[aha] PIXXELPOINT 2009 - CALL FOR ARTWORKS

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scusa Domenico
ma dato che non capisco bene l'inglese
potresti solo specificare se volete opere fatte adesso con vecchia 
tecnologia oppure anche o solo vecchie opere del tempo che fu?

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Domenico Quaranta ha scritto:
> Dears,
>
> These are the very last days to apply for the Pixxelpoint 2009 call  
> for artworks. The application can be sent either via e-mail (to the  
> address pixxelpoint2009 at gmail.com) or via traditional mail to the  
> following address:
>
> Pixxelpoint
> Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
> Bevkov trg 4
> SI 5000 Nova Gorica
> Slovenia
>
> These are the guidelines for this festival edition:
>
> 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!
>
> More infos:
>
> http://www.pixxelpoint.org
>
> http://domenicoquaranta.com
>
> ---
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> Domenico Quaranta
>
> http://domenicoquaranta.com/
>
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