DOMENICO QUARANTA

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Pixxelpoint 2008 – For God’s Sake!

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PIXXELPOINT 2008 – FOR GOD’S SAKE!

9TH INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
DECEMBER 5TH – 12TH, 2008
NOVA GORICA (SLOVENIA)
OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
http://www.pixxelpoint.org/2008/

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 addressed 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.

Press Materials:

Catalogue (eng / slo)

Catalogue text (ita)

Catalogue text (eng)

Flyer (ita / slo)

Press Release (ita)

Press Release (eng)

Press & Media (selected):

Rhizome.org (Marisa Olson)

RTVSLO

VEST.SI (video interview with Mateja Poljšak-Furlan, Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica)

Exhibition Images:

Pixxelpoint 2008

Written by Domenico Quaranta

December 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm