Exhibitions 20 – 23 NOV @Piksel Studio 207 @Alt Går Bra
Opening Night Festival – Thursday 20 – 20:00
Piksel25 Exhibition
From the hyper-engineered post-nature worlds of Marc Lee’s Speculative Evolution (where artificial intelligence and synthetic biology collude to imagine future species) to the algorithmically generated collages of influencer-culture in Malte Steiner’s The Tradwives (which sifts data from Instagram to reflect on domesticity, ideology and media) , the works assembled here challenge familiar binaries — human/machine, craft/automation, nature/tech.
In the works by Paul Magee (Signal), Rajat Mondal (Cube Insect), Senaida Ng (KUNST KAPUTT), Nick Montfort (A Series of Tubes), Hadaly Villasclaras (Bouquet v1.0), Francisco Ortiz de Carvalho (W.I.P.: Caete Scope) and the visual / punk collective amazin poet / visual_punk_ltd, the exhibition covers a spectrum of approaches: live-coding, speculative hardware, aesthetic sabotage, interactive storytelling and post-internet flora.
DIY Thread traces connections between art, activism, and technology by revisiting 23 years of the Piksel archive. It highlights projects where artists took tools into their own hands—modifying, reinventing, or even destroying technology to open new cultural and political perspectives.
Works:
- Piksel DIY Thread
- Speculative Evolution, Marc Lee
- The Tradwives, Malte Steiner
- Signal, Paul Magee,
- Cube Insect, Rajat Mondal
- KUNST KAPUTT, Senaida Ng
- A Series of Tubes, Nick Montfort
- amazin poet , viasual_punk_ltd
- Bouquet v1.0, Hadaly Villasclaras
- W.I.P.: Caete Scope, Francisco Ortiz de Carvalho
Perma/Soils – Interdisciplinary Strategies for Soil Recuperation Exhibition
At Studio 207, the Perma/Soils exhibition brings together works that explore the entanglements of soil, ecosystems, and technology: Cecilia Jonsson investigates the historic Litlabø pyrite mines and their severe water contamination; Solar4Rain (NSA Collective, Maite Cajaraville & Gisle Frøysland) connects two distant ecological systems in a solar-powered sci-fi narrative of renewable energy exchange; Marina Otero Verzier presents the film from her installation Compost Computacional, recently awarded a Special Mention at the S+T+ARTS Prize 2025, critically examining the environmental cost of digital infrastructures; A feeling of longing that freezes and thaws by the artist Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith exploring the poetics of permafrost; and the Norwegian premiere of Umi No Oya (ウミノヲヤ) – The Mother of the Sea by Maya Minder & Ewen Chardronnet traces the legacy of British phycologist Kathleen Drew-Baker and her discovery of red algae life cycles, which transformed nori cultivation in postwar Japan.
Works
- Compost Computacional, by Marina Otero Verzier.
- Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis, by Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland.
- Umi No Oya (ウミノヲヤ) – The Mother of the Sea by Maya Minder and Ewen Chardronnet.
- Toxins Colors System, Cecilia Jonsson (work in progress)
- A feeling of longing that freezes and thaws, Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith
Friday @Piksel Studio 207
11-14 Workshops
15-18 Artists presentations
- View Source Poetry Ring (VSPR), Diktgymnasiet
- GNOME Radio, Ole Kristian Aamot
- ‘Hydra sCC’:A modular tangible user interface for live coding video performances with Hydra, Victor Mahecha
- Compost Computer: More-Than-Human Design through Critical Climate Computing, Eva Verhoeven
- seismic2midi, Jeremy Leung
20-24h Streaming live performance night Studio 207
TBD
Saturday
@Museum of Natural History
10-13h Seminar Perma/Soils – Interdisciplinary Strategies for Soil Recuperation
From agricultural runoff and algae blooms (Ewen Chardronnet) to migration and belonging in Punjab’s soils (Dr. Davina Kaur Patel); from fermentation as ecological healing (Maya Minder) to the architectures of data extraction and storage (Marina Otero Verzier), adding the Nordic perspective on how we engage with permafrost physically and emotionally (Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith), Perma/Soils maps the porous boundaries between soil and system, nature and network.
Featured Speakers & Contributions
- Ewen Chardronnet (Chief Editor makery.info, More-than-Planet EU Project)
On agriculture’s effects on algae growth and shoreline contamination. - Dr. Davina Kaur Patel (Researcher)
Soil, migration, and belonging in Punjab, India—diasporic connections to land. - Maya Minder (Artist & Fermenter, Hackteria, Soil Assembly)
Fermentation practices and global community projects for soil recovery, with case studies from Ecuador. - Marina Otero Verzier (Architect, Wheelwright Prize, Harvard GSD 2022)
Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse—a critical analysis of data storage infrastructures, resource extraction, and their socio-environmental impact. - Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith (Artist)
American, French-naturalized visual artist exploring the poetic intersections between analog and biological media.
13:30-15h Screening Perma/Soils – Interdisciplinary Strategies for Soil Recuperation
Marina Otero Verzier presents the film from her installation Compost Computacional, recently awarded a Special Mention at the S+T+ARTS Prize 2025, critically examining the environmental cost of digital infrastructures; and the Norwegian premiere of Umi No Oya (ウミノヲヤ) – The Mother of the Sea by Maya Minder & Ewen Chardronnet and the Norwegian premiere of Umi No Oya (ウミノヲヤ) – The Mother of the Sea by Maya Minder & Ewen Chardronnet traces the legacy of British phycologist Kathleen Drew-Baker and her discovery of red algae life cycles, which transformed nori cultivation in postwar Japan.
- Compost Computacional, Marina Otero Verzier
- Umi No Oya (ウミノヲヤ) – The Mother of the Sea by Maya Minder & Ewen Chardronnet
15-16h Happening, Maya Minder & Ewen Chardronnet Perma/Soils – Interdisciplinary Strategies for Soil Recuperation
The seminar also pays tribute to Shigeatsu Hatakeyama (1943–2024) — oyster farmer, environmentalist, and author of “The Forest in Love with the Sea.” His life’s work reminds us that the vitality of marine life begins inland, in the forests and rivers that feed the sea.
A seaweed & oyster bar after the session continues this reflection through taste — celebrating the symbiosis between ecosystems, species, and sensibilities from the hands of Maya Minder and Ewen Chardronnet.
@Piksel Studio 207
12-16h Workshops
@Østre
21-02h AV Performances night at Ostre
- INTERIM DISSONANCE by dr. Nexus & Lilu Herlambang
- Constructions of Collapse and Desire, by Natasha Barrett
- amazin project livecoding performance, viasual_punk_ltd