This theme focuses on fast peer-production & crowd-sourcing digital tools, interfaces, archiving, streaming media & documentation, through open sessions focusing on knowledge sharing and archiving. This context will be used to explore new open-source solutions, develop new practices and share methods, as an open learning and ‘open-sourcing’ process, for improved documentation, archivization, and distribution of learning outcomes.
Workshop by Halldór Úlfarsson and Þráinn Hjálmarsson.
Halldór Úlfarsson andÞráinn Hjálmarsson aremembers of Lornalab. Halldor is a visual artist and designer andÞráinn a composer.Together they have developped acoustic instruments with the help ofnew fabrication tools, such aslaser cutters and 3d printers.For this workshopthey will present a device they created, which purpose isto measurethe acoustic propertiesof different objects in order to collectively produce audio filters using the Vowel software. Read More & Sign-up
Performer: Hlöðver Sigurðsson
This improvisation is performed using Overtone. Hlöðver's goal is to use hisown dynamic programmable sounds that can be transposed in algorithmic manner harvesting the power of high level programming language and the sound engine from Supercollider.
Hlöðver Sigurðsson is a computer musician and composer from Reykjavik. He graduated fromIceland Academy of the Arts with Ríkarður H. Friðriksson as his main teacher. Hlöðver’s musical background is mainly classical, music theory and/or piano playing since starting in Reykjavik Music Academy in 2006. His...
In this workshop participants learnedabout simple ways to modify human environments of all shapes and sizes, througha few case-examples like guerilla/community gardening, occupy camps, tree squatters, caravan squats, or multi-purpose furniture. They were invited to thinkof a space they want to "recycle" and draw or describe their design and everyone would help each other to complete it in language descriptions, drawings, and 3d models, also computer designs. we would use transparent paper, clay, dough, and "trash" materials.
New Zealand based artist-hackerJulian Priest‘s latest project is an orbital artwork calledThe Weight of Information, based on a pico-satellite was originally scheduled for launch on March 30th, to orbit the Earth for 3 weeks before burning-up on re-entry. It was finally launched onApril 18th.
Pixelversity 2014celebrates and engages with this endeavour as part of its ‘infowork’ thematic. We will arrange one of the related‘Meet to Delete’events taking place during the pico-satellite’s orbit-time and so life-span, inviting a group of people together for a bonfire party to delete information in...
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir presents her research project on Steina Vasulka, a pionneer in video art andfounder of The Kitchen,an experimental space for electronic arts and musicin New York. The aim is to write the biographyof Steina who went from Reykjavik to Prague to study music and violin in the late 1950s, and then moved to New York in 1965 where she fell in love video and became a pionneer in the field ofelectronic media art. During the same period electronic media where hard to find in Iceland, where Steina's workswhere rarley shown until the 1990's.
Margrét Elisabet Ólafsdóttir is...