Piksel - festival for elektronisk kunst og fri teknologi

Piksel25 open call for projects

Piksel25
November 20-23 2025
Bergen, Norway

Dear friends,

We are excited to announce the call for projects for the 23nd edition of the Piksel Festival!

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

!! Deadline -- October 31st 2025 !!
Please use the online submit form at:
pretalx.com/piksel25/

STWST84x11 | diy_thread ---------- Maite Cajaraville & Gisle Frøysland DIY Thread: Piksel by Maite Cajaraville & Gisle Frøysland Red Thread of New Media Art Online und 1. Stock Schaukasten Online und als Teil der Exhibi...

PIKSEL DIY Thread presentation today 5:30 @ stwst, Linz. Don't miss it!
stwst84x11.stwst.at/diy_thread

#PikselFestival #stwst ##arselectronica

Podcast Episode: Protecting Privacy in Your Brain The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't j...

Neuroscientist @rafaelyuste.bsky.social and international human rights lawyer Jared Genser join “How to Fix the Internet” to discuss setting solid legal guardrails to ensure neurotechnology serves people, not vice versa.

Risk terrain modeling “is a mathematical way of justifying a type of policing in certain people and neighborhoods that police have already wanted to surveil,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @kansas.com. www.kansas.com/news/local/...

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests ✊🏻🔥🔥🔥

A quick thread for this week in #linz joins us #servusat  / #AMRO at the program of our sister initiative Stadtwerkstatt #STWST a new seven day format STWST84 // Fog Manifesto https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/ #stwst84 We have contributions from the 2025 Art Meets Radical Openness Research Labs 1) ::Politics of Isolation Lab / Anna Kraher, Road to Futures Past:: https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/road_to_futures_past *> More context in the current @versorgerin https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/08-2025/a-meta-level-up-into-isolation

2) ::Watery Networks Talks: Digital Waters / A Fluidic Cookbook / Coding Drops:: radio show on water and computation with RL artists Ioana Vreme Moser & Diane Pricop and servus member Christina Gruber. It will be aired on sunday on #radiofro > Here a previous conversation on Fluidics with Ioana and Diane https://cba.media/720402 > Another talk from the Archive “From Cloudy Ecologies to Thirsty Datacenters: AMRO RL 2019 Review” with Christina Gruber and Antonio Zingaro https://cba.fro.at/489462/ 3) ::Sat, 6th  Sept from 17:30:: CONVERSATION ::On Network Commons and Touring the Network::     • 17:30-19:00: Book presentation and discussion on “The Rise of the Network Commons” by Armin Medosch https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/the_rise_of_the_network_commons_by_armin_medosch     • 19:00-20:00: „Putting the Fog in Boxes” unboxing the permanently growing inhouse net (info and infra)structures / and the constant labor and negotiations required within socio-technical networks. https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/putting_the_fog_in_boxes

╚ Further checks with the servus/AMRO community: ::for "Meet the fog":: https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/meet_the_fog -> Tomorrow, Tue, 2nd Sep, 17:00 > Postcards against Chat Control @freebliss @aderieg @egarri -> Thu, 4th Sep, 17:00 NØ School /  with Dasha Ilina @dasha & @recyclism ::In the Clouded Exhibition:: > Clarification [Black Lotus XIII] by /g/o/d/ \Pamela Neuwirth \Harald Purrer https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/clarification_black_lotus_xiii > Lost in the Sauce (Illusions in the Fog) by @sarahghp https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/lost_in_the_sauce_illusions_in_the_fog

+ special things ++ ::A DYI thread of Media Arts:: Check the the Red Thread from our neighbors of piksel.no @Pikselfest  https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/en/diy_thread ::Nebel Kegeln Fri 5th & Sat 6th September:: Not to miss the Fog Bowling/Nebel Kegeln from the stwst! https://stwst84x11.stwst.at/nebelkegeln (Edit: adding masto handles)

This week in #linz join stadtwerkstatt 84x11 fog manifesto.

Our contributions:
core.servus.at/en/content/n...

#arminmedosch
#networkcommons
#fog
#manifesto
#water
#networks
#chatcontrolle
#mediaart
#arselectronica

With @annakraher.bsky.social @sarahghp.bsky.social and many others

Legal battle against political abuse of art: interview with Maja Smrekar In this interview, Slovenian artist Smrekar reflects on how her work was recently misused in a far-right political campaign and the need to build collective resilience against censorship. These pressi...

Maja Smrekar’s internationally acclaimed work K-9 Topology was highly misused in a far-right campaign in Slovenia. Across Europe, artists face similar growing threats. These issues will be addressed at the 2025 conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT). Interview.

Are you a digital security newbie? Take a few minutes to read our primer. ssd.eff.org/en/module/s...

Statsministeren: – Det er ikke noe som heter et «stolt, hvitt Norge» - Filter Nyheter Igjen måtte en norsk statsminister holde tale om de dødelige konsekvensene av rasisme og høyreekstremisme. Dette er hva Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) sa på Youngstorget søndag om motivet bak drapet på Tamima ...

Igjen måtte en norsk statsminister holde tale om de dødelige konsekvensene av rasisme og høyreekstremisme. Dette er hva Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) sa på Youngstorget søndag om motivet bak drapet på Tamima Nibras Juhar (34) og gjerningsmannens antatte plan om å drepe muslimer i en moské i Hønefoss:

Resistance is not a single action but a flurry of actions.

Create:
Voting blocs
Protest blocs
Legal blocs
Mutual aid blocs
Medical blocs
Education blocs
Self defense blocs
Social media defense blocs

Every action counts if taken in the same direction. #3E

You can’t vote your way out of regressive fascism, that said voting is not useless. It’s a twist on a tourniquet, it helps tighten the wound so the body doesn’t die, however it won’t permanently stop the bleeding on its own. Every action counts and all put together you’ve got a shot at victory. #3E

End of august trip to KUBU. Kulturhus Bjärkboda was started four years ago by my good friends Sari and Tuomo. It's an independent culture center with awesome program and you should all visit it asap! Next summer I will be organising Synth camp there for the fourth time. kubu.fi

Image showing a balance scale with money on one side and leaves on the other, overlaid onto a simulated view of the earth. Text shares exhibition opening details.

Excited to announce, How to Get to Zero, a two-person show with Sam Lavigne (@lav.io). Opens Friday, September 12th at Pioneer Works. Come thruuuu... pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/...

Expect:
• Performative coding
• Code art & self-destructive hardware
• Radical networks & bioart
• Generative AI & electronic literature
Explore more: piksel.no & newcontext.stwst.at/!stwst48x11/...
#FOGMANIFESTO #STWST84x11 #PikselArchive #ArsElectronica

Stadtwerkstatt explores fog as material, medium, and network — Piksel responds with a deep-dive into 23 years of DIY electronic art, tracing radical practices from DIY radio to critical AI installations. This is a journey through Piksel’s archive — a living history of critical art, joy, and science.

🌫✨ FOG MANIFESTO at STWST84x11 — Piksel’s DIY Thread premieres during Ars Electronica 2025 in Linz, Austria (Sept 3–7). Thanks to STWST for inviting Piksel 🤝

Piksel highlights:
• Workshop DIWO: Learn, Create, Resist - Together
• Forum: Curating Technological Freedom - How Art Influences Care, Ethics, Politics & Society
• Performance Collective: Gisle Frøysland, Andreas Monopolis, Maite Cajaraville, Vittoria Assembri & others.
More info: electropixel.org

🌱 Workshops, forums, and performances will connect artistic practice with the politics of technological freedom — facing down extremism, surveillance, and systemic injustices.

🎛✨ Electropixel15 — Toolkit of Care - COST Action
We’re excited to share that from August 27–30 in Nantes, Piksel’s Maite Cajaraville (Madrid) and Gisle Frøysland (Bergen) are joining an international constellation of artists exploring care ethics, counter-narratives, and creative resistance.

📸 Here are some pictures from that session.
#Piksel #FirstSupperSymposium #AIArt #NewMediaArt #artandai #aiaiai

The conversations were wide-ranging, and it was refreshing to see such a diversity of voices, methods, and approaches to technology and artistic practice. Hopefully this fruitful exchange will lead to the creation of a working group to continue the dialogue.

As Piksel, we brought forward the work of artists who have exhibited with us and whose practices go beyond generative image AI — engaging with AI in more intimate, critical, and often unexpected ways. We shared works by Laura McCarthy, Marta Revuelta y Scott Rettberg.

We want to share a look back at the First Supper Symposium, where we joined an inspiring day of talks and perspectives on how AI is affecting artists today — from appropriation to obfuscation, from closed to open models.

Neural [book review] Dead & Alive: Reflections on Media / Art - edited by Olle Essvik and Lars Kristensen
Rojal Förlag - neural.it/2025/08/edit...
#mediaarthistory

𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐵𝑜𝑥 is a manifestation of total algorithmically driven curation, encapsulated in the form of a video game...

Unboxing the #intermedia exhibition 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐵𝑜𝑥 by #SaraBezovsek and #DorijanSisko on 𝟮𝟬 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟳𝗣𝗠 in #Aksioma !

🌀 aksioma.org/black-box ✴️

HandBrake 1.10 Adds Social Media Presets: Convert Videos Under 10MB for Instagram, TikTok, and More These new presets optimize videos for social media posting.

This Handbrake release is a good one for content creators. 📹

news.itsfoss.com/handbrake-1-...

The book Reversed Surveillance, by Marcel Top, is a visualisation of invasive surveillance technologies, challenging the prospect of automating crime detection during protests in France. phmuseum.com/photobooks/r...

Timeline Shift. Challenging Western concepts of time, productivity and AI functions Through a deep reflection on artificial intelligence, the exhibited projects challenge the Western conception of time, as linear, progressive and productivity-oriented, offering instead a plural, s…

The works selected for the #re_humanism exhibition in Rome challenge the profit-driven paradigms that guide the development of AI. They explore how complexity, resistance, unpredictability and friction can shape the future(s). we-make-money-not-art.com/timeline-shi... #re_humanism

My Brother and Hitler.

Feral Class, book snippet - :-)
By Marc Garrett

Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission.

www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

Support your (mostly) friendly Feral Class, renegade 😉

www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561