Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

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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 is to transfer computer art into real space and link artists from different backgrounds and territories. It attracts over 3000 visitors each time.

History

The idea for the Pixxelpoint Festival originates in the ICQ virtual talk between present technical director of the festival Blaž Erzetič and Pavla Jarc, director of the Pixxelpoint, as well the director of the Nova Gorica Arts Centre and its Nova Gorica City Gallery.

Since 2003 themes of festivals are following concepts of the invited national guest curators; 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. The festival intends to work further with international and national curators.

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 the festival was featured unter the title For God's Sake! In 2009, second time curated by the Italian Quranta the festival was entitled Once Upon a Time in the West and has been reviving dead media and obsolete technologies and retrieving and rekindling their aesthetics and so was proving “the exploration of the artistic potential of new media.” Among Slovene pioneer of intermedia art Vuk Čosić and the collective BridA artist projects from more than dozen counties were presented. Some works of them are still on the view collected on the Festival web page, where all 10 editions of the Pixxelpoint are documented as well.

Venue

Traditionally featuring the exhibition as the central event, is the City Gallery Nova Gorica since the beginning of the Pixxelpoint Festival its main venue. 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 also the venue for some projects.

Applications

Each year the Pixxelpoint Festival appoint the guest curator, who is inviting artists by his/her choice, introduces a theme in the form of the international call for applications. The majority of presented projects of the Festival are chosen out of arrived applications. The call is usually published in the early summer with the dead line of the end of September each year.

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

Cooperations and Support

Beside involved international curators as a form of international cooperation, 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

Contents

History

Mission and programme

Venue

Applications

Cooperations and Support

See also

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