudness of different electronic sound materials resulting from the way they navigate through the space. http://www.angieatmadjaja.com/Piksel09.shtml The serv seq gijs gieskes pikseexpoGG1 pikseexpoGG2 pikseexpoGG3 The serv seq, is a servo based sequencer. it has 3 arms with line detectors that can play sound from a frequency circle. The arms can be sequenced with the three buttons on the controller, in combination with the joystick.. If the joystick is moved up, the volume will go up for the arm that is being controlled. Moving the joystick left and right will change the position of the arm. On the tip of the arm there is a line detector, that plays back the frequencys, but the arms can also hit objects placed next to the circle to make drum sounds. Musica Vista 1.0 Carlos Tricas pikseexpoCT1 pikseexpoCT2 pikseexpoCT3 The installation Musica Vista 1.0 works with augmented physical parameters. The pieces on the projection area are seen, and the information of situation and type is translated into music and animations. Is a simplification of Augmented Reality. Normally the public play with objects and add some personal objects too. It’s the moment when the art became and grows… and all involved in a retro computer graphics ambient. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwoKXuMjPPs augen-auf-schlag Wolfgang Spahn, Thomas Gerwin augen-auf-schlag (strike-the-eyes) pikseexpoWSTG1 pikseexpoWSTG2 pikseexpoWSTG3 This interactive sound-and-light-installation is considered as an instrument to generate and play sounds and liquid colors. If someone hits one of the sound pads in the installation, the liquids in the projectors will react. There is a pane of glass hanging covered by a round projection screen. On that screen the three monochrome colors are projected to create one full color projection. A sound environment defines the space imagination around the installation. The variety of sounds offered on a drum pad point to different musical genres. In this way it’s possible to create a great spectrum of sound world associations, and to enable an original audiovisual creation of colored music. Taiknam hat Ricardo Oliveira Nascimento, Ebru Kurbak, Fabiana Shizue pikseexpoRNEKFS1 pikseexpoRNEKFS2 pikseexpoRNEKFS3 Taiknam Hat is a kinetic head-wear that reacts and animates in accordance with the changes in its surrounding radio frequencies. The intention of the project is to materialize the invisible and to contribute to the awareness of the increasing electromagnetic radiation. Taiknam Hat is an attempt to materialize a new form of pollution; the electrosmog. Taiknam Hat utilizes the biological fact of horripilation in birds as a metaphor to express our bodies’ irritation towards electromagnetic radiation as well as to create a visual and tactile signage of their existence for other people. The headwear employs a number of movable actual feathers. These feathers become activated and move according to the existence and amount of radio frequencies at a certain location while the person who wears the hat strolls through space. http://www.taiknamhat.net Generative Audio Prototypes Dream Addictive, Carmen González, Leslie García pikseexpoDACGLG2 pikseexpoDACGLG1 pikseexpoDACGLG3 Generative Audio Prototypes is a series of sound generative sculptures, the design is produced from the organization of electronic elements, in order to create a series of objects that simulate biological structures, showing at the same time their clear artificial nature. The project is based on Arduino and Pure Data as controllers and processors to produce audio. The piece uses physical computing techniques, where a spectator is essential to produce an interactive exchange. The piece receives what it needs, the proximity of an object or person. An unexpected response of pure digital generative sounds is given in exchange. G.A.P. shows two adapting processes. First, the form of its physical aesthetics, an artificial structure that simulates a form of nature. And then the adapting of analogous sound from a digital source. http://dalab.ws/generative-audio-prototypes/ http://dalab.ws/gap-no2/ Tribo Pænix Arnfinn Killingtveit pikseexpoAK1 pikseexpoAK2 pikseexpoAK3 T.P is an instrument, a sculpture and an installation. It is constructed through a peculiar combination of ancient and modern music technology, both visually and phonetically. As an installation T.P acts as an independent organism, that is coloring the sound and giving the sculpture its own life. Microphones are placed in the vicinity of the T.P, that picks up surrounding sounds and uses these audio sources in addition to the synthesized sounds produced by the instrument itself. The soundscapes presented by the sculpture might be perceived as random, although there is nothing accidental in the system’s back end. piksel09 piksel, bergen, 1231 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/1890006918Lydengareriet.jpg 13 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucìa Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1086 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/Galleriet314-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 25-11-2009 Exhibition Battle David Elliott Two machines take turns trying to guess each others next guess. pikseexpoDE1 pikseexpoDE2 pikseexpoDE3 Each box is equipped with a matrix of 16 A/C light bulbs that are used as a display. Inside each box there is a micro controller that’s able to control each light bulb discretely and communicate with the other box over serial connection. The two microcontrollers are guessing the future state of the other machine. The game consists of the machines taking turns creating and displaying sequences of patterns. When one of the boxes constructs a sequence that is identical to the input sequence, that box has lost the game. At that point it will flash it’s columns from left to right and then construct a completely random sequence to start the game over. The box that won never knows that it won, it continues with the game as if it never ended. http://hadto.net/category/projects/battle Flick Flock Wendy Ann Mansilla, Jordi Puig pikseexpoWMJP pikseexpoWMJP3 pikseexpoWMJP2 Flick Flock defines the meaning of the body and its linkage to the continuous transformation of the urban place. It is reflecting the interconnections of bodies and space, and recreates the digital urban space we are living in to allow us to experience the role of the physical body. Interacting with Flick Flock: As soon as the body starts to move in the space, changes in the urban place take place. There are different potential changes that may take place: (1) User is moving freely triggers the camera movement/panning and the lighting or changes of scene in the virtual environment. Within the flickering bubbles displayed in the sky, video captures of previous interactions from different people or the current user him/herself are displayed. These video captures try to play as much similar or opposed movement as possible from the pool of captured video. The panning of the sound is also influenced by the movement of the body. TL-Display Paul Klotz pikseexpoPK1 pikseexpoPK2 pikseexpoPK3 TL-Display is a low res. display made of HF-tubes. The 1.0 version of the installation is randomly switching the lights of the seven segment digits on and off generating a meditative sound caused by the characteristics of the tubes. The installation is referring to encrypted data streams and the patterns involved. Can one retrieve a message? capacitive body Andreas Muxel, Martin Hesselmeier pikseexpoAMMH1 pikseexpoAMMH2 pikseexpoAMMH3 The installation “capacitive body” is a modular light system that reacts to the sound of its environment. The sensors are used to measure vibrations of architectural solids in a range of low frequencies. These oscillations are triggered by surrounding ambient noise, for example traffic noise. The sensor data controls the light wires, which are tensed to a spatial net structure. According to the values of the measurement light flashes are generated. A dynamic light space is thereby created, which creates a visual feedback of the aural activity around the installation. url: http://www.martinhesselmeier.com/000/index.php?aid=78 Reality Checking Device Susanna Katharina Hertrich Information machine for anxious times pikseexpoSH1 pikseexpoSH2 pikseexpoSH3 What should we fear – terrorist attacks or bird flu? Are we more likely to die a slow death of cancer or a quick death on the motorway? The Reality Checking Device is a poetic information machine that stands in the tradition of the ancient Greek oracle. It confronts people with their own self and their personal anxieties. The Reality Checking Device is a tangible information graphic that reveals the relationship between public outrage and actual danger in common risk scenarios. The latest fear stories and popular danger situations are directly opposed to statistical data. The Reality Checking Device is a made for a society in which anxieties have become a lifestyle choice. http://www.susannahertrich.com/html/realitychecking.html void extension Marie-Julie Bourgeois pikseexpoviod1 pikseexpoviod3 pikseexpoviod2 VOID EXTENSION offers an extension of our own vision through CCTV video cameras that let us see anyone, anywhere, anytime. Hidden in corners of urban landscape, they patiently wait for a presence. This installation is about the proliferation of those cameras watching (over) us. Supervision is a symbol of contemporary psychosis. The project’s goal is to make the visitor feel observed by a CCTV video camera which is actually not physically present. As if the function of the object is more important than the object itself. The camera’s shadow’s the only evidence of its presence. This work confronts the problem of ambient paranoia, of the fear that takes over the individual vis à vis the society. http://mariejuliebourgeois.blogspot.com/2009/05/extension-du-vide-expose-au-pavillon-de.html Unanchored Michael Day pikseexpounanchored pikseexpounanchored2 pikseexpounanchored3 The shipping forecast is a radio broadcast by the BBC providing a vital set of data about sea conditions in the waters around the UK. To the non-maritime listener, the language used in it is poetic and obscure, often in short, strange sounding but highly structured statements. The broadcasts carry a strong feeling of tradition. Using the text of the most up-to-date shipping forecast, the piece transcribes the forecast into Morse code, and then using a blinking light, transmits the forecast into the land-locked gallery space. _oneliner Arjan Scherpenisse pikseexpoAS1 pikseexpoAS2 pikseexpoAS3 Platform for massive, character-based communication using VGA monitors. _oneliner is a self-reflexive installation consisting of a long line of interconnected VGA monitors, 24 in total. The texts appearing on the monitors gives an insight into the software that is driving the installation. Texts appear, fragments of code, sometimes with personal comments of the maker. Viewing the installation, the spectator develops an intuitive understanding for the subjective way in which technology is created: doubts, improvisation, sudden insights and moments of doubt are displayed through the choreography and poetical contents of the texts. This way, technology becomes a human activity. http://www.scherpenisse.net/_oneliner/ lydgalleriet piksel09 piksel, bergen, art 1114 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/Galleriet314.jpg 9 recorded by Terje Urnes. Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1085 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_06-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 25-11-2009 Performance Andy Bolus ( a.k.a. Evil Moisture) makes modified electronic toys, rewiring circuits such as those found inside children’s talking computers and other electronic detritus, using the aleatoric sounds generated as source material for hi-speed cutup sound, as well as making installations. He has performed extensively in Japan and Europe under the name Evil Moisture since 1991, as well as releasing dozens of cassettes, 4 vinyl LPs, several cds and cdrs on numerous noise labels. Andy Bolus (FR) 732 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_06.jpg 46 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucìa Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1084 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_01-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 25-11-2009 Performance ((noish~)) is a sound art project from Oscar Martin. It’s an experimental sound work placed somewhere between Musique concrète and postdigital error aesthetics. The daily routine and surroundings are the base material that’s mutated and deconstructed through the possibilities of digital code and sometimes glitches and errors, generating new units of sensation, which is used to build autonomous sound universes. oscar martin correa (ES) puredata, linux, piksel 1177 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_01.jpg 17 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1083 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_07_mattin-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 25-11-2009 Performance Mattin is a Basque artist working mostly with Noise and Improvisation. Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software and intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost and Rosy Parlane. He has over 50 releases in different labels around the world. He runs the experimental record labels w.m.o/r and Free Software Series, and the netlabel Desetxea. Mattin publishes his music under the no-licence of Anti-copyright. Other projects include; Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra, NMM, Billy Bao, La Grieta and Josetxo Grieta. Mattin linux, piksel, noise, sound 3244 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_07_mattin.jpg 37 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1078 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_07-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 23-11-2009 Performance NoiseTEK battle by harsh noise & punk giants JULIEN OTTAVI & RYAN JORDAN. Hercules fight of decibels. Seismic punch in your face Loud & dirty! Julien Ottavi (FR), Ryan Jordan(UK) linux, sound, piksel, apodio33 1232 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_07.jpg 49 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1077 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_04-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 23-11-2009 Performance [i/o] presents a connected organic environment, where sound is generated by filmic transformations and visual projections are in turn influenced by audio events. [i/o] offers an innovative approach to the manipulation of realtime media through the adoption of gestural and tactile interfaces, which each performer utilizes as both a method of control and also as a means of creation. [i/o] is focused on a seamless exploration of crossovers between warm analogue textures and sharp digital crispness, with regard to both the sensory output it conveys and the mechanisms of its construction. Karen Curley (NZ), Servando Barreiro (ES) 1565 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_04.jpg 42 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1076 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/593213145piksel22_02-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 23-11-2009 Performance A 30 minute participatory set using custom designed synthesizers called Drone Labs played by Peter Edwards and other participants in the festival. The Drone Lab is a 4 voice analog drone synth, rhythm generator and FX processor. It is capable of generating rich, textured soundscapes, hypnotic drones and complex rhythmic sequences. It features a series of filter and distortions circuits as well as an audio input jack. This allows it to be used as an effects processor for external audio signals. It is possible to combine several Drone Labs together to create a rich, unified voice. Peter has invited other Piksel participants to control a voice of a greater drone and perform a group piece. Peter Edwards (US) piksel, circuit bending 1448 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/593213145piksel22_02.jpg 30 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1075 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_03-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Performance The final form of Mouth(s)’ lecture(s) is a video performance inspired by Rumanian poet Ghérasim Luca ‘s poetry. It is based on the development and spatial setup of two visual objects : the DIOPTRIC STUDIO development with Pure Data, Gem and Reactivision and the INKS TABLE, that will produce visual forms. This performance first translates visually a choice of poems, then escapes from the writing to focus on images. Patrick Fontana (FR), Pierre-Yves Fave (FR), Aelters (FR) piksel, poetry, puredata, Gem, reactivision, INKS TABLE 2349 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_03.jpg 68 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1074 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_04.ogg20092211-162229-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Presentation Multi-Touch 360 project is centered around building a hemispherical multi-touch display for interactive art installations. It was initiated by Thorsten Blum and later on joined by Johann Korndörfer. The hardware for Multi-Touch 360 is ready, and the system can detect touches. The project team is currently working on a Python implementation for the visualization. Thorsten Blum (DE) piksel, python 2057 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_04.ogg20092211-162229.jpg 13 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1073 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/chaos-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Workshop CHAOSLAB (HAKART) random evolution & aperiodic bifurcation workshop in Piksel APO33: Julien Ottavi (FR), Jenny Pickett (FR), Dominique Leroy (FR), Julien Poidevin (FR), Ryan Jordan (UK) Chaotic systems & indeterminacy. Chaoslab creates sensitive dependence on initial conditions, devices and inputs by having evolution through phase space (installation/workshop within a place) that appears to be quite random. Our Chaotic models seem to be deployed to ascertain various kinds of activities related to bifurcation points (uncontrolled steps of evolution within the workshop), period doubling sequences (or should we said multiple sequences), the onset of chaotic dynamics proposed by the participants, the strange attractors between sources, filters, amplifications, connections and other denizens of the chaos zoo of hacked behaviors. MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/158 URL: http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/en/doku.php?id=workshops#chaoslab_workshop APO33: Julien Ottavi (FR), Jenny Pickett (FR), Dominique Leroy (FR), Julien Poidevin (FR), Ryan Jordan (UK) chaoslab, installation, workshop, chaos, apo33 2559 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/chaos.jpg 45 recorded by Terje Urnes Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1072 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_03.ogg20092211-155301-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Presentation APODIO : A GNU/LINUX MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION FOR EVERYONE! (Pixelache software of the year) Julien Ottavi (FR) APODIO is a 6 years old GNU/Linux distribution, dedicated to multimedia tools for audiovisual creation, to run your own radio, TV, make your own film, animation, art installation, Live Coding and other A/V performance. APODIO is a GNU/Linux platform containing audio, text-friendly, 3D,Streaming, graphic, Live Coding and video tools. It can be used as a liveDVD or be installed on a partition of your hard disk. APODIO is a GNU/GPL project, a part of the GNU/Linux Ubuntu family. URL: http://www.apodio.org Julien Ottavi (FR) linux, audiovisual, art, A/V 1743 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_03.ogg20092211-155301.jpg 12 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1071 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_02.ogg20092211-151409-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Presentation Py-Cessing Brendan Howell Python is a programming language that is powerful, fun and easy to learn. Py-cessing is a free software system that lets you create interactive audio-visual applications by programming them in Python. As the name implies, it is very much inspired by Processing. The current system provides easy routines for vector drawing/animation, image processing, audio playback, typography and live input from mouse, keyboard and joystick. Py-cessing runs on Linux, OSX, and MS-Windows. Everyone is invited, from beginners to Python masters…. PDF: https://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/viewFile/179/33 Brendan Howell processing, python, linux 1842 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_02.ogg20092211-151409.jpg 17 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1070 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_01.ogg20092211-144110-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Presentation Respirator presentation Bjørnar Habbestad (NO), Jeff Carey (US), Roar Sletteland (NO) The RESPIRATOR is an electroacoustic performance environment based on custom hardware and software. The project includes the development of a custom built audio mixer, extensive use of HID sensors and controllers, novel synthesis and processing techniques as well as the development of a large scale SC environment for handling multi modal mapping of synthesis, control data and signal processing. The presentation will focus on the collaborative process and the fundamental ideas of instrument development and the need for modality of control data. Bjørnar Habbestad (NO), Jeff Carey (US), Roar Sletteland (NO) respirator, music, electroacustic, linux, piksel 1832 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/piksel22_01.ogg20092211-144110.jpg 5 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1069 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_04-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Performance audiovisual performance utilising minimal electronics, sound/noise, and strobe lights. Loud bangs, cracks, snaps and static noises are controlled by the varying rates of three strobe lights. The noise and flashing lights increase in intensity and speed until noticeable rhythms and patterns emerge, reminiscent of hallucinatory techno and rave experiences. Ryan James Jordan (UK) piksel, sound, noise 1549 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_04.jpg 19 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1068 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_03-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Performance A livecoding showdown – improvisation as physical interation with structure generators, two boxers are having an infight between themselves and the computer. Uppercuts and punches are the means to write software that can only defend itself with music. Artistic creativity and decisionmaking is done simultaneously in embodied and disembodied ways. At the end of the day we’ll see what will remain… IOhannes M Zmölnig (AT), Georg Richard Holzmann (AT), Michael Reinhard Pinter (NL) piksel, pure data, wiimote 1639 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_03.jpg 16 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1067 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_02-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Performance The RESPIRATOR is an electroacoustic performance environment based on custom hardware and software.The project includes the development of a custom built audio mixer, extensive use of HID sensors and controllers,novel synthesis and processing techniques as well as the development of a large scale SC environment for handling multi modal mapping of synthesis, contro data and signal processing. Bjørnar Habbestad (NO) / Jeff Carey (US) piksel, HID 1165 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_02.jpg 6 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1066 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_05-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 22-11-2009 Performance MSST (Movimento dos Sem Satélite), an audiovisual performance based on local and remote particpants interacting through hardware structures and virtual interfaces. “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. E. W. Dijkstra” Hardware from scratch, live coding, biofeedback, reclaiming the streets, history of free software culture in a performance… Glerm Soares (BR), Luca Carrubba (BR), Ricardo Brazileiro (BR), Carlos Henrique Paulino (BR), Oscar Martin (ES), Cristiano Severo Figueiró (BR), Simone Bittencourt Azevedo (BR), Jean Marcell Habib (BR), Felipe Machado (BR), Anderson Goulart (BR), Ricardo pure data, glerm, live coding, hardware, 1345 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/21_05.jpg 37 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1064 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pre1903.ogg20091911-Richard2-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 21-11-2009 Presentation Inspired by previous Piksel festivals, Dipl.Ing. of Computer Science, Richard Spindler, will talk about his practical experiments from the last year in respect to programming the brain – your own and other people’s. He will offer advice and tricks on how to tune out of the world that surrounds us and how to train yourself to rely on your natural instincts in a controlled and technocratic world. This talk will be surprising, entertaining and completely crazy. Have fun. Richard Spindler 2943 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pre1903.ogg20091911-Richard2.jpg 25 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1063 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pre1904.ogg20091911-Ele-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 21-11-2009 Presentation Virtual Entity is a philosophical research project based in the assumption that current concepts of authenticity, ownership, uniqueness and seriality are, within the digital domain, no longer valid if not redefined. The practical outcome of the research is a software program specially developed to release, license, and catalogue digital files. Digital resources are interpreted as cultural units, and considered the main actors of the web. And any file is a virtual entity with an independent existence within the system. Eleonora Oreggia piksel 2503 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pre1904.ogg20091911-Ele.jpg 12 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1060 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_02-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 21-11-2009 Performance Colour Projections (2009, 20 – 35 mins) is a computer-based audio and video work creating precise relationships between sound and geometry. Through a progression of a geometric systems, rules are established and shapes are created, intersected, combined and destroyed. Each resulting shape is both drawn and sonified – a shape’s outline is directly transformed to an audio waveform. Colour Projections linux, audio, 1725 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_02.jpg 18 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1059 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_01-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 21-11-2009 Performance Tales, Alexandre Quessy uses paper advertising found within the last 24 hours in a collage animation. He uses narrative structures taken from popular tales but playing against interpretative habits. This kind of appropriation art as a collage reminds of the technique of some Dadaist and situationist artists. Advertising and mass media show a fake reality and masks the degradation of human life, promoting consumerism, hence protecting capitalism. URL: http://alexandre.quessy.net Alexandre Quessy (CA) linux, 1136 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_01.jpg 11 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1058 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_BaileNit-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 20-11-2009 Performance “Action Potential” is a new media/dance work exploring the physiological and sonic difference between volitional and non-volitional movement. Previous Torino:Margolis work used wireless transmission to co-opt a person’s free will, allowing a participant to take control of the performer’s body via toy radio controls. In “Action Potential”, we extract the performer’s free will and transform it into sound. We do this though Electromyography (EMG), a method of sensing electrical potentials generated during voluntary action. During the performance, we use electromyography to capture a dancer’s actions, and a wireless radio interface is used to transmit the information to software for audio processing. A second dancer physically manipulates the connected dancer, such that the physiological difference between volitional and non-volitional movement is illustrated through sound and silence. In this way, “Action Potential” seeks to exemplify the dancer’s free will. Jenny A Torino (US), Benjamin A Margolis (US), Lee Azzarello (US) linux 1301 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_BaileNit.jpg 51 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1057 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_03.ogg20092011-153327-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 20-11-2009 Presentation Noise & Capitalism/Free Software Series Mattin Mattin (ES) Mattin is an established noise artist and writer of texts on improvisation, free software and intellectual property. He runs the experimental record labels w.m.o/r and Free Software Series, and the netlabel Desetxea. Mattin will present his latest book project: Noise and Capitalism – where several writers and artists have contributed to give an analysis of the impact of capitalism on our subjective minds and daily practise. It further wish to explore to what extent noise and improvisation as practises can challenge the unconscious doctrination of capitalism and make us able to reappropriate our senses. PDF: http://www.arteleku.net/audiolab/noise_capitalism.pdf Mattin Mattin politics, noise, book, theory, piksel 2542 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_03.ogg20092011-153327.jpg 23 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1055 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/991951285pik20_02.ogg20092011-150413-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 20-11-2009 Presentation Milkymist, an open hardware VJ platform Sébastien Bourdeauducq (FR) The Milkymist’ project develops a stand-alone device in a small form factor that is capable of rendering MilkDrop-esque visuals effects in real time, with a high level of interaction with many sensors and using live audio or video streams as a base. Open source components and design tools have been developed or used as much as possible. The design is also highly modular and documented, making the code easy to re-use in other open source system-on-chips. The presentation focuses on the technical aspects of the project. Live demonstration included ! URL: http://www.milkymist.org Sébastien Bourdeauducq vj, piksel, open hardware, video, milkymist 1750 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/991951285pik20_02.ogg20092011-150413.jpg 16 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1054 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_01.oggSteiner20092011-143503-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 20-11-2009 Presentation Re-ware Hans-Christoph Steiner, Marius Schebella, Chris ‘the Widget’ DiMauro pikselinforeware pikselinfoHCS2We are surrounded by gadgets, from iPods to phones to PDAs. These little black boxes are in fact full-fledged computers and are eminently hackable. Yet all of these devices are built around one assumption: someone else creates, you consume. On top of that, we discard these devices at an alarming rate. By creating new possibilities for these devices, the Re-ware project will stem the tide of electronic waste, and in the process, make open, democratic, and sustainable gadgets. Thanks to hardcore hackers, you can run Linux-based open source software on many of them, giving you the ability to transform old consumer devices into true read/write digital tools. URL: http://re-ware.org Hans-Christoph Steiner, Marius Schebella, Chris ‘the Widget’ DiMauro piksel, gadgets, ipod, pda, re-ware 1747 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik20_01.oggSteiner20092011-143503.jpg 11 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1053 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_07-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 20-11-2009 Performance DC12V is the table‐format predication of the elektrolivecircus practice. The sounds are produced exclusively by using analogical instruments; broadcasts of movements, percussions, rubbings, and electromagnetic fields of various commonly used machines. On the one hand, the physical active object is the real protagonist; but on the other hand the sound amplification and the enlargement and multiplication of shades and video make it become an obsessive exaltation of the minuteness, where the movement turns out to be the fundamental action and the expressive necessity. Emanuele Martina (IT) / Massimiliano Nazzi (IT) - linux 1101 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_07.jpg 30 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1052 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_06-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 19-11-2009 Performance Diego de León Noise Invaders Using found objects and found sounds, in opposition to “single use” and “disposable” culture and the obsolescence business, Diego de Leon proposes a noisy travel based on sound recycling and handcraft tech. A realtime jam where the musician do what his own machines are suggesting. “If they sell you trash you better take it from the garbage for free” URL: http://diegoeldeleon.blogspot.com piksel09 circuit bending, noise, sound, recycling, live event, piksel09 1454 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_06.jpg 50 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Engaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora 1050 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_01-ol.ogg http://giss.tv/dmmdb/ piksel09 19-11-2009 Presentation Gisle Fr0ysland (Piksel director) presentation at Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark piksel09 piksel, presentation, live events 623 http://giss.tv/dmmdb//contents/pik19_01.jpg 16 Live Stream and Documentation: Valentina Messeri, Lucia Egaña Rojas, Terje Urnes and Jonas Skarmark & Martin Woll Godal (sound). Giss based system 100% freesoftware. theora