Code Dreams are Made of This... By M. Beatrice Fazi
This year’s Piksel festival celebrating ‘Code Dreams’ saw the boundaries between artists, audience, hardware and software blur in the collective pursuit of a machinic unconscious, as well as a highly conscious celebration of FLOSS culture. Review by M. Beatrice Fazi What does code dream? Asking this question presupposes not only machinic consciousness but, above all, agency. What are our dreams of code? Answering this involves collective propositions for cultural techniques and models of production. Piksel08 festival investigates both – in between logics of source code, quests for artistic freedom and the beautiful scenario of a cold Norwegian winter. Piksel (http://www.piksel.no ) is an annual event for practitioners and theoreticians working with free/libre and open source software [FLOSS] and hardware. Artists, developers and programmers meet annually in Bergen, Norway, to exchange opinions, bits of code, and to present their latest projects. Born in 2003 as a meeting space around the collaborative work of Gisle Froysland and Carlo Prelz on the real-time video-processing application MoB, across its six editions Piksel festival has evolved from a small workshop environment into a diverse international gathering, which includes live events, exhibitions, seminars, performances and discussions on the aesthetic and ethical implications of FLOSS culture and production. http://www.metamute.org/en/content/code_dreams_are_made_of_this _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
