PIKSEL Festival 2022

Afroditi Psarra is a transdisciplinary artist and an Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington. She holds a PhD in Image, Technology, and Design from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research focuses on the art and science interaction with a critical discourse in the creation of artifacts. Her practice builds on and extends the work of Cyber and Techno-Feminism(s) and the idea of female (and feminized) bodies as matrices of information. Her work has been presented at international media art festivals such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM, Eyeo, Piksel, and WRO Biennale between others, venues like Bozar, Onassis Stegi, EMST (Greek Museum of Contemporary Art), Walker Art Center, and published at conferences like Siggraph, ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), C&C (Creativity and Cognition), and EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts).

https://rladies.org/chile-rladies/name/alejandra-tapia/

Alexandros Drymonitis is a sound and new media artist. He is a PhD candidate at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire doing research on the creation of musical works with the programming language Python. His artistic practice focuses on new techniques utilizing new media such as computer programming, AI, or even older practices, like modular synthesis.

He has collaborated with various artists from different art disciplines, plus several ensembles, either interdisciplinary or music ensembles.

He has taught the guitar at the Music School of Amsterdam and ‘Philippos Nakas’ Conservatory in Athens, and electronic music programming at ‘Musical Praxis’ Conservatory in Athens. He is currently a freelancer in the field of electronic music and multimedia programming, teaching several workshops in various venues and undertaking multimedia programming in various events.

Artist, cultural manager. His work is developed in a transdisciplinary way between art and technology, exploring various narratives. His research projects articulate the relationship between sound, territory and various technologies, through the exploration of speculative and futurological methodologies. He has presented audiovisual performances in various cities in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina

Marco Valdivia
He believes in technology and its appropriation as a tool for the development of people, individually and above all common and collective, focuses it on sound and audiovisual practice, and on the communication and exchange of knowledge and experiences on these same topics. From this perspective, he has mediated training spaces, shared talks, and presented concerts and works in different festivals, meetings, cycles and other specialized spaces in Abya Yala and other territories.

Since 2006 he has been developing his work from asimtria.org, an open transdisciplinary platform, focused on researching, carrying out, transferring and sharing various forms of creation based on the use, appropriation and free development of technologies applied to contemporary experimental music, listening and audiovisual, through projects such as Pumpumyachkan, Festival Asimtria, Festival Transpiksel, REUDO - Encuentro de Ruido, and others. He has also collaborated with other organizations and networks in the Latin American region.

Dan Wilcox is an artist, engineer, musician, and performer who combines live musical performance techniques with experimental electronics and software for the exploration of new expression. He grew up in the Rocket City, and has performed in Europe, Asia, and around the US with his one man band cyborg performance project, robotcowboy.

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E-09 is collaborative live audio project developed by Alexandra Maciá and Seamus O'Donnell at the end of 2021. Their combined explorations envelop a wide range of approaches and intended outcomes. Always welcoming of fresh challenges E-09 thrive on a DIY attitude with an eye on the visualization of sound within the minds of their audience.

Alexandra Macia is a sound artist from Granada, Spain. Since her move to Berlin in 2015, she has been investing in analog sound and working with handmade instruments, sound recordings, loops, feedback, and electromagnetic signals which she processes using a modular synthesizer to sculpt cinematic compositions through the deconstruction of textures and noise.

Seamus O'Donnell works can include radio frequency experiments, manipulated field recordings, self made devices, amplified objects and magnetic fields, no-input mixer as well as other more traditional instruments and voice. Improvisation is probably the most important factor.
As an organiser O'Donnell works with the registered association, Salon Bruit e.V., a platform for experimental music and with ColaBoraDio, a part of the Freien Radios Berlin Brandenburg, as presenter and programmer on the local frequency 88.4FM.

Gisle Frøysland studied computer science, information science, TV production and arts in Bergen, Norway. Since the early 80s he has been working as a musician, VJ and visual artist. He was a founding member of BEK - the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art and initiator/director of the Piksel festival for free technologies in artistic practice.
Gisle Frøysland has been the receiver of grants and has held numerous exhibitions, many of them in Norway but also abroad. His work has been presented at several international festivals like ISEA, Electrohype, Dissonanze, Transmediale, Borealis, Ultima, MakeArt, Pixelache, Mal au Pixel and Electropixel. His past collaborators include KKNull, Emi Maeda, VuNhatTan, John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug, BAKtruppen and Motherboard.

Giuseppe Torre [Laurea/M.Phil., MSc, PhD] is Lecturer of digital art practices
at the University of Limerick (Ireland). His research interest lies at the crossings
between digital art practices, open source technology/culture and philosophy.
These interests respond to a questioning of the relationships between technology
and art, code and aesthetics, numbers and self; a process that has so far led him
to question under what forms and forces truly creative efforts may, or may not,
arise. He is the author of An Ethico-Phenomenology of Digital Art Practices
(Routledge, 2021).
His academic writings feature in journals and books by publishing houses
such as MIT Press, Springer, Routledge/Taylor & Francis. As an active digital
art practitioner, his works and performances have been showcased nationally
and internationally. He is a advocate of FLOOS (Free and Libre Open Source
Software) in the teaching and professional practice of all digital arts.

Daniele Pozzi

Daniele Pozzi is an electronic musician and artist living in Graz, AT. Among his works are live performances and improvisations, sound installations and electroacoustic music, often involving the design of original computer programs and interfaces addressing compositional or performative issues. His recent practice investigates the relation of process and form in feedback system composition, and the becoming of sound and algorithmic processes. His work appeared in international venues, exhibitions, conferences and festivals, among others: ICMC 2019 (New York City), BEAST FEaST (Birmingham, UK), New York Electroacustic Music Festival 2017, BEK (Bergen, NO), ZKM (Karlsruhe, DE), Audio Mostly (London, UK), XIX CIM (Rome, IT), deSingel (Antwerp, BE), KM28 (Berlin, DE). Daniele holds a BA in Electroacoustic Music Composition from the Conservatory of Padua, Italy, and a MA in Computer Music from the Institue of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at the same university.

https://www.danielepozzi.com/

Hanns Holger Rutz

Hanns Holger Rutz is an artist and researcher in the field of sound and digital art, based in Graz, AT. Central to his work, comprised mainly of sound and intermedia installation, electronic music and improvisation, are the materiality of writing processes and the trajectories of aesthetic objects as they move and change across boundaries of individual works and artists. Since 2013, he worked as Pre- and Postdoc Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Art Graz (KUG), most recently leading the FWF-funded project “Algorithms that Matter”. In 2021, he joined the KUG’s Doctoral School for Artistic Research as Senior Scientist. Starting in autumn 2022, he heads the FWF-funded artistic research project “Simultaneous Arrivals“ (with Nayarí Castillo and Franziska Hederer) on novel forms of collaborative artistic processes.

https://www.sciss.de/

Daniele and Hanns Holger have worked together in the past years on various projects, including “Algorithms that Matter” (2017–2021) and “Algorithmic Segments” (2020).

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Joana Chicau is a graphic designer, coder, researcher — with a background in dance. In her practice she interweaves web programming languages and environments with choreography. She researches the intersection of the body with the constructed, designed, programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. She privileges the use of Free-Libre Open Source software, and collaborates with various international practitioners in the fields of art, design and technology  on both commissioned and self-initiated projects. She has been actively participating and organizing events with performances involving multi-location collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, discussions on gender equality and activism.

joak is Joseph Oliver Anton Knierzinger and an artist exploring the history and politics of past, present, future and anachronistic media, technology and confusion. Humor and irony is an important method in his undertakings. His compositions, devices, games, installations, interventions, instruments, lectures, performances, performance-lectures, scores and software have been shown in academies, artist-run spaces, community centers, festivals, galleries, hackerspaces, museums, radio station, squats, streets, theaters and universities in Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Germany, Italy, Kugelmugel, Mongolia, Netherlands, Online, Russia and Slovenia. He works on different alogisms and algorithms in Rotterdam and Vienna.

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Kerry is a composer and researcher working in both acoustic and computer media. She develops real-time methods for spatialization and stochastic algorithms for musical practice. Her work endeavours to achieve aesthetic and philosophical aims while taking inspiration from mathematical and natural processes. In this way, each work combines art with science and technology from various domains. Her works have been performed in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
Kerry performs regularly with Miller Puckette as the Higgs whatever, and with John Bowers in the Bowers-Hagan Duo.
As a researcher, Kerry's interests include real-time algorithmic methods for music composition and sound synthesis, spatialization techniques for 3D sounds and electronic/electroacoustic musicology. Her research has been presented in international conferences around the world.
In 2010, Kerry led a group of practitioners to form the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association, where she served as President until 2015.
Currently, Kerry is a Lecturer at the University of Limerick in the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre. She is the Principal Investigator for the Spatialization and Auditory Display Environment (SpADE) and President of the International Computer Music Association.

Kris is Hamburg based free improviser performing on double bass, bass guitar, and live-electronics. She is a feminist performer and artist. Kris is currently completing doctoral studies at Hamburg University of Applied Science where she researches spatial sound, free improvised music, and posthumanism. She is an active soloist and ensemble performer and has participated in festivals such as StimmeX, Blurred Edges Festival, and Bruital Furore in Hamburg, LjudOLjud in Stockholm, Tallinn Music Week, St. Petersburg New Music Festival reMusic, Estonian Music Days, she has also been invited to collaborate in various constellations within Europe and throughout South-America.

Kris is also part of the free improvisation quartet ‘double bird’ that recently released an album ‘favourite galaxy’ and is active with the quartet EMN concentrating on performing graphic scores and performative compositions. Kris is a close collaborator of opera director Lisa Pottstock with whom she develops feminist performances focusing on finding new way of dealing with body, materiality, and sound.

Sound artist, educator and creative coder, both his artistic and academic research activities are heavily rooted in the embracing of programming languages as places for poetical speculation, as well as the construction, modification and manipulation of electronic circuits. Has a degree in Music Composition and a master’s diploma in Education, where he developed and researched learning and teaching methodologies for programming languages in the context of the arts. Former teacher of Multimedia Arts at Maia University in Porto - Portugal, and was part of the team running, managing and curating SOMAR, a venue in Lisbon dedicated to sound, art and technology.

Currently teaches at the "Artistic Research in Music" master's programme at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome - Italy. As a doctoral researcher working with the "Music, Thought and Technology" research cluster at the Orpheus Institute - Ghent, he investigates how technical objects can operate as active, non-transparent agents in technologically mediated experimental sound practices.

Malte Steiner (born 1970) is a German media artist, electronic musician and composer. He started creating electronic music and visual art around 1983, developing his own vision of the interdisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk. First exhibitions already in 1983. In 1986 Steiner took a course in electro-acoustic music in Lüneburg by H.W. Erdmann and gave his first concerts in the following years, e. g. in Germany, France and Belgium, and started 1987 to release his music on cassette, later on vinyl, CD and online.

In 1998 he began to create electronic art and installations and additionally in 2003 several netart projects including a collaborative visual networking environment, shown in the Java museum in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Besides diverse music projects Steiner is also involved in several open source projects and has done lectures, radio features and workshops. Artist-In-Residency i.E. in Open City (La Ciudad Abierta) Of Ritoque, Chile 2011 or together with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen in Ii, Finland 2018.

2018 he relocated to Aalborg, Denmark and started in 2019 with the work on the new art project The Big Crash, art for the pending burst of the real estate bubble, reflecting on the housing crisis and gentrification. Art pieces are based on data which a software by Steiner harvest from online real estate ads. For instance images were segmented with the help of a Machine Learning algorithm and the resulting fragments were used for actual 3D printed objects but also in VR. Physical exhibitions of The Big Crash have been in Aarhus and Aalborg, Denmark and Bergen, Norway. The VR part has been shown i.E. at the Sound Campus exhibition of Kunstuniversität Linz at Ars Electronica 2020, at the ICMC 2021 conference, in the digital section of KP22 exhibition Aarhus 2022 and Rencontres Internationales Paris 2022.

Also in 2019 he started the conceptional phase of the project absolute power, macht + ohnmacht and painted first paintings. This project reflects on power structures and their mechanisms in politics and society.

Valparaíso, Chile, 1978. Artista medial con interés en la poética computacional generada en tiempo real. Durante los años 2003 al 2016 fue gestor del proyecto Espacio-G, plataforma de arte y crítica en la ciudad de Valparaíso que funcionó como nodo de difusión y encuentro de trabajadores culturales, hackers, curiosos de la tecnología y expresiones artísticas contemporáneas, donde el enfoque primordial fue el trabajo colaborativo entre diferentes formas y modos de hacer en la cultura local e internacional. Hoy se desempeña como programador creativo en Rstart, proyecto de estudio entre arte y ciencia usando tecnología para entender procesos de la vida en relación a las percepciones humanas sobre la naturaleza. A partir de este punto de fuga desarrolla una puesta en escena sobre el trabajo colaborativo, abordado desde el concepto de rizoma e interconectividad, que invita a una experiencia poética audiovisual, presentada al público en vivo y en tiempo real.

Michał Seta is a comproviser and researcher in digital arts. He enjoys juggling the tangible and the intangible, analogue and digital, sound and silence.

Milagros Saldarriaga
A woman of the abya yala, from Lima, who finds in the southern highlands the possibility of expanding her experiences and trying to unlearn the thoughts of cement to breathe the blowing of the apus, drink the water of the clouds, listen to seeds, touch the earth, resent the sun, look at the thunder, as a vital necessity to resist the violence that reigns and in search of harmonizing with life. Just taking off....

Dr. Miller Puckette (Harvard; mathematics) is known as the creator of Max and Pure Data. As an MIT undergraduate he won the 1979 Putnam mathematics competition. He was a researcher at the MIT Media lab from its inception until 1986, then at IRCAM, and is now professor of music at the University of California, San Diego. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and the Technical University of Berlin, and has received two honorary degrees and the SEAMUS award.

Kerry Hagan is a composer and researcher working in both acoustic and computer media. She develops real-time methods for spatialization and stochastic algorithms for musical practice. Her work endeavours to achieve aesthetic and philosophical aims while taking inspiration from mathematical and natural processes. In this way, each work combines art with science and technology from various domains. Her works have been performed in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.

Independent artist, researcher and programmer working in the field of algorithmic poetics and the study of generative and complex systems applied to the artistic context in different formats: sound art, installations and performance always under the premises of DIY and DIWO. His artistic practice could be
understood as a "polyhedral" device of knowledge where art, science and technology converge and hybridize from a unorthodox, critical and experimental approach.

His works have been seen and / or heard in different spaces for contemporary art and
international festivals: La Batie Festival in Geneva (Switzerland), International Image Festival
Manizales (Colombia) , Festival Piksel in Bergen (Norway), Radio Museo Reina Sofia in
Madrid, NK-project in Berlin (Germany), Electropiksel in Nantes (France), among others..

Has a background is in Electronics, Sound and Audiovisual communication. He started his artistic career early on by showing a video performance in the Reina Sofía contemporary art museum in Madrid. From that point on, he continued self-educating about the subjects of Art+ science+ technology. He considers himself lucky to have been around Medialab Madrid, precisely when they started teaching and organizing lectures about media / technology / electronic art. A couple of years later, he moves to Berlin where he does various Artist in residencies. He has lived in Perú, Stockholm, México and California.
www.servando.teks.no

Shawn Lawson is a computational artist and researcher creating the computational sublime. He performs under the pseudonym Obi-Wan Codenobi where he live-codes real-time computer graphics with his open source software, The Force and The Dark Side. Lawson’s other work explores the computational sublime through a range of technology: stereoscopy, camera vision, touch screens, game controllers, hand-held devices, random number generators; and output formats: print, sculpture, mobile apps, instruction sets, animation, and interactive.

He has performed at NIME, Australia; Radical dB, Spain; ICLI, Portugal and UK; ICLC, UK, Canada, Mexico, Spain; ISEA, Canada; GENERATE!, Germany; Live => Coding, Brazil; CultureHub, NYC, CCRMA, and more. Shawn’s artwork has exhibited or screened in museums, galleries, festivals, and public space in England, Denmark, Russia, Italy, Korea, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia, Iran, and Canada; locally in ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE ProCams, ACM MM, The Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Eyebeam, Aperture Foundation Gallery, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, MIT, OSU, ASU, and LTU. He has given workshops on programming or live coding in Europe and the USA. Shawn is published in the proceedings of ICLC, ACM CC, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI, ACM MM and the Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.

Lawson has received support from from the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center’s Finishing Funds Program, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, CultureHub’s Micro-Residency, and Signal Culture’s Toolmakers in Residency. Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and École Nationale Supèrieure des Beaux-Arts. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. He is an Associate Professor and Animation Area Coordinator at Arizona State University and selectively consults for independent artists and commercial R&D.

Shortwave Collective is an international, feminist artist group established in May 2020, interested in the creative use of radio. We meet regularly to discuss feminist approaches to amatuer radio and the radio spectrum as artistic material, sharing resources, considering DIY approaches and inclusive structures. Members include Alyssa Moxley, Georgia Muenster, Brigitte Hart, Kate Donovan, Maria Papadomanolaki, Sally Applin, Lisa Hall, Sasha Engelmann, Franchesca Casauay, and Hannah Kemp-Welch

Teresa Dillon (IRL/UK/DE)
An artist and researcher Teresa’s work explores the interrelationships between humans, other species, technology, cities and our environments. This currently manifests through three evolving programmes: Repair Acts (2018-) explores restorative cultures and practices by connecting past stories of care, maintenance and healing, with what we do today and how we envision the future. Urban Hosts (2013-) a programme that plays with civic conversational, encountering and hospitality formats and Liminal Routes (2020-) a mixtape and sonic tripping series for cities. Experienced in producing software and hardware projects, Teresa has also written on subjects such as open source processes, music, technology and design, sonic materiality’s and folklores, multispecies relations, surveillance, governance and the smart city, repair economies and artisan repair professions. As a Humboldt Fellow (UdK and TU, Berlin, 2014-16) her work documented artistic approaches to making the electromagnetic spectrum in cities audible. Invited to co-curate transmediale (2016) and HACK-THE-CITY (2012) for the former, Science Gallery, Dublin, since 2016 she currently holds the post of Professor of City Futures at the School of Art and Design, UWE, Bristol.
Links: polarproduce.org/ // repairacts.net/ // urbanhosts.org/

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