Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

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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 each edition attracted over 3000 visitors last years, is to transfer computer art into real space and link artists from different backgrounds and territories.

History

Idea for the Pixxelpoint Festival originates on the ICQ virtual talk between present technical director of the festival Blaž Erzetič and Pavla Jarc, present director of the Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorica Arts Centre and its Nova Gorica City Gallery. Since 2003 themes of the festival are following concepts of the invited national guest curators like Jurij Krpan, Dunja Kukovec and Nataša Petrešin, Igor Španjol, Narvika Bovcon and Aleš Vaupotič. Last two years the italian guest curator Domenico Quranta was holding the reins of the Pixxelpoint. Concerning curators, the festival intends to work (inter)nationally further.

Mission and programme

The main ambition of the Pixxelpoint is to achieve a lively interchange of the most recent and most important art production from the field of intermedia art, to break through onto the international scene.

In 2008 and 2009 was the festival featured under titles For God's Sake! and Once Upon a Time in the West. Quranta

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.

Applications

Each year the Pixxelpoint Festival guest curator, who is not just inviting artists by his/her choice, introduces a theme in the form of the international call for applications, published usually in the early summer. Out of arrived applications mainly projects for the Festival are choosen. The dead line for sending proposals 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.

Competition

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Cooperations and Support

Beside the international curators are involved in the Festival, the Pixxelpoint has been developed to the event of transborder project, working with partners as the DAMS University – the Gorizia department of the University of Udine and the Lucide Society, and several sponsors and media sponsors. It is supported by the Nova Gorica City Municipality, the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, and by the European Union and its Phare CBC Slovenia/Italy 2003 Programme.

External links

Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

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