martedì 02 febbraio, ore 22.00, via Paladini 8, Milano

Abstract:groove presenta:
pure:abstract:cinema
a live audio-visual performance

Scomporre la grammatica filmica mediante le asimmetrie del motion design e le non-regole della cultura visiva contemporanea. Un movimento iperbolico che parte dall’imperfetta perfezione di Alfred Hitchcock per arrivare alla perfetta imperfezione di Dziga Vertov. Pura astrazione cinematica eseguita attraverso l’improvvisazione insegnata dai grooves di Ornette Coleman o Coltrane. Questo è alla base dell’esperimento di abstr^ct:groove: un re-edit dal vivo delle esperienze oniriche del collettivo creativo che perquell’occasione saranno condivise con chiunque sarà pronto a varcare la soglia dell’umore astratto.

esterni prosegue così nella ricerca di progetti sperimentali e fortemente innovativi da presentare ogni martedì sera al pubblico dell’Open source.

Chiude la serata il dj set di Franky b (dj e sound designer di abstract:groove)

Abstract:groove - Biografia
Abstract:groove è un ibrido tra collettivo creativo e motion design studio fondato dal film maker e designer Luigi Pane e dall’executive producer Giada Risso. Lo studio, con base a Milano, lavora principalmente sulla ricerca di nuovi linguaggi visivi per la comunicazione e l’advertising. Nel 2008 abstract:groove è la rivelazione italiana agli Epica Awards, il prestigioso premio della pubblicità, aggiudicandosi l’oro nella categoria “best european online film” con la campagna “Diesel Kid - Explorers of the Past and Future”.

www.vimeo.com/abstractgroove

Dalle 20:30 presso la Trattoria di via Paladini
Laboratorio per la rielaborazione di pandori e panettoni

In prossimità della festa di S. Biagio martedì 2 febbraio all’Open source si terrà il laboratorio per la rielaborazione di pandori e panettoni, a cura del collettivo Arabeschi di Latte.
Un’azione simbolica e ludica per riciclare pandori e panettoni avanzati dal Natale. Un laboratorio temporaneo, una piccola “clinica” del dolce natalizio dove vengono rielaborati quelli che sono il sinonimo del natale ma anche dello spreco.

Arabeschi di Latte - Biografia
Francesca Sarti, Alessandra Foschi, Silvia Allori, Francesca Pazzagli, Francesca Sorgato sono i cinque architetti che stanno alla base di questo gruppo creativo. Il gruppo pone al centro della propria ricerca l’oggetto come fonte di piacere, come elemento anticipatore di situazioni che sfruttano principalmente la fascinazione e il potere comunicativo del cibo.

www.arabeschidilatte.org

Ingresso con tessera esterni 2010 - 5 euro

Per informazioni e prenotazioni: info@esterni.org / 02 713 613
www.esterni.org

Call for artists – residency opportunities in France 2010

For visual artists, writers, creators in other disciplines like design, fashion, architecture … with a project of residency.

artistay works with professional art residencies in France.

All residence programs we work with aim to provide a nice living environment, premises and equipment adapted for the creation, administrative and basic technical support as well as a social, cultural and artistic environment encouraging the exchange and dialogue.

Description:

- Duration of residencies from 2 weeks to 4 months

- Applicants are responsible for the funding of the residency participation fees, they can though do an application with artistay even if they haven’t secured the funding yet. We can provide necessary documentation and contacts for funding advice.

- artistay service is free of charge for the applicant.

Application:

Please email your documentation and information (CV, website or portfolio, residency proposal, date of residency) or contact Catherine Cordelle at apply@artistay.org .

We’ll study your application carefully and help you to achieve your aim of finding a residence in France, and one ideally suited to your requirements.

More details about our service and application on our website www.artistay.org

Or visite our blog: http://www.artistay.org/en/blog-artist-in-residence.html

Eventos: el mundo con forma de juego
Jueves, 4 febrero / 19:30h

Conferencia de Abelardo Gil-Fournier sobre los “newsgames” o la posibilidad de transformar los eventos del mundo en eventos de un videojuego. Actividad en el marco del taller Playlab (segunda parte de 4 al 7 de febrero). Streaming en directo. [+info]

:: ESTA SEMANA ::

Wikipedia: Un proyecto que bate todos los registros
Martes, 2 febrero / 18:00h

Charla sobre Wikipedia, la obra de referencia más grande jamás creada, en la que se introducirán las formas de organización y contribución, las nuevas tendencias en su desarrollo y las especificidades de esta obra libre e independiente creada a partir de la colaboración voluntaria. Con Miquel Vidal y Felipe Ortega. [+info]

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Taller II: Playlab: Laboratorio de experimentación con videojuegos
4 - 7 febrero

Segunda parte del taller, en el que se finalizará el desarrollo de la fase de prototipo de los ocho proyectos seleccionados, dirigidos a explorar el contexto del juego y del videojuego como espacio para el trabajo colaborativo y la confluencia de disciplinas. En colaboración con Arsgames. Con el apoyo de PlayStation® [+info]

:: DESTACADOS DE LAS PRÓXIMA SEMANA ::

Ecología y procomún: Colaboración ciudadana y visualización de la información
10 febrero / 10:00h - 14:00h en el Ateneo de Madrid (Calle del Prado, 21)

Primera sesión del grupo de trabajo propuesto y coordinado por Juan Freire y Karla Brunet en el marco del Laboratorio del procomún. Se presentará el proyecto y se discutirán casos de estudio, metodología y objetivos. El taller está abierto a la participación de cualquier persona interesada, y no es necesario inscribirse. En el Ateneo de Madrid (Calle del Prado, 21). [+info]

:: CONVOCATORIAS ABIERTAS ::
Open Up: Taller de proyectos para la fachada digital de Medialab-Prado
Convocatoria para colaboradores
Cierre de inscripciones: 8 febrero

Convocatoria para colaborar en el taller intensivo que se celebra del 9 al 23 de de febrero de 2010, en el que se desarrollan los proyectos seleccionados para la fachada digital de Medialab-Prado. Profesores del taller: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas y Víctor Viña. Dirigido por Nerea Calvillo. [+info]

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Interactivos? LABoral: When Process Becomes Paradigm
Convocatoria para proyectos
Cierre de la convocatoria: 15 febrero
Fechas del taller: 8 al 20 abril

Convocatoria para la presentación de proyectos para participar en Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, dentro del programa destinado a artistas y creadores de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón). Se seleccionarán un máximo de ocho propuestas para su desarrollo colaborativo en el taller previo a la exposición When Process Becomes Paradigm, el 23 de abril de 2010. Una colaboración de LABoral con Medialab-Prado. [+info]

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Convocatoria de Ayudas a la Creación Contemporánea - Matadero Madrid 2010
Recepción de solicitudes: hasta 16 febrero

Matadero Madrid convoca ayudas a la creación contemporánea por un total de 355.000 euros con tres modalidades de participación: A) Programa de espacios y agentes culturales independientes; B) Programa de creadores: destinado a la producción de obra de creadores individuales y colectivos; y C) Programa Matadero Madrid (incluye ayudas para proyectos dirigidos a la fachada digital de Medialab-Prado).
Bases y formulario de solicitud disponibles en: www.mataderomadrid.com

Más información en http://medialab-prado.es

English:

:: HIGHLIGHT ::

Events: A Game Shaped World
Thursday, February 4 / 7:30 pm

Lecture by Abelardo Gil-Fournier about “newsgames” or the possibility of transforming world events into videogame events. Activity within the context of Playlab workshop (second part from February 4 through 7). Live streaming. [+info]

:: THIS WEEK ::

Wikipedia: A Project that Beats All Records
Tuesday, February 2 / 6:00 pm

Lecture about Wikipedia, the biggest reference work ever created, where new organization and contribution ways, new developing tendencies and specificities about this open work will be introduced. By Miquel Vidal y Felipe Ortega. [+info]

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Workshop II · PlayLab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games
February 4 - 7

Second part of the Playlab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games, where ocho selected projects will be developed. These projects aimed to explore the context of the game and the video game as a space for collaborative work and confluence of disciplines. In collaboration with Arsgames. With the support of PlayStation® [+info]

:: UPCOMING EVENTS ::

Ecology and Commons: Citizen Collaboration and Information Visualization
February 10 / 10:00 am - 2:00 pm @ Ateneo of Madrid (Calle del Prado, 21)

First session of the work group proposed and coordinated by Juan Freire and Karla Brunet within the framework of the Commons Lab, where the project will be presented, as well as study cases, methodology and goals. The workshop is open to the participation of anyone interested and registration is not required. Venue: Ateneo of Madrid (Calle del Prado, 21). [+info]

:: OPEN CALLS ::

Open Up Workshop: Projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado
Call for collaborators
Deadline for registrations: February 8

Call for collaborations in the Advanced Workshop for Project Development Open Up, that takes place in February 9 - 23, 2010. Teachers: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed by Nerea Calvillo. [+info]

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Interactivos? LABoral: When Process Becomes Paradigm
Call for projects
Deadline: February 15
Dates of the workshop: April 8 through 20

Call for the presentation of projects to take part in Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, as part of the programme for artists and creators of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijon, Spain). A maximum of eight proposals will be selected to be collaboratively developed in the workshop that will take place prior to the opening of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm, on April 23, 2010. A collaboration of LABoral with Medialab-Prado. [+info]

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Grants Matadero Madrid 2010
Deadline: February 16

Matadero Madrid issues a call for grants for contemporary creation. For this call, the total available funds are 355,000 euros, distributed in three programmes: A) Programme for spaces and independent cultural agents; B) Creators’ Programme; C) Matadero Madrid Programme (includes grants for projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado). Guidelines and submission form: www.mataderomadrid.com.

More information: http://medialab-prado.es

sabato17 aprile 2010
HANGAR BICOCCA Milano
Festa di chiusura
Settimana del Salone del Mobile

Sabato 17 Aprile lo scenografico spazio dell’ Hangar Bicocca ospiterà la festa di chiusura del Public Design Festival.

Una grande festa aperta a tutti che tradizionalmente segna la fine della settimana del Salone del Mobile: un’area totalmente trasformata nella sua funzione d’uso per ospitare 10.000 persone da tutto il mondo, una notte in cui il pubblico del Salone del Mobile si amalgama con i giovani milanesi e tutti insieme fanno festa.

Quest’anno l’area di intervento saranno i 18.000 metri quadrati dell’Hangar Bicocca, uno spazio reso ancora più interessante dall’installazione permanente dei ?I Sette Palazzi Celesti? di Anselm Kiefer, un’opera monumentale formata da sezioni di container che simboleggiano misticamente la globalizzazione del paesaggio urbano moderno.

Uno Spazio d? arte contemporanea che per una notte accoglierà il pubblico internazionale dei creativi del Salone del Mobile con video, installazioni, sperimentazioni artistiche, aree di socializzazione e decompressione e una line up musicale diversificata per venire incontro ai gusti di tutti coloro che parteciperanno al grande evento.

Via Paladini, 8
20133 Milano - Italy
tel/fax +39 02 713 613

mail media@esterni.org
web www.esterni.org
web www.publicdesignfestival.org

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::1999-2004
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::all net.art in a brian mackern’s laptop

works of:::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern

curator::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares

technical coordination:::::::àngela montesinos

production:::::::::::::::::::
and organization:::::::::::::meiac

texts of catalogue:::::::::::rodrigo alonso
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::andrés burbano
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::gabriel galli
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::àngela montesinos

edited by::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares

translation::::::::::::::::::polisemia

designer:::::::::::::::::::::fundc [http://www.fundc.com]

publisher::::::::::::::::::::meiac

opening::::::::::::::::::::::[20h00m/05.02.10]

schedule:::::::::::::::::::::[05.02.10)(04.04.10]
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::from tuesdays until saturdays
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m-13h30m/17h00m-21h00m
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::sundays
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m-13h30m

gallery::::::::::::::::::::::3th floor
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::meiac
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::virgen de guadalupe, 7.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::e46001-badajoz
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+34924013060
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[meiac@juntaextremadura.net]
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.meiac.es]

press contact::::::::::::::::àngela montesinos
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[angela.montesinos@juntaextremadura.net]

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::exhibition intro::::::::::::::::::::::

the rotten machine is a surprising exhibition that emanates from an old laptop from 1999, owned by the uruguayan netartist brian mackern, to recreate the time when net.art had its peak brightness, and perhaps therefore, the rattle before the emergence of web 2.0 (known as social network).

brian mackern is a founding artist who was ahead of the time in the development of online and offline soundvisual interfaces. founder of online directories
[http://www.internet.com.uy/vibri] and latin netart database
[http://netart.org.uy/latino/index.html] (currently owned by meiac).
his reference sites are http://netart.org.uy, http://34s56w.org and http://no-content.net.

his computer, the rotten machine, it’s full and complete of all the data collected until the moment it was decided to be sold, on the 8th of may, 2004. it was the working tool (the studio, in classical terms) that accompanied brian mackern between 1999 and 2004, both in his personal work and in collaborative works with other artists and net jamms, apart from his work as a vj, conferences and workshops. in short, his tool.

a computer full of information and history, acquired by the meiac in order to expose it to posterity, when the development of hardware and software will prevent us from viewing many of the art pieces hosted on this computer.

the exhibition is divided into 5 audiovisual stations navigated by brian mackern himself.

1 - anthropological station: content and hardware components of the machine. sounds generated by its operation. references to files, etc.

2 - studio station: personal work (source files and visible works). The source code of his own work and at the same time the navigation of it.

3 - internet and networking station: content related to many of the projects and online/offline collaborative groups in which brian mackern has intervened.

4 - file, documentation and analysis station: random collection of information about net.art and internet culture of that time.

5 - history station. history of net.art: remix of endless net.art sites, in different states of preservation, many of them with retrofitted code to allow navigation within the machine without internet connection.

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::pics:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

a: starting point for the auction of the “rotten machine”. peam,
pescara (italy), 2004
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/a.JPG

b: display of directories contained in the computer
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/b.JPG

c: hard disk of the rotten machine with the fingerprint of its owner,
brian mackern
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/c.JPG

d: some of the stickers on the computer
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/d.JPG

e: keys that are missing, the reason why this computer is also called
*the toothless old thing*
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/e.JPG

f: way in which *the rotten machine* was exposed for auction in peam,
pescara (italy), 2004
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/f.JPG

g: accompanying monster for the rotten machine during countless
tours, alongside with the backpack shown in the picture above
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/g.JPG

h: the rotten machine working, during the exhibition for its auction
at peam, pescara (italy), 2004
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/h.JPG

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copyleft (todos os direitos ao reve’s) nilo casares

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/
index.php/fm/issue/current

The following papers are included in this month’s issue:

First Monday
Volume 15, number 1 - 5 January 2010

A persistence paradox
by Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/
index.php/fm/article/view/2776/2427

Detecting spam in a Twitter network
by Sarita Yardi, Daniel Romero, Grant Schoenebeck, and danah boyd
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/
index.php/fm/article/view/2793/2431

Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital
heterotopias
by Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/
ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2744/2428

Aliases, creeping, and wall cleaning: Understanding privacy in the age of
Facebook
by Kate Raynes-Goldie
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/
index.php/fm/article/view/2775/2432

Looking for you: An analysis of video blogs
by Maggie Griffith and Zizi Papacharissi
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2769/2430

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Issue #7
http://joaap.org/7/7.html

Available in print ($7)
http://www.joaap.org/press.htm#issue7 or online (free)

GO POST-MONEY!!!!

A new publication of conversations and thoughts reflecting on responses to economic & environmental conditions.

Edited by Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke.
Print design by Jessica Flieschmann.
Intern help Lucy Dinnen

Excerpts From the Foreword:
(http://joaap.org/7/editorial.html)

We feel it is important to list things we are suspect of at this moment. The current system of precarious labor (contract work, creative work, temp jobs) sucks and we partially asked for it. Art is often used as a gentrifier and often generates more social inequality than resistance. And we think that resistance, when seen as semiotic, is not transferable between contexts- though resistance used as a marketing tool is…

….as economic crisis comes to define our condition and spur on the relevancy of practices, which are complicit with and resistant to the withdrawal (and militarization) of power… for us this itself remains a central question. What does the “post” in “post-political politics” look like? Are we post-political because we are actually moving towards a state of barbarism?…..

Ideas are in the making. Conversations allow for horizontal playing fields to negotiate different positions towards the construction of a shared and critical discourse. In this issue, we didn’t want to privilege theorizing voices over the voices of practitioners. We don’t need new territorializations that allow for the quick and easy commodification and obfuscation of these practices into the art world; rather a discourse that equally connects to historical dialogues, and already existing discussions around the social & political context of art, cultural and social movements.

We say: Go practice.

Repetition creates conditions for the change of political subjectivity.

Go Practice!

Wall Street, Resource Re-Distribution, Green Scare, Autonomous Communities, Cooperatives (Of All Kinds), Squating Land, Social Networks, Class Compositions, Horizontalism, Food Justice, Time Banking, Artist Run Credit League, Trade, Gatherings, More.
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Go Post-Money!!! editorial by the Journal’s Editorial Collective

Welcome to the Cultural Goodwill Revolution: On Class Composition in the Age of Classless Struggle; by Marc J Leger (web only)

Gardens of Utopia: by Jennifer Breckner, Robin Hewlett, Mark Tribe (web only)

Green Is The New Red: An Interview with Journalist Will Potter: by Dara Greenwald

Food Justice Now! by Mark Vallianatos

Never Art/Work! by Stevphen Shukaitis & Erika Biddle

The Power Class: by Michael Parker

“Notes For An Artist Run Credit League; by InCUBATE

Protests Past & Protest Futures: conversation with Benj Gerdjes, Gavin Grindon and Rodrigo Nunes

The Aaron Burr Society: by Jim Costanzo

Between Art & Anarchism: Horizontalism In New Social Practices: Revolutionary Autonomous Communities & Artist’s For Social Justice: by Sue Bell Yank

Gathering The Fruit Together: conversation on gleaning with Hynden Walch and Asiya Wadud

The Free Store: by Salem Collo-Julin

Clump Camp, Real World & the Web 2.0 Social Remix: conversation with Tobias Van Veen, Kate Rich and Kayle Brandon.

A Conversation: Scott Berzofsky (Participation Park Baltimore) & Jennifer Renteria (Starlite Swap Meet LA)

Coop 57: It Is Possible To Undertake Projects Outside The Market? by Amy Franceschini

The Participant: Scenes From Time Banking: by Elana Mann

A Critical Look At Issue 7: by Lucy Dinnen

January 8 - February 26, 2010

Johanne Løgstrup, a curator based in Copenhagen, has selected the videos that are installed in the Distributed Gallery for the months of January and February. This show - which features the artists Rikke Benborg (at Fong’s), Vladimir Tomic (at Via Cafe), Cecilia Westerberg (at Ooga Booga), and Jette Ellgaard (at The Public School) - has neither a title nor a comprehensive statement, so you are invited to come to our space at 951 Chung King Road, where we have a guide with the video locations and the descriptions of each of the pieces.

For more information, see http://dg.telic.info/johanne-logstrup.html

Jette Ellgaard, Forsamlingshus/Village hall, 2009, 3 min.

Jette Ellgaard, Forsamlingshus/Village hall, 2009, 3 min.

Rikke Benborg, It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, 2008, 10 min.

Rikke Benborg, It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, 2008, 10 min.

Vladimir Tomic, Trilogy, 2004, 4 min., 7 min. and 8 min.

Vladimir Tomic, Trilogy, 2004, 4 min., 7 min. and 8 min.

Cecilia Westerberg, Cry me a river, 2007, 4 min.

Cecilia Westerberg, Cry me a river, 2007, 4 min.

The Medium Was Tedium
Panel discussion featuring Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff
The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 7 pm
$6 New Museum members, $8 general public
http://canopycanopycanopy.com

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that explores how the Web informs the experience of reading literature and viewing artworks. The publication’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The Medium Was Tedium examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff.

This event is presented as part of the New Silent series, organized by Lauren Cornell, director of Rhizome.

////// DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS THE 31ST JANUARY 2010 //////

ADITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE WINNER OF ARCO-VOCENTO PROJECT 2009:

http://laagencia.org/CSDVA_WAAP.pdf

Competition

ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO

The art of exhibiting art online. Third Edition.

Open call for proposals by VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2010 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid.

VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential.

The competition wishes to respond to the shifting context of online environments — from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond — and to draw attention to the dynamic potential of the web as a research, production and presentation platform for the specific context of art.

ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO invites individual and collaborative proposals by programmers, software engineers, designers and artists alike, that combine creative and critical thinking, technical solutions with practical competence.

ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO aims to enable the development of a powerful tool or web environment for art context, and to promote creative, original, innovative and speculative thinking in a fast developing field, reflecting new social sensibilities and art’s ability to surprise.

Total award is 15.000 euros.

Description
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid invite proposals for innovative and experimental online platforms or effective web tools to foster and stimulate the presence, exhibition, communication and management of art on the Internet. The selected proposal will be awarded with a production budget of 15,000 euros (taxes included) to realize the project.

The competition wishes to encourage research in the field of social technologies and artistic practice, and more specifically to identify current needs and provide suitable solutions for art galleries and the art market more generally in the context of the Internet. The intention behind the competition is to enhance communication and exchange between the field of art and wider society.

The proposal - a complete web concept, environment or a tool – is intended for individual art galleries and / or the ARCOmadrid Fair. The finished work should work autonomously or be maintained and supported by the artist for a period of one year.

The winning proposal will be selected by an international Jury, made up of two experts in the field of art and technology: Dr. Joasia Krysa (KURATOR/University of Plymouth, UK), CSDVA (winner of the 2009 edition with the project WAAP, Croatia) and a representative of VOCENTO (Spain). LaAgencia will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.

* Production of the award-winning proposal has to be completed in a maximum period of nine months. Once produced, a complete web concept, or environment, or tool, will be freely distributed for implementation by the participant galleries at ARCOmadrid´s 2010 edition and the galleries participating at ARCOmadrid´s 2011 edition.

* Notification of the winner date: 19th February 2010.

* The Award prize of the winning proposal will receive a total of 15.000 euros budget (taxes included).

Conditions for entry to participate:

* The competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO is open to any individual or group, of any nationality or legal entity. It is an open and international award contest.
* The proposal must be submitted through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.co/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php

* Proposals sent by e-mail, post or any other way will not be accepted.

* Each individual or group is allowed to submit only one proposal. In case of the submission of more than one proposal, only the first proposal will be considered.

* Applications for the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition can be submitted in English or Spanish. We highly recommend submitting bilingual versions of the proposal.

* The participating proposals must be for projects realizable for the value of the prize money, i.e. €15,000 (including taxes), within a maximum production period of nine months from the date of the Jury’s decision.
* The Jury reserves the right to accept or reject any of the projects, and its decision is final.
* Accepting the prize implies the transfer of property rights of the awarded project to VOCENTO, after the termination of its free distribution among art galleries participating at ARCOmadrid 2010 and those taking part in the 2011 edition. VOCENTO agrees not to commercialize nor distribute it in any other form than that described. After two years VOCENTO may make the project available to the public under the license CreativeCommons, Attribution 2.5 Spain.

APPLICATIONS

* Opening date for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the 1st December 2009 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call for Proposals website.

* Deadline for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the 31st January 2010 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call of Proposals website.

* The application form and guidelines will be available from 1st December 2009 ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at the proposal must be submitted through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php

For further information about the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition, please get in contact with:
LaAgencia
Vicente Matallana
Tel: (34) 91 366 8821
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