Call: MAKE ART 2008 Open Source Art Festival seeks entries

MAKE ART 2008 - OpenOS
CALL FOR PROJECTS

Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.

The third edition of make art - OpenOS - will take place in
Poitiers (FR), from the 24th to the 30th of November 2008.

make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an
exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software
programming.

We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS based works and
projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software
demos, and installations.

This year make art focuses on the *OpenOS*: artistic, free, creative use
of the Operating System, hackability and modularity of FLOSS and
GNU/Linux, scripts as digital glue between applications, enhanced
possibilities for the technical expression of ideas, user empowerment and
artistic freedom.

For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call

Call: Life coding opportunity at xxxxx as part of the Piksel Festival in Norway

xxxxx call 2007

xxxxx call for participation in a speculative 12 hour life coding
event (organising hardware and software) to be held in Mid-November
as part of the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway.

Deadline for email submission: July 31st 12AM [midnight]

Life coding is a mapping of the descriptive means of hardware and
programming onto the world. In this instance it includes the invention
and construction of models and language to actively describe and code
the event; instructing, structuring, re-structuring and constructing
the 12 hours. Life coding is obviously influenced by the existence of
programming, fiction, scripting and execution.

Participation is not limited to potential forms including:

— performative presentations

— advanced participatory workshops

— actions

— interventions

The above will be assembled into shifts which move between hardware,
interface and (life) code. Proposals should suggest which shift would
be suitable. Proposed topics for shifts include open hardware in
relation to control, the world as interface, material as question of
substance (soft/hard), and the relation of technology, code and
pornography.

Please submit an introduction to your area of research/practice as
well as examples of projects, performances, texts, proposals for
advanced participatory workshops, performative presentations,
actions, interactions, interventions and email your entry to

m@1010.org

Further information on the event:

xxxxx [2007] is proposed and wilfully structured as a 12 hour life
coding event within the context of previous xxxxx activities (Crash
2005, xxxxx 2006), and influenced by Plenum (collaboration with KOP,
2006).

xxxxx [2007] will exist as a major, inspired durational, performative
event allowing for exchange and construction between invited
international participants who truly exist on the bleeding edge of
what could be termed contemporary Crash culture.

xxxxx [2007] expands software and hardware with a wilful emphasis on
construction, an interface between theory and the active entry of
making' in the world.

xxxxx [2007] as event manifests a free software-led, coded structure
of self-organisation, and unique working groups. Although some of
these events will be ongoing (for example several working groups, and
background material), the 12 hours will be assembled by way of
shifts.

http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
http://crash.1010.co.uk
http://www.1010.co.uk