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15. NOVEMBER
17:30 Opening
of the exhibition (first pre-opening)
Agorè Gallery
19:00 Opening
of the exhibition (second pre-opening)
ex-Daimond (xD)
20:00 Opening
of the main exhibition CHECKED REALITY and
official opening ceremony of
the Pixxelpoint 2019 Festival
Nova Gorica City Gallery
21:00 AfterOpening
Gettogether - DJ Yanoosh, DJ JAB-JAB.
Klub PDG (above Nova Gorica City Gallery)
16. NOVEMBER
10:00–12:00
MonstAR zOO!, 3d
workshop (in Slovenian)
Children will jointly create MonstAR zOO!, a urban innovation
of augmented reality by AKEO and Valerie Wolf Gang.
France Bevk Public Library Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica
13:00–16:00
Maria Judova and Constanantine Nisidis: Kykeon
and presentation of
VR environment (in English)
In its Huture Space the company Arctur will host the Slovakian artist
who will in her mesmerizing VR piece Kykeon immerse you deeply into the
reality of shamanic wisdom through contemporary dance.
Arctur d.o.o.
16:00–18:00
Sandy Schwermer: Sensing
Space, workshop (in
English)
Welcome anyone who wants to experience space in a new way. (Come early
and wear comfortable clothes; maximum 10 participants.)
Slovenian National Theatre Nova Gorica, Rotunda
16:00, 17:00,
18:00 Janus A. Luznar: ICTUSCORDIS, performance
Janus A. Luznar will let us sink into a live, realtime intimate
feedback loop of music with the artist’s heart in three groups of 19
people each. (Seats limited)
ex-Daimond (xD)
18.00 SU.PERSENSO.RY,
Jasna Hribernik (SLO, 2019), Video-film programme
Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
18.30 Homo
Erectus, Ema Kugler (SLO, 2000), Video-film programme
Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
19.20 The
Space Before Sleep, Kristina Steinbock (DK, 2018), Video-film
programme
Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
20.30 Becoming
Animal, Emma Davie, Peter Mettler (CH, GB, 2018) eature
film
in collaboration with Kinoatelje
Canadian-Swiss cineast Peter Mettler, awardee of the Darko Bratina Award and guest at the festival Tribute to a Vision 2018
Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
20:00 Body
Interface
Sandy Schwermer: Birds hidden.
Bars obvious, performance
Pixxelmusic: IMstrument – Tomaž Grom, Žiga Ipavec, Jure Boš,
Mirko Cisilino (SLO, I); Maja Osojnik (SLO); JesterN – laser show
(ITA); GUDRUN GUT (D); Hybrida sound and light (I)
Entrance: 10 € / 6 € before 22.00
KC Mostovna
17. NOVEMBER
10:00 Presentation
of the MonstAR zOO!, children
lead thorugh the augmented
reality exhibition
The pine tree park next to the library
13:00-16.00
Maria Judova and Constanantine Nisidis: Kykeon
- VR environment
Arctur d.o.o.
16:00–18:00
Round table on „Minifestivals“ (in
English)
Partecipants: Lucia Dubačova (Sensorium, Slovakia), Saša Nemec
(Pixelache, Finland), Sanja Popov Leban (Sajeta, Slovenia), Renato
Rinaldi (Hybrida space, Italy), Pavla Jarc (Pixxelpoint, Slovenia), a
representative of Municipality of Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
ex-Daimond (xD)
18. NOVEMBER
13:00-16.00
Maria Judova and Constanantine Nisidis: Kykeon
- VR environment
Arctur d.o.o.
18:00 Slavko
Glamočanin in pETER Purg: Slot Machines Hacked into
Instruments, project presentation and concert
From 11th till 14th november HIT will host a week-long intermedia
workshop, featuring the maestro of device magic Slavko Glamočanin and
pETER Purg: at the Park, Casino & Hotel’s premises slot
machines will be hacked into musical instruments -- or merely
become artistic totems as eternal interfaces of unverifiable reality.
Park, Casino & Hotel
21:00
Bastl Instruments, presentation
(in English)
Prague-based Bastl Instruments will stay on the sane side of DIY,
presenting their unique approach to the development and production
of electronic musical instruments -- from portable sound boxes,
studio instruments and utilities to fully featured modular synthesizer
systems (but they might make some music too).
ex-Daimond (xD)
19. NOVEMBER
17:00 Dominik
Grdić: VIBRACIJA No.04,
presentation of sound documentary
(in English)
VIBRATION No.04 will subwoof a dedicated studio space in a sound
documentary based on site-specific research across Nova Gorica.
ex-Daimond (xD) / On display until 22nd November
20:00 Hakan
Lidbo: Alterplex,
presentation (in English)
The Swedish interface magician will not only present his strange gaming
instrument, but also take a few draws on his cacophonic homegrown
synthesizer for an appetizer.
ex-Daimond (xD) / On display until 22nd November
21:00 Chris
Csíkszentmihály: DJ I,
Robot Soundsystem, presentation (in
English)
In the spirit of endless automation, the DJ I, Robot Soundsystem will
ensure the beat goes on in a world without humans. As if this was not
enough, Chris will also revoke some good old festival FM-radio
practice in his setup of Alert Transmissions.
ex-Daimond (xD) / On display until 22nd November
20. NOVEMBER
19:00 Selected
animated films of Ars Electronica Animation Film Festival 2018
Kulturni dom Nova Gorica
19:00 Jatun:
Risba: Mpasturavacche: A
Milk-sucking Snake,
performance
The one-to-one performance will induce adult spectactors into an
exploration of the sensory abilities and the ancestral character of
snakes through wearable technologies.
(Individual entry, along the queue, from 19.00 to 21.45)
Slovenian National Theatre Nova Gorica, Rotunda
17:00–19:00
pETER Purg: Public Exhibitions and Festival Tour (in
Slovenian and English)
Nova Gorica City Gallery & ex-Daimond (xD)
21. NOVEMBER
16:00 Jaka
Železnikar: Open Map,
presentation (in English)
Artist will invite the broader crossborder community to reflecting the
Nova Gorica - Gorizia (and wider) cultural landscape on a
custom-developed online Open Map. The findings will serve as a
departure point of the festival round table on “New Arts for
New Cities”.
ex-Daimond (xD)
17:00–19:00
‘New Arts for New Places’, round
table (in English)
Partecipatnts: Dominik Grdić (Rijeka EPK2020, Croatia), Robert
Manchin (Culture Action Europe, Belgium), Marko Peljhan (Atol,
Slovenia), Neda R. Bric (Go!EPK2025, Slovenia)
ex-Daimond (xD)
20:00 Heallo,
rave
Heallo, the rave event brings the dancing crowd into the casino
-- in a happening with no performers, audience or egos, where everyone
joins in to create new forms of ecstasy, value and collectivity.
Park, Casino & Hotel
21.00, 22.00,
23.00 Abiral Khadka a.k.a. DJ Joondroid: Refecting
Corners, videoinststallation and DJ set
The project attempts to show how we have been looking past our
differences, discovering in parallel the similarities that Eastern and
Western cultures share.
KC Mostovna
22. NOVEMBER
16:00 Mapping
interface/-spaces of Art, Science and Technology, presentation
of
workshop results (in English)
ex-Daimond (xD)
18:00 Andrej
Kobal: GranuRise,
presentation (in English)
Through electronic interfaces we can get closer to interaction
experience of classical music instruments than we might think -- as
advocated by Andrej Kobal who will present his original GranuRise setup,
built within the Max MSP programme environment, in which he explores
and converges key elements of real-time sound sampling with the
interaction and sound transformation via granular and spectral
synthesis.ex-Daimond (xD)
23. NOVEMBER
15:00 Mapping
Borders, presentation of workshop results (in English)
exDaimond (xD)
17:00 TV
FREE EUROPE, project presentation (in English)
Project delivered in partnership with the School of Arts University of
Nova Gorica will be presented by Pneuma Szöv (Hungary), kicking
off its two year caravan of free-media interventions into the
crossborder topics and communities by taking the festival procession
into a daydance happening along the streets of Nova Gorica.
ex-Daimond (xD)
20:00 Human-Machine
Music
Golden/|\Diskó Ship, performance
Pixxelmusic: APPUSLO - Boštjan Simon + VJ Ticho Pixel (SLO);
SHEKUSA live set (SLO); LAG (SRB); Roli b2b Blažen DJ b2b Jaša Bužinel
(SLO)
Entrance: 10 € / 6 € before 22.00
KC Mostovna
SYMPOSIUM
18. & 19. NOVEMBER
10:00–16:00
MAST symposium -- between Art,
Science and Technology (in English)
Speakers: Anja Ibsch, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Daniela Urem, HEALLO crew, Jernej Č.
Gerbec, Lucia Dubačová, Jurij Krpan, Lavoslava Benčić, Maria Judova,
Marko Peljhan, Nayari Castillo & Helene Thuemmel, Narvika Bovcon
& Aleš Vaupotič, Robertina Šebjanič, Robert Manchin, Teena Lange,
Valerie Wolf Gang, Vuk Ćosić and more.
Moderated by: pETER Purg
The MAST symposium seeks to address an open variety of topics among
Art, Science and Technology, discussing them through different prisms
of the festival topic -- “Checked Reality. The Work at the Interface
Continues”. The MASTmodule.eu project has within this crossfield posed
two challenge topics: “The Future of Work”(2018/19) and “Solidarity”
(2019/20). Different perspectives, practices, values and philosophies
should be confronted as well as new knowledge and initiatives generated
in discussions and networking in and around the symposium.
ex-Daimond (xD)
WORKSHOPS ETC.
20.–22. NOVEMBER
10:00–16:00
Mapping interface/-spaces of
Art, Science and Technology (in
English)
Workshop is led by: Robertina Šebjanič & Robert Manchin
With a three-day workshop and a two-day theoretical symposium the
MASTmodule.eu consortium (Austria, Portugal, Croatia, Belgium,
Slovenia) will be Mapping the Initiatives, Spaces and Works across
Art, Science and New Technologies..
ex-Daimond (xD)
15.–23. NOVEMBER
10:00–18:00
Mapping Borders (in
English)
Workshop is led by: Olivera Batajić Sretenović
The ADRIART.CE network lead by the University of Nova Gorica School of
Arts will flank through and intervene into the tissue of the Nova
Gorica - Gorizia twin-town conurbation in a workshop for eight days in
a row, involving a motley flaneuring community of students and mentors
from Belgrade, Budapest, Rijeka, Graz, Skopje, Nova Gorica and Krakow.
School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica
18.–22. NOVEMBER
10:00–18:00
HEK(media)LAB
For a few days, Pixxelpoint 2019 will be hosting the Transnational
Guerilla Art School GT22, which normally resides at Glavni Trg 22,
Maribor. The School will be presenting two of its currently active
projects, Heklab and Creative Studio Huxtrl. Workshops, concerts, open
A/V jams, lectures, performances, and discussions are on the menu.
ex-Daimond (xD)
20. NOVEMBER
10:00–18:00
Drones are Among Us, open owrkshop on flying drones
TŠC Ptuj in collaboration with Franc Vrbančič and Nina Jeza,
Artists&Poor’s
ex-Daimond (xD)
17. NOVEMBER: 12:00–14:00 &
23. NOVEMBER: 11:00–13:00
Learning about and challenging yourself with the secrets of Vipava
valley amazing food&wine culture will be taken care of by Faladur: the festival audience will
namely get to prepare a joint delicious community brunch not once --
but twice!
ex-Daimond (xD)
EXHIBITIONS
The main exhibition at the NOVA GORICA CITY GALLERY (Trg Edvarda Kardelja 5, Nova Gorica) will be open for visitors every day from 9.00 to 19.00 from 16 until 23 November, 2019.
Authors and
works:
Špela Petrič will once again, after her recent
Ars Electronica
distinction, decode the paralanguage of plants in the bio-art process
of Nociceptor, intelligible also if not only to the deaf and
present the work Institute for Inconspicuous Languages: Reading
Lips.
Serbian artist Dejan Grba and Swiss artist Philippe Kocher will present their exploration of the imprecision native to GPS and make the work Study 7/0: Error-Generated Animation a generator of conceptual source material for creative processing and expression.
Sašo Sedlaček's special iteration of Om for Coin will mislead the lazy audience to participate in cryptocurrency farming.
The Lebanese artist and researcher Laure Keyrouz will check out Human Network CHAL Digital Archive Project, where literature intersects with art practices through human connection transformed into a digital space.
As if in a random shop-window of Nova Gorica, the Austrian artist Helene Thuemmel will video-gesture the landscape as an interface of perception and memory: Landscape in Gestures.
Literary itineraries between Gorizia, the Trieste region, and Friuli as gao-located augmented reality by Narvika Bovcon in Aleš Vaupotič, pointing the attention toward significant aspects of the surroundings, often present implicitly, and differently for each cohabiting community.
The installation at the AGORÈ GALLERY (Via Rastello 49, Gorizia (I)) will be open for visitors between 15.00 and 19.00 from 15 to 23 November, 2019.
Authors and
work:
Miriam Raggam, Hanns Holger Rutz, Nayari
Castillo and Reni
Hofmüller will take over the Agorè gallery (Gorizia) to feature
their subtle mixed-media piece Meanderings, an installation
recollecting physical data of the city transformed into sound passed
through a compositional generator
The installationa at EX-DAIMOND (Delpinova 20, Nova Gorica) will be open from 17 to 23 November 2019 between 10.00 and 22.00.
Authors and work:
The high-voltage setup Star Valley (Sirius) by Marko
Peljhan and Matthew Biederman
will, through the logic of
artificial intelligence chased ad absurdum, question the boundaries of
the militant.
DIFFERENT UNANNOUNCED LOCATIONS, NOVA GORICA AND GORIZIA
The Berlin based performance space Grüntaler9 will, in form of its mobile extension of BYS229 driven by the curator Teena Lange along the European motorways, import intrinsic incidents by empowering performance artists and artistic researchers -- a performance too long or too short might pop up almost anywhere along Pixxelpoint 2019, at any time!
The Kromberk industrial zone will be from 16th till 18th November connected with the cultural center of Nova Gorica through the augmented reality visions of BulvAR by Arctur.
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