Mal au Pixel
“Mal au Pixel” festival, 19-29 April 2006
Ars Longa, Confluences, Mains d’Œuvres
Three Parisian organisations - Ars Longa, Confluences and Mains d’Oeuvres - have chosen to join forces with the Pixelache festival. On a day-to-day basis, they support digital artistic research, media and citizenship issues, by means of residencies and regular public events. Some of the artists that they promote participated in the previous and the present editions of the Pixelache festival in Helsinki. Ars Longa, Confluences and Mains d’Oeuvres, with the support of the Finnish Institute in Paris and Project 101, naturally unite with the Pixelache team in an effort to give visibility to experimental art forms, on-going research and social issues originating from various European countries. This is in order to encourage exchanges between the local and international artists and citizens communities.
The “Mal au pixel” festival consists of several equally important components: introductory workshops in creative tools aimed at knowledge and technology transfers; public debates dedicated to sharing questions and ideas emerging from new social and media practices; exploration of installations, prototypes, live evening events and performances for the pleasure to be found in artistic practices based on the reappropriation of communication technologies.
We hope the Festival “Mal au Pixel” develops into a platform for future international exchanges and dialogue, contributing to artistic, civic and participatory reappropriation of contemporary communication media and tools that increasingly govern our daily life.
On behalf of the Mal au Pixel team,
Vincent Guimas,
Mathieu Marguerin
