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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Dear Spectrites,</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">We have just launched the opening call for <b><i>function(), Digital and Electronic Art Festival of Mallorca</i></b>: an initiative to develop a digital culture beyond mere conventional software usage. It has been created with the aim of forming a community of shared knowledge around digital art developments.<br>
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">This year, the main theme of the first edition is “<b>innocence</b>”.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br>
</span></p><p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>/* (”innocence”, 2019)<br>
</b></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">In this Digital Age reliance on technology has lead to unseen</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">repercussions in political, personal, ethical and even ecological</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">dimensions. This may be described as a digital innocence.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Digital innocence can be about generational constraints</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">related to technology; it can also be about the ignorance of designed</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">decisions that we confront, as users, hundreds of times in our daily lives.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">It can be about how enthusiastic speeches towards technology fed by</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">capitalism have finally been revealed as made up stories.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Digital innocence can be about redefining established roles, related to the</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">production and consumption of technology.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Overall, digital innocence is about how curiosity and intuition are</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">needed in our relationship with technology. Being creative towards</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">the comprehension of their implications and possibilities has become</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">somewhat essential.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br>
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Check out our landing page for further details: <a href="http://functionfest.com/"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none">http://functionfest.com/</span></a></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br>
</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">I hope this is of interest to you.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:12px Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br>
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