Andrej Tišma, Anne Elisabeth Tassel, Gašper Mali, Marco Pelos Spaniol, Miha Oven, Taja Košir Popovič, Žan Anthony Setnikar, Annie Abrahams, Aphra Tesla Operating System Incorporated & Neven M. Agalma, Barbara Hindahl, bituur esztreym & renata avila, Constant Dullaart, Denis Mavrič, Digital Story Creator, Gretta Louw, Hannes Seidl, Inga Mijatović & Luka Pompe, Inga Mijatović, Intimidad Romero, Irena Pivka & Brane Zorman, Jan Robert Leegte, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Jelena Marković, Joško Bohunsky, Karen Eliot, Karl Heinz Jeron, Kitty Taylor, Lavoslava Benčić, Lucille Calmel, Luka Pompe, Luka Prinčič, Michaël Borras A;K.A Systaime, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Pila Rusjan & Dejan Štefančič, Robert Sakrowski, ronnie s, son:DA, Stefan Doepner & Jakob Harisch, UBERMORGEN.COM, Valérie Wolf Gang, Vlado G. Repnik, Zečica Jensen

 

from: !gor Štromajer
to: artists
date: Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:45 AM
subject: Invitation - Pixxelpoint 2014 öix°ß.ě'Í7Ő× NON-ART

Dear artist!

ˆBzh91 AY&SY'˙K8 _ ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ ˙˙˙ţ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ń› ěµÎ?ýa" 7Ĺčdˆ …÷Ő÷É ¸ H @HQR =ç U9^ »Ŕ € 0"Ń{gśp ĺ^ ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ ůŰr uH7Ó» íZŕ ú>ú 3 w')ľű=6h znMÇ }áč H$>ůî6‚ eÇ There are 10 types of people: those who can read binary and those who can't. űť Ôxú «@)@.Ŕ ° »Ęś úy>YV… }Ě˝€ Ůô 3 -- ún( R©O «ë*P*Š ‚BT" ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ †-X R ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ This is not binary. This is not art. What is not art? This is not art. 4¦8ô1Dŕ I Z¨ş°ŐtÎ Ŕ2 v4P ĄIJ *ŠTě Í°Bą¦ A Š"C čÔ% ŞR [.Öńn " % ˜ RI"HE Ą6Ĺ+GqŽ° ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ b•

×›lëśßwp^ Ů ßc ×Ö÷©÷ Ăč 36Ő€P íŐ¦§]s[)m}=ăk{›u ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ é–ŁnŘß 3 {ˇóĺö 3 Žw´ů t{Ĺź4 ˇ@ č3˘€H) P]e †´B Ćťë®I ďw Në »DîŮ Î2P € Ă@ˇˇ'Š¨ˆiˇ+[ŔĆ 0 ŽŞ …_© To paraphrase Hardt and Negri: the aim of this year's festival is to showcase the best selection of non-artistic works of media artists. 2ô†YC HâA3 ů -- ‰R!h ¨––‚)"˘!i ĆÓI KXµ …\d äPŔt©'¤6Â' Kď ń˛ ‚I \l "Q,Ať" ňÉBÜÍ%TD IQNŔ –¦"bbC Repetition is constantly changing and transcending artistic and political anxiety üś Ô$M Ö=ě ŢĘS÷…O‚ ^cFoŃŚ îpPÄ I@Rb bĂHh X™b 4¤i$"dw The cream of the crop of media art, the most sought-after electronic and electric artists, and standing next to them as equals are art students Ű ž$ .‰˘ ăóy LJSAT QI 7Ž –j(" Contemporary media art is colorful, empty, free and recklessly tense.

«ŞŔ¤‚JbĄ ©¸—^m &'‚ŠŞ˘‚bh© ˆš !¦Ş"©šˇZ(˜¦IH¨" ™" ‚š B˜J `˘¨ €™J˜Ň:JH¨bZ; ¦ ‰ŞJ ‰´hiZ)Á°" PSţÔşż˛a<™ĺÄ ! BL±@ HJJX # JDFź ?Ł66Š8CĄˆŠ ™"(J ˜š %¦d(vt4É Ő ' w` % % 'Ä"EC 2 ˛G The most radical artistic piece an artist can create, program or showcase today is that which the artist actually has in fact not made or done. This means that instead of creating art, the artist deliberately chooses not to do so, letting it remain a prisoner of its potential, even abandoning it. This year's festival thus showcases the most beautiful and radical examples of this so-called abandoned art. N€)Zhˆ"- &I†('' ŕŽĹU !T¤AJGŮLš ((˘€† ¨ ës¤ " "%âHŠJ©Ć Jұ)AA E QIDŐ 5HPE M UYcMLŐC $IDÄB DÓM Q EE That which I as the curator of this year's Pixxelpoint festival look for in the artist is the absence of art. That is all. I invite you to relax, look around and select a non-artistic piece to be presented at the festival. RĄR"A4 SJD4P•D@Ň Ądű(§ ďęč± Ř"G űšfÝů z0x¬˙Ă ™oĘ`5 Ř

H$‚AjŹ"Ş3d ZBIqý 8ŇWHYţŇ߬٠Ś tKˇ_ńg ´Ą˙ pÇꯗ ž^Çš ´źw ey€©× ś˙…Ă {ˇ\wě" Łźhµ h÷ýŞ38ŕ 4(â‰yD @úD®ÜÓŽŢ}"…óDm˙ In the words of Joško Bohunsky: "a=tF² – to find the art (a), you multiply the time (t) by the square of the force (F)." YĎă ]. BÍT6¨S Hh…og"mS~ÍÖθŐZ» ŔťŢ¦Ř7 aŔ "€Ł ÚKîýŚ‚ óíŃ -- ?Ą.±{ răö"±D6á=ˇ Ă×Öď7Aą CŰś˙ ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ QŕA3F= ]iᆠâ.Ůs_p!VSf|r0ě E ó÷•Vľ;ń < ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ q T~ň3Ű…üTs Ínű•?Ş ©aKŠ1ŰĄkĚmąĎ;•? Ž Ź J,6 At this point, let me quote John Cage: "I have nothing to say and I am saying it." íş9č ĆW"oő lʐpŽ3 # hŹ+¬r-ţ-AµÖ Mńú # Ő6 ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ ' ŚścŐ€ Ŧ5Śu @yŤ. MRQÓ›6 ę4_u vB´ lŰ6áH‡ { Š¬râ ´ Qłë ©űiŇšpý–—`s§ !"9"Ř ‡łRˇ˘OÚywˆ ă- -pń÷b ƒ´ŽŇ oP»Őč" ‰Lţ9ż- M¸Čˇ, 3 ő¦YĎRCö˜ îě[Ł¦ľ ´f˝Ƀ+4 ›Ť! Ŕ‚cX Âčś•v ©L˛ƒ˘GôŔ †«Ď8B ɇ 'ž©rB >ş°‡ jY%™ÎŘ` Or as Andy Warhol puts it: "I have no special message. I wish I did. It would be great if I had one." We can say with certainty, however, that post-accelerationism got the first outlines of radical political art, starting from Guattari. lăß űW §7ŞŘË caŔbýVťŘ ż'" # d% AK RP3Q C 3K, T´S Ó0T CL SăËD3‰ (¨Ş*iHM Řŕ+v뾐ś ň٠ߢVJfg‡!} ˛_ 2"9(ĄK! % yńNą vg ×áäěČ éżOX N¬™ů¨ }'« šŮ¨óánńxăĹŢoƒ®( ‚ Ó Oů‹Łkcą¦( qT°€qWc 3 # p

Visitors of the festival should make their own art. They should not expect us, me or you, to make, select and arrange it for them. At the end of the day, who are we, the artists and curators, to produce and showcase art on behalf of someone else? ĺż^®,}…¨Ťô¤ "żľx"Úż ˆ¤>Łň őXÜ c9c}ÁŃ…ĆÓ.Ź~XJk )átž‚&,ĺß <<Üş§UˆtĹ} *¨móuĘ oíŁ;‹ Ů32ϵA •Měç^ ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ ż" 3 Ü÷ů(8×Sł•¬ Y+ # ĽĘ> ¨mű8°@ ‰%ó5ŃĹ in the cruel neoliberal context of late capitalism XoňOźŔ y˙Môu ®^Dxrő áĂgwý l¬au%}‰Ě: ˙ ßȘ HGPŇŃ—Dď×Ď ĎdJ›} 'Ń@ Bu_čôuK ŘăĂó ׊Ň(xş µ»ŐŞČ:ƒb \[Ž Art is beautiful, but takes too much work – and work, according to Marx, is disease, as Stilinović once said. We are well aware that philosophers have so far done little else but interpret the world around us – and the point is to change it. We live in a time of post-internet art, we enjoy, that is why we are eeÁƃ‡w2ŕ ~_DúˆÇŢVd °©4ĆÚm §KPVTÉ AŚ'2ś2± ĆT‚\a. ÝîƒÝ ßxôEŕ # Ó"ĂŢSĂ Žž9ó dYęŐ today the world is proper, the bureaucrats are well-kempt, the ministers are handsome and the children do not make faces when having their photographs taken. F?©Ö4› –Y±™Âéł

Aü"ű -- é´{ emsó|}Ť4ť űfÖY †‡tŕ m۵ – ź©Xr ôw»´sŘî # î ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ ‡Ó‹ăHŰ˝tn ňtë+O # a TvÇĄ ż,ľ}ř[« Č< ľn I am a para-curator. Like the paramilitary: they pretend to be an army, when in fact they are little more than a private militia. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama. ˛O) w Á€$¤†'Ę" †\ÂĎÎ ‰óŤăVQ |>ĚëGXĺŐ •j lč~[ď ňBÚl źň¨ ¨ŽÝ®ěw -- ƒó ů U>n E ÔÎ ôř !ÉҤ"Čk Mh0 b5"~őµŘ ‡i;Í' e‚l ô°č # A"a c§L ;_|hb•IÖq:II Q¨l˙G4ÔöŘň"S J=Ň5 Ô§«~ó ÍëK÷<˘˙Ă -- •»©[š*^˛ Ă©‹ĂÓ F"çql ' úŚ5 Ć Ě~3 -- Q wŘů z$ÂC Á So I ask you this: make art relaxed and political once again. I want my fountain back! 9¬k-™Ď›Ú-' _=¸3'"w8 ` ˙ę Çb"8ÜÍPť×7E© 4 éÉR Z‚V Yp写»hI+ŕŃ Hˇ ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ ¤'N É< Ą ú *µ ¬ˆ©–OÖ"FT ‰'źƒ ˆHüř }Ŕwů˘'ě}` ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ »3DüĄŰ€V…Z $Q) Look on the other side for a moment. What is on the other side? Is it the other, non-artistic side, the dark side of art? Or is it the bright side (of life)? How does non-art look, sound and act? ]ÂÇĹ ˆś $x| < ™ ˜¬¦ˆ° Ť*Ţë ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ r˝uďw N ÝŰ7Â" öuGUw ˜¬¦ ˆ°•÷˜ ű€ éŻ!ˇ" ˇY)3 ]™q- ë®ç…´Éş îW ™÷ß ľ›čiwB ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ # ŤNW Vé <$ • ˜¬¦ ˆ°•÷˜ ĎmsĚiŰkĘŻyëg' 5t×ß:űč° ěönúř >¦°ťŕ Ż—• űgÝ " š @€ € "3˜&BiLÔň'"Ó@ h What is art? The protective fence on the wheelchair ramp must be at least 30 cm in height. What is not art? And where are the partisans in all of this? Are there none left in the Goriška region? What is non-art? Who is not Rose Sélavy? Is it? Isn't it?

Ť6dnµ yź]Ž uôŤ -ŻNE \± Ë 9Ť}Ű č>†zž úŁř G6 -- «ˇŹ ‰ 5Ď 9?:'E•xý # -- ) \^Ł×ĺ(‡ Bq }r V&3é– ü # »w+űe7Ö®» Visions are dangerous. At the moment we have no need for vision. All we need is peace and quiet, and the absence of art, sense and meaning helps. It is only then that we can truly celebrate. y»ËăĺăTA© A¨ŽŇ‚i LY `B ż ™{d ]îŠ'( !äßŰă mńl›Y9 Űí¬í3 a5Tƒ @TËIM o ŽUf čT> 3 ^ˆ=–Ěv ŮQ E˘¸…t0 Ë î"ÎŹŤŹ Qy Ş{,žX×TU ÜwŢńgűÍ-…]ƒ !)+˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ YągŃ ]Ý_´p+ŚÖ -- 5 śZšőXßÇ ˆň>KqĚé˙ ܇ŻŻŞĘÇŐč,| ©' ü,ź± 9»1Áµ y(m$ tÉ' ĚÂM ©Ç u˛č¨z }´s÷ Even the Slovenian poet Oton Župančič once wrote a song about the reset, the rebooting of the computer: "The future is a faith, he who dies in its name ascends to life as he falls to his death." But an operating system and beauty alone are not enough.

There is so much I still want to say to you, but I don't know how. Some things I am not allowed to say, and some things I simply refuse to. HłE¤g ďÂăc 6Ě9'ÇÂzŕŢbîďDh Thanks for your patience, ŕ&4Ć{\Ě ŽrąÖr_®B Q}®yq ±˜Aă éç¸j[s strictly honestly ë˘S'˛sö|ďśsí uý˜‰î!ó°>''ĹĎ ňř)Ťk‹zoă ©¬ă!™ Ś× >ĆC!8•µŰ This is what this year's Pixxelpoint is to be, §é'éĹůSęé3 v‹ä and for this reason ÜqźŻ t¬z•x7 only conditionally. There is a dourness to this art. H dA P‹° •÷½ãrùµ U흼 =îÇÉè 駝s™Ý ´Ë5¢º¥ Û•¯ ìïu pÀ ‚ Øw }vÝr«ån÷ ¼ ÓÛÛ ¯7ª5g4 0õÝc%ž ›{ zM" ¬¦ °•÷ žl" v:i* p 4®Ú Ws›VêÖ 'F«M ½ï{Ó¸s ëÁ äzç} z¯sS§Nù Œñª%z=t{ And yet a festival is a happy event, expressing a joy for life. In the words of Deleuze: "Make Love, Not Art."

A łƒb Łoˆů)ři€ é`]Xoay"c- `Ä0Ű"': ' ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ Ik‚ݘŕÄŘřQRc Ad9•UB–e&: ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ -- Ȭ–b"Zy: ˛b z'[ V• • m $oˆ«3Ž q±łc Wnr $m™$Ö Txrs˜~ kĂ'Í7Ő× Č á'lÖř× ŠŘŁc l I i4›é\ĆT"Wż^O+®ęĄÎ 'f ťX; † \g And that is why I love you endlessly. 10 ʈ' :Šä Ó `5H

Yours, XsDs3Q"I¤

Igor Štromajer
Curator l ˜¬¦ˆ°•÷˜ of Pixxelpoint 2014

 

5. 12

6.00pm opening of the exhibition
ArtOenSpace, Gorizia (I)

8.00pm opening of the exhibition NON-ART and official opening ceremony of Pixxelpoint 2014 Festival.
Nova Gorica City Gallery

sound performance:
Aphra Tesla Operating System Incorporated & Neven M. Agalma: DexeoeahoexterlesterlesterleHuxDexAA (Huxterltronics-NoiseVoice)

6. 12

6.00pm Liz Vlx / UBERMORGEN.COM, presentation
Nova Gorica City Gallery

6.30pm bituur esztreym / vnatrc.net, presentation
Nova Gorica City Gallery

7.00pm Robert Sakrowski / curatingyoutube.net & Igor Štromajer: guided tour of the exhibition and Gallery Surfing
Nova Gorica City Gallery

8. 12

10.00am Stefan Doepner & Jakob Harisch: The multimedia workshop
Nova Gorica City Gallery

3.00pm Exchange – the symposium of students of School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica: NEUMETNOST / NON-ART
School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, Goriza (I)

9. 12

9.00am Luka Prinčič: Techno Solo Presentation Public Show, workshop
Nova Gorica City Gallery
+
7.00pm public performance
Nova Gorica City Gallery

10. 12

6.00pm Luka Manojlović, guided tour of the exhibition
Nova Gorica City Gallery

7.00pm Gretta Louw: Everybody Lies [On the Internet], Networked performance
Nova Gorica City Gallery

6.00pm-7.00pm Inga Mijatović & Luka Pompe: Selfie, Interactive Installation
Nova Gorica

11. 12

9.00am Špela Furlan, guided tour of the exhibition
Nova Gorica City Gallery

6.00pm-7.00pm Inga Mijatović & Luka Pompe: Selfie, Interactive Installation
Nova Gorica

12. 12

6.00pm-7.00pm Inga Mijatović & Luka Pompe: Selfie, Interactive Installation
Nova Gorica

Kulturni dom Nova Gorica, Bevkov trg 4, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Project manager:
Pavla Jarc
Tel.: 05 33 540 11, E-pošta: direktor@kulturnidom-ng.si

Project coordinator:
Mateja Poljšak Furlan
Tel.: 05 33 540 15, E-pošta: mestnagalerija@kulturnidom-ng.si

Catalog Pixxelpoint 2014

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