Mal au Pixel 2007
16-21 April, Paris-Saint-Ouen

The second edition of Mal au Pixel festival, which will be held in April 2007, just before the first round of the French presidential election, is organised by Ars Longa, Confluences, Mains d’Ouvres and the Institut Finlandais. Within this pre-election context, Mal au Pixel addresses the question of how artists, researchers and grassroot communities working in the field of media can contribute to understanding, critiquing, developing and inventing our political and social systems.

Following are a few keywords, which indicate possible directions without being restrictive:
utopia, political models, control society, public space, flows of values and information, participative networks, collective intelligences, free software/content culture, pervasiveness, locativity, identification.

Call for Participation

We are currently looking for projects/participants for Mal au Pixel 2007.
Within the framework of the Democracy: Do It Yourself! theme, the festival will support some on-going and realised projects, in the form of production support of maximum 1500€. Mal au Pixel will also present projects outside the main theme, related to installation, stage performance, audiovisual performance, virtual communities and electronic cultures.

We can offer the participants free accommodation and per diems during their stay in Paris but in most cases the participants will have to cover their travel costs themselves.

Please contact us before 30th of November using the Pixelache 2007 submission form.