Ars Electronica Garden Bergen

Live Coding ALGORAVE

Antonio Roberts, Alex McLean (UK)

Live performance at the Piksel Cyber Salon and Twitch Live coding is a performance practice that revolves around the real-time creation and modification of code and algorithms. These events are also known as ALGORAVE, by joining the words algorithm and rave. On 13 September, we welcome artists Antonio Roberts and Alex McLean and their live audiovisual performance, taking place in parallel at the Twitch Pikselfest and the Piksel Cyber Salon.

COPY PASTE Curator's Tour

Antonio Roberts (UK)

Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the curator Antonio Roberts will guide us through each work at the Piksel Cyber Salon exhibition. If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in a collage to adopting the style of another artist, or simply being inspired by their work. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened with a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying in our practices. They don't account for exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world in which artworks were scarce physical objects, not translating well into a world in which culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will.

Worship - Dinner Performance (CH, KA, NO)

Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the artists. The Worship - Dinner Performance joins performers from Zurich, Almaty and Bergen. It is based on the exchange of food, gesture, rhythm and sensuality through a jistsi online meeting. It is a tangible stretch towards how sensuality is perceived in the digital realm through media.

Lecture: Authors of the Future. Re-imagining Copyleft

Constant (BE)

Video recorded lecture with Q&A from the artists The Authors of the Future. Re-imagining Copyleft, by Constant (BE), seeks to address burning issues around licensing and collective creative practices. How can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and how could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Constant is a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology.

COPY PASTE Exhibition at Piksel Cyber Salon

The COPY/PASTE exhibition features the work of nine artists and art collectives who make copying a core aspect of their work. Taking the form of an online exhibition at Piksel Cyber Salon, it aims to show that copying is natural, and to re-think how we create/share/copy and paste. If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in a collage to adopting the style of another artist, or simply being inspired by their work. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened with a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying in our practices. They don't account for exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world in which artworks were scarce physical objects, not translating well into a world in which culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will.