🌟 Piksel is excited to welcome you to the opening of Piksel Fest Spill next Friday, May 23, at Studio 207, Bergen, 18h — where Solar4Rain will begin to unfold, evolve, and grow over the coming weeks.
What if sunlight and rain learned to speak to each other? Solar4Rain is an art installation, It’s a living lab. A speculative fiction. A climate ritual in the making.
Created by the Norwegian-based collective NSA, with artists Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland, this site-specific piece blends data, storytelling, and public imagination into a world where energy flows ethically, and cooperation becomes infrastructure.
Save the date! Join us at Strandgaten 207 / @studio207
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About Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosys
Solar4Rain is a site-specific art installation in the form of a living lab, hosted at Studio 207, Strandgaten 207, Bergen, as part of Piksel Fest Spill. This atmospheric PUNK symbiosis symbolically connects the solar-rich South with water-rich Norway, visualizing the exchange of resources through dynamic displays of light, sound, and networked technologies.
Combining data visualization, speculative storytelling, and audience participation, Solar4Rain explores a future of ethical cooperation and balanced resource distribution. Through an engaging sci-fi narrative, the project invites us to imagine a world where humanity adopts equitable, sustainable, and symbiotic relationships with nature and technology.
But Solar4Rain is not merely an art project—it’s a call to action. Inspired by Solarpunk aesthetics and permacomputing principles, it challenges audiences to rethink global resource dynamics and embrace sustainability, equity, and innovation.
The installation is an ongoing experiment. From May 23 to June 29, the artists will continuously evolve the space, transforming Piksel Studio into a hybrid zone: a biolab, DIY electronics workshop, IoT experimentation space, and AI prompting unit. These interactive layers encourage visitors to reflect on their personal relationships with energy and resources, while engaging with broader issues of climate change and global inequity.
Solar4Rain uses real elements—water pipes, solar panels, sensor-equipped plants—to take partial control of the environment, triggering lights, sounds, and mechanical systems (including Piksel Studio's internet-controlled infrastructure).
Drawing from the hopeful, resilient vision of Solarpunk, and the low-energy, culturally mindful ethos of permacomputing, Solar4Rain offers a glimpse into alternative futures where technological innovation and ecological care are not at odds, but deeply intertwined.
Join us for the opening this Friday 23rd at 18:00h. Piksel Fest Spill is part of the OFF program from Bergen International Festival.
Opening hours during the exhibition: Thursday–Sunday, 12–17
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