Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

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Pixxelpoint, mednarodni festival računalniške umetnosti

Bevkov trg 4, SI-5000 Nova Gorica

http://www.pixxelpoint.org

mestnagalerija@kulturnidom-ng.si

Phone386 (5) 33 540 13

Organised byNova Gorica Arts Centre

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The eight days lasting the Pixxelpoint International Festival of Computer Art, organised by Nova Gorica Arts Centre, was launched in 2000 and presents each year approximately 30 digital artworks from around the world, selected by the (inter)national guest curator. The aim of the Pixxelpoint Festival, which attracted over 3000 visitors last years, is to transfer computer art into real space and link artists from different backgrounds and territories.

Venue

The City Gallery Nova Gorica is since the beginning of the Pixxelpoint Festival its main venue, where the exhibition as the central event of the festival is featured. Further locations like TIR - Mostovna Gallery and some other spaces in the Italian part of Gorizia are occasionally giving the podium for the lectures, workshops, evening meetings, a symposium on the given topic, and concerts by well-known music performer. The internet as the lasting platform is of course the extra venue for some projects.

Mission and programme

In 2008 and 2009 it is curated by Domenico Quaranta (respectively titled For God's Sake! and Once Upon a Time in the West). Around 230 works, divided into graphics, animations, and interactive art and music, are presented in competition at the Nova Gorica City Gallery. The festival also features lectures, demonstrations and club evenings, which constitute a colourful addition to the programme.

Applications

Each year the Pixxelpoint Festival introduces a theme presented by invited national or international guest curator, who is not just inviting artists by his/her choice, but mainly choose them from the projects, arrived on the call for the application, which dead line is usually on the end of September each year.

In 2008, 28 projects has been choosen from the 113 arrived projects from 32 countries. The jubilee edition recieved even greater attention, 25 project more as in year befeore were registerd, out of which 31 projects were presented on the 10th Pixxelpoint festival.

Cooperations

Since last few years the Pixelpoint Festival cooperates with national and internmational partners like

See also

• Nova Gorica Arts Centre

External links

• Domenico Quaranta (curator of the 9th and 10th Pixxelpoint) webpage
• Pixxelpoint on the Blog Temperatura 2.0