View source for Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices

{{Article
| status       = NEEDSUPDATE WRITING INFOBOX TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK! PHOTO
| maintainer   = Tonko Sekula
}}

{{Infobox
| name         = Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices
| localname    = Pixxelpoint, mednarodni festival sodobnih umetniških praks
| logo         = Pixxelpoint Festival (logo).jpg
| street       = Bevkov trg 4
| town         = SI-5000 Nova Gorica
| telephone    = 386 (0) 5 335 4015
| fax          = 386 (0) 5 335 4019
| email        = mestnagalerija@kulturnidom-ng.si 
| website      = http://www.pixxelpoint.org
|organised by  = Nova Gorica Arts Centre
|photo = [[Image:Pixxelpoint International Festival of Computer Art.jpg]]
| frequency           = annual
| dates and duration  = November - December, 8 days
| duration weeks      = 48,49 (2012) 48,49 (2013) 49,50 (2014)
| festival dates      = 27.11.2015 - 4.12.2015, 2.12.2016 - 9.12.2016, 2.12.2017 – 9.12.2017, 16.11.2018 - 23.11.2018, 15.11.2019 - 22.11.2019, 10.12.2020 – 17.12.2020, 11.11.2021 - 18.11.2021, 10.11.2022 - 26.11.2022, 16.11.2023 - 30.11.2023
| contacts = {{Contact
| name         = Pavla Jarc
| role         = Project manager
| telephone    = 386 (0) 5 335 4011
| email        = direktor@kulturnidom-ng.si
}}
{{Contact
| name         = Mateja Poljšak Furlan
| role         = Project Coordinator
| telephone    = 386 (0) 5 335 4015
| email        = mestnagalerija@kulturnidom-ng.si
}}
|opening hours =
| accounts     =
https://www.facebook.com/pixxelpoint
}}

{{Teaser|

{{image|Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices 2014 Photo Matej Vidmar.jpg}}

The [[Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices]], organised by [[Nova Gorica Arts Centre]], was launched in [[Established::2000]]. Previously focused on computer art and up until 2016 going under the name International Festival of Computer Art, the festival is now running a broad focus that intermingles contemporary technologies (computer ones as well as others) with art, science and various societal practices.

The [[Nova Gorica City Gallery]] traditionally hosts the main exhibitions. Further locations such as [[TIR - Mostovna Gallery]] and some other spaces in Nova Gorica as well as the neighbouring Italian city of Gorizia host lectures, workshops, evening meetings, symposium on a given topic, and music concerts by well-known music performers. The ''internet'' &ndash; as a "lasting" platform &ndash; is also the venue for some projects. 
}}

{{Vimeo|398238101}}

==Background and mission==

The idea for the Pixxelpoint Festival originated in an ICQ virtual chat between the festival's current technical director [[Blaž Erzetič]] and its director [[Pavla Jarc]], who is also the director of the [[Nova Gorica Arts Centre]] and its [[Nova Gorica City Gallery]]. 

{{image|Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices 2015 Photo Matej Vidmar.jpg}}


The main ambition of Pixxelpoint is to achieve a lively interchange of the most recent and most important art productions from the field of new media art. The aim is also to transfer computer art into real space and link artists from different backgrounds and territories. Since 2003 themes of festivals have followed the concepts of the invited (inter)national guest curators.

{{YouTube|_dXONBeqhAI}}

==Programme==

Each year the festivak presents approximately 30 artworks from around the world, selected by an (inter)national guest curator. Since 2003 themes of festivals have followed the concepts of the invited guest curators. 

{{image|Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices 2016 installation Photo Matej Vidmar.JPG}}

In 2008 and 2009 the Italian guest curator Domenico Quaranta held the reins of Pixxelpoint, with themes entitled ''For God's Sake!'' and ''Once Upon a Time in the West'', respectively. The latter sought to revive dead media and obsolete technologies and retrieve and rekindle their aesthetics in order to "the exploration of the artistic potential of new media". 

The 2010 edition was curated by Heiko Daxl and Ingeborg Fülepp along the theme ''Triple Conjunction: Magic, Myths and Mutations'', while in 2011 the curators Gülsen Bal and [[BridA]] conceived the programme under the title ''Let's get ready!''. Among artist projects from more than a dozen countries, the Slovene pioneer of net.art [[Vuk Ćosić]] and the collective [[BridA]] were amongst the presented. 

{{vimeo|18303752}}

Slovenian guest curators up to 2018 were [[Jurij Krpan]], [[Dunja Kukovec]] and [[Nataša Petrešin]], [[Igor Španjol]], [[Narvika Bovcon]], [[Aleš Vaupotič]], [[Igor Štromajer]], [[Rene Rusjan]], and [[Božidar Zrinski]], and the art collective [[BridA]]. In 2018 the theme is ''Intelligent observer''.

==International cooperation==

Even besides involving international curators, Pixxelpoint developed itself as a transborder project, working with Italian partners such as the DAMS University – the Gorizia department of the University of Udine, the Lucide Society, and with the Agorè Gallery as a regular venue in Gorizia.

{{YouTube|2jhLe3iBj5M}}

==See also==
* [[Nova Gorica Arts Centre]]
* [[Nova Gorica City Gallery]]
* [[TIR - Mostovna Gallery]]
* [[Arts Academy of the University of Nova Gorica]]

==External links==
* [http://www.pixxelpoint.org/ Pixxelpoint website] (in English and Slovenian)
* [http://www.digicult.it/en/2009/Pixxelpoint2009.asp Pixxelpoint on the Digicult website]
* [http://arcorosca.blogspot.com/2008/11/pixxelpoint-2008-for-gods-sake-start-up.html Pixxelpoint on the Blog Temperatura 2.0]

{{Gallery}}
  
[[Category:Festivals]]
[[Category:Festivals in November]]
[[Category:Competitions]]
[[Category:New media art]] 
[[Category:New media art festivals]]
[[Category:New media art competitions]]
[[Category:Awards_and_competitions]]
[[Category:New_media_art_awards_and_competitions]]