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<nettime> PIKSEL21 – "Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure" exhibition, by the Critical Engineering Working Group |
PIKSEL21 – REBOOT ME SOFTLY The 19th annual Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies 18th-21st November Bergen (Norway) "Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure" exhibition, by the Critical Engineering Working Group 18th November-12th December C. Sundts gaten 40 Bergen (Norway) RISK OF INFECTION Forget satanism, church-burning and pig’s blood. That’s all just Disney. This year’s Piksel Festival in Bergen is taking place 18th-21st of November, with the much anticipated "Decoding Black Magic. Interventions in Infrastructure" exhibition, where the Critical Engineering Working Group is exposing security breaches on our devices, in the form of artistic resistance. A condom machine dispensing VPNs, a black magic book with incantations of dark electronic formulae, a crystal ball predicting the future that steals your biometric data, and talking heads that imitate you in real-time. These are just some of the installations that Bengt Sjölén and Danja Vasiliev are presenting as part of the collaboration between Piksel and the Critical Engineering Working Group. In October 2011, together with colleagues Julian Oliver and Gordan Savičić, Vasiliev co-wrote the ‘The Critical Engineering Manifesto’, translated in more than 18 languages all over the world. They state that Engineering is “the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think”. Any technology represents both a challenge and a threat. The Critical Engineering Working Group members are participating worldwide in seminars and international exhibitions. Some of them have collaborated with previous Piksel festivals. Now they are all back together presenting a major exhibition and a public encounter in Bergen. The exhibition comprises five installations, allowing us to critically reflect on the weak points in our IT Infrastructure. The Bogeyman is real. And he found you. The artwork ‘Black Book of Wireless’ describes the physical connection between form and function in high-frequency electronics. ‘Unintended Emissions’ encompasses themes of surveillance and war in the Orwellian times we live in. The work ‘WannaScry’ reflects on the power to manipulate, view, and mimic the lives of individuals from afar with security breaches in our video-calling services, which is highly relevant in our post- pandemic society. ‘Vending Private Network’ built like a condom machine, dispenses VPN’s for just a Euro, giving us the surefire protection we need navigating cyberspace. ‘FakeDeeper – Portrait of three critical engineers’ exposes the ease with which our visual identity can be stolen online for any nefarious purpose necessary. To complete the program, the Artists who are traveling to Bergen for the festival, will present their work to the public and have a Q+A in Artists’ Talks Day on Saturday 20th. Two other workshops happening, will enable the participants to understand better how technologies work and how to use the free tools to act with freedom on the internet and digital realms. -- Piksel Festival 2021 will take place from 18th-21st of November at different venues across Bergen, with 2 main Exhibitions, 3 concert nights, workshops and artists presentations. Piksel festival is an international network and annual event for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom. -- PRESS EXHIBITION PREVIEW On Thursday 18th. Jun from 13.00 - 15.00, the exhibition will be shown to the press. Danja Vasiliev, Bengt Sjölén, Gordan Savičić, and Sarah Grant will be available for interviews. Please contact Kirstyn Williams (Tl 90553359) for appointment. For accreditation and press passes, please send an email to piksel21(AT)piksel.no. Press contact: Kirstyn Williams Press images: https://bit.ly/3mADgbD More info and full program at: https://piksel.no/2021/05/11/critical-engineering-working-group-exhibition -- -- Gisle Frøysland Piksel Produksjoner Strandgaten 207 5004 Bergen, Norway +47 90665018 www.piksel.no # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: