[spectre] Pixxelpoint Computer Art Festival, Slovenia

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:23:25 +0200
From: Blaz Erzetic <blaz at erzetich.com>
Subject: Pixxelpoint Newsletter

Pixxelpoint 2003 - International Computer Art Festival

- -- Newsletter - April 8th 2003 --

Hi to everyone!

The 4th edition of Pixxelpoint is on the way. We'll start with the new
site and information about the festival in the beginning of May.

In the meantime you may be interested in participating at Memefest
festival (www.memefest.org) that helped our event in 2002. Plese see
their communication:


"We thought you might like to hear about "Memefest: The International
Festival of Radical Communication"

As a concept, Memefest crawled out of Slovenia¼s academic and artistic
mix
in response to the recent conditions of the country¼s cultural
environment.
While continually exposed to radical doses of branding and commercial
information and an educational system which has geared talented youth
more
and more towards market professions such as the advertising industry,
we,
the founders of Memefest, have decided to create a space to help
Slovenian
and global youth to rise up against the powers that be while celebrating
the
strengths and talents these young communicators bring to their
subversion.

This „festival of radical communication¾ sets out to explore different
tactics for using information to shift culture and create lasting social
change. Every year, we invite submissions from international students
and
activists which critically approach cultural issues through text and
visuals. If you're a student of any stripe (undergrad/ grad/ part-time)
you
can enter your work in the official competition under one of three
divisions
(communications studies, sociology, visual arts) and qualify for an
award of
300 EUR.

For those who are interested, we have set up an extensive website with
all
the guidelines and an easy to use online submission form.

visit: http://www.memefest.org

No matter what you do with Memefest- submit, browse, critique, we
appreciate
your input and will use it to keep evolving. After all, the world is a
pretty #$%- ed  up place and we've just begun!"


In case you have a question or comment, don't hesitate to send us an
e-mail at
info at pixxelpoint.org

Best regards,
Blaz Erzetic & Pixxelpoint staff
http://www.pixxelpoint.org

PS
If you have received this message by mistake or you don't want to
receive further informations about Pixxelpoint, please kindly reply to
this email with "Remove" in subject line.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Pixxelpoint 2003 - Mednarodni festival racunalniske umetnosti

- -- Novice - 8. april 2003 --

Pozdravljeni!

Pricenjamo s cetrto edicijo Pixxelpointa. Predvidoma se bo to zgodilo
maja.

Medtem bi vas lahko seznanili s sporocilom festivala Memefest
(www.memefest.org), kateri so pomagali pri lanskem Pixxelpointu:


"POVEJ, KAR VIDIä!

Memefest 2003 MEMEFEST, mednarodni ötudentski festival öirjenja idej je
v prejönjem mesecu z ekskluzivnimi predavanji kulturnega kritika in
aktivista Briana Holmesa zakorakal v svoje drugo leto ûivljenja, v teh
dneh pa se zacenja veliki start letoönjega tekmovalnega dela festivala!
Lanskega festivala so se udeleûili dodiplomski in podiplomski ötudentje
iz podrocji komunikologije, sociologije in vizualnih komunikacij iz
petih drûav sveta in se z svojimi deli odzvali na z naöe strani
izpostavljeni tekst iz knjige "No logo", avtorice Naomi Klein, ki
obravnava procese in ucinke "brandinga".
Letos öe bolj vznemirljive in aktualne komunikacijske izhodiöcne teme -
za komunikologe in sociologe tekst iz dela "The conquest of cool"
avtorja Thomasa Franka, za vizualce razvpiti oblikovalski manifest
"First things first". In tokrat öe bolj eminentna strokovna mednarodna
ûirija -  k sodelovanju smo  pritegnili tudi slavnega in  razvpitega
medijskega teoretika Douglasa Ruskoffa. Med slovenskimi clani  ûirije pa
so se nam letos pridruûili tudi  dr. Sandra Baöic Hrvatin (FDV,
Slovenija) in dr. Miro Kline (FDV, Slovenija). Ponovno pa ostajajo v
krogu ûirije tudi lanski strokovnjaki, kot so dr. Rastko Mocnik (FF,
Slovenija), dr. Tanja Rener  (FDV, Slovenija), mag. Zdravko Papic (ALU,
Slovenija), Paul Shoebridge, (Adbusters,  Kanada) in mnogi drugi. V vseh
tekmovalnih podrocjih bomo najboljöim dodiplomskim in podiplomskim
ötudentom spet podelili nagrade odlicnosti in denarni znesek v viöini
300 EUR. V letoönjem letu uvajamo NOVOST:  Tvoja udeleûba na festivalu
je brezplacna!

TE DNI JE IZäEL TUDI NOV PRIJAVNI KATALOG - prebereö si ga lahko tudi na
festivalski spletni strani: http://www.memefest.org , ki je temeljno
komunikacijsko orodje naöega festivala! Na njej najdete podrobne
informacije o poteku festivala, pravilih tekmovanja, ûiriji in öe
marsicem.

ANALIZIRAJTE, RAZISKUJTE, USTVARJAJTE! IN  NAM SVOJE ESEJE, ZNANSTVENE
CLANKE IN VIZUALIZACIJE POäLJITE NAJKASNEJE DO 15. MAJA 2003!"


V primeru, da imate kaksno vprasanje ali pripombo, vas vabimo, da nam
le-to posljete na nas elektronski postni predal
info at pixxelpoint.org

Lep pozdrav,
Blaû Erzetic in Pixxelpoint osebje
http://www.pixxelpoint.org

PS
Ce ste prejeli to sporocilo po pomoti oz. ne zelite vec prejemati novic
o Pixxelpoint-u, prosimo, odpiöite na prejeti email z "odstrani" v
naslovni vrstici.