[spectre] read_me 1.2: announcing jury members

[Olga Goriunova]

read_me 1.2
software as a work of art
or artistic software manipulations
http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/about-en.html

we are happy to announce the competition's jury members:

Amy Alexander
Florian Cramer
Cue P. Doll
RTmark
Alexei Shulgin

the biographies can be found here:
http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/biograf-en.html#emi


the dates of off-line moscow part of read_me 1.2 are:
17-19 of MAY.

There are more than 40 works already submitted.

http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/index-en.html

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read_me festival 1.2

CONCEPT can be found here http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/about-en.html

AWARDS:
Authors of the best works will be awarded special money prizes from "ROSIZO" and "Macros-center":
1st prize - 500 USD
2nd prize - 400 USD
3rd prize - 300 USD

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline: January 31, 2002
Festival: 17-19 May 2002, Moscow.

The following types of work can be referred to as artistic software:

1. Instructions (read_me) for modifying standard, commonly used software, as well as patches and anything that creates an artistic impact on software in a way not planned by the application's producers.
2. Deconstruction of existing software products, including computer games.
3. Programs written from scratch with a purpose different than the usual "rational" software purposes, i.e. the rejection of the idea of a program as a purely pragmatic tool. 

Since the curators of the festival do not consider it necessary for the framework of the artistic software categories to be too narrow, contact the curators if you are not sure if your work is suitable for read_me 1.2!
If you would like to take a look at sample artistic software works, visit our links page.

ORGANIZER:
"Macros-center", Moscow http://www.macros-center.ru