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PIXXELPOINT 2008 / FOR GOD'S SAKE!
Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica (Slovenia) is pleased to announce the 9th
International New Media Art Festival Pixxelpoint, that will open at
the Nova Gorica City Gallery (Mestna galerija Nova Gorica) on December
5, 2008, at 8.00 PM. The festival will run from December 5 to December
12, 2008.
Pixxelpoint is one of the most successful and renowned festivals of
new media art in Slovenia and also abroad. Its purpose is firstly, to
bring the information technology and new media art closer to the
general public, and secondly, to raise awareness about a different
potential to use computer among the young.
FOR GOD'S SAKE!
This year's edition of the festival focus on the theme “FOR GOD'S
SAKE! How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour /
curse the divinity”, suggested by the Italian art critic, teacher and
curator Domenico Quaranta. In his words, “contemporary artistic
projects have often raised such issues as technological fetishism, the
oracular nature of the internet, the fideistic attitude we have
towards the media and the evangelizing bent of those who produce them.
This art often takes a critical approach, but also looks for an
authentic vehicle of spirituality in the media. Taking this as its
theme, Pixxelpoint 2008 addresses saints and heretics alike, showing
projects which explore the relationship between media and spirituality
at a key point in human history, a time of civilization clashes and
neocon upsurges, apocalyptic nightmares and hopes for a new
enlightenment.”
Among the works, distributed between the two spaces of Mestna Galerija
Nova Gorica and Galerija Tir in Mostovna, the ones selected through
the international call for artists are presented together with the
ones proposed by internationally renown artists invited to take part
in the exhibition. As in the previous editions, the festival program
involves panels, workshops, musical events and the screening of a
movie. The events will take place on both the sides of the border
between Italy and Slovenia: together with Mostovna, Associazione
Lucide and Dams – Universitŕ di Udine, located in Gorizia, have been
involved. They will produce Pixxelmusic, a parallel festival that will
run from December 10 to 12, 2008.
THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition, distributed between Nova Gorica and Mostovna, is the
result of a difficult process of selection of the more than 110
applications arrived this year; a selection that should take into
account not just the quality of the proposals, but also their ability
to embody the suggested theme in a different way, and to integrate
effectively the projects shown by the invited artists. The exhibition
consists of 30 works by 30 different artists. Among them, etoy's
Mission Eternity project, described as a “digital cult of the dead”;
the network of meditating computers set up by the German artists Ute
Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger; the Empathy Box by the Italian collective
Io/cose, which helps building a spiritual community based on the
sharing of pain; the anti-institutional, new media rituality suggested
by Otherehto; Martin Conrads and Ingo Gerken's conceptual work, an
interrogation on the ritual use of communication technologies; and
then Gazira Babeli and Patrick Lichty's video-installation 7UP, a
research on the meaning of an avatar life, and Janez Janša's remake of
Koyaanisqatsi, which uses Google Earth as a source. The video
screening, situated in the Galerija Tir in Mostovna, collects all the
videos on show at the festival, putting together some brand new works
with recent “classics” such as Negativland's The Mashin' of the Christ
(2004) and Eddo Stern's Deathstar (2004) , an exploration of the
relationship between religion and violence.
Below, the complete list of all the participating artists:
ALTERAZIONI VIDEO (Italy); GAZIRA BABELI & PATRICK LICHTY (Italy /
USA); BridA / JURIJ PAVLICA, TOM KERŠEVAN, SENDI MANGO (Slovenia);
MARTIN BUTLER (Netherlands); MARTIN CONRADS & INGO GERKEN (Germany);
BRYANT DAMERON (USA); ETOY (Switzerland / International); UTE HÖRNER &
MATHIAS ANTLFINGER (Germany); IO/COSE (Italia); JANEZ JANŠA
(Slovenia); JAŠA (Slovenia); MARKUS KISON (Germany); CLEMENS KOGLER &
KARO SZMIT (Austria); OLIVER LARIC (Germany); LES LIENS INVISIBLES
(Italy); KEVIN LOGAN (USA); MANU LUKSCH (UK); MOLLEINDUSTRIA (Italy);
PETROS MORIS (Italy); NEGATIVLAND (USA); OTHEREHTO (Cyberspace); PASH
(Germany); CRISTIANO POIAN & PAOLO TONON (Italy); SECOND FRONT (Second
Life / International); DANA SEDEROWSKY (Sweden); GULI SILBERSTEIN
(Israel); ALAN SONDHEIM (USA); EDDO STERN (USA).
PIXXELMUSIC
On December 10, 2008, at 6.30 PM Pixxelmusic, a related festival, will
open in the restaurant “Al Falegname” in Gorizia, Italy. The festival
will run until December 12, and includes many different events.
Pixxeldinner, a dinner / panel (coordinated by Marco Mancuso, director
of the editorial project Digicult) that will take place after the
opening mixing pleasure, conviviality and culture, will involve the
following speakers: Claudio Sinatti, filmaker, vj and video artist;
Antonio Riello, artist and teacher; Peter Mlakar, head of the
Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy of the NSK; Jurij Krpan,
director and curator of the Galerija Kapelica in Ljubliana; and
Claudia D’Alonzo, indipendent curator. Pixxellab (December 11), a vj
session with the Dutch artist EBOMAN and the Italian duo Mylicon/EN,
and Pixxelnite (December 12), with the group Useless Wooden Toys, will
close the festival.
PROGRAM
December 5th 2008
8 p.m. Opening of Pixxelpoint - 9th International New Media Art Festival
Mestna galerija Nova Gorica (City Gallery)
December 6th 2008
6 p.m. Workshop with members of art group Etoy
Mestna galerija Nova Gorica (City Gallery)
9 p.m. Electro Music Night
DJ set Roli, Gogo, Krle
Mostovna
Entrance fee: 3 EUR
December 9th 2008
6 p.m. eXistenZ, D. Cronenberg (Canada, UK, 1999)
Kinemax, Hall 2 (P.zza Vittoria 41), Gorizia
In collaboration with organization “La Farfalla sul mirino”.
Film will be screened in Italian language. Free entrance.
December 10th 2008
6.30 p.m. Opening of Pixxelmusic08
Restaurant Al Falegname (Via Maniacco 2), Gorizia
7.30 p.m. Pixxeldinner
Restaurant Al Falegname (Via Maniacco 2), Gorizia
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December 11th 2008
3 p.m. Workshop with art group Mylicon/EN
Palazzo del Cinema, Dams Cinema, Red Hall
(P.zza Vittoria 41), Gorica
In collaboration with Universita di Udine, DAMS Gorizia.
9 p.m. Pixxellab
Participating: Mylicon/EN, EBOMAN
Performances
Auditorium della Cultura Friulana (via Roma 5), Gorizia
December 12th 2008
10 p.m. Pixxelnite
Mostovna
End of the festival
MORE INFOS:
www.pixxelpoint.org
www.pixxelmusic.com
PRESS IMAGES
http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/pixxelpoint2008.html
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