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Subject:    K-ARTIST:Fwd: Software Art award
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-22 20:01:05
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  As in February 2001, Berlin transmediale festival will award a prize in
  the category of "Software Art". The official (last!) call for entries
  follows below. Since I have been in the jury for the previous award, I
  can assure you that Free Software work is especially welcome. We didn't
  receive any copylefted/Linux code last year.

  If there are any readers on linart who consider their code "Software
  Art" (i.e. a work of art itself rather than just a tool which
  allows others to create art with), please enter it today, as the
  deadline is close. Keep in mind that transmediale is not necessarily
  looking for work that fulfills traditional notions of art (as involving
  sound and imagery). Your entry could as well be a mind-challenging
  algorithm, an evil script, a Perl poem, simulated code etc.

  Again, please don't hesitate to contribute and enter your work today.

  Florian

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  From: Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>
  Subject: FINAL CALL: transmediale.02 award competition

  transmediale.02

  [go public !]
  international media art festival berlin
  5 - 10 February 2002


  Deadline: 31 August 2001
  Submission form: http://www.transmediale.de (pdf download)


  CALL FOR ENTRIES

  The transmediale is a platform for artistic presentation and critical
  reflection on the role of digital technologies in present-day society. The
  festival provides a forum for communication between artists, those working
  in the media and a wide range of experts and offers a stimulating
  environment for the presentation of major new projects from digital
  culture.

  The transmediale.01 invites the submission of artistic projects developed
  since1999 in the fields of Interactive, Image and Software Art.

  INTERACTIVE - Interactive Systems

  This category covers artistic productions focusing on human interaction
  with and through digital media. Interactive systems consist of several
  components which combine to create an artwork that can be experienced
  invidually or collectively and whose outcome is relatively open and
  dependent on the recipiant's participation. These can be locally based
  systems like installations or performances, as well as open, networked or
  activist processes. The evaluation of these works hinges on their
  reflection of current social and cultural conditions and on the choice of
  adequate media and components which articulate the intention of the
  project.

  IMAGE - linear and non-linear moving images

  This new competition category replaces the old video category which was
  part of the competition for over 10 years. The new category focuses on
  innovative approaches to the development of moving images in the age of
  digital, interactive and net-based media. Of particular interest are the
  transformation of visual languages, new non-linear narrative structures
  and innovative forms of presentation and reception. The reformulation of
  this competition category brings into view formats like video performance,
  Internet movie or interactive story telling, which go beyond the classic
  video image without developing entirely open and interactive structures.

  SOFTWARE ART

  For the first time, transmediale.01 called for submissions in this
  category which, as a genre, is still being debated. For transmediale.02,
  we again invite projects in which the artistic process is largely
  dependent on the execution of code. Software not as a functional tool on
  which the "real" artwork is based, but software code as the material of
  artistic creation. Software Art can be the result of an autonomous
  creative practice, but can also refer critically to the general
  technological and social meaning of software.


  The evaluation by the jury requires good documentation of submitted works
  (especially in the fields of Software Art and Interactive). Where
  appropriate, an explanation should be given as to which aspects of the
  works the jury should consider in particular. For understanding jury
  requirements, please consult last year's jury statements which are online.

  The selected works will be invited to transmediale.02 and will be
  presented, circumstances permitting, in the exhibition, screenings, the
  media lounge or on stage. In addition, we are considering continuous
  availability of the video works in the media lounge through a local
  server.

  transmediale award

  Prizes worth EU 5,000 will be awarded in each of the three categories
  Interactive, Image and Software Art. The award winners will be selected by
  three separate international juries.


  Festival Theme
  transmediale.02: [go public!]

  How do you "go public" today? 15 minutes of fame through an appearance on
  TV? The IPO of a self-founded company? The publication of a press release?
  A post-modern shopping-spree? The participation in a street demonstration?
  Or rather a permanent online-presence through home-installed Web cameras?
  Dreams of the public sphere as a space free of power relations where
  citizens communicate to formulate their joint political will, are long
  gone. The total public sphere of mass media is breaking up into a
  multiplicity of partial publics where individuals and groups perform and
  act. Politics is happening somewhere in between.

  The English term "to go public" originally means "to publicise
  information", but today it is used primarily in the context of founding a
  joint-stock company or its IPO (initial public offering). The stock market
  crash of spring 2000 meant a huge disenchantment for this precarious
  concept which had fascinated the IT sector for years. Digital media still
  carry the hope for new forms of democratic participation. But how far do
  they really open up cultural and political spaces where a public sphere
  can take shape and where you can "go public"? Does today's cultural and
  political effectiveness evolve first and foremost in non-public spaces?
  The shopping mall as a democratic forum, the post-industrial product or
  service as a ultimate "res publica"?

  The transmediale.02 encourages artists and media producers to "go public!"
  and, at the same time, asks how and where efficient models of public
  spheres are being developed. Artists and media producers experience and
  explore the frictions and borders between private and public and research
  the possibilities for constructing new spaces for public action. It
  remains to be seen whether these are to be found on the trading floor or
  in your home kitchen, on a free server or on a private TV channel.



  transmediale
  Klosterstr. 68 - 70 10179 Berlin
  Germany
  Fon ++49 (0)30 / 2472 1907
  Fax ++49 (0)30 / 2472 1909
  info@transmediale.de


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