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Playlist Reviewed!
Out of the amount of press the exhibition Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art (LABoral, Gijon, 18.12.09 – 17.05.10) is generating, I’d like to point to a few nice articles:
Marie Lechner, «Playlist» secoue les puces, in Liberation, 04.02.10, available online at the URL http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101617292-playlist-secoue-les-puces (fr).
Pixxelpoint 2009 – My set on Flickr
Once Upon a Time in the West – Online show
The 10th edition of the Pixxelpoint festival will open tomorrow evening, at 8 PM. In the meantime, the online section of the main exhibition is up and running, thanks to Padiglioneinternet.com and Clubinternet.org. CHECK IT OUT HERE!!!
Once Upon a Time in the West – Catalogue Essay
Tom Jennings, Alan Turing Made Flat, 2000
D. Quaranta, “Once Upon a Time in the West”, in Pixxelpoint – Once Upon a Time in the West, exhibition catalogue, Nova Gorica 2009.
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Although the term “new media” is one of today’s great buzzwords, in actual 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, more streamlined versions of 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 drew life from 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.
Pixxelpoint 2009 – PRESS RELEASE
PIXXELPOINT 2009 – 10th International New Media Art Festival
Once Upon a Time in the West
December 4 – 11, 2009
Nova Gorica (SI) – Gorizia (IT)
Curator: Domenico Quaranta
Organization: Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica (Slovenia) is proud to announce the 10th edition of the International New Media Art Festival Pixxelpoint, that will open at the Mestna galerija Nova Gorica on December 4, 2009, at 8.00 PM. The festival will take place from December 4 to December 11, 2009, and will have two venues: the Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica, every day from 9.00 AM to 7.00 PM; and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia (Via Carducci 2, Gorizia), every day from 2.00 to 7.00 PM. Furthermore, Web based works have been collected in an online gallery designed in collaboration with Club Internet (www.clubinternet.org) and proudly hosted by Padiglione Internet (www.padiglioneinternet.com) – a project by Miltos Manetas for the Venice Biennale. The online exhibition, open every day, 24/24, will be screened in the two venues of the festival as well.
Pixxelpoint, now celebrating its 10th birthday, has become an internationally established New Media Art festival, well known in Slovenia and abroad. Its primary interest is to bring information technologies and New Media Art to a broader audience, and to help new generations in developing an alternative, more “mature” use of the computer.
