[aha] PIXXELPOINT 2009 - ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

[Luisa Valeriani]

grande progetto, Domenico! spargo la voce...
lv

Il giorno 24/giu/09, alle ore 10:21, Domenico Quaranta ha scritto:

> PIXXELPOINT 2009 - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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>
> ENTRY FORM (PDF): http://www.pixxelpoint.org/entryform2009.pdf
> DEADLINE: September 30th 2009, arrival date.
>
> *** *** ***
>
> Once Upon a Time in the West
>
> We keep on talking about “new media”, while in actually fact these
> media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start
> counting from the advent of the Web, forty if we start from Arpanet.
> Spacewar!, the first videogame ever, is more or less the same age.
> Virtual worlds are the updated, lighter versions of a technology
> acclaimed as “the future” when Second Life programmers were still in
> diapers; social networks are the bastard sons of Fidonet. As for the
> computer, it is younger than Lord Byron, but certainly not than his
> daughter Ada.
>
> Once upon a time there was the electronic frontier, an abandonware
> myth which was able to regenerate itself thanks to the continuous
> advance of the frontier itself. Like in space, in technological
> progress there's no ocean at the end of the trip. But, unlike the
> space race, the race to the next technology is endless, and
> endlessness is boring.
>
> Yet, while we got used to innovation and the day-after rhetorics, we
> have never got used to the loss of the past. We look back to what was
> new yesterday and is trash today, and we feel a deep sense of
> nostalgia. Commodore 64 and 386dx. The first Apple Macintosh. Bulletin
> Board Systems. Animated gifs. Glittering images. Web buttons. Super
> Mario. Doom. Napster. Jennicam. Mosaic. ASCII art. MIDIs and MOOs. Not
> to mention VHS, vinyl, audio cassettes, cathode tubes, portable
> radios, faxes. It is the kind of nostalgia that we feel for a relative
> who died young, once the pain abates: you are left wondering what kind
> of man he would have been. Or for someone that, once grown up, does
> not live up to his or her promise. Sometimes nostalgia develops into
> historical research, and becomes media archeology. We don't look for
> the technologies that we once loved, but those we have never seen in
> action.
>
> But in both the cases, in the artistic field this sentimental look at
> the past is producing some brand new, interesting stuff. Reviving dead
> media and obsolete technologies, retrieving and rekindling their
> aesthetics, making them do things they were never expected to do, and
> telling stories about them with other means is proving to be a sound
> artistic strategy – undoubtedly more so than “the exploration of the
> artistic potential of new media” which became the mantra of most New
> Media Art. This happens because, when you give up on the rhetorics of
> novelty, what is left on stage is the human element: the man of the
> past who domesticated the media, put his own life into them and was
> changed by them; and the man of the present, who looks back on that
> past with the same sentiment as the venerable Sergio Leone looked to
> the West.
>
> On the occasion of its 10th Birthday, Pixxelpoint festival wants to
> explore this feeling. Clean out your attic, the folders you haven’t
> touched for years, GIF repositories, your university's warehouse, and
> the dumps of Silicon Valley – or its small-town emulators. Get your
> hands on this stuff, and send us your finds. Any media is allowed,
> apart from new!
>
> Domenico Quaranta, curator
>
> *** *** ***
>
> Rules and conditions
>
> 1.
> Pixxelpoint 2009 International New Media Art Festival will begin on
> December 4th 2009 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in Nova Gorica City Gallery
> (Mestna galerija Nova Gorica) and it will last for eight days, until
> December 11th 2009.
>
> 2.
> Competitors can choose between categories:
> - New media installation (new media work that is exhibited in spatial
> arrangements)
> - Computer based art (new media work that doesn’t require physical
> space, for example, programs, computer games, internet art, etc.)
> - Digital print
> - Video
> - Other (work in traditional media - ie drawing, painting, sculpture,
> embroidery and so on - that may fit thematically or conceptually in
> the exhibition)
>
> 3.
> Submissions must be sent free of charge to:
> Pixxelpoint
> Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
> Bevkov trg 4
> SI 5000 Nova Gorica
> Slovenia
>
> (Att. Blaz Erzetic)
> E-mail: pixxelpoint2009 at gmail.com
>
> Deadline is September 30th 2009, arrival date.
>
> 4.
> Works can be sent on:
> - CD-ROM
> - DVD-ROM
> - e-mail (pixxelpoint2009 at gmail.com)
>
>
> Label on the media must contain the name of the author and the work.
> Every single work must be accompanied by entry form. Works submitted
> without this entry form will not be valid. In case of sending by
> email, attach scanned filled form or send it by fax to 00386 33 540
> 19. Media will not be returned.
>
> 5.
> There are no software and hardware limitations.
>
> 6.
> Competitors agree that their work can be used for promotional purposes
> for the festival Pixxelpoint and catalogue for Pixxelpoint festival.
>
> 7.
> Submitted works will be selected by the curator on the basis of
> artistic achievement. Autors whose works are admitted to the contest
> will be contacted by the oragnizers.
>
> 8.
> Author guarantees the authenticity of his/her work. In case that work
> is partially or completely not competitor’s property, he/she assures
> that he has all the rights and permissions to use this work.
> With this statement the author frees the festival of any
> misunderstandings regarding copyrights.
>
> 9.
> Pixxelpoint will not sell artworks or copyrights of the submitted
> works. The festival is meant only as exhibition and promotion for the
> artists.
>
> 10.
> All submitted works must match the given theme ‘Once Upon a Time in
> the West’ as described on this page.
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Domenico Quaranta
>
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