READ_ME 2.3

[claudia westermann]

http://www.m-cult.org/read_me/ 


READ_ME 2.3  is a festival of software art that explores the 
territory between art and software culture. Read_me 2.3 draws 
connections between histories and practices in both software culture 
and art, and aims at creating an extended context, against which 
software art may be mapped.

  READ_ME 2.3  is the second edition of Read_Me, the first festival 
dedicated entirely to the phenomena of software art. It will take 
place on May 30-31, 2003 in Helsinki. Read_me 1.2 was held in Moscow 
in May 2002.

  READ_ME 2.3  continues with the open structure of Read_me: all 
projects are submitted on-line to a publicly accessible database. 
However, the second Read_me edition has logically developed this idea 
further: the simple database has turned into the software art 
repository Runme.org.

All projects, submitted to Runme.org up to the  READ_ME 2.3  deadline 
(1st of March) will be reviewed by a collective of "experts" and the 
best ones will be presented on the  READ_ME 2.3  event. However, 
Runme.org will continue accepting projects on an ongoing basis. 
Projects entered after the deadline will be considered as entries to 
the future Read_me festivals.

  READ_ME 2.3  is not a competition in the traditional sense, and it 
will not have monetary prizes. The festival event on May 30-31 will 
present, discuss, and celebrate a selection of works singled out and 
featured without ranking by the Read_me experts collective.  READ_ME 
2.3  will focus on the variety of discrete contexts and will aim at 
building bridges between them.