From dorkbotsofia at dorkbot.org  Tue Jul  5 03:08:15 2005
From: dorkbotsofia at dorkbot.org (dorkbot-sofia)
Date: Tue Jul  5 03:08:52 2005
Subject: [dorkbotsofia-blabber] Fwd: readme 100 software art factory - call
	for submissions
Message-ID: <769b88172cbc4706136825d03eb5f42a@dorkbot.org>

Dorkbot collaborated with the readme software festival last year...
They're doing another one this year, here's their call for
participation.  Feel free to distribute!



Begin forwarded message:

> README 100: Temporary software art factory
> http://readme.runme.org
>
> Call for proposals: Deadline August 8, 2005
>
> What:
> Readme festival in the year 2005 aims at supporting the production of
> software art projects and texts critically engaging with software art.
> Readme 100 will support up to 6 projects and up to 6 articles on the
> competition basis. Each project will get a budget from 500 to 3000 
> euros
> (depending on the project complexity) and each article - 500 euros. The
> completed or close to completion works and texts will be presented at
> the off-line event scheduled for November 4-5, 2005 in the State and
> City Library of Dortmund, Germany. Completed works will be honorably
> published at Runme.org repository.
>
> How:
> Proposals for projects and texts should be sent to og {at} dxlab.org 
> and
> inke.arns {at} hmkv.de no later than August 8. Readme 100 only supports
> new projects and texts. The decision will be publicly announced on
> August 15, 2005. Please prepare the material in whatever format you see
> fit. Make sure you include the concept / outline (around 1 page of text
> -approx. 1.800 characters), a short CV, links to your previous 
> projects,
> the estimate budget, and any material you find appropriate.
>
> Focus:
> Different ways of software art production, including self-employing,
> hiring, using open source solutions, interfacing with IT economy sector
> and educational/cultural institutions.
>
> Outsourcing:
> Besides ways of production common for art and open source, we suggest 
> to
> consider outsourcing solutions (more details on Readme website) as they
> are proven to be efficient and adequate for the modern globalized
> economy.
>
> Factory - idea and location:
> Readme 100 wishes to use the potential of the idea of production.
> Software art is often produced using conventional software production
> models; sometimes pragmatic software tools get regarded in terms of
> software art and vice versa: software art projects get used and sold as
> tools. One could hire an Indian programmer to code a piece of software
> art; one could get rich from selling well-advertised unconventional
> software, one could discover that an author of a conventional software
> piece always felt it was something "different". Readme temporary
> software art factory would like to focus not only on the product 
> itself,
> but on the way of its production, and experiment with different models
> of production in relation to art, including outsourcing, work within IT
> companies or self-production.
>
> Readme 100 regards texts as essential parts of the production process;
> critical texts are welcome to be produced at the temporary software art
> factory.
>
> What makes Dortmund particularly interesting as a venue for Readme 100
> is the fact that the city and the whole region of the Ruhrgebiet is in
> full transition from a former heavy industrial city (coal, steel) to a
> city/region focusing on new technologies.
> This setting symbolises exactly the transition from a fordistic /
> industrial production model to a post-fordistic / post-industrial one.
> The fordistic production model is represented by, e.g. Hollerith
> calculating machines, machine processing, "mechanization takes 
> command",
> batch processing. The post-fordistic, globalization-related model which
> started to evolve in the 1970s, is characterised by upcoming concepts 
> of
> timesharing, offshore outsourcing, borders transparent for capital but
> not for human resources, the introduction of object oriented 
> programming
> languages, the increasing networking of computers and the first
> multimedia computers. The "temporary software art factory" as a concept
> relates both to the originally fordistic calculating machine, the
> networked, interactive medium that emerged from it, and globalized 
> modes
> of production.
>
> Who:
> Readme 100 is hosted by Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany,
> and is organized by Inke Arns, Olga Goriunova, Francis Hunger and 
> Alexei
> Shulgin. The organizers will also form a selection committee together
> with Amy Alexander and Alex McLean from Runme.org.
>
> Readme is a travelling media art festival with a focus on software art.
> Its mission is software art development and critical contextualisation.
> Readme is closely related with Runme.org, the software art repository.
>
> Readme festival history:
> 2002, Moscow. Beginning of formation of self-reflecting scene.
> Generating the first definitions of software art.
> 2003, Helsinki. Launch of Runme.org, the software art repository.
> Introduction of software art categories. Accumulating projects in the
> database.
> 2004, Aarhus. Further development of critical discourse: Software Art
> and Cultures Conference. Runme-Dorkbot city camp - a face-to-face
> meeting of "people doing strange things with software".
>
> Why is the festival called "Readme 100" if it is just the forth 
> edition:
> 4 equals 100 in the binary numeral system; we use this system here for
> the reason of beauty of the title.
>
> Readme 100 is supported by:
> -Ministerium fuer Staedtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des Landes
> NRW, "OffScene"
> -Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, Dortmund
> -LesArt Literaturfestival, Dortmund
> -Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund
> -Runme.org
>
> URLs:
> Readme
> http://www.readme.runme.org
>
> Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
> http://www.hmkv.de
>
> Runme.org
> http://runme.org
>