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1. PikselSavers @ Pixelache Helsinki 2. PikselSavers @ the Norwegian Telecom Museum PikselSavers - screensavers that makes a difference! PikselSavers is a screening programme of short movies and software art curated by the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway. The programme was selected based on an open call for participation and includes 10 contributions from artists working in a wide range of digital media and techniques. All works are made using Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). PikselSavers take the screensaver as a point of departure and inspirational springboard. They are videos and software 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, DIY economy, shared development. PikselSavers was comissioned by and first shown at the biennial for art and technology in Trondheim, Meta.Morf 2010 - New.Brave.World!, arranged by TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre. More info: http://www.piksel.no/pulse/pikselsavers -- PIKSELSAVERS @ PIXELACHE HELSINKI ------------------------------------ PikselSavers is presented as a part of Camp Pixelache 2011 on the island Suomenlinna outside Helsinki on saturday 12.03 12-18 and sunday 13.03 14-18. PIXELACHE: http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/ CAMP PIXELACHE: http://wiki.pixelache.ac/camp11/home -- PIKSELSAVERS @ THE NORWEGIAN TELECOM MUSEUM ---------------------------------------------- PikselSavers will open at The Norwegian Telecom Museum as a part of the nightopen museum event SENT on thursday 17.03 at 19:00. ------------------------------- OUTRO STREAM: FREE AS IN ART! ------------------------------- Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, 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 FLOSS & art. --------------------------------------------------------------- BLOG www.piksel.no TECH www.piksel.org WIKI www.piksel.no/pwiki IRC #piksel (irc.freenode.net) LIST www.piksel.no/pwiki/MailingLists ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
