Pixxelpoint Newsletter

[Blaz Erzetic]

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 Slovenia¹s academic and artistic
mix
in response to the recent conditions of the country¹s 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 ³festival of radical communication² 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
	
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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 VIDIŠ! 

Memefest 2003 MEMEFEST, mednarodni študentski festival širjenja idej je
v prejšnjem mesecu z ekskluzivnimi predavanji kulturnega kritika in
aktivista Briana Holmesa zakorakal v svoje drugo leto življenja, v teh
dneh pa se zacenja veliki start letošnjega tekmovalnega dela festivala! 
Lanskega festivala so se udeležili dodiplomski in podiplomski študentje
iz podrocji komunikologije, sociologije in vizualnih komunikacij iz
petih držav sveta in se z svojimi deli odzvali na z naše strani
izpostavljeni tekst iz knjige "No logo", avtorice Naomi Klein, ki
obravnava procese in ucinke "brandinga". 
Letos še bolj vznemirljive in aktualne komunikacijske izhodišcne 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 še bolj eminentna strokovna mednarodna
žirija -  k sodelovanju smo  pritegnili tudi slavnega in  razvpitega
medijskega teoretika Douglasa Ruskoffa. Med slovenskimi clani  žirije pa
so se nam letos pridružili tudi  dr. Sandra Bašic Hrvatin (FDV,
Slovenija) in dr. Miro Kline (FDV, Slovenija). Ponovno pa ostajajo v
krogu žirije 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 najboljšim dodiplomskim in podiplomskim
študentom spet podelili nagrade odlicnosti in denarni znesek v višini
300 EUR. V letošnjem letu uvajamo NOVOST:  Tvoja udeležba na festivalu
je brezplacna!

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

ANALIZIRAJTE, RAZISKUJTE, USTVARJAJTE! IN  NAM SVOJE ESEJE, ZNANSTVENE
CLANKE IN VIZUALIZACIJE POŠLJITE 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,
Blaž Erzetic in Pixxelpoint osebje
http://www.pixxelpoint.org

PS
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