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Gisle Frøysland
@h220.bsky.social
art geek and noisemaker founder/director at piksel.no

https://piksel.org/~gif
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Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Piksel Festival for Art and Technological Freedom! 💫
From November 20th to 23rd, Bergen transforms into the stage for cutting-edge electronic art, with 3 days of workshops, artist presentations, audiovisual concerts and exhibitions across the city.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Piksel Festival – Volunteers Needed!

Piksel25 is taking place November 20-23, and we need volunteers to help make this electronic art festival a success!

To apply: Please send an email to info@piksel.no with the subject line "Volunteer Piksel25" or sign up here: piksel.no/2025/10/31/p...
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Piksel25 - Open Call for Projects

!! Deadline -- October 31st 2025 !!

#opencall #electronicarts #Piksel #bergen #festival #diyelectronics #LiveCoding #noisemusic #soil #permaculture #solarpunk
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/
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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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/
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
www.eff.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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An early announcement of an event that will take place at Creative Coding Utrecht on the 14th of November: a conversation around my book "Liberate The Machines!" with Marloes de Valk, including a screening of my film #59.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.
"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"

I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.

tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?
tinyurl.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The Internet of Dead Things, by Benjamin Gaulon & Alessandro Ludovico (@_neural): Minitel, hacking, media archaeology, right to repair, extraction rebellion, etc. www.lulu.com/shop/geert-l...
The Internet of Dead Things
The Internet of Dead Things is a collective book that takes as its starting point the MinitelSE project by Jérôme Saint-Clair, ex-artist, and Benjamin Gaulon, French artist, professor and cultural pro...
www.lulu.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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AI & Conflicts 02. This compilation of essays explores the tensions between the promise of emancipating AI models and the colonialist, prejudiced and extractivist nature of the technology. we-make-money-not-art.com/ai-conflicts... #krisispublishing
AI & Conflicts. Volume 02
The compilation of essays explores the tensions between, on the one hand, the promise of neutral and emancipating AI models and, on the other, the colonialist, prejudiced and extractivist nature of…
we-make-money-not-art.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Borealis – a festival for experimental music, is looking for a new Artistic Director to shape the future of the festival.
June 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Today in Oslo at the First Supper Symposium. Starting at 14:30. See you there!

Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland (PIKSEL) will present their talk ‘Unmasking the Algorithm: Critical Art in the Age of AI’ at Kunsternes hus kino 12.06. More info and ticket link in event 🔗
June 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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💧What if we reused the oil pipelines… to transport water?
We asked the AI, and the answers came with surprising twists and funny maps. 🌞 Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis by Maite Cajaraville & Gisle Frøysland

@pikselfest.bsky.social
@maitecaj.bsky.social
@h220.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis

Exhibition – “Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis”, by Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland

23MAY – 29 JUNE
Opening hours during the exhibition: Thursday–Sunday, 12–17
at Studio 207 / Piksel, Strandgaten 207, Bergen

piksel.no/2025/05/12/s...
May 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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✨ Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of TVE's legendary program Metrópolis!
From Piksel in Norway, we want to send our heartfelt congratulations to the entire Metrópolis team!💥
We were lucky enough to catch their attention, and they created a full feature about Piksel:
www.rtve.es/.../metropol...
May 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Muy contenta de haber inaugurado SOLAR4RAIN, una simbiosis atmosférica PUNK. Solar4Rain conecta simbólicamente el sur de España, rico en energía solar, con Noruega, rica en agua, visualizando el intercambio de recursos mediante de luz, sonido y IoT. <3
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@h220.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis is an engaging sci-fi narrative, the project envisions a speculative future where humanity adopts equitable, sustainable, and symbiotic relationships with nature and technology.
#Solar4Rain #SpeculativeFutures #PikselFestSpill
piksel.no/2025/05/12/s...
May 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Excellent @wired.com article on what could be done better regarding solar energy #pv uptake in the USA, with success stories from, amongst others, Germany and the @balkon.solar initiative co-founded by
@sbamueller.com

www.wired.com/story/why-ba...
Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US
In countries like Germany, balcony-mounted solar panels are all the rage. But from breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for it—yet.
www.wired.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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"I first met Jim O’Rourke back in 1990 [who loaned Drumm a DAT]. He knew more about experimental/noise/free jazz than me, so we became friends. In the mid 90s in Chicago this kind of music had an audience of 1 to 10 people, maybe 15"

‘1’ from S/T The Strange World Of #KevinDrumm

buff.ly/n4tgoY8
April 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Donald Trumps nye tollsatser rammer amerikanere med lav inntekt hardest, samtidig som konspirasjonsteoretiker får innflytelse i Det hvite hus og tidligere talkshow-vert tar over ledelsen av Medicare og Medicaid.
Trumps nye tollsatser rammer fattige familier i USA hardest - Filter Nyheter
Adgang til hele Filter. Avslutt når som helst Et abonnement på Filter er en uvurderlig støtte til et uavhengig og seriøst, norsk avisprosjekt. Allerede abonnent? Logg inn her. APP + NETT. Kun kr 120/m...
filternyheter.no
April 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Vi har nettopp hatt vår første store KI-skandale, men det er pinlig underdekket. Jeg skriver om hvor dum den kunstige "intelligensen" egentlig er, og hvor dumt det er å både bruke og hylle den ukritisk.

Pluss litt om hvilken figur fra gresk mytologi jeg føler meg som, selvsagt.
Kunstig intelligens – ekte dumskap
Kunstig intelligens (KI) er ofte direkte dum. Og den gjør oss dummere.
www.dagsavisen.no
April 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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«Likhetene mellom dagens USA og det amerikanske samfunnet på slutten av 1800-tallet er slående og burde vekke frykt», skriver @sreenet.bsky.social i denne kommentaren: filternyheter.no/er-det-for-s...
Er det for sent å stoppe the tech bros? Dette er leksa vi burde lært fra forrige gang USA hadde en «gullalder» - Filter Nyheter
Vi har gått inn i en ny gullalder – the gilded age. Til tross for hva navnet antyder, er ikke dette en tid de fleste av oss ønsker å leve i. Likhetene mellom dagens USA og det amerikanske samfunnet og...
filternyheter.no
April 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM