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Nova Gorica – This year’s Pixxelpoint, an international festival of contemporary new media art, brings a review of Slovenian festivals dedicated to contemporary art practices at the crossroads of art, science and technology. It will be held in Nova Gorica for the 21st year between 10 and 17 December, and due to Covid-19, entirely online.
It will feature the International Festival of Computer Art (IFCA), which a tradition in Slovenia second only to Pixxelpoint, KIBLIX, which is also currently under way, the Trbovlje-based Speculum Artium, SONICA, which brings electronic music and transitory art, Lighting Guerilla, and IZIS.
The corona-edition is termed Hotspots, Hotspots of Intermedia Art in Slovenia, to highlight that despite the pandemic-driven social change, the new media art festivals are busy creating and responding, each in their own right, to topical developments in society.